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My uncle had one of these, same color as the photo, for a few years and was a good example of bad British engineering. I wish I was better with cars and I’d pick up one off of eBay.
I wrote this in 2005 and for some reason, never hit publish….
Who are some comedians you like? If the first thought in your head was Adam Sandler, then this isn’t for you. Bob Newhart, Richard Pryor (RIP), were two names I heard on the radio the other day on my drive into work. The morning show on 99x were talking about pryor, and one of the guys on there said “he didn’t think rp was funny”…he went on to even talk about how john belushi wasn’t. Seriously, how can you look at comedy today and even the rise of the brick wall comedians in the 90′s, and not even appreciate rp? eddie murphy, chris rock, hell even dice and kinnison….all dug pryor. Richard Lewis and Richard Belzer even were fans.
I grew up watching comedy, studying comedy, and just digging what people were doing. I looked to comedians like rock stars. I could remember the smallest bit from the 1/2 hour comedy hour. I just think that a lot of “funny” people don’t even know what’s funny. I got where I could appreciate newhart, rp, kinison, everyone I listed above. I even remember some of rick (married a millionare)’s schtick.
unfortunately, we’re dealing with jimmy falon, adam sandler and the bullshit that is snl…inflicting their misery upon comedy. tina fey is one of the funnier people alive and I’m glad she got off there. SNL is the McDonald’s of comedy. I just want to sit people down with a nice tape of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, good Billy Murray bits, old Chevy Chase bits., Sam Kinison, Milton Berle, etc…hell even old Cosby. Just to show them that *this* is funny.
If you work for a ‘web’ company, ie, a company who handles products targeted directly for the web, I have a few observations that may help.
In the wonderful world of the web, we sometimes get to meet people in real life, for whom we only know virtually. I’ve been fortunate to meet some of you in the analog world and we’ve formed little connections along the way. I’m very weary with whom I do business with but really jumped at the chance to ask Coptix to do some work for a small co. at the big co.
I’ve “known” Josiah for years through blogging. We met a few years back and I always watched what Coptix was doing. It was at my boss’ suggestion to look at what Coptix could do for us. We brought them in, gave them a very tight deadline, and set them on their merry way. Of course, with any project you have some pitfalls and they actually went above and beyond when the client (me) threw monkey wrenches into the plan.
So this is a short post to give them a good recommendation as well as to introduce our latest site: Volunteer State Health Plan.
Coptix did the majority of the work; from interviews, brand development and design while I did the final build-out of the html and css, along with CMS integration. I wish, and this is the project manager’s regret, that we could have used their original designs. Very tasteful, fresh, and refined. They were a joy to work with and look forward to future projects.
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_123366.asp
http://www.paul-rand.com/
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_122784.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/default.htm
http://www.kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/you-just-know.html