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Monday, October 8, 2007
Brand Me
For years now friends, family and colleagues have called me by the nickname, "AG". A is for my first name and G is for my last name. Get it?
Not out of necessity, both my first and last names are rather easy to pronounce, unlike Ardwen Ghamar, for example.
Over the years it has evolved into my own personal brand[ing]. Brand Me. This blog is now the latest extension of my brand, BEINGTHEAG. My user name IAMTHEAG, is a bold brand statement. There may (LOL) in fact be other AG's out there in the dark, but my claim is that I am THE AG. Sound it out if you can.
Unlike some of my other rantings, I don't think I'm going to put my brand on a t-shirt or author a cook book, although I have a "branded" a grill recipe called "AG's 5-star Burgers", where the five star reference has less to do with quality but is in fact a brand ingredient, namely beer...imported...with a red star in the label...green bottle...
I'm not exactly sure why I've chosen to post this, or I've forgotten. Perhaps because when my brand is put into phrase, without the aid of proper grammar, punctuation and spacing, it appears like a foreign language and is confusing. But that was part of the idea - it is after all, MY brand for ME. I'm not selling fast food, cleaning products, cigarettes, shampoo or t-shirts (yet) with it.
I think another reason for the general acceptance of my brand is because I've spent most of my adult life living in foreign countries, where English is the second language (including England) Pronunciation (of my name) was always...entertaining to say the very least. A short simple acronym with easy to pronounce letters, made communication easier and more importantly, I was remembered.
And that is what it's all about in the end anyway, or? Applying the understandings of the Brontosaurus to our lives in general; we are born, we live, we die - the idea is to "get bigger in the middle", or to make your mark, in what ever way you are able.
ANDWHENIDIEDONTBURRYMEJUSTSAYGOODTHINGSABOUTHEAGANDSPREADTHERESTUPONTHEMEDSAYCIAOOUTLOUDENOUGHSAID.
Not out of necessity, both my first and last names are rather easy to pronounce, unlike Ardwen Ghamar, for example.
Over the years it has evolved into my own personal brand[ing]. Brand Me. This blog is now the latest extension of my brand, BEINGTHEAG. My user name IAMTHEAG, is a bold brand statement. There may (LOL) in fact be other AG's out there in the dark, but my claim is that I am THE AG. Sound it out if you can.
Unlike some of my other rantings, I don't think I'm going to put my brand on a t-shirt or author a cook book, although I have a "branded" a grill recipe called "AG's 5-star Burgers", where the five star reference has less to do with quality but is in fact a brand ingredient, namely beer...imported...with a red star in the label...green bottle...
I'm not exactly sure why I've chosen to post this, or I've forgotten. Perhaps because when my brand is put into phrase, without the aid of proper grammar, punctuation and spacing, it appears like a foreign language and is confusing. But that was part of the idea - it is after all, MY brand for ME. I'm not selling fast food, cleaning products, cigarettes, shampoo or t-shirts (yet) with it.
I think another reason for the general acceptance of my brand is because I've spent most of my adult life living in foreign countries, where English is the second language (including England) Pronunciation (of my name) was always...entertaining to say the very least. A short simple acronym with easy to pronounce letters, made communication easier and more importantly, I was remembered.
And that is what it's all about in the end anyway, or? Applying the understandings of the Brontosaurus to our lives in general; we are born, we live, we die - the idea is to "get bigger in the middle", or to make your mark, in what ever way you are able.
ANDWHENIDIEDONTBURRYMEJUSTSAYGOODTHINGSABOUTHEAGANDSPREADTHERESTUPONTHEMEDSAYCIAOOUTLOUDENOUGHSAID.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
The Brontosaurus Theory
Like most things, starting out small in the beginning, getting progressively bigger in the middle and then ending up small again in the end, I am starting this blog to share the stories that happen along the way.
Right then, on with the blogging! Not the coolest sounding activity or? But it does rhyme with "Snogging" which I believe is a rather naughty British saying for making out.
Thank god for the Internet, or rather Tim, who is not really a God but he is a Knight. Of all the titles, acknowledgments, awards, and bestow-ings, Knighthood has to be coolest. A Knight of the Internet! Maybe the guys a Google will get the title as well, after they buy Microsoft and control the Universe.
