Children run in fear from the downtown Orlando Public Library when Orlando Commissioner Mildred Fernandez is photographed from a terrifyingly unflattering angle. I am sure in person Miss Fernandez does not look like a cross between the 80's puppet superstar "Madam" and the Almighty Underlord, but thanks to the photographer's handiwork, she do! Oh wait. I was wrong.
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Jul 31, 2007
Mildred Fernandez looks like devil
I iwsh I had a reason to use Moo
Moo's got some really neat little products you can make for yourself: stickerbooks, biz cards and notecards. I love how they describe themselves:
"MOO loves the web, but you can't put it in your pocket. So we dream up new products, hooking up with your artwork and your communities, to let you take your online life out into the real world."
Biz cards
Star Jones had her tubes tied
...to her stomach. She finally admits to gastric bypass surgery.
Matron Mamma Morton, the butch lesbian character in the musical "Chicago," played in the movie version by King Latifah, will be played on the West End by Ozzy Osbourne's gastric bypass-needing daughter, Kelly Osbourne.
The upcoming "Bratz" movie is more than Paula Abdul and slutty dolls. It's got a song! (Source)
The search for a new (personal) blog
I'm playing with different ways to blog. I was blogging on myspace for about a year and want to jump ship for many reasons. So, today i am trying audioblogging. I don't think this type of content (in this audio post) belongs ona blog like this, but I wanted to share with you my attempts, both successful and not, at finding the ideal personal blogging method.
I'm already doing Twitter and love it. But I do still want to talk in lengtheir chunks. So, the search is on.
Update Notes:
-SAK Monday night workshop
-10am: Orlando Fringe website meeting
-3pm: Improv Cabaret rehearsal
-My thoughts on audio posting
-Thoughts on rehearsing Improv Cabaret
-Shows and workshops coming up
Links:
markbaratelli.com
improvcabaret.com
Mark_Baratelli_7_30_07.mp3
Jul 30, 2007
Pingback: Naughty or Nice?
The creator of the Financial Aid Podcast listed every single person who left a comment on his blog and I just happen to be one of them. Back in April I thanked him for his creating a detailed event sheet for the PodcampNYC event I attended.
Is his gigantic list a nice gesture or a ploy to get past readers back to his site? He knows we all use some form of self-monitoring online like Google Alerts. I choose to think it's a nice gesture.
Jimmy (gag) Fallon?
If this is to be believed, Conan will replace Leno (good) and Jimmy Fallon will replace Conan (so bad it hurts my cat's lymph nodes). What in God's parking spot is NBC thinking? Did they, ahem...WATCH Jimmy Fallon on SNL? He was wretched.
I will say this. I despised Horatio Sanz on that show. He was unfunny. Then in 2004 I saw him perform at Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC and the man was on fi-yah! He is a bri-zill-iant improvisor. So, given that, maybe Fallon's talents lie in off-the-cuff instead of off-the-cue-card.
The one definite good thing about this: no more Leno. I never found him funny, personally. And that stunt where he brought Rob Schneider on dressed as Lindsay Lohan the day after she got arrested? I thought it was insensitive and in poor taste, as did the taste-maker herself, Barbara Walters.
Dinner Party Fundraiser
I got an email about this event and thought it was creative way to raise money. Like a city full of Tupperware parties culminating in a grand Tupperware event. I could see some company doing a guerilla marketing version of this. Like, people hold gaming competitions at their houses, then all meet at some big place for some big gaming event or announcement. Love it! Copy it!
On Saturday, October 13, the Orlando Gay Chorus will host our annual fundraising event, Orlando Gay Chorus' Starry, Starry Night©. This evening of fun, friends and food will start at dinner parties hosted throughout the Orlando area. At hosts' homes, participants will hear the good work that OGC does in the community and receive encouragement to donate to OGC. After dinner, the parties will converge at the Buena Vista Palace Resort & Spa for a fabulous silent auction, refreshments and entertainment provided by Emmy-award winning actor, Leslie Jordan from Will & Grace and Sordid Lives.
One of the best ways to get involved and show your support for the Chorus is to host one of the dinner parties. We help with invitations and provide a DVD for you to play for your guests, which will explain the event and OGC's mission in our community. You provide the guest list and the dinner, and help collect donations for the Chorus -- and if you have at least 6 guests donate $50 or more each from your dinner party, you get to attend Leslie Jordan's performance for free! Your only expense is the dinner you host.
Jul 29, 2007
Sweeney Todd: The Movie
Jul 28, 2007
Jul 26, 2007
No banner ads!
