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• weekly psychic/astrologer call-in show
  
• remote broadcasts in the mobile studio van...
  
• at a car dealership, from 5:30-10 AM, and the dealer didn't open until Noon
  
• at a TCBY for an entire week
  
• in a city park on Saturday night from 7-Midnight
  
• at a movie theater, in a mall, from a pay-phone, on a Tuesday night
  
• commercial for a Mexican restaurant featuring blatant racial stereotypes
  
• horrible commercial read live on the air by a business owner

Well... there are no new obituaries to share with you today... so... we'll be back with more news after this:
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And then that happened

Friday, July 25, 2008

And then that happened

My office isn't the best place in the whole wide world right now and yesterday the ceiling started to cave in.

Seriously, right in the middle of a meeting and right on cue as Andy said something with just a tinge of despair. Andy's usually a very positive fellow, but this was priceless. We all stared at the can-light hanging from the ceiling by two slender copper threads and then just exploded in laughter.

It kinda helped.

The other day though...

Jon started making some crack about Genesis (the book, not the band) and after an awkward silence asked,

"What? We're not joking about creation?"

Luke just smirked and muttered,

"Too soon.

I nearly hemorrhaged.

posted by Brian Atkinson at 4:15 PM

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Stop - The Agency Treatment

Thursday, July 24, 2008

posted by Brian Atkinson at 2:17 PM

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Can't start soon enough

Monday, July 21, 2008

The Arena Football season is drawing to a close and that means NFL isn't far behind, and that means Fantasy Football!

I placed 5th last year - right in the middle of the pack with a group of friends. The Fightin' Amish will live to fight another day, but since I've moved to Grand Haven, I thought I should come up with some other potential team names. So - with my apologies to David Letterman (and other mis-users of the top-10 list) here are my top 10 rejected Grand Haven Football Team names:

10) Beacon
9) The Loyal Townies
8) The Retired Beachcombers
7) Hey I'm from Chicago too!
6) I just came in from GR for the weekend
5) I'm sooooo drunk
4) How do you get to the beach from here?
3) The Lousy Tourists
2) The Mighty Coast Guards (thanks Sylvia)
1) The Disappointing Musical Fountain

posted by Brian Atkinson at 8:39 AM

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Rotten things part 2

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Things that suck

Whilst installing an upgrade for an operating system, I inadvertently closed my laptop, putting it to sleep. I honestly forgot it was going on until I was half-way home. When I tried to fire it up again the computer was pretty unhappy.

So, I tried to rescue the OS with the install CD. After about 90 minutes, I got this message in the picture:

That was not good.

So, I tried a few more things for a while and finally did a clean install and restored the data from a week-old backup. Not horrible, but not great either.

Also, the fan makes a horrible noise.

posted by Brian Atkinson at 5:01 PM

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Rotten things part 1

into the shredder with you

My office is not a fun place to work right now. In an attempt to get some funding together, I worked with our advancement (a goofy word for fundraising) staff and came up with a wiz-bang of a letter to a select audience.

Then things changed again.

Then we couldn't send out the letter. So, we had to shred them. Jon came up with the bright idea to feed them into the shredder en-masse. He used this funky little staple-less stapler to connect all the letters together. Then we fed them into the shredder in a big-ole paper train.

That made the office fun again for a while. I hear we might be getting ice-cream sandwiches soon.

posted by Brian Atkinson at 4:56 PM

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