Live Street Photoshop Retouching Makes People Smile

A guy and his team set up a monitor inside a bus stop wall, and through the magic of Photoshop he shows them live altered pics.

Edward Hotspur

Blogosaurus

Here I go again, taking off for work. Backing out of the driveway after thinking about the missing midtemperature days of spring. The days that are supposed to be comfortable to walk in. Think we skipped that this year. And I’m thinking about tornadoes.

And this blog. Thinking back to the beginning, when I just said what I thought into a digital recorder, transcribed it, stuck in a couple of patterned pics of a tissue box, or a wall, or flowers, and hit publish. I had a schizophrenic blog. I never knew what I was going to write, but I wrote a lot. I forced myself to. No, that’s not true. There was no force involved. It just came out. The only force was having a daily post based on driving to work and thinking, and a musical post once a week. It was fun. I linked to tons of other people before I ever got an award where you were supposed to do that. Once, I even created a choose your own blog adventure, with dozens of linked pages and lots of different exits and endings.

This was long before I discovered that people barely want to read a short post, much less a long one, much less a multipart one, and rarely do they have time for a multilink adventure. Ah, the days of innocence.

Also laughable was the thought I had at the time to separate all the disparate elements into separate blogs. I did eventually split off poetry, but I wish I hadn’t done even that. All the ‘pressure’ to publish every day was now for two blogs. And I didn’t even split all poetry. Silly stuff.

So things I tried to do, like pics of the sky, like talking and thinking while driving, they were worn ruts in the same well-traveled road. That’s another reason I did all sorts of different posts. Many roads. The same path down the same stretch of highway passing the same things unsurprisingly lead to the same kinds of thoughts. I could get another job, of course, ha ha.

Lots of people who used to publish every day now do it once a week or less. Some people never did publish every day. I published an average of 2 posts for every day my blog has been in existence. That’s a lot of thoughts. I could already be in syndication if I was a TV show, and my spinoff show would be nearly there too. But I don’t know of anyone else who recorded themselves talking on the way to work and then transcribed it and published it every day. I’m the only masochist who did that noise.

And it worked for 100 posts. Actually, I have done maybe 40-50 more “Scenes”-like posts, some of which I named “Scenes:” and some I just tagged that way. Either way, they’re reflections on some thoughts when I wasn’t really trying to think about anything. It seems like when I try to do something, I fail, but if I just do it, it works out. That sounds like something Yoda would say. Fucking green puppet bastard.

Is this getting old? I don’t think so. I think what has happened is that I switched focus to Twitter. That’s why I have about 17000 tweets. If they were all 140 characters each, that would be 2, 380,000 characters, or about 476,000 words. I’ve probably got 3 million words on this blog, by comparison. And about 300,000 of them are swear words.

What have people been using to find my blog lately in the way of search terms? Let’s take a look.

1980s
chicks
edward hotspur
pictures of unicorns with rainbows shooting out of their butt
bang flag gun
sadness
hashtag
martha stewart
rainbow colors
edwardhotspur.wordpress.com+the-sparklebumps-equation
funny signs
cosplay girls porn
hot chicks
edwardhotspur.wordpress.com+internet-smutmongers-at-it-again-redux
sexy bunny girls
saddnes
unicorn rainbow
1920′s
cleavages in public
topless bikini
orange grove
rainbow unicorn
hot topless pics
four seasons tree
bang gun
rainbow puking unicorns
swimming pools with tall water fall
robert smith
rainbow kitty panda

I just randomly grabbed the top however many, maybe 30 or so. My favorite is “pictures of unicorns with rainbows shooting out of their butt”. My other favorite is all the other ones, because now they’re all in one post and those tend to feed back on themselves. But not a lot has changed – still a mix of romantic stuff, metaphors, chicks and unicorns pissing rainbows. A random glance over the rest of them, and I think the best one of those is “huge purple dildo”. I have used that in a post twice now. And by ‘used that’… you know what, I’m just going to let you imagine that.

Now I’ll check on what spammers have been saying in my Spamments section. I deleted a lot of them recently, so there’s only about 2-3 of them.

Thank you for share! – What, no thank you for Sonny? Or Chaz? Or even Paul Hewson?

Listed here can be described as Outstanding Blogging site You may Discover Exciting that we Really encourage You – I enter the read energy of Bloggings in here YOU have Listing! Findings of These is gives My a strength!

You really make it seem so easy along with your presentation but I in finding this topic to be really something that I think I would by no means understand. It seems too complex and very huge for me. I’m having a look ahead for your subsequent post, I will attempt to get the cling of it! – I hope you get the clingons out of Uranus!

Yeah, those were the days. I’m running something of an experiment here.

Let me show you my poll.

Now, I’ll see what happens with all this, and then I’ll see what happens next, and then we’ll see what happens. That’s a lot of seeing, and a lot of happening.

