June 26, 2011 - Some Ideas to Blog

• Marketing: Companies know your IP address and what you are looking for and looking to buy.


• Marketing/Dentist: Tons of dental advertisements coming to our home. What factors make you chose a dentist? These ads sometimes have pictures of their office, pictures of the people who work there? Or maps to the location. What works?


• Summer Movies: What films have you seen, haven't seen, want to see?


• Holidays: Fourth of July's coming, how do you get ready the week before?


• Pop Memorobilia: Michael Jackson's Thriller Jacket Fetches 1.8 million. Thoughts?


• BET Awards: You watching them? And how relevant in today's world is a TV station (or award show) dedicated to "Black Entertainment" when celebs like Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes entertain more than just black people?

February 13, 2011 - Black Sabbath

The date is 2/13 and there are 321 days in the year...kind of fun.

February 13, 1970 the album Black Sabbath is released. Viewed to be the first heavy metal album ever. So for those keeping score, 41 years of Heavy Metal since the release of this famous album.

The album released February 13 in the UK, was later released in the USA on June 1, 1970.

Some ideas to blog:
1. What's your thoughts on heavy metal music, and how have your perceptions and interest changed over time?

2. When was the first time you were exposed to music of this nature and how did that impact you?

3. Ozzy Osbourne, the vocalist for Black Sabbath, has had quite a career spanning far beyond his Black Sabbath roots. What connotations do you have with Ozzy and would you consider him a hero, icon, cultural detriment, or something else?

November 23, 2010

• 30 years since the Italian Earthquakes that killed 5000 people (1980)
  
• Miley Cyrus turns 18 (born 1992)
  
• Previous performances continue to get new life, The Doors release a "new" CD: The Doors - Live In Vancouver 1970 (2CD)