I first discovered this music video on TVU Christian Music Television.
In my honest opinion, I think this song rocks my socks off!
Demon Hunter - Carry Me Down
michelle | MySpace Video
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Broken Bells - The High Road [Official Video]
The following video debuted yesterday on MySpace Music. Broken Bells is comprised of Gnarls Barkley's Danger Mouse and the Shins' head songwriter and singer James Mercer. The song was featured on NPR's "All Songs Considered" in earlier this month. Their much-acclaimed album is scheduled to release on March 9, 2010. This music video was directed by Sophie Muller.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
A Rough Week For Me
Several Hurdles My Business Ran Into This Past Week:
*End-Users/Service Buyers Not Paying For Services
*21:21 WorldWide Music Has NO Clients!
*Bills Exceed Income
There's ONE Positive Thing Out Of This Week For WWPM:
*End-Users/Service Buyers Not Paying For Services
*21:21 WorldWide Music Has NO Clients!
*Bills Exceed Income
There's ONE Positive Thing Out Of This Week For WWPM:
Our business cards from VistaPrint came in!
Want To Be A Guest Writer?
This is the only way to reach out to my audience is to see what you have to say. We're implementing a plan for you to make guest posts to our blog starting February 1, 2010.
We only ask your posts be between G and PG rated and obscenities be kept to a minimum - this is viewed by many people, some who hate obscene language.
If interested, please send a brief SMS message to (217) 310-4148 and email your posts to jakeleonard2013@gmail.com.
We only ask your posts be between G and PG rated and obscenities be kept to a minimum - this is viewed by many people, some who hate obscene language.
If interested, please send a brief SMS message to (217) 310-4148 and email your posts to jakeleonard2013@gmail.com.
One More New Update
This is a new update for those who currently read our blog or new readers:
We have added one more section to our header: the iPod Favorite Archive. We will post the favorites from the past five weeks of the current iPod Favorite week. (We've only done this starting the second week, so there's one in the books!)
We have added one more section to our header: the iPod Favorite Archive. We will post the favorites from the past five weeks of the current iPod Favorite week. (We've only done this starting the second week, so there's one in the books!)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
R.I.P. "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"
So it's official: NBC has paid Conan O'Brien to leave the network's most prestigious franchise only seven months after the show was passed down by Jay Leno. Now, with a primetime failure that was "The Jay Leno Show", this double-chinned jerkwad is getting his old slot back and NBC late night is doomed yet again under the banner of Jay Leno. Jimmy Fallon has made it known to TMZ that he is not happy.
Leno returns to "The Tonight Show" on March 1, after the 2010 Winter Olympics.
This is enough of an outrage that I think I will be watching Letterman at 10:35pm rather than watch Leno. I'll still watch "Late Night" religiously, but as long as Leno is host of "The Tonight Show", I will not watch it!
Conan, please come up with some way to escape the clause so you can join another network BEFORE SEPTEMBER!
Leno returns to "The Tonight Show" on March 1, after the 2010 Winter Olympics.
This is enough of an outrage that I think I will be watching Letterman at 10:35pm rather than watch Leno. I'll still watch "Late Night" religiously, but as long as Leno is host of "The Tonight Show", I will not watch it!
Conan, please come up with some way to escape the clause so you can join another network BEFORE SEPTEMBER!
Monday, January 18, 2010
So, Letterman Wants To Play Hardball?
So in the latest "Late Show" newsletter, David Letterman's writers make an attack on this PR nightmare known as "Conan vs. NBC Universal vs. Leno" and they even snap an attack on Carson Daly.
So I made a response on the CBS site:
So I made a response on the CBS site:
I read your recent newsletter and I'm appalled that your show would stoop so low as to attack your former network. Not only is your biggest competitor "The Tonight Show" facing a move where it'll be competing against ABC's Jimmy Kimmel and your colleague Craig Ferguson, leaving you to deal with Jay Leno once again. Jay Leno is an overbearing jerk and it's wrong that he and NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker is giving O'Brien the screwjob.