I was on techcrunch.com to see if what I heard about the founder of Facebook getting arrested was true, but as I usually do, I wandered around in other stories. I clicked on a link saying there were 40 banner ad blockers available for Firefox. I installed one seconds ago, went to a banner ad-heavy site (PerezHilton.com) and NO ADS! Highly recommended.
Jul 17, 2007
Orlando Sentinel on Perez Hilton
My local hometown newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, had an ad on one of the most controversial blogs of today: PerezHilton.com, advertising their "video, blogs and podcasts." I think the ad placement has to be a mistake. The newspaper is your typical vanilla hometown paper that does not tread on the trendy. I find it odd.
Jul 8, 2007
Audio vs Video Podcast
(35:00) My techie friend Ryan Price and I debate audio vs. video, the value of Google ads, the value of not having your content be time-sensitive and other topics. We both really want to have our own tech podcast to discuss things like this on a weekly basis, but neither of us has the time. So it was fun to record this conversation right in the moment it was happening.
Mentioned in this episode:
--Eric Schwartzman's "On the Record..Online" Podcast (around 32:29)
Download: Mark and Ryan: Talking
Jul 6, 2007
Happiness Factory behnd-the-scenes
Orlando Sentinel blogs Lady Raptastic
Ok, this I would have never guessed in a million years. Roger Moore, theatre critic for the Orlando Sentinel, posted the lineup for this Sunday's "Enzian Film Slam," a monthly film short-showing event at the Enzian Theatre. The lineup this week just happens to include Lady Raptastic's music video Monkey Suicide.
Roger Moore went a step further. He embedded Lady Raptastic's video directly on his blog, above his posting for the event!
He also called the video "comic-ironic." So is that an official Orlando Sentinel review of Monkey Suicide?
Click on her name below to see his blog post. And be sure to come to Enzian Film Slam this Sunday at 1pm to see a live audience's reaction to this video that has already gotten 39,000 views on youtube.
Click here: Lady Raptastic
Jul 5, 2007
Play Festival on NYC Holiday Inn Rooftop
I was reading an article on the use of water in current theatrical productions in New York City and came across a neat-sounding production called Swim Shorts.
"For Swim Shorts, 10 writers were commissioned to create plays centered on the 25-foot-long, 7-foot-deep tourist oasis 14 stories above West 57th Street. The results include a piece featuring puppets and an alien spacecraft landing, another using a boat hand-built in Nebraska, and a renegade show in which the water stands in for quicksand. Though there’s not much time for on-site rehearsal (scheduling around hotel guests can be tricky), there’s an unmissable backdrop: the Midtown skyline on one side and the sunset over the Hudson on the other. Audience members sit on lounge chairs on the deck; umbrella-topped cocktails are served from an adjoining bar. “It’s summer,” Mr. Sherman said. “You want to cool off.” And after this show you can. For an additional $7 you too can jump into the set. There’s even a lifeguard."
Jul 4, 2007
Tunecore gets you on itunes
For my friends who make music (which total zero), I found out about a website you might be interested in via a New York Times article I read on my phone.
Let me pause and say reading the Times on my phone is so very nice. (A) I don't have to carry around a physical newspaper and (B) I am getting the newspaper's content FOR FREE! The best use of the phone-newspaper is when you're on an elyptical machine. No pages to turn, no paper to wrinkle and crinkle. It's just there right in front of you in your hands, on your little phone.
The website is Tunecore.com. You pay Tunecore.com some pretty small fees and in turn, you can sell your songs and albums on itunes!
Now of course I am not a musician. I podcast. So I am interested in selling my podcasts, both already-produced and forthcoming. I thought I could somehow turn Tunecore.com into my very own podcasting money machine. But I can't due to the length of my shows.
They deal in albums, and every album lasts 74 minutes. And you cannot sell just single songs on itunes through Tunecore.com without having those single songs attached to an album. So if a podcast episode is 30-minutes (which many of mine are), here's the breakdown of what I would pay:
-One-time fees of 99 cents per single song (which, in my case, is a 30-minute episode). Not bad.I wrote the company asking about a volume discount, which they do offer. However, the concept of single songs only being available for purchase if an album is attached to those songs would remain. I was looking to skip the whole album concept and just have them sell songs (30-minute podcasts) for 99 cents. No go.
-One-time fee of 99 cents per album (which in my case, would contain two 30-minute "songs"). Not bad.
-$20/year for that album. Bad.
The best way to handle this would be for me to create short-form content that's about the length of a song. I could pack several 3-minute-ish episodes onto one album, making the album worth the $9.99 price tag, and if the content is really good, people might buy the 3-minute episode "singles" since (A) it's good content and (B) they already buy 3-minute musical content.
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