Monday, October 31, 2005

They did

My very good friend (~and former lover~) Anil Dash got married on Saturday, to the lovely and talented (and, it goes without saying, extremely patient and forgiving) Alaina Browne.

I couldn't be in New York for the wedding but, this being the 21st century, I sort of felt like I was there.

Congratulations and much love.

Keeping it together, again

Regular readers (any left?) will recall a couple of months ago when I was casting about for a new to-do list management system. After playing around with Tadalist, Basecamp and Backpack (which seem like wonderful tools, just not for me), I downloaded and installed the simply-named Tasks, as recommended by the refreshing Bryan J. Busch and was almost immediately hooked.

It's the closest thing to ideal for me I've yet seen. It runs on my own server, so there's no monthly subscription fee. It integrates well with iCal, can generate RSS and isn't so feature-heavy or cumbersome that I don't actually use it. I highly recommend it. It has certainly helped keep me sane-ish these past few months.

Kiehl’s in Chicago

Just in time for my pre-birthday visit next month, Kiehl's has opened a new store in Chicago. I should make it there just about the time I run out of shampoo and face wash. w00t!

The color of desire

Red-headed football players of all shapes and sizes.

Somebody please call me when these boys are legal. Please.

It’s alive!

Remember Brad? He used to have a website?

Oy. Not much to say about the infrequency of updates here about except that summer and fall were incredibly busy. In fact, they kicked. My. Ass.

I've opened six shows since September 1, four of them in the past three weeks. If I hadn't spent the better parts of June, July and August planning a communications strategy, I'd be dead by now. As it is, I'm dead tired. But my job is to put butts in the seats (as I explained to someone over drinks Saturday night, it's my second favorite thing to do with butts), and do that we have.

So now I have this two-week professional "lull" (which is still packed with meetings, rehearsals and assorted distraction) in which to see if I can revive my meager online presence. Hey, let's all assume the long moribund Daily Brad est morte, shall we? I think I'll see about moving all of its content over here, even though not all of its content is even imported into Movable Type yet.

Sigh.

I feel some obligation to write here, mostly to myself. A couple of months ago, I was invited to attend a seminar about "blogs in business". The speaker asked how many in the audience had a blog and a handful raised their arms. Then he pointed at me and asked how long I'd been keeping one up.

"Seven years," I said.

And watched every head in the room swivel around to see the surely decrepit and shriveled old man who'd just spoken.

So I've got that, um, "pioneer" thing to keep up, see?

Anyway, let's enjoy this time while it lasts.