Not only are the pushing "Tonight Show" back, they are also ruining a franchise you founded on that network in 1982: "Late Night", which you passed on to Conan O'Brien in 1993 and he passed on to Jimmy Fallon in 2009.
Can't you say something that be of some sort of support to keep the tradition of "Late Show" vs. "The Tonight Show"?
Reponse From Tracey Cole, Station Manager of WAND-TV NBC Storm Center 17
I received the following response this morning from WAND-TV's station manager, Tracey Cole:
Dear Mr. Leonard,
Thank you for contacting us. As you correctly summarized this has been a debacle for the NBC network. The Jay Leno show at 9pm CT while an innovative idea fell flat on its face. The local affiliates who depend on competitive network programming as a lead in to their late local news lost hundreds of millions dollars in revenue due to the poor ratings which in turn has lowered viewership for local affiliates and the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. Unfortunately NBC was faced with making a decision where there was no good outcome. We truly appreciate your viewership over the years and understand your frustration. Once the situation is finally resolved we do hope at some point you will return as a loyal viewer.
Best regards,
Tracey H. Cole
Station Manager
WANDTV
904 South Side Drive
Decatur, IL 62521
2:22 AM
Don't ask me why I made a post at the same time I have a habit to get out of bed, eat some ice cream, watch The Weather Channel (well, not recently since I'm boycotting NBC Universal-owned - soon to be owned by Comcast - channels) and make fun of the weatherman.
Now, since the TV has FINALLY been moved into my bedroom (so I can quit watching TV late at night in the living room), I find anything I can dig up of someone making an idiot of themselves. Comedians do this all the time, so they're out of the question. Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly snap at each other at a pin drop, so that doesn't really count. I could switch it to "Overhaulin'" or "Mythbusters", but those are everyday stupid antics. There's not enough stupid people where I live, but we don't need any more.
Here's stupid and idiotic for you: waking up at 2:22 in the morning only for about 118 minutes so that you late-night Taco Bell/White Castle crap eating stoners could have something to talk about!
And maybe those stoners can buy something so I can survive!
Now, since the TV has FINALLY been moved into my bedroom (so I can quit watching TV late at night in the living room), I find anything I can dig up of someone making an idiot of themselves. Comedians do this all the time, so they're out of the question. Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly snap at each other at a pin drop, so that doesn't really count. I could switch it to "Overhaulin'" or "Mythbusters", but those are everyday stupid antics. There's not enough stupid people where I live, but we don't need any more.
Here's stupid and idiotic for you: waking up at 2:22 in the morning only for about 118 minutes so that you late-night Taco Bell/White Castle crap eating stoners could have something to talk about!
And maybe those stoners can buy something so I can survive!
The Outpouring of Aid
In the past few days following the Haitian earthquake, there has been such an outpouring of aid to this country. Many people are presumed dead, some in critical condition and even some with nothing more than a cut or scrape.
The overwhelming support from the United States is almost comparable to that to the 2008 Indonesian tsunami. But where was all of this support when we face our own natural disasters?
One disaster I know New Orleans is still recovering from many years later is from Hurricane Katrina. Most of the city is still uninhabitable and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), with limited funds provided by its parent, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Millions of dollars later and that project is still incomplete.
It is interesting that when the Midwestern United States suffers a disaster, the money and recovery efforts are there 95% of the time. When California, New York, Texas or Alaska have a disaster, the state has to exhaust all of their resources before they will step in. If you're not in those areas, you might have to wait later than 72 hours.
We had the Red Cross, Goodwill and the Salvation Army and even Tide down there to support the families who bore through the storm, but they have more people in Haiti as we speak. Why do we send thousands to Haiti when only hundreds went to help in New Orleans post-Katrina or cities affected by the great Midwestern flood of 2008? We're we so limited in funds that we couldn't have had more people there?
All I can say is: the mission is being done as we speak, and I thank everyone that has done work in the recovery and cleanup attempt.
However, last week's comments from Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson about "Haitians deserved to die because they made a pact with Satan" and a fireball response the following day by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann proved that the media, whether liberal- or conservative-leaning, still spin the news stories around FOR THE RATINGS!
