K. Michael Merrill is wealth and community personified. As a pillar and founder of Portland’s esteemed blogging community, UrbanHonking.com, where I first started blogging, Mikey is an example to us all: you too can be a human I.P.O. In an exclusive post for Walletpop.com, Mikey shares how he “went public” to raise money for various …
You know that scene in Wayne’s World where Wayne and Garth are really excited to meet Alice Cooper backstage, and all the shock-rocker wants to do is talk about Native American history? Wayne, undeterred, yells out: “Does this guy know how to party or what!” Talking to Seth Green reminded me of that scene — …
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Should businesses take a side in the gay marriage equality debate? Only if they want to be on the right side of history or else it’s just bad marketing, and karma. Levi Strauss has taken a stance, outfitting its mannequins in white. Bruce Watson of Walletpop explains: The White Knot program encourages people to demonstrate …
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With Internet Week coming up in NYC, and the weather looking this good, and the CE.O. of Sony advocating guardrails for the web, there’s no better time to settle, once and for all: internet, friend or foe? Can too much of the web make you sick, keep you from having meaningful relationships and conversations, and …
In our BlackBerried, Twittered, internet-overload culture, our nervous systems are too overstimulated for us to have the time to think. My father, Dr. Leo Chalupa, a neurobiologist and head of research for George Washington University, in 2006 wrote an essay advocating overworked, web-junkie Americans to take 24 hours of absolute solitude. No books, no movies, …
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Who can forget Chocolate Rain, the insanely weird, catchy song by Tay Zonday, that made him a web sensation? Even pop star Lily Allen was a fan and had him on her show, Lily Allen and Friends, in London. But when Zonday scored a deal with Dr. Pepper, starring in an overly-produced online commercial, mocking …
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During that long, lonely summer between high school and college, I was completely devastated after getting dumped by my high-school sweetheart. (It turned out there was nothing sweet about him.) My older, wiser sister told me to get over him by fantasizing about my ideal guy. So I spent the summer eating and serving fro-yo …
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No one inspires picking up your trash or rockin’ a sexy neckline quite like Bette Midler. From the earliest stages of her career in the ’60s and ’70s, the Divine Ms. M was worshiped on Broadway (and in the gay bathhouses) for letting it all hang out. There’s a strength and purpose to her showgirl …
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This new video by Details magazine, directed by Rakesh Baruah and the Southern Mothers, asks “When did the dressing room become the depressing room?” Instead of females bemoaning the harsh lighting and inescapable multiple mirror angles, its the guys’ turn to feel the pain. (Evil laugh begins now.)
With all the recent hysteria over swine flu, from the fashionable face masks to potentially panic inducing warnings from Vice President Joe Biden, it seems it’s time to poke fun at a faction of society that’s been relatively safe, until now: vegetarians. This video was written, directed, edited, ok, so produced by Rakesh Baruah of …
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