MY BRAIN IS MADE OF THINGS MADE OF GOLD http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/ en-US Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:54:56 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A Google AdWords Eulogy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/ze-1mlIneL4/a-google-adwords-eulogy.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/a-google-adwords-eulogy.html The AdWords on this post are perhaps the most compelling proof that Google has become too aware. All Google needed was three, three-line ads to describe a man who lived and died as one of the most paradoxical, complicated, and... The AdWords on this post are perhaps the most compelling proof that Google has become too aware. All Google needed was three, three-line ads to describe a man who lived and died as one of the most paradoxical, complicated, and polarizing/polarized figures in modern American popular culture.
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Mind. Blowned.

Also, I'd like to think that the Bing ad is a kind of meta-tribute to eccentric behavior.

]]> ARRON Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:54:56 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/a-google-adwords-eulogy.html Ugly Babby? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/826vXhh1xb0/ugly-babby.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/ugly-babby.html Whoa CNN Quick Vote. Whoa. Ugly-babby
Whoa CNN Quick Vote. Whoa.

]]> ARRON Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:31:42 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/ugly-babby.html Print is Dead http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/fwA67H9HN9A/print-is-dead.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/print-is-dead.html Concept artwork for a magazine focusing on true crime journalism. Twitter, you did this to me. Concept artwork for a magazine focusing on true crime journalism. Twitter, you did this to me.

FULLBLEED

]]> ARRON Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:10:11 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/print-is-dead.html Walk Away http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/WKpdvl7sA8c/walk-away.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/walk-away.html I'm having a touch of the Noonan the more I read about David Carradine accidental death (or incredibly ballsy suicide). To wit: I'm not trying to kill anyone's buzz, nor am I suggesting that they be banished to the closet... I'm having a touch of the Noonan the more I read about David Carradine accidental death (or incredibly ballsy suicide). To wit:DC_NOOO

I'm not trying to kill anyone's buzz, nor am I suggesting that they be banished to the closet or shameful fringes of that feed CSI writer's rooms, but can't David Carradine's kinky knots routine be something that he takes quietly to the grave, leaving unspoiled the precious Universal mystery we all crave.


Seriously, replace "torture memo" with "David Carradine's sex practices" and Peggy and I are reading from the same script. 

See what unplanned trouble this disclosure hath wrought? Noonan and I are in agreement!
]]> ARRON Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:17:30 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/walk-away.html Never Forget My Birthday http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/t7z3ml6LmI8/never-forget-my-birthday.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/never-forget-my-birthday.html Sadly, this email did not confirm Joe Biden's promise to remember my birthday; it was a solicitation for a re-occurring contribution. I haven't been that disappointed by an email preview since Obama's "Aaron - As a thank you for your... Birthday-Biden

Sadly, this email did not confirm Joe Biden's promise to remember my birthday; it was a solicitation for a re-occurring contribution. I haven't been that disappointed by an email preview since Obama's "Aaron - As a thank you for your contribution, I'm going to appoint you..." email. Spoiler alert: my "appointment" was to the role of Chief "Team Obama" Fundraiser for my apartment.
]]> ARRON Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:17:35 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/never-forget-my-birthday.html "Stay 'til the end of the party" http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/8rr-cBwOyvA/stay-til-the-end-of-the-party.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/stay-til-the-end-of-the-party.html Sunday Night, Really Real from Aaron Kraus on Vimeo.

Sunday Night, Really Real from Aaron Kraus on Vimeo.

]]> ARRON Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:31:43 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/stay-til-the-end-of-the-party.html From Saturday to You http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/PN9DNyzFuNI/from-saturday-to-you.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/from-saturday-to-you.html Macy's Originally uploaded by MBIMOTMOGIn my head, all I can hear is Erykah Badu's "Bag Lady" playing over and over. And that lift from "Xxplosive" is so so nice to hear on a sunny Saturday.
Macy's
Originally uploaded by MBIMOTMOGIn my head, all I can hear is Erykah Badu's "Bag Lady" playing over and over. And that lift from "Xxplosive" is so so nice to hear on a sunny Saturday.
]]> ARRON Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:14:48 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/06/from-saturday-to-you.html 4 Stops, 800x http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/jFHJjSz5Gkg/4-stops-800x.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/4-stops-800x.html Yeah, why not.

Yeah, why not.

]]> ARRON Thu, 28 May 2009 01:12:40 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/4-stops-800x.html 46 Days Later... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/zhA3E3zuv9A/46-days-later.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/46-days-later.html Either Sprint knows something I don't (e.g., a new month is being released between May and June), or this widget is pretty accurately representing the Sprint experience I knew and loved until my contract expired and I jumped to T-Mobile. Sprint

Either Sprint knows something I don't (e.g., a new month is being released between May and June), or this widget is pretty accurately representing the Sprint experience I knew and loved until my contract expired and I jumped to T-Mobile.

]]> ARRON Wed, 20 May 2009 16:58:50 -0500 http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/46-days-later.html One or the other... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mbimotmog/~3/FgYnuHJAQAI/one-or-the-other.html http://1stepahead.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/one-or-the-other.html Today's Lunch Salon convened around the contemplation of the following options: Would you rather be a piece of garbage carried by a gentle breeze though a densely populated city or a piece of a corrugated tin roof being flung on... Today's Lunch Salon convened around the contemplation of the following options:

Would you rather be a piece of garbage carried by a gentle breeze though a densely populated city or a piece of a corrugated tin roof being flung on hurricane-force winds across a great empty flatland?

Other choices that were contemplated:

  • Blue Line train or a CTA bus?
  • Gifted clown in an unpopular circus or Sideshow freak in popular carnival?

Clearly, the work of the Lunch Salon is critical to the betterment of society.

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