The overwhelming support from the United States is almost comparable to that to the 2008 Indonesian tsunami. But where was all of this support when we face our own natural disasters?
One disaster I know New Orleans is still recovering from many years later is from Hurricane Katrina. Most of the city is still uninhabitable and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), with limited funds provided by its parent, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Millions of dollars later and that project is still incomplete.
It is interesting that when the Midwestern United States suffers a disaster, the money and recovery efforts are there 95% of the time. When California, New York, Texas or Alaska have a disaster, the state has to exhaust all of their resources before they will step in. If you're not in those areas, you might have to wait later than 72 hours.
We had the Red Cross, Goodwill and the Salvation Army and even Tide down there to support the families who bore through the storm, but they have more people in Haiti as we speak. Why do we send thousands to Haiti when only hundreds went to help in New Orleans post-Katrina or cities affected by the great Midwestern flood of 2008? We're we so limited in funds that we couldn't have had more people there?
All I can say is: the mission is being done as we speak, and I thank everyone that has done work in the recovery and cleanup attempt.
However, last week's comments from Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson about "Haitians deserved to die because they made a pact with Satan" and a fireball response the following day by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann proved that the media, whether liberal- or conservative-leaning, still spin the news stories around FOR THE RATINGS!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
So I Emailed NBC Universal & Comcast About The Late Night Scheduling Debacle
So with the current conflict involving NBC Universal, Conan O'Brien and the state of "The Tonight Show" (with it's 55-year tradition airing after the late local news), I felt, like many "Team Conan" Facebook group members, decided to email some of the following:
- NBC Universal President & CEO Jeff Zucker
- Comcast President Brian Roberts (85% owner by mid-2010)
- General Electric President & CEO Jeffrey Inmelt (15% owner by mid-2010)
- Tracey Cole, Station Manager of WAND-TV NBC Storm Center 17; Decatur, Illinois
- Ron Pulera, General Manager of WAND-TV NBC Storm Center 17; Decatur, Illinois
- Rebecca Rahm, Programming Director of KSDK-TV; St. Louis, Missouri
I'll update you of any responses...
- NBC Universal President & CEO Jeff Zucker
- Comcast President Brian Roberts (85% owner by mid-2010)
- General Electric President & CEO Jeffrey Inmelt (15% owner by mid-2010)
- Tracey Cole, Station Manager of WAND-TV NBC Storm Center 17; Decatur, Illinois
- Ron Pulera, General Manager of WAND-TV NBC Storm Center 17; Decatur, Illinois
- Rebecca Rahm, Programming Director of KSDK-TV; St. Louis, Missouri
This message is to let you know that we intend to cease watching NBC networks including the local programming on KSDK in St. Louis, MO and WAND in Decatur, IL, due to the unfair treatment NBC has given to Conan O'Brien and more than likely, the rest of the late night team of Jimmy Fallon and Carson Daly.
I've watched NBC's late night lineup since 1989 (even though I was supposed to be asleep then), starting with Johnny Carson and Dave Letterman. Years later, it became Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien, while adding Carson Daly many years later. Now, it's Conan and Jimmy Fallon, along with Daly. I've watched NBC late night for so long, I feel that NBC's current actions will end up destroying two of the biggest franchises on the network, only because you want Jay Leno back in late night.
While we are disappointed to be losing him from The Tonight Show, our distaste stems more from the manner in which the network handled this situation. We do not believe in supporting a company that engages in such underhanded and mean business practices. That kind of method of operation does not mesh with the values of our family.
Jake Leonard
P.S. Unfortunately, there wasn't much left on your network worth watching anyway. I probably won't stop with boycotting NBC - I'll probably end up boycotting every channel under NBC Universal-production under General Electric and Comcast payroll.
I'll update you of any responses...
