Thursday, July 28, 2011
My Favorite DJ- Martin Solveig
http://chemicaljump.com/2011/07/16/martin-solveig-essential-mix-7-16-2011/
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Borders Gone- Who fucking reads anyway?!?!?!?
It's a bummer that Borders has declared bankruptcy and will soon start liquidating their stores. I went to UM where the first Borders was created and actually did a project on their reputable business management. Great company to work for... It's a shame that a store that I've been going to since I was in first grade will no longer exist. A simple and revolutionary business model of big box book stores. Borders was the first of its kind even though it was always number 2 to its NYC big brother, Barnes & Noble. Surprisingly, I felt more at home in a Borders than a B&N and we had a couple of them in the Main Line (Where I'm originally from). Sucks that the economy is going to take another hit with unemployment and more real estate collapsing. Borders’ remaining portfolio includes 259 full-line Borders locations and 114 Borders Express and Waldenbooks stores. Those spaces will blow out and certain malls, strip centers, retail center, power centers that have kick-out clauses with their occupancy lowering to a certain % and/or in the event Borders leaves, tenants have the right to terminate their contract and bounce.
The overall effect is negative because a niche in the retail sector will forever be changed as physical bookstores are considered obsolete and everyone will turn to Amazon, iTunes, etc. to get their book game on. This move will probably save trees, but overall publishers, authors, book industry will be hurt tremendously. Borders helped progress the book industry through its chill reading atmosphere. I remember going every day after Sunday mass (yes, I was and am to some degree still religious) with my family and spending 2-3 hours reading children's books and usually everyone left with something or at least spent $ in cafe. The rise of book sales increased movies/music sales too since there was a section for that at each Borders.
It's a sad truth, but an era has ended and might have been saved if there weren't so many Borders stores around your area. Let's be honest with ourselves, you only need 1 Borders store within a 30-40 mile radius, unless it's a wealthy town where people are primarily college educated. Borders has a store in the mall and also an express one!!! Are you kidding me?!?!? This isn't Starbucks where people crave caffeine or the desire to show off their Starbucks cup (kudos to the 'bucks, you guys are the epitome of branding). I'm sure profit margins went down in areas like KOP mall where a store and express were within a 10 minute walk. Things like that don't make sense. And Borders failed to transition into the Kindle era, instead relying on their physical book fan base to keep them afloat. Hey, I like to read books (no homo), but if I can efficiently read and store them on my Kindle, I'd prefer that over any hardcover brah!
In the end, it's a bummer that the Borders era ends and a new Kindle era begins.
The overall effect is negative because a niche in the retail sector will forever be changed as physical bookstores are considered obsolete and everyone will turn to Amazon, iTunes, etc. to get their book game on. This move will probably save trees, but overall publishers, authors, book industry will be hurt tremendously. Borders helped progress the book industry through its chill reading atmosphere. I remember going every day after Sunday mass (yes, I was and am to some degree still religious) with my family and spending 2-3 hours reading children's books and usually everyone left with something or at least spent $ in cafe. The rise of book sales increased movies/music sales too since there was a section for that at each Borders.
It's a sad truth, but an era has ended and might have been saved if there weren't so many Borders stores around your area. Let's be honest with ourselves, you only need 1 Borders store within a 30-40 mile radius, unless it's a wealthy town where people are primarily college educated. Borders has a store in the mall and also an express one!!! Are you kidding me?!?!? This isn't Starbucks where people crave caffeine or the desire to show off their Starbucks cup (kudos to the 'bucks, you guys are the epitome of branding). I'm sure profit margins went down in areas like KOP mall where a store and express were within a 10 minute walk. Things like that don't make sense. And Borders failed to transition into the Kindle era, instead relying on their physical book fan base to keep them afloat. Hey, I like to read books (no homo), but if I can efficiently read and store them on my Kindle, I'd prefer that over any hardcover brah!
