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San Francisco street life, circa 1905, view from moving streetcar

Charlene Jaszewski — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:03:46 +0000

Random Old David Bowie Videos

Charlene Jaszewski — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:12:50 +0000

In the usual “down the rabbit hole” fashion, I was bouncing around on YouTube and discovered these David Bowie on Dinah Shore videos from 1975 - talking about art, self-invention, obsessive love, and Henry Winkler spouting nonsense. Notice how shy and soft-spoken he is. So charming.

Performing “Stay” with a funk band

Peer into the personal lives of celebrities and historical figures with Letters of Note

Charlene Jaszewski — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:34:24 +0000

If you ever want to know celebrities and historical figures a little more intimately, check out the site Letters of Note. However, for sheer chill factor, check out this letter from someone to a musical memorabilia expert.

Accidental Book Acknowledgment, how about that?

Charlene Jaszewski — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:00:58 +0000

So I was bored tonight and decided, like most bored people, to google myself. After the usual spate of linked in, facebook, and twitter links, I started seeing more obscure stuff. Sites I did one-off posts on, sites that were blog post aggregators.

Then suddenly a book acknowledgment for the book “Tarot for Writers” by Corrine Kenner. What? I have been acknowledged in a book, but the authors told me it was happening. But here I was, acknowledge for something I did long ago. Way back when I lived in Minneapolis (second time), I took a “Tarot For Writers” course from Corrine Kenner. I was in a phase where I was flexing my fiction muscles (that’s still a tough thing to do for a business head like me) and this intersected my love of the intuitive with my love of writing. Well Corrine made a book out of the course and thanked her class (including me!) How lovely! I hope her book does well!

The Redhead Song By Alex Lynn

Charlene Jaszewski — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:49:12 +0000

I was writing a boring post about Twitter but this just came in. I have this fabulous friend Alex in the U.K. We will likely never meet in person but he delights me with his silliness. He always teased me that he was writing a song about me but I never believed him (charming chap that he is), but he magically produced it today! ROFL!!

it’s a rough recording but it totally made my day!

Go get Adobe Flash Player!

How domain names are born

Charlene Jaszewski — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:39:41 +0000

If any of you know me you know that I do a plethora of different things, and I have a hell of a time describing it to well-meaning conversationers at parties, so much so that when the inevitable eye-glazing starts when I rattle on too long, I throw in, “AND I make homeade marshmallows dipped in chocolate.” This is true, and something I’m proud of, but not what I’m trying to get across. So I’ve done some brainstorming and figured out the core commonality in everything I do. I make things better.

I edit marketing copy.

I review websites according to usability and suggest ways to make them not suck.

I have ever so slightly changed lines or expressions in comics people have drawn to make them funnier.

I have tweaked jokes for people.

But the core of everything I do is OPTIMIZATION.

So I want to be called *drum roll*

LORETTA.

Ok for the 2 Monty Python people who laughed, thank you. Ok what I really want to be called is

THE OPTIMIZER.

Which i think could be really fun and I might have my little brother who is a killer copywriter help me with a campaign for that sort of thing. I can foresee carrying a mini-cape and fan and when I tell people my title putting them on and doing the superhero affectation. All in good time. But first, a domain name.

Sadly, theoptimizer.com is in use by GE, (who is using it on redirect the bastards!).

So I start brainstorming, here’s my train of thought.

communicationoptimizer.com (too long)

iamtheoptimizer.com (too Ozzy)

youneedtheoptimizer.com (too forceful)

getoptimized.com (taken)

youwillbeoptimized.com (too Borg)

optimizeforpeace.com

surprisebyoptimize.com

bewiseoptimize.com

icanoptimize.com (not strong enough)

iwilloptimizeyou.com (whether you like it or not mister)

dontmakemecomebackthereandoptimizeyou.com (too dad)

I haven’t come up with a perfect name yet. But I did buy www.theoptimizerNYC.com just in case I don’t think of anything better.