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March 31, 2005
We like him. He is a good guy.
I was recently asked by a five-year-old who the person on the penny was. I said, "That's Abraham Lincoln. We like him. He was a good guy.” And I damn near choked up.
I thought about that phrase when I got an email on Tuesday from MoveOn.org asking for money to help Senator Byrd in the 2006 campaign. I sent $50 on the spot.
Today I got this message from MoveOn
But as I write this email, only about two days after our email went out, 19,214 of us have given $817,403.76 to support Senator Byrd. It's a whopping amount in electoral politics--more than MoveOn members have given in support of any other Senator--and at this early stage, it'll make a tremendous impact. This could be a knock-out blow for Republicans who are considering running against the Senator.
It is awfully gratifying to send a little bit of cash and have it turn into $800k. And hopefully when that five-year-old grows up, it won’t seem like so many of the good guys are long gone.
Posted by dme at 03:20 PM | Comments (0)
March 22, 2005
Message from God
This is a rather long caption from a photo I posted to Flickr. The billboard says, "It's a small world. I know. I made it. -God."
Ugh. Let me count the ways this is wrong.
1. If God was going to pay $2000/month for a billboard, I’m sure he/she wouldn’t use it to waste my time with a cliché and a bad joke.
2. The design looks like a message from Darth Vader, not God.
3. There is foot mark in “it’s” where an apostrophe belongs. If you’re going to make a design from pure typography - read a book about it!
4. A billboard company is bringing me the wit of God? No. This company has a crew that travels around repairing billboards during thunderstorms and tornados in the middle of the night to get around a law designed to remove these eyesores when they are damaged by natural causes (i.e. God).
5. Was this the best location for a creator to take credit? Here? The grandeur of Airport Blvd. and N. Lamar?
Posted by dme at 01:01 AM | Comments (0)