Author: Ben Meredith

Ben is a recovering pharisee, a web guy, a passable guitar player (as long as you're not near Nashville), and the type of guy you'd want on your team in a game of Mad Gab. Follow him on twitter.
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Christmas Photos that Didn’t Make the Cut, Part 1.

I have a proposal (see how I segued from last post with that? Amazing.) for Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame. He needs to spend a day taking photos of young children for Christmas cards tamiflu 75 mg. It’d make him pine for the days of cleaning sewers and inseminating pigs.

Yesterday we took 98 photos to get our ONE Christmas card photo. I can’t show you that one until after the family/friends get it, because I’ve taken some justifiable heat in the past for people finding out things from a blog (like my son’s birth) that they thought should be found out other ways.

But I can show you some of the photos we aren’t going to be using. Like this one. Click to slightly enlarge.

Some thought bubbles would be great on this one. Oh for more time to post nonsense on my blog.

I lobbied hard for this one to be the one we used, with some fun “fill in the blank” thought bubbles just above each head. Maybe next year.

Just kidding. I didn’t actually lobby.

I’ll post some more rejects later on. There’s some good stuff in those 97 other photos.

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About the End of Year Ask: What not to do.

Have you heard the ad recently on talk radio that is sponsored by some government committee on why kids need to go to college? (that’s a rough approximation of their name) It has a hip hop (ish–I hate to insult an entire genre of music by association) beat and a “rapper” who sounds like this is what he raps when he doesn’t get callbacks from Sesame Street. Continue reading “About the End of Year Ask: What not to do.”

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