Would you put that on your business card? Why do we still have business cards? And why do we still wear jeans? Cars still don't fly, and its the year 2008! I think it has something to do with the fact that Bill Shatner hung up his stretch-suit and made "Has Been" - a great album and a very funny track! But at least I can listen to him, and the Foo Fighters on my iPod. Which, should be the model of a car - individual [trans]portation device.
But then again, I do like shoes. And if Capatin Kirk was still leading us, we'd all be wearing these space-boot-slipper things. And then the guy who invented flip-flops would be...or rather wouldn't be at all! Now we have strapless flip-flops. Which should not be allowed to be called a flip-flop, because they adhere to the souls of your feet and do not make any kind of "flip" or"flop" sound at all. And wouldn't sand and dirt and stuff stick to your feet after you peel them off ? Who the hell thought up that idea?
T-shirts are also cool. Which are best worn with jeans, so good that we still have jeans instead of stretch-suits. I read about a guy who made a t-shirt that had the words "Fuck Yoga" in a stylish font, printed on the front. He wore it for 39 consecutive days (I'm sure with a rinse cycle in between), and got his photo in the NY Times and in GQ magazine! I'm going to print one that says "Fuck Blogging" and see what happens! But he has a good point; yoga has been going on for far too long without a single slam!
Or maybe I'll invent Smoga - yoga for smokers. I smoke. I didn't start when I was 4 or anything like that, but I do smoke randomly now. And will probably stop at some point. And then start again after an evening of drinking. If you drank martinis everyday, you'd probably die. If you eat at McD's everyday, you'd probably die. I smoke. But not everyday.
Weather is...a sign that I'm running out of anything else to think about. But it is also a thing that we (people) in the whole world agree on. Good weather is better than bad weather. Weather can unite cultures. I think weather should get another chance. Not, "Oh my god, he had nothing so say so he talked about the weather", anymore! Weather is Peace! I think I'm going to save weather and put it on a t-shirt, and see what happens.
Until then.
Right then, on with the blogging! Not the coolest sounding activity or? But it does rhyme with "Snogging" which I believe is a rather naughty British saying for making out.
Thank god for the Internet, or rather Tim, who is not really a God but he is a Knight. Of all the titles, acknowledgments, awards, and bestow-ings, Knighthood has to be coolest. A Knight of the Internet! Maybe the guys a Google will get the title as well, after they buy Microsoft and control the Universe.
Would you put that on your business card? Why do we still have business cards? And why do we still wear jeans? Cars still don't fly, and its the year 2008! I think it has something to do with the fact that Bill Shatner hung up his stretch-suit and made "Has Been" - a great album and a very funny track! But at least I can listen to him, and the Foo Fighters on my iPod. Which, should be the model of a car - individual [trans]portation device.
But then again, I do like shoes. And if Capatin Kirk was still leading us, we'd all be wearing these space-boot-slipper things. And then the guy who invented flip-flops would be...or rather wouldn't be at all! Now we have strapless flip-flops. Which should not be allowed to be called a flip-flop, because they adhere to the souls of your feet and do not make any kind of "flip" or"flop" sound at all. And wouldn't sand and dirt and stuff stick to your feet after you peel them off ? Who the hell thought up that idea?
T-shirts are also cool. Which are best worn with jeans, so good that we still have jeans instead of stretch-suits. I read about a guy who made a t-shirt that had the words "Fuck Yoga" in a stylish font, printed on the front. He wore it for 39 consecutive days (I'm sure with a rinse cycle in between), and got his photo in the NY Times and in GQ magazine! I'm going to print one that says "Fuck Blogging" and see what happens! But he has a good point; yoga has been going on for far too long without a single slam!
Or maybe I'll invent Smoga - yoga for smokers. I smoke. I didn't start when I was 4 or anything like that, but I do smoke randomly now. And will probably stop at some point. And then start again after an evening of drinking. If you drank martinis everyday, you'd probably die. If you eat at McD's everyday, you'd probably die. I smoke. But not everyday.
Weather is...a sign that I'm running out of anything else to think about. But it is also a thing that we (people) in the whole world agree on. Good weather is better than bad weather. Weather can unite cultures. I think weather should get another chance. Not, "Oh my god, he had nothing so say so he talked about the weather", anymore! Weather is Peace! I think I'm going to save weather and put it on a t-shirt, and see what happens.
Until then.
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