An Evening With Kevin Smith At The Ryman?

August 17, 2009

twitterWriter/director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) said he’d love to do one of his famous “An Evening With…” Q&A’s in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The venue is perhaps best known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry for more than three decades. It now serves as a popular spot for smaller music shows and comedians.

The fact that it used to be a church located firmly in the bible belt usually makes it an eventual target for a lot of  “R-rated” performers. I love seeing folks like Jon Stewart and even the late great George Carlin play this venue because they can’t help but make reference to the pews and church-like seating arrangement.

Kevin Smith would be eternally quotable in such a setting. I think I speak for all fans when I say he’d be more than welcome in our fair city if not just for the novelty alone.  Check out a screenshot of the actual tweet below…

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The Drill Up: Guest Hosts on Impromptu The Drill Down Podcast

February 4, 2009

0204-drilldownAnyone interested in where I look for the best content about technology news may be surprised when I don’t start immediately listing Web sites I frequent. Since it’s so easy to post newsworthy information on a news blog, I’m hesitant to trust more than five or six different sites. Instead I look to Andrew Sorcini, Muhammad Saleem and Reg Saddler, better known as MrBabyMan, Msaleem and Zaibatsu from the world of social media.

Along with Lidija Davis, they do a podcast called The Drill Down to highlight the week’s biggest tech news. Typically they live stream the show on Ustream.tv, which allows for other social media geeks like myself to participate via chat room function. It’s not uncommon for them to have guests on, and this past week they did an impromptu The Drill Up version comprised of people who watch the show regularly. (The actual podcast was delayed until the following day.) Read the rest of this entry »

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Too Much Stumble Upon – The Creator

October 4, 2008

One of several hundred thousand reasons I love the Internet is because it allows me to meet social media friends like K00pa / Pelikoira, a programmer/indy game developer/designer — well, you name it he’s probably dabbled in it. [Real name withheld at his request.]

Since he’s from Finland, I very rarely get a chance to chat with him online. However, I managed to catch him late one night and as always he had some interesting things to share. If you are a StumbleUpon user then it’s highly possible you’ve seen his handiwork.

Have you ever come across the 404 error page that reads “Stumbleupon has been temporarily disabled, because you have used it too much”?  Well that’s his doing. While I don’t use StumbleUpon very much, I swear I’ve seen that message before and now I know where it came from.

If you want the full story, checkout an interview K00pa did with a blogger from the U.K.

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