Friday, January 15, 2010
A Brief Explanation Of This Site
If you're a little confused and have been caught in the middle of my constant remodeling, I'll explain it all to you:
The Outraged Tycoon's iPod Favorite
My favorite pick of the week, although beginning January 17, 2010, you get to choose out of five of my random picks out of my iPod and iTunes. It is usually the top five most played songs on my iPod Shuffle that ends up being scrobbled on Last.fm. The player and ballot is inside of a table for space reasons. The iPod Favorite music player will always be on the left-hand side. The ballot is on the right-hand side and has a popup window link to vote. You're given until 12:59 pm every Saturday to vote.
The Outraged Tycoon's Ticker
This ticker includes links to my profiles on Facebook and MySpace, my company's Twitter and corporate website and ministry Twitter. I nickname this the blog "The Official Site for All Things Verbally Slaughtered". This includes the "In This Outrage (In History)" segment, where I take an actual year and event and use my wicked sense of humor to twist it around and make it something different. Also shown is a current outrage and a potential outrage.
Donate Box.....Why Is That There?
I do this now as an obsessive hobby outside of work and I don't get paid to do this (despite using Google AdSense and Amazon Associates in my posts, which pay minimal), but I would one day like to have more outraged writers join me (most of which want to be paid), so we'd like your help! (Also, this box is available if you want to bribe me out of choosing my picks for the iPod Favorite so you can make a suggestion! Any amount, and you can make ONE selection!)
The Outraged Tycoon's eBay Auctions
I use eBay quite a bit selling stuff, mainly through one of my startup businesses which started in November 2009, WWPM Auctions & Appraisal. I don't do much appraisal stuff, but I sell my stuff (mostly things I purchased and resells it) or I do consignment auctions (sell for other people).
Blog Posts & Archive, About Me and Followers
My blog posts will be pretty frequent, so if you miss it, there is an archive to find that post. You can learn about me by clicking on either my picture or the link saying "See my entire profile". If you follow my blog or subscribed, your username should be on this list.
Why are there Amazon and Google AdSense ads on your posts and elsewhere on the site?
It's weird, but Google wants you to make money (for some reason). If it's an Amazon ad, I posted a product related to someone I mentioned on a post (for instance, check the last post I did). AdSense just fills in the other spaces on the site (mostly the footer and under the archive list).
The Outraged Tycoon's iPod Favorite
My favorite pick of the week, although beginning January 17, 2010, you get to choose out of five of my random picks out of my iPod and iTunes. It is usually the top five most played songs on my iPod Shuffle that ends up being scrobbled on Last.fm. The player and ballot is inside of a table for space reasons. The iPod Favorite music player will always be on the left-hand side. The ballot is on the right-hand side and has a popup window link to vote. You're given until 12:59 pm every Saturday to vote.
The Outraged Tycoon's Ticker
This ticker includes links to my profiles on Facebook and MySpace, my company's Twitter and corporate website and ministry Twitter. I nickname this the blog "The Official Site for All Things Verbally Slaughtered". This includes the "In This Outrage (In History)" segment, where I take an actual year and event and use my wicked sense of humor to twist it around and make it something different. Also shown is a current outrage and a potential outrage.
Donate Box.....Why Is That There?
I do this now as an obsessive hobby outside of work and I don't get paid to do this (despite using Google AdSense and Amazon Associates in my posts, which pay minimal), but I would one day like to have more outraged writers join me (most of which want to be paid), so we'd like your help! (Also, this box is available if you want to bribe me out of choosing my picks for the iPod Favorite so you can make a suggestion! Any amount, and you can make ONE selection!)
The Outraged Tycoon's eBay Auctions
I use eBay quite a bit selling stuff, mainly through one of my startup businesses which started in November 2009, WWPM Auctions & Appraisal. I don't do much appraisal stuff, but I sell my stuff (mostly things I purchased and resells it) or I do consignment auctions (sell for other people).
Blog Posts & Archive, About Me and Followers
My blog posts will be pretty frequent, so if you miss it, there is an archive to find that post. You can learn about me by clicking on either my picture or the link saying "See my entire profile". If you follow my blog or subscribed, your username should be on this list.
Why are there Amazon and Google AdSense ads on your posts and elsewhere on the site?
