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Larry Oakner offers an exhaustive history of funny radio spots, but our work is on TWO MEASLY PAGES. (The Robert Goulet spot for The Simpsons.) Come on, Larry, didn't we deserve three pages?
Broadcast/ Cable Copywriting, 7th Edition
Dr. Orlik included my work in a previous edition of this fine college text, but I'll have to buy this new edition to see if that's still true. And it'll only cost me $76!!!!! Textbooks: license to print money.
How to Be Like Walt
Stop it.
Flattered.
But stop.
Fueling up for the wedding are Adam (son, groom, center) and Danny, Patrick and Charlie Jaschek (nephews, groomsmen.) And that's the last shot here from the iPhone wedding set. We'll leave the rest up to the professionals.
Meanwhile, shouldn't we sell the above image and headline to guspretzels.com?
...my son Adam Q. Jaschek IS done buying a HOUSE. In fact, he and his fiance' Natalie move into their newly acquired Crestwood manor this weekend! Congrats, Adam and Natalie. You have achieved at ages 23/24 what I just achieved at age, um, not 23/24. I wish you many happy days there. Without too many plumbing problems.
Scott Kay and the Continentals have a Myspace page (A band on Myspace? Whooda thunk?) On the page, you can listen to free samples of the band's high-octane mash-up of rockabilly and Americana. They play around the STL area, and have a CD, recommended, with such inspired originals as "Sanctimonious Hippie." Great title.
What's my connection to the band? You are right to ask, since Walt Now is all about me. I am related to the drummer, Joe Kurtz, third from left -- listen to this kid on the song Highway Run! ("Kid:" he's 21.) Joe is the son of my first cousin, Richard Kurtz of Waterloo, Illinois. So is drummer Joe my cousin, my second-cousin, or no relation at all? I don't know these things. Somebody help.
Also, a tip of the Walt Now coffee mug to Tom Myler, officially a first cousin, creator of the new blog ScooDog, crack-a-lackin' fresh with wry observations and unpaid reviews. (We distinguish between paid and unpaid these days, thanks to guys like me who blur the line.) One of my favorite recent Tom finds is Amazon's published $99,999 pricepoint for a Zune. Tom was offered a generous $30 discount, though.
Q for self: Should I categorize this post in Funny Fam or Talented Friends? Let's flip a coin. And the winner is...
...of the Cardinals Hall of Fame in St. Louis, celebrating the Cards' World Series victory in Game 5. Adam says his strategic location made him the subject of many a snap from street level, and he found this one amid a Flickr set.
But is this really Adam? Let's blow up the photo and see.
Well, whaddaya know -- it IS! The likeness is unmistakable.
P.S. When not celebrating on rooftops, Adam, 23, is a resident of Dogtown and works by day as Events Specialist at the St. Louis Butterfly House.
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It's none other than my son Adam Q. Jaschek, who volunteered to model the "I'm Not Done Eating" t-shirt. He snapped his own pic using Photobooth and the iSight cam in my MacBook.
"I'm Not Done Eating" is an inside family joke, and so I created it for family, but this photo set made me think, hey, THIS is how to sell t-shirts, so the product line is going public and this shot is going up in the store soon.
Along with this one, also snapped like that by Adam with Photobooth and a bowl of Hershey products.
Woah. That may be be art. Weird art, but art. Am I seeing the shadow of a steer under the floating finger?
Soon to come, other exciting "art" shots of t-shirt models -- including YOU -- when you YOU volunteer to appear in a short photoshoot in exchange for free t-shirt and eternal fame. Pick your shirt and let's roll.
And thanks, AQ.
A GROUP OF 100 CHEESE FACTORY WORKERS IN WISC SAY THEY HOLD THE LATE WINNING 208 MIL TICKET!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALASKA PIPELINES WILL SHUT DOWN DUE TO CORROSION. YOU ALL BETTER GAS UP SOON. I LOOK FOR AT LEAST AN 25 CENT INCREASE.
That's my brother Fred in the wheelchair. Not me.
[Bonus set here.]
...and let it begin with my first cousin Brenda K, an executive at AT&T in downtown St. Louis, who took this great shot of the controversial Serra Sculpture from her office window. It captures a co-worker's inspired snowprints.
The winter light receding and the peace sign destined for shadow... it's all metaphor! I asked Cousin Brenda if I could post this on WaltNow, and she said: "Sure. What is a WaltNow?"
Actually, she said:
"...Yes, please do. Just be sure that my credit is funny. HA! I got a digital camera a few years ago and I've been having a ball with it. When I take interesting photos I will pass them on to you for your critiquing.
I went on waltnow and I laughed and laughed. Expecially at your high school picture. You were such a geek.
That's okay, so was I. When I was in high school I didn't even know what a "birthday suit" was. I was continually embarrassed by my "dorkness". When we had our 25 year class reunion (I graduated in 1969) I was the MC and my first words were: "Who did not know what 69 meant when we were in high school, raise their hand." I raised my hand and no one else did so I said "Well thanks for telling me! When I finally realized what 69 meant years later I would tell everyone "Yeah, I graduated in 1969, yeah, I'm a 69er". And everyone cracked up. I was just very naive to say the least. Actually, I still am. HA!" - Brenda.
Thanks, cousin! Isn't she the greatest? Brenda is among the funniest of my funny fam. She should have her own show. No, really.
P.S. Have a peaceful New Year, all! That is my fondest wish for you and yours.
...for getting his Associate Degree in Applied Science - Social Work from St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, St. Louis. Adam is now off to (my ala matter) the University of Missouri - St. Louis, for a Bachelor's degree, also in Social Work. Meanwhile, you can find him supervising Tour Guides at Busch Stadium in STL, and, in his off hours, on some golf course somewhere. Since this photo also has a flag in it, it seems like good July 4 posting material. Also, I'm very proud.
(Here's a piece of trivia: I never attended my college graduation. By the actual date, I was so "over it," and received my degree by mail. But maybe the fact that I DIDN'T attend means I didn't have CLOSURE and therefore I've behaved all my life like an undergrad between semesters. Discuss.)
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