Popular Poerty: ONE MOMENT IN TIME

Each day I live I want to be
A day to give the best of me
I'm only one, But not alone
My finest day is yet unknown

I broke my heart
Fought every gain
To taste the sweet
I face the pain
I rise and fall
Yet through it all
This much remains

I want one moment in time
When I'm more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
Give me one moment in time
When I'm racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternity

I've lived to be
The very best
I want it all
No time for less
I've laid the plans
Now lay the chance
Here in my hands

Give me one moment in time
When I'm more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
Give me one moment in time
When I'm racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternity

HCwDB: Perez you are a pastiche ... a dim echo of 1980s

Dear Perez Hilton:

You are Warholian superstar pastiche without the self awareness. You are dim echo of 1980s gay counterculture, reprocessed and defanged as a slightly edgier version of the typical host on "E!" You make Michael Musto look like Oscar Wilde.

Take your blank page and fill it with the latest starlet drama. Repeat it enough times and the noise will be loud and fame enhanced. But it's simply a feedback loop of white-noise douchosity. Clown.

Now get off my internets and go back to penis drawing.

-From HotChicksWithDouchebags.com, greater words have never been spoken.

HAARM: Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine

You have to check out this mock PAC site, it's hilarious, but it also uses a clever method to debunk false and misleading statements. The parody pokes at an inept conservative media and some of the arguments the media has used. good times:

http://haarm.org/

HA! So-Me (social media) vs. Iran Govt.

National Security Cartoon

What, are you anti-America or something

Bible quote of the Day

"Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence."
~1 Timothy 2:11-12

"Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says."
~1 Corinthians 14:34

Dealing with Designers got you Stressed!

Howdy, long time no talk.

I am going to let y’all in on a little thing that I don’t commonly do. I am going to talk about me and my life. Usually, I post my reaction or reviews, or articles and videos done by others. But I got to vent :- ) (the initial point of the blog).
I am so worried about my job, I am not sure if they are dissolving my position or if they are going to contract me out to another company. I’m seriously worried about my position. And I am worried about my metal stability (would out sourcing be so bad?). I am getting irritated far too easily. As a designer and previously journalist, I have thick skin. I thought I had a very thick skin, between my past working in city government and leading the production on the area news paper, I have come to understand and learn criticisms, bureaucracy and stress of a time crunch by loosing hundreds of thousands of dollars on an almost impossible deadline… but right now, these peeps are driving me nuts.

Things for office etiquette- 1) be polite, especially with critiques. Its just good human nature and a little bit can go a long way. 2) Stay mature, as a early 20-something-year-old I should not have to tell a senior official to “grow up.” Working as a concierge at a business hotel, I find so many business travelers childish, rude, inconsiderate, self-indulgent and plain silly. Emails and posts that are equivalent to a 13-year-old girl’s texts are not a sign of running a company well. 3) keep your nose out of others’ business if it doesn’t apply to you or your concern, reading other’s computer screens is rude, critiques on a design not done is not constructive, particularly when you are not a designer. 4) Hold your temper- this on is for me… lord, I am trying. 5) Put yourself in others shoes don’t blare crappy glam metal hits from the 80s, it ruins others work momentum, I don’t blare my Coldplay. (BONUS: Don’t interrupt, this is extremely disrespectful especially if it is a repeat offender).


Designs are important, they elect new presidents, change social opinion, get you to buy a double beacon mushroom burger at midnight and sell billions of CDs for a singer that can not sing.

Here is a short list for Professionals dealing with Designers. 1) Do your job before- get them the information upfront and finished. If the text changes so does the balance of the design. Its not the designers job to proof read (if you haven’t notices I CAN NOT spell) 2) Trust the designer, they understand the Golden ratio, how to align, things to watch out for, complimenting colors and how to draw the eye deeper and deeper into the ad (i.e. it is a sign of a bad designer if everything is centered). Have actual critiques- “hmm, I don’t know, I just don’t like the background” … “ok.” Not helpful. This might take a little thought, but it is important, what specifically don’t you like about the “background” the color, the gradient, symbol ect. AND come up with alternatives (yeas, plural to alternative), if you can’t come up with any… maybe it should be left OR the “background” isn’t really the problem. Discuss the alternativeS, get his professional opinion, and allow him to critique suggestions and vice versa. This is how you get to the bottom of a good design. 3) Be organized; don’t send a fleet of emails and contradicting messages and one update after another “oh not the last on but this one”. Be relevant, clean and concise (like your ad/design should be). 4) Be polite, be nice but firm, understanding and demanding. Its not a designs job to rip you off (put some clip art on a word doc and call it an online ad). Let them work, get updates, keep invilved and make sure they are keeping you informed. 5) You contribution you deadline. Deadlines are important to hit, but if you give them and important piece of text the day before deadline… your not getting a quality or even finished ad.
(BONUS: do your research before hiring your designer. Make sure to look at their work and style, does it mesh with the aesthetic of your business clientele (and NOT your personal taste (i.e. Its great that you like the color blue… but that wont sell you hamburgers). Research and interview, all designers will have a book of previous work, this will help avoid creative differences later down the line).

Ahhhhhh…, *relief* Thanks for the intimate read.