It's weird, but Google wants you to make money (for some reason). If it's an Amazon ad, I posted a product related to someone I mentioned on a post (for instance, check the last post I did). AdSense just fills in the other spaces on the site (mostly the footer and under the archive list).
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Top 10 List: Signs You're Being Pestered About Being Mean
10. You're attacking their token political party spokesperson(s).
9. Emailed Facebook notification asks why you can't say anything positive.
8. The setting on your "Sarcasm Generator" is stuck on "Attack Limbaugh" and won't move toward the center.
7. "Running for Vice President for Dummies" is being written by both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
6. You plumb run out of nice things to say.
5. Dave Barry is mentally talking to you to attack Obama at a pin's drop.
4. Pat Robertson spoke to by the late Jerry Falwell to attack the next nation who suffers a natural disaster.
3. Politics destroyed your nice streak, your looks and your double-wide trailer.
2. The last rumored question from Michael Jackson was "Where's Bubbles?"
1. You make fun of a politician who thinks 1 + 1 = 11 and believes they can see Russia from their house.
9. Emailed Facebook notification asks why you can't say anything positive.
8. The setting on your "Sarcasm Generator" is stuck on "Attack Limbaugh" and won't move toward the center.
7. "Running for Vice President for Dummies" is being written by both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
6. You plumb run out of nice things to say.
5. Dave Barry is mentally talking to you to attack Obama at a pin's drop.
4. Pat Robertson spoke to by the late Jerry Falwell to attack the next nation who suffers a natural disaster.
3. Politics destroyed your nice streak, your looks and your double-wide trailer.
2. The last rumored question from Michael Jackson was "Where's Bubbles?"
1. You make fun of a politician who thinks 1 + 1 = 11 and believes they can see Russia from their house.
Heeeeeeeeerrrrreeeee's Johnny! (I'm Back!)
First Outrage: Wordpress
I'm finally back in the blogosphere after several months of being oppressed by a group of egotistical liberal atheists known as the blog hosting site of Wordpress. I had my flagship blog (Politics & YouTube In Review), subsequent sports blog (PYIR SportsCenter), HS class blog and finally, my devotional blog.
Now, I'm back where I started in the blogosphere - right here on Blogger (despite being owned by media congomorate Google) and I feel at home! So let the new outrages begin!
Second Outrage: NBC & The De-construction of "The Tonight Show"
If you have watched the January 12 episode of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien", you feel the pain felt by Conan O'Brien, who has only been the host for seven months, after succeeding Jay Leno, who moved to primetime. Now, since NBC believes both shows have "low" ratings, the broadcasting executives want to move "Tonight Show" to 12:05 AM CST to accommodate a shortened late night version of "The Jay Leno Show". "The Tonight Show", in it's 55-year history, has ALWAYS aired after the late local news, around 10:35 PM CST.
Donate! We're Upgrading Some of Our Owner's Operations (Obsessive Operations!)
This ends the beginning of my outrages for today! Next time: Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson and Keith Olbermann!
I'm finally back in the blogosphere after several months of being oppressed by a group of egotistical liberal atheists known as the blog hosting site of Wordpress. I had my flagship blog (Politics & YouTube In Review), subsequent sports blog (PYIR SportsCenter), HS class blog and finally, my devotional blog.
Now, I'm back where I started in the blogosphere - right here on Blogger (despite being owned by media congomorate Google) and I feel at home! So let the new outrages begin!
Second Outrage: NBC & The De-construction of "The Tonight Show"
If you have watched the January 12 episode of "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien", you feel the pain felt by Conan O'Brien, who has only been the host for seven months, after succeeding Jay Leno, who moved to primetime. Now, since NBC believes both shows have "low" ratings, the broadcasting executives want to move "Tonight Show" to 12:05 AM CST to accommodate a shortened late night version of "The Jay Leno Show". "The Tonight Show", in it's 55-year history, has ALWAYS aired after the late local news, around 10:35 PM CST.
Donate! We're Upgrading Some of Our Owner's Operations (Obsessive Operations!)
This ends the beginning of my outrages for today! Next time: Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson and Keith Olbermann!
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