Edward Hotspur

Very Inspiring Blogger Award! Hooray!

Denise over at the very fine blog Moinees’ Words has given me the Very Inspiring Blogger Award! That’s pretty cool. She’s pretty cool, too. So go check out her blog right now.

I gotta do a picture of the award:

Mention her, which I’ve done, say seven things about myself:

1) I just cleaned out my garage

2) I once worked as a housekeeper for two years

3) I dream in color, have control, and never have any dreams that go past PG-13.

4) Of the neighbors on either side of me, one is a professional landscaper, and the other one just hired a professional landscaper. Meanwhile, I’m winging it in the middle.

5) I can make chicken and dumplings from scratch. I mean, I don’t raise the chickens or grow the wheat, but … you know what I mean.

6) I am madly, deeply in love with my wife.

7) I don’t see any reason why numbers are lucky or unlucky

And name 15 bloggers to pass this on to. Well, I’m probably going to skip this, because how to choose a star from the night sky? Hmmm…

I’ll come back to this one, probably. Sorry. The point of this was really to acknowledge Moinees’ Words and thank Denise.

Edward Hotspur

A Glorious Mexican / American Holiday

In the 1800s, there was a tiny company that made mayonnaise in Mexico and shipped it to Florida. But one day, the boat was caught by pirates and riddled with cannon balls. However, a Mexican ship loaded with beer came along, and the crew of that ship shot all the pirates and saved all the workers. Unfortunately, the ship sank. All the workers from both ships celebrated their victory over the pirates. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the tradition started that Mexicans celebrated every year thereafter…

Sinko de Mayo. True story.

Edward Hotspur

WordPress Family Award – Nice

Soumyav and Polysyllabic Profundities both consider me part of their WordPress Families! I am doubly honored by this. I thank you both.

THE RULES FOR THE AWARD ARE:

1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. Nominate 10 others you see as having an impact on your WordPress experience and family
4. Let your 10 Family members know you have awarded them

And that’s it! So here are some random people who might have had an effect on my blogger experience:

Pouring My Art Out
GingerSnaap
Nicole
Hasty
FortyOneTeen
Jen
Benzeknees
A Shade of Pen
Whimsy-Mimsy
SaraCarp
Hellis
Cheeky Diva

I reserve the right to add more in the future. So there. Thanks to all of you people, and to everyone who follows me also.

Edward Hotspur

The Big Reviewski – Daily Prompt

Music critics are all alike, in that they’re all different. I think some of them intentionally try to either be first so they can poison the well, or last so they can go against the tide, thus securing their hipster status. How many times have you read a review by someone that ripped a band apart that everyone else liked? I’ll guess…. 6. Am I right? Was I close? What did I win? A stuffed panda bear? Please tell me I won a stuffed panda bear. I’ll hold that thing close and just cry and rock back and forth… It will be okay… it will be okay…

See how awkward you feel right now? That’s how awkward I feel when I read a review by some hipster jackass of a band no one has ever heard of for good reason, and it’s like February and they’re already calling it ‘Album of the Year’. What a douche canoe.

Anyhow, back to the Daily Prompt thing, which is:

Write about the subject you usually blog about as if you were a music critic.

Well, I don’t usually blog about one subject. /end post

No, seriously, have you checked out the Hotspur Blog Album yet? Track one starts out with some funky cool riffs of something vaguely Asian, especially in the header. Then it brings in some links and menus and crap. Kind of a mess, really, but the background is pretty cool. Then he has some sticky track up near the top that’s usually a group effort – nice that he puts it out front there, and the people he works with always make awesome contributions.

After that, there’s some silly throw-off track that some might consider filler, but I think is fantastic in a silly way. Track four is some ambient piece, floaty and ethereal, like clouds or rain or water or winter. Track five is an angry piece, with hardcore rants and some nonsense thrown in for good measure. Track six starts out pretty good, excellent even, but it’s ruined by some bad choices at the end. Track seven is a love song that will definitely get those panties dropping, even off the men! Track eight has a funky vibe, and you can dance to it, but no one else will get it or even hear it. Track nine is a nice straightforward road tale that sounds like one thing at first, but upon repeat listens sounds like something else entirely – possibly with a moral or something profound at the end. Track ten is the hit single that everyone has heard on the blogosphere all the time, over and over, ad nauseum, but people still seem to like it. And it closes out with track eleven, the mysterious bit that is often duplicated, but never imitated, or something like that.

Hotspur seems to have listened to his audience on this blog, removing all traces of anything redeeming or of any value whatsoever, leaving nothing but creamy center. If you listen closely, after a few tracks you might hear a little remix of an old track thrown in here and there, in the background or for just a few seconds, before he tears off into new and unexplored territory like a blogging Lewis and Clark. Definitely worth checking out, and stands up well to multiple listens. Give it a try!

8/10 for Daily Prompt Reviews

Edward Hotspur

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