Welcome to the online home of me, some guy given the name John Cleveland Payne. In the grand scheme of life, I am just another guy with another blog. But to myself, and hopefully to all of you who actually read this, I am something a little more special. From a young age, I fell in love of the idea of ‘the message’ and medium in which you try to transmit.
Basically, everyone has a message to give to the world. Some are basic, some complex, some have the power to up lift and some are just out there to bring as many people down as possible. But everyone has a message, and most people have problems identifying their message. And the ones who get that far can seem to figure out how to get the world to listen.
Well, I have a message, and this is where I will get a chance to share it. Hopefully, you’ll get plenty of things to keep you motivated or inspired, provide knowledge and comfort, and just have a little fun. Apologies for the state of flux and state of seemingly confusing messages that you’ll get here for a while, as I am doing a lot of personal soul searching, and scrubbing of old ideas to take the best of the past to build a new beginning.
In 2007, I changed the name of blog from “The Mis-Adventures Of The Jazzy Cool One” to “Life In Fast Forward.” I began to tear down old blogs and newsletters and try to find places for them here. My goal is to take the focus off of me the person, and show the world the life I live and share with every human on the planet. I aspire to life at a very high standard, and instead of dealing with people who rather slow us down, I want to find ways to help people pick up there own pace. As you get to see an insight to the further adventures I hope to lead, hopefully you’ll enjoy the ride, and want to come along.
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
Just as production is set to begin on "Rocky Balboa" (a.k.a. Rocky 6), Sylvester Stallone has unleashed more news that can only be seen as the coming of the "End of Days." Forget hurricanes and tsunamis, Sly going to follow up the re-earthing of character Rocky Balboa with the re-earthing of character John Rambo in "Rambo IV."
I don't want you to think I have an obsession or am questioning my own sense of sexuality, but what's up with all the minor sports stars and supporting cast actors deciding to come out of the closet and the end or well past there prime of fame.
First Sheeryl Swoops. Now George Takei of Star Trek fame has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community. His current role in the play "Equus" as psychologist Martin Dysart helped inspire him to publicly discuss his sexuality.
Lord, can I care even less?
At least we don't have to feel sorry for Sulu never getting any women because Kirk was hogging them all.
Celebrity poker. Celebrity dodgeball. Celebrity horse? Magic Johnson hopes to become the executive producer of the newest craze in reality TV. Reality producer Phil Gurin has begun negotiations with potential sponsors for the project, tentatively-titled "Celebrity Horse." (Of course, of course.)
Yorembererer horse, don't you? Two or more players shooting the basketball from various spots on the court in make-or-miss style, hoping not to miss five times, which will get you the letters "H-O-R-S-E." Or, as Gurin joked, "Maybe you could spell 'Pepsi' or 'Nokia. It's a completely sponsor-friendly show."
According to this article, your grandma is just waiting to punk you playing video games. And by punk, I mean beat the living snot out of you in Madden and Halo.
This makes more than perfect sense, since somebody had to be playing all that Pong, Pac-Man, and Space Invaders over 30 years ago. Why would they stop playing just because there grandchildren with bad hair cuts think they are the kings of the online arena?
The kids are not okay. This time, the means is drinking games being a cover for massive accounts of binge drinking across college campus. But don't blame the student doing shots just yet, blame the bars and booze distributors, who see this as a marketing gold. There giving the kids what they want, good times and cheep booze, for the small price of a little cash and their souls . . .
While promotion of alcohol in this fashion may not be a crowning achievement for business, it’s nothing new, and just another story to become a case study in flip side of business and marketing ethics.
But in the meantime, keep an eye on those charges to the credit card you’ve given your kids away at the university.
I got to host the first 30 minutes of The Dave Elswick Show this morning, and I wish I would have understood this story beforehand, or I would have talked about it.
The Smurfs are back in the news, not because of an upcoming 3-D CGI feature film from Paramount Pictures. The news is based on a new UNICEF ad-campaign on Belgian television. As this article from Yahoo! News explains:
Smurfette is left for dead. Baby Smurf is left crying and orphaned as the Smurf's village is carpet bombed by warplanes — a horrific scene and imagery not normally associated with the lovable blue-skinned cartoon characters.
Carpet bombing the Smurfs? Gargamel has gone a little to far . . .
Up to 20,000 people were expected in Windsor, Nova Scotia to watch Martha Stewart float down the river in a pumpkin regatta. Despite pesky travel restrictions due to her now being a convicted felon, the only thing more powerful than the domestic diva's travel intentions is the weather, as politicians cut through red tape to permit Stewart into the country at short notice. Bad weather in Maine, however, was not so cooperative, as a blanket of fog grounded her plane Sunday morning.
Although an associate producer from her television show ended up paddling the pumpkin watercraft intended for Miss Stewart, there was plenty of disappointment from the crowd. Like fan Valerie Ryan, who said,
Next to getting married and having my kids, it was the best thing to hear she was coming here.
Can more sin help rebuild sin city? Maybe, as New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin tires to "think out of the box" Friday and proposed Las Vegas-style gambling in the city's larger hotels as a way to revitalize the city's economy after Hurricane Katrina.
Would you buy "curiously strong" mints with long ties to Great Britain? Would you still buy them if they stopped production in their factory in Bridgend, Wales, and moved it to a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee?
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (WWY) is hoping that you will with Altoids, which it bought from Kraft in 2004. As the article from nytimes.com states, a domestic move didn't do so well with Löwenbräu beer for Miller Brewing Company.