In the end, it's a bummer that the Borders era ends and a new Kindle era begins.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
New Experiment
I think next week I'm going to take a bunch of Ambien and stay up and try to blog or come back from the bar and attempt to blog. I'll let you know what happens. Comment if you guys prefer one over the other
Fucking tight ass shoes
http://www.afew-store.com/Nike-Air-Max-Light-Grau-Aqua-Blau
A little fucking expensive, but tighhtttt
A little fucking expensive, but tighhtttt
Cityboy- Badass British Satirical Website
http://www.cityboy.biz/
'A breath-taking tour of cocaine blizzards, big business and organized crime. I loved it'
I suggest trying to fucking read this website, it's pretty fucking outrageous and hilarious. Almost the same level as mine.... Check out it! ALMOST FORGOT, IT'S ABOUT THE BRITISH WALL ST....SEX, DRUGS, & FINANCE....Monday, July 18, 2011
Calls
fbook- just crushing it but they're chat feature is fucking retarded right now, fix it!!
google+ - don't fucking get it, they'll call it off unless a major shift in their interface improves drastically.
google- please make your interface for gmail more user friendly. You have billions upon billions of $ and you can't hire a marketing agency that would develop a fbookesque, user friendly interface. Luckily, gchat is saving everything for google.
groupon- it's bullshit and the target market seems like low to middle america. I wouldn't buy any of the deals and I'm considered middle america right now. They're model won't be sustainable bc of the other 260+ spinoffs in their market. They need to JV with fbook.
Living Social- much better than groupon and should stay for a while. I anticipate a JV with another company very soon. Better quality deals than Groupon, just need help reaching the masses. However, they could carve a nice middle to upper class niche for themselves. Be the Lexus of online deals while Groupon can be the Toyota.
Linkedin- ehhh, another overvalued company.
Twitter- I still don't get it, but you're making $. I guess that's all that counts. Until, they figure out how to truley capture online advertising $, Twitter is still a hold for me since you are updating 140 words or less.
google+ - don't fucking get it, they'll call it off unless a major shift in their interface improves drastically.
google- please make your interface for gmail more user friendly. You have billions upon billions of $ and you can't hire a marketing agency that would develop a fbookesque, user friendly interface. Luckily, gchat is saving everything for google.
groupon- it's bullshit and the target market seems like low to middle america. I wouldn't buy any of the deals and I'm considered middle america right now. They're model won't be sustainable bc of the other 260+ spinoffs in their market. They need to JV with fbook.
Living Social- much better than groupon and should stay for a while. I anticipate a JV with another company very soon. Better quality deals than Groupon, just need help reaching the masses. However, they could carve a nice middle to upper class niche for themselves. Be the Lexus of online deals while Groupon can be the Toyota.
Linkedin- ehhh, another overvalued company.
Twitter- I still don't get it, but you're making $. I guess that's all that counts. Until, they figure out how to truley capture online advertising $, Twitter is still a hold for me since you are updating 140 words or less.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Thank God this bitch ain't my gf
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0713-penis-chopped-20110713,0,4047087.story
This cunt cuts off her dudes dick off. What the fuck?
This cunt cuts off her dudes dick off. What the fuck?
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
One of the funniest women I've ever read about
This woman is fucking nuts! Granted she was old as shit and probably delusional, she was the owner for the Reds, a widow, and fucking hilarous. Just check out this little excerpt below on what she said about some her prized players.
Heaven Help Marge Schott
Rick Reilly • Sports Illustrated • May 1996
Much of Reilly's famous story paints the picture of a sad, lonely widow. Then there's this bit:
http://deadspin.com/5817508/stories-that-dont-suck-sportsfeats-guide-to-schmuck-owners
Heaven Help Marge Schott
Rick Reilly • Sports Illustrated • May 1996
Much of Reilly's famous story paints the picture of a sad, lonely widow. Then there's this bit:
Because she's set apart from the world like that, it's no wonder Schott's political and social views have not really changed since the Edsel. Over the years she has insulted homosexuals ("Only fruits wear earrings"), blacks ("Dave is my million-dollar nigger," she said of Dave Parker, a Reds outfielder from 1984 to '87) and Jews ("He's a beady-eyed Jew," she said of Cincinnati marketing director Cal Levy, according to Unleashed, the exhaustive biography of Schott written by Mike Bass in 1993). As for Adolf Hitler, she takes a compassionate view. "He was O.K. at the beginning," she says. "He rebuilt all the roads, honey. You know that, right? He just went too far."
http://deadspin.com/5817508/stories-that-dont-suck-sportsfeats-guide-to-schmuck-owners
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