The Life of Reidy

Mike Arrington recently posted a pretty lame review of PayPerPost's new podcast station rockstartup.com and pretty much bashed it and ripped the thing a new one. Now we all know how much I love PayPerPost, so I will stick by these guys to the bitter end. And this is not the first time Mike has bashed the world of PayPerPost either, because he's written some invaforable entries before and this one to me kinda takes the cake because it seems like he is just outright attacking them. But of course, I know and have experience in dealing with people of Mike Arrington's callibur. He's one of those guys who takes a good thing and tries to give it a bad name just to give himself a bit more exposure and start up unnecessary controversy on the internet. After all, how can one really complain about PayPerPost and all the benefits bloggers gain from it especially when it pays more and it much more professional then other paid blogging services. Mike Arrington is simply just wasting his time, in my opinion.

My friend Paul and I walked into Walmart the other day, and we were warmly greeted by the employee at the door with "Merry Christmas! How are you?" We both responded politely and thought nothing of it for a second until I realized that this lady had been saying "Merry Christmas" to everyone that was walking into the door, regardless of what religion they might practice or which holiday they might be celebrating. This came as a shock to me, growing up in a society where we are supposed to be saying "Happy Holidays" to stay politically correct. But then Paul told me that apparently it was declared "okay" to say "Merry Christmas" in public this year.

Who determines that? Is theres some magical diety that lives in the United Nations that comes out once a year and bestows upon the world what he or she feels is politically correct to be saying? I'm not really bothered by this change, so much as I am just a bit confused and curious as to what might have made this come about.

So until then....MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!!

Many of my readers know by now that I am pretty sick of moving. I've moved from one place to the next in the past couple of months, and I'm finally going to make my life easier and check into some sort of storage facility place through Moving.bz to get all my stuff off of the streets and into a nice, organized area. This site is great because you can see all of the choices and options you have for storage units in your local area, basically wherever you need your stuff to be. From the comfort of your seat online someone can compare all of the different storage quotes from the different services in the area, and Moving.bz is a sure thing because they only offer you results from businesses that are insured and liscensed properly to hold whatever you need. Whether you're in the market for a poratable facility or a climate controlled room, Moving.bz is the only place on the web that I would go to to find a self storage unit, because of its ease of use and creditable reliability. Check them out!

I gave the new album, "Light Grenades" a listen, and it sounds to me like Incubus is still evolving into a new sound, taking a few more steps from what "A Crow Left Of The Murder." Usually it takes me a few listens to really get into an album anyway, but this new album didn't really catch my attention right away. There were some tracks that definatly caught my ear, but over all the tone was drowned out and Brandon Boyd still sounds like he's trying to be way too pretty. Luckily theres always some amazing instrumental arrangements going on beyond his crooning, which have always made Incubus one of the abnds I enjoy listening to. I still wish they would go back to the olden days with the amazing fury they found in their "Enjoy Incubus" and "S.C.I.E.N.C.E." days, but listening to where this band is going we probably won't be de-evolving just yet. Oh well. Any die-hard Incubus fan will love the new album. Other casual listeners should probably just give it a quick check.

Joan Jett may not have given a damn about her bad reputation, but it was probably because they didn't have things like MySpace in the 1980's. Luckily for her and for the rest of us there is now a great little service known as Repvine where you can keep your online reputation as cleamn as a whistle. It's a great tool that can help you manage what other people will see when they do a search for you online, and it gives people all of the imporatnt information that they need know about when they search for you, so you can more easily market yourself as the stunning individual that you are. Also, it will help you avoid awkward situations like this one:



If you need to clean up your act a bit, I highly recommend Repvine.com and all they can do for you!