Bruce Goode

concerns about My Fair Lady

just to go off on a bit of a tangent here.

Went to see My Fair Lady

catchy songs, nice show ---- can't understand how no one else has a problem with the message?

so I did some digging for reviews and found a few others that I agreed with.

snippets

Clean it up a bit, dress it in fine, beautiful clothes, practice the manners, take it to the best places, and no one will ever notice the unreconstructed gutter-snipe beneath it all. In this case, I'm not talking about Eliza Doolittle, but the unavoidably sexist and now distressingly dated "My Fair Lady". Of course it's filled with some of the best songs ever written for the Broadway stage, and the script is a model of intelligence and subtlety, but there are presumptions and attitudes beneath it all that must be balanced expertly, along with a romance that is a paradigm of conditional commitment, or the whole thing becomes cold and slightly repellent. This production made it impossible for me to overlook precisely those things which, when carefully handled, make this unlikely tale so magical.  Jerry Kraft

Probably the most hideous blight upon all of modern culture is the appalling and inexcusable My Fair Lady. A thoroughly degenerate spectacle, Alan Jay Lerner's book and lyrics bid fair to drag all that is truly noble about human achievement through the sewer: My Fair Lady is a vapid, cynical affront to the civilized mind, a travesty that exalts all that is sniveling and contemptible and degrades anything even remotely worth admiring or applauding, affirming or cherishing. It is a sojourn through slime, the theatrical equivalent of a mugging. Watching it is like watching a biker gang beat a cherub to death with ballpeen hammers. (Of course it also does have a few catchy musical numbers. Conceded.) Whiskey Fire

 

Office Project

Getting ready to start doing a lot of in house video for Greenhouses.com so I thought instead of shooting in front of a green screen I would just put a greenhouse in the office.

Search in 2012

Even though I have gotten used to the crazy changes in search marketing year after year I have to admit that this last 12 months has been just staggering.

In the past no matter what the changes as long as you stayed focused on web search you were fine. Optimized pages, constant content and backlinks.

It seems to me though that the shift to social is truly taking over. Just this year in my family we have put the laptops away to be replaced by smart phones and ipads. I stll use my desktops at work with their huge monitors but even I can see the mobiles taking over.

Add to that the shift to facebook, twitter and youtube + local search results and I am slowly rebuilding all my websites to work on mobile devices and while I have not thrown out basic search engine marketing I now build in social media marketing into every marketing plan.

I don't have any idea how google's +1 will shake out, but it is starting to feel like they are going to make it work no matter what it takes. I also wonder how the new "talking" phones are going to affect search - if you just ask your phone for a recommendation = how do our marketing efforts affect those results?

The only think that I am sure of is that 2012 is going to be another interesting year.

Popular Email Address

My gmail address is popular today. What is funny is that the following were not spam, just emails sent to me in error.

1) I received an invitation to a wedding in Tiptur, India 

2) I am evidently in the new cast of Oliver at a Salt Lake City middle school since I was sent the cast meeting schedule with a note not to be late

3) I recieved an mri that shows a history of lower back pain in the left sciatica
(this one makes me nervous since that is an accurate diagnosis for me even though I am not a patient at the Florida Cocoa Beach Hospital)