Now I have phantom helmet syndrome
I was on The 404 today and wore a helmet the whole time to protect myself from accidentally looking beautiful. You can go here to read about the morning from their perspective (and to listen to the podcast and watch the video.)
Here are some photos. Ooooh, photos. You love photos.
Here I am in the monitor seeing if it’s safe. (It was.)
Here I am with the guys, protecting myself from accidentally falling job offers.
Here I am with Jeff Bakalar. My head looks so naked in this photo!
And here I am with Wilson Tang.
And here I am with Justin Yu. Despite the fact that I’m a wacky/zany person, I seldom make the wacky/zany face in photos hence many shots like the above. My repertoire is more limited to talking into bananas/carrots and wearing helmets, obviously. And, as the above picture would attest: looking pasty. I need a tan and a helmet.
The Daily Alison (Where Tony Camin fights dog nazis)
Okay seriously! Is rain during an interview going to repeatedly flummox me? Apparently I’m powerless not to abandon whatever question I’m in the middle of asking to instead talk about the rain. And it’s not like I just started interviewing people. Clearly what’s going on is that rain was just invented. This is probably what it was like when TV was first invented. People would be sitting in their caves chewing leaves and using every part of a boar and then the minute someone in a neighboring cave turned on the TV it was goodbye discussions of homemade boar jerky and hello Newhart.
Anyway, this is Tony Camin.
I’m on CNET’s The 404 tomorrow.
And don’t forget there’s this site too! Thedailyalison.com. Go there if you’re sick of all these damn words.
The Daily Alison (where Gawker's The Cajun Boy is up all night)
So this is a Daily Alison first: in the episode before this one, Courtney Reimer mentioned The Cajun Boy and then this episode featured The Cajun Boy. My series now includes foreshadowing! Can alliteration be far behind?
Go here to read The Cajun Boy’s stuff on Gawker and here to see his blog.
My whirlwind promotional tour
I’ll be on The Strategy Room in the noon hour tomorrow (Wednesday) and I’ll be on CNET’s The 404 on Thursday. In theory you could go to my appearances page and it would be updated with loads of great info and a fresh batch of brownies but I haven’t updated it or baked yet.
The Daily Alison (with social media enthusiast and Bard of Lard, Courtney Reimer)
Hello! Loads of links you may want to peruse for background on all the myriad things discussed in the above episode:
Courtney Reimer, Courtney Reimer’s twitter, Courtney Reimer’s twitter mentioned on Gawker hence “Bard of Lard,” Eddie of Next Food Network Star and his eyebrows
Seriously?
If I wanted to live in Seattle I would have moved there.
The Daily Alison (where it's father's day and I get caught in the rain)
Clearly I was about to sneeze during this whole show.
Things to do in the rain
It’s like that Ray Bradbury short story where it rains every day and then one day the sun comes out and the mean kids lock that one earth girl inside and then she’ll have to wait another seven years to see the sun and it’s really sad. You know the one I mean? Sure you do. Don’t pretend you don’t because I just don’t have time to explain.
Anyway, it’s been raining every day forever here in New York and people are pretty miffed about it. I myself was frankly kind of ticked off and also P.O.’d and a little bent out of shape until I realized that just because it’s raining doesn’t mean there aren’t all sorts of ways to take advantage of Mother Nature’s urine surplus. Seriously: heaven’s flop sweat is ours for the taking! Here are some fun things to do:
Make rain tea! Put a teabag in a cup and then walk outside. Voila. Rain tea!
Rinse out your conditioner on the run! Shave a good 45 seconds to a minute off your morning ritual by leaving the house with a head full of conditioner. By the time you get to your destination, it’ll be mostly rinsed out. And your clothes will be moisturized too!
Dye your undergarments pink! Red shirt + white bra+ red pants + white panties + rain = pink undergarments! Just in time for Valentine’s Day in 8 months!
Show your hairstyle a thing or two! Oh your hairstyle thinks it’s so sassy doesn’t it? With its perfect scultping and its mousse and its framing your face just so. Well you march out there in the rain and you show that hairstyle a thing or two!
Show your dry shirt a thing or two! Your shirt thinks its SO GREAT just because it’s dry? If that sounds familiar then you just strut out there in the rain and you show your shirt a thing or two!
Turn your umbrella inside out! Tired of your umbrella always keeping you dry? No problem amigo, just wait for a little wind and then head out there and let nature take your umbrella from somewhat functional wetness inhibitor to inverted kite in no time.
T-shirt design contest & a note about today's show
Hey designers and people who are crafty. I want to make t-shirts so we can all profess our love for me however I don’t know what they should look like. I think we need a logo. What do you guys think? What do you want to wear?
I’m thinking something like “Have You Had Your Daily Alison?” somewhere and maybe alisonrosen.com somewhere else? Clearly when it comes to merchandise, I’m just a consumer. Anyway, if you can design a logo and it’s awesome, that logo will appear on a shirt and you will get a free shirt and I’ll interview you on The Daily Alison (if you want. no pressure if you prefer your anonymity). So do your best work and send it to alisonmrosen [at] gmail [dot] com with “t-shirt design” in the subject line.
As today is Father’s Day, my guest will be my dad! However real life has interceded and so the awesome interview won’t be going up until tonight. Today’s Daily Alison will be a Nightly Alison.
And happy Father’s Day to all dads and happy Father’s Day to all moms too. And all ducklings.