Bad social media copywriting
It’s important to get social media reference correct. In this check insert example from California Pizza Kitchen, new Twitter users would get a failure message if they tried to go to twitter.com/@calpizzakitchen. People who’ve been on Twitter a while recognize the mistake and won’t follow @calpizzakitchen because they can’t be bothered to get the community’s patois right. The @ sign in front of the name means “reply”. Details matter, CPK. kthxbai
The ever-lovely Karen bought passes to see the Tall Ships at Navy Pier for my birthday, so we headed out Friday with our friend Rebecca to climb aboard a few of these lovelies. I got some great photos and enjoyed my first day out of the house since being god-awful sick. The ships were definitely [...]
You would think that the vacant lot housing discarded remains of the upcoming Transformers 3 movie would be filled with tons of automotive gear. Nope. What’s in there? Street signs, a lemonade stand and a nearly complete rotunda. The vacant lot is across from the AMC 21, in case you were curious. There’s a lot [...]
This birthday started with the worst case of flu I’ve had in my life. Chills, sweats, fever, no birthday cake…it was pretty miserable. I’m blogging into the past to remind myself that although the actual day was rotten, I was able to bookend the day with friends and more celebration than the occasion warranted. This [...]
The latest art project along Michigan Avenue uses re-purposed refrigerators. I recently had to replace mine, so it’s nice to think it ended up as a work of art. Actually, I wouldn’t mind if my ‘fridge looked like this for real.
I can believe the circus that’s going on around the Blagojevich trial, but it looks like his dream of endless publicity is coming to fruition. At the very least, he’s been immortalized by the state’s taggers.
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