Photos from the Beat
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It's 4 pm and I've just finished a 2,000-word manifesto on viral marketing - featuring the Xcelerator Dryer! I interviewed the prez of the company that makes these high-powered, jet-fueled restroom hand dryers and he was just tickled to death, seriously, to hear that there are posts on YouTube like this:
I had a lot of writing to do this week in addition to going viral, and thankfully the topics I covered were pretty interesting. I wrote a little about Stormy the helpful pollution duck at Think Blue , and about Friendly ice cream's new foray into producing biodiesel using vegetable oil from the fryolators, for example.
I really need to go help the environment and order a turkey Supermelt or a Fishamajig soon.
All of this intrepid reporting in family restaurants, on riverbanks, and YouTube is why The Jump has been The Vast Wasteland of Two-week-old Posts, but at least I'm ending on a journalistic high-note as I head out for a little while. Yes kids, hold your applause tears, WriterJax will be on hiatus for a little while, returning to its former glory in the dog-days of July. It will be the first time in years I'll be traveling for a reason other than my job, and while travel writing is no day in the mines, a girl's gotta do her own thing some of the time.
That said, I will leave you with something I know you're going to want to revisit a few times in my absence. This is one of the best things I've found on the Internets in a long time, and also likely to become one of my favorite videos of all time.
So, behold! And remember:
"I'm doin' the things that I wanna do - I ain't got a thing to prove to you ... I ain't gonna wear the clothes that you like, I'm fine and dandy with the me inside."
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