Max Stalling
Max Stalling’s “Dime Box, Texas” is the most uplifting sad song ever.
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This is my personal bastion of blather unrelated to my business, including but not limited to: family pictures, cool gadgets, music, pop culture and moderate media punditry unrelated to Dallas / Fort Worth. If I haven't posted lately, it means I'm busy on the day job. You can follow me more frequently on Twitter. More details and contact info here.-
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- Stream o’ consciousness for March 12th
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@johnrobinson And... Don't leave us hanging! [mikeorren]— 52m ago via Twitter
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Published Stream o’ consciousness for March 12th.— 3h ago via orrenmedia.com
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Like watching online video to not suck? http://www.youtube.com/html5 Much faster. [mikeorren]— 4h ago via Twitter
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UhOh. My attention just became more fragmented. WARNING: Addictive timesuck. Twitter Trendsmap http://trendsmap.com/local/us/dallas [mikeorren]— 4h ago via Twitter
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Brilliant. Maps as metaphor http://tinyurl.com/yk2e356 [mikeorren]— 4h ago via Twitter
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Standing, clapping:RT @bfeld: RT @msuster: Why The 'Fail Fast' Mantra Needs to Fail http://bothsid.es/5XV [mikeorren]— 6h ago via Twitter
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Listened to 38 songs.— 17h ago via Last.fm
- Aretha Franklin – Call Me
- Blind Lemon Jefferson – Southern Woman Blues
- Bruce Springsteen – Buffalo Gals (Saratoga 2006-06-19)
- Bruce Springsteen – Man On The Flying Trapeze (Holmdel, Nj 2006-06-25)
- Captain & Tennille – Can't Stop Dancing
- Chris Whitley – Can't Get Off
- Crowded House – Pineapple Head (live)
- D.Parton, L. Lynn, T. Tucker – Silver Threads And Golden Need
- Django Reinhardt – Impormptu
- Django Reinhardt – Topsy
- Etta James – Someone to Watch over Me
- Georgie Fame – Cool Cat Blues
- Georgie Fame – Yeh Yeh (Feat. Guy Barker)
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – Stop the Bus
- Hank 3 – DOWN IN HOUSTON
- Iris DeMent – (Infamou
- Isaac Hayes – Shaft
- Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy & Anika Noni Rose – I Want You Baby
- John Hiatt & The Goners – Missing Pieces
- King Floyd – Baby Let Me Kiss You
- Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
- Leonard Cohen – Dear Heather
- Lucinda Williams – Honey Bee
- Mudcrutch – Topanga Cowgirl
- NeffList 2006 – Rifle Called Goodbye by TheMinusFive
- Old Crow Medicine Show – God's Got It
- Paul van Dyk/Sandy Rivera featuring David Penn – Nothing But You/I Can't Stop (David Penn Remix)
- Phish – The Squirming Coil
- Queen – These Are The Days Of Our Lives
- Raphael Saadiq – Oh Girl
- Ray Wylie Hubbard – Rabbit
- Scott Miller – Still People Are Moving
- Shooter Jennings & Hierophant – The Illuminated
- The Band of Heathens – Look At Miss Ohio
- The Mavericks – 02 - Tell Me Why
- The Supremes – I Hear A Symphony
- Todd Snider – I Will Not Go Hungry
- Tom Waits – Downtown
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RT @christrew: Attention #Sxsw peeps, they looking for jaywalkers for serious! http://yfrog.com/5y8fcj [mikeorren]— 18h ago via Twitter
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Join #teammanmeltoe. [mikeorren]— 18h ago via Twitter
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RT @Machkovech: Will Wright (Sims) presenting award to John Carmack (DOOM, Quake). 167 geeks are unable to handle it, mess their pants. ... [mikeorren]— 18h ago via Twitter
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RT @IgniteDallas: I uploaded a YouTube video -- IgniteDallas - Brett Duncan - Move the Box http://youtu.be/ZFmn-rfb-WE?a [mikeorren]— 18h ago via Twitter
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@johnderosa Last.fm is much better. More so if you hook to your mp3 listening. [mikeorren]— 18h ago via Twitter
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Minus the manmeltoe and the botched improv, am pretty proud of: http://bit.ly/dkXzgV Hope I did @dallascomedy, um, not totally ashamed... [mikeorren]— 19h ago via Twitter
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Posted www.youtube.com.— 19h ago via Generic
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RT @IgniteDallas: I uploaded a YouTube video -- IgniteDallas - Mike Orren - Stop Thinking and say, Yes, and. http://youtu.be/A_w_5KQW6U4?a [mikeorren]— 19h ago via Twitter
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Fleeting wisdom
Trials and tribulations and stupidity still rules. Some days it just feels like I’m on a ship of fools. I’m back here on the boards, I can hear the engines roar. Everybody’s got to pay, some people got to pay more. Well you can tell the people anything, spoon feed them anything you like. It used to be so simple, it used to be my life.
— Van Morrison
Now everything is so complicated, just to speak or use the phone. Some people try to use me, just ’cause they don’t have their own. Don’t know who’s round the corner, trying to sell me some more tripe. It used to be my life, it used to be my life.Best of…
Banjo, The Best Dog Ever™
There’s an old saying that “I wish I could be half the man my dog thinks I am.” That’s a good one. But someday, I also hope to become half the man my dog was.The Wedding Toast
I encounter far too many people in this world who are dead behind the eyes — Houston isn’t one of them. He is a real man in the greatest sense, and his powers of perception and his constant search for what is real and genuine in a fast-food world will continue to enrich both your lives.Why I think the economy is even scarier than I thought
Pegasus News: "Square Pegs" 10/9/08
Peter is at the door. He's broke and pissed and Paul is off on one last exotic resort junket before he goes into court-ordered rehab.Multimedia: Ferguson Road Initiative celebrates ten years of changing neighborhoods for the better
Pegasus News: 10/2/08
For me, the history of Pegasus News will always be intertwined with the Ferguson Road Initiative (FRI).Search, data and the responsibilities of news orgs
Pegasus News: "Square Pegs" 6/16/08
Technology is allowing us do things that seemed a pipedream three years ago. Along the way, we need to reflect on the downsides of the upside.Why I love local
Pegasus News: "Square Pegs" 1/27/08
...if local is a sentence, lock me up and throw away the keyThe State of Journalism
Duke Magazine 9/10/07
[Kevin] Sack might be surprised to see our database of every candidate, official, and contributor in our region-something the newspaper does not provide. He might be appalled to learn that mere citizens reported on elections in towns that journalists eschew. When we cover mundane things, we get hundreds of responses and thousands of eyeballs-partly because of technologies Sack fears, delivering unique and wanted information to each individual.Mud starts flying in Dallas District 9 Council race
Pegasus News 4/21/07
When we put up our political database, we certainly hoped to generate thoughtful discussion and debate about local elections. We didn't expect to become a battlefield of leaked information, mis-information and confusing whodunits.Lessons from the launch Online Journalism Review 1/17/07 ...we launched a prototype entertainment site; won an EPpy award; nearly fell to pieces; and made more mistakes than we can count -- But we’ve learned some invaluable lessons about local digital media along the way. Here’s a sampling of some of the things that we think we know now.
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