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Thanks to Culture Kitchen's ad lineup, I just learned something I really wanted to know but wouldn't have known to look for any other way, probably. (Keep watching those ads, y'all!)

If Ira Glass' --yes, that's the possessive with an apostrophe and NO extra S! -- new tv show is destined to be as good as his "This American Life" on radio, then I finally have educational justification to add the network airing it to my cable service. His NPR show on superpowers, with John Hodgman interviewing regular folks on the street about whether they'd choose flying or invisibility and why, was an instant classic. And the show about what three things we live and die for -- talk about power of story. . .Ira Glass doesn't tell stories the way anybody else does.

Episode 1 - "Reality Check"
Three stories of people who hatched plans in the hopes of making their dreams come true, but were snapped back to reality by unpleasant outcomes: an elementary school student tries to solve a common childhood problem; a rancher resuscitates a beloved pet, which later turns on him; people team to give an unknown rock band the greatest night of its life.

I remember the last bit, about the unknown rock band, from the radio show. There was a LOT more to it than this, about creativity and community, whether contrived spontaneity and ambush improv is fair (a la Borat?) and whether it's true, for the players OR the unsuspecting audience -- I'm still thinking hard about the cultural questions of meaning it raised for me.

Have you molested our advertisers yet?

American Greetings has a hysterical grandpa in a superhero suit promo for their new eCard service. Go check them out.

We also have the great honor to have been premiumed by my favorite Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. If I weren't so in love with his wife, I'd so hit that. Honestly, Elizabeth Edwards is the reason why I drool over his candidacy. So go hit that ad.

And don't forget to generously frottage your mouse all over our eager GoogleAds. The more you do, the more we get off with a nice paycheck at the end of the month.

Yeah. Pimping does the advertising good.

Another Friday, another day to remind you to get your advertiser freak on. Thanks to :

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Make sure you also peruse the rotating sponsors on our GoogleAds banners. You're visits to our advertisers are the simplest way to make a cash-like contribution to our coffers.

Remember also to pick up some goodies over at our CafePress store, the new MaryCheneyBaby store and our Amazon Affiliate sidebar.

If you would like to advertise or sponsor our blog (or are able to refer us to an interested party), please email us at ads [ at ] culturekitchenmedia.com.

'Tis the season for giving y'all. As you know, we are a bootstrapped operation fully funded through advertising and sponsorships. We don't bug you for money because we believe we will, one day, become profitable through advertising.

Traffic in the world of blogs is one way to get well paid through advertising. But who clicks on an ad and for how long they stay at the advertiser's sites is probably more important than the traffic we provide. When it comes down to it, that's what targetted or niche marketing is all about. It is not about volume but quality.

So, for the sake of helping out your favouritest (yes, I just made that up) blog in the world, please take a moment and to peruse our advertisers sites.

NARAL-ProChoice America.

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Also, don't forget to pick up some goodies over at our CafePress store, the new MaryCheneyBaby store and our Amazon Affiliate sidebar.

If you would like to advertise or sponsor our blog, please email us at ads [ at ] culturekitchenmedia.com.

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I switched the navigation and blogging tools menus to the top of the sidebar on the left. Since they are collapsible, you can just open and close them as you need.

Hate it? Love it? I want to know it all.

Before you go on hating though, I want you all to know that this was more than just an exercise in designing a Drupal site. I am trying to find add more space to make more visible the work and interaction of regular members. I want to find ways of making visible the way people interact in the site --so it's not just the front-pagers who get featured and highlighted.  

Here's what I feel about it at the moment: It's busy. I do like the new molotov-guy design. I do think that the actual logo (the word culturekitchen) could be much, much smaller.

What do you think?

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I have finally recuperated from the ignominous aching of my old and sagging body and, after seeing the evidence of my having a good time, I've taken out hits on David from Jossip, Danielle of Celebrity Baby blog and Ezra Klein.

There's too much evidence of my having fun ... too much fun.

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