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Logo-Off!!!

Genghis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:49:51 EDT

Let the battle begin. In the left corner, elliotness has ginned up a liquor label bearing the name of our addiction. What would the real Elliot Ness think? Who cares.

In the right corner, workerbee has worked up a frothy latte bearing the image of a giant birkenstock-clad foot bearing down on what is surely a Prius. Or perhaps it's a normal-sized birkenstock-clad foot bearing down on a tiny Prius. What would the real Elliot Ness think? Who cares.

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Email policy

Genghis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:20:54 EDT

Hi folks. I just want to propose an email policy to keep the volume down. Sometimes these listservs can get a little nuts. And the policy would be: don’t do it. OK, that’s a little extreme. Rather, do it sparingly, for important messages that apply to the whole group. Otherwise, people will get fed up and turn off the email feature. There are a couple of other options for sharing info. If you’re organizing an event, you can use the event planner and select the TPM group. You can also write a blog post and share that with the TPM group.

BTW, for the mass-mail-phobic, there is an option to get a daily digest of messages instead of an email for each message.

After the fact

Genghis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:27:48 EDT

Cross posted at: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/live-from-new-york-and-los-ang.php#comment-2746259

Good morning, folks. Time for a little post-party analysis...

1) I'm hungover

2) The party was most excellent despite the lack of TPMers and the fact that PA can kiss my ass. (Yuengling is dead to me now.) I think I'll do it again in two weeks. Are there any breweries in NC or IN?

3) Cheers to DirkVA and newly registered Jeff_D for coming by. For those of you who didn't make it, I have two words: May 6. OK, it's more like one word and one number. May Sixth. Now it's two words.

4) TPM-aholics is doing great. We've got 75 members so far. Emails have been going out to establish connections in Seattle and Denver, and people have been talking about events in L.A. and San Francisco. (The first rule of Fight Club...) In addition, articleman and few others of us are looking into putting together an online fundraiser and Q & A. I can't hit NC or IN, but if any of you head there in the next couple of weeks, you might think about coordinating with other TPM people. And if anyone organizes something, please blog about it at mybo. When you post in your own blog, you can mark groups that you want share it with. In fact, I will cross-post this at TPM-aholics. (And here it is.)

5) Thanks for the excellent group logo suggestions by workerbee and elliottness. Preferences anyone? I lean towards workerbee's, but elliottness's is also good. TPM may have a problem with workerbee's though because it may be too close to the TPM logo. I'll check with Andrew.

6) It looks like Mila the orgasmic troll is back after having been banned as Milla and Milla J. If anyone from TPM reads this, please ban it again.

7) I will be heading out to San Francisco the first week of June. Puerto Rico results watching party anyone? Maybe you west coasters can show the New Yorkers how it's done.

8) Barack Obama, no offense, you're still my main man, but will you win this friggin' primary already?!!!!!!!!

9) Still hungover. On so many levels.