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On tonight's Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Tonight’s show is a mere five hours away! Can you even hardly wait? My stomach is full of butterflies and my to-do lists are full of notes. Seriously, I don’t know how this is happening but instead of getting stuff done, I’m just generating lists. Perhaps my guest Andrew W.K. can help me with said problem because in addition to being a rock star he’s a motivational speaker and a club owner and a party maven. Seriously, he posts party tips on twitter often and they are both funny and profound.
So I have this idea that I want to have a BATTLE OF THE FANS with him where we pit our fans against one another because everyone loves a competition including me. I win! I just won, you guys! I didn’t even know I was playing!
I’m trying to figure out the best way to do this. Option 1: somehow I get one of my fans on the phone and one of his fans and then we quiz them. Option 2: We ask questions and fans chime in in the chat room and we see whose fans take longer to respond. If anyone has a feeling about which way would be better, make that feeling known. I think they both will work. But regardless, you should all be brushing up on your Rosen vs. W.K. trivia.
And also, I will phone-a-fan! And Koryn will stop by! And Dustin will be here! And there will be deleted tweets! And Just Me Or Everyone? And TV Time! And results from week 4 of The Dating Experiment! And a new song!
And I shouldn’t be the only one whose dating life is public and pitiful. If you’re having trouble finding that special someone, write in to the show and explain your situation and I will help you find love because that’s what best friends do. Or at the very least I will maybe read your email on the air. Hey, that’s something! Write to: alisonrosenisyournewbestfriend [at] gmail [dot] com. Put “I’m a catch” in the subject line. Do it! It will feel good.
And I’m happy to announce my second sponsor! It’s Saxton Manufacturing Co. They make ecofriendly water treatment products and ecofriendly water softeners and they also make drinking water filtration systems and they also used to have a duck named Quackers that wore a bonnet. And they won an Oscar for the design and manufacture of a silver recovery system for the motion picture industry! But back to the duck, they had to release the duck in a nearby park eventually because it was making too much noise and neighbors were complaining! But Quackers didn’t want to leave her human family. It’s so sad! (Eventually it worked out and Quackers went on to lead a wonderful life in the park with other ducks, I am sure!)
Saxton Manufacturing Co doesn’t normally sell directly to the end user (that’s you) but because they want to do a nice thing for the viewers of my show, they’ll hook you up with whatever system you need at dealer cost which is roughly 60% off list. So if your water is bugging you, now you know who to call. In fact, I think that should be their slogan. For more info or for free hard water testing strips (I want these just to play with) email Saxtonar [at] gmail [dot] com and say you watch my show!
Man alive I am good at sales! I just cold called myself and closed like six deals. Then I wheeled and dealed for an additional twenty minutes and then I won employee of the month! (That’s where they send you a different employee each month.)
Okay, see you tonight!!!!
Oh and also, I will be on Red Eye tomorrow, so write that shit down.
When I say the word "start" it sounds like I'm saying "shart"
I could without this discovery. Other than that, I’m loving these videos that songwriter/performer @trappdog is making!
What kind of set should I have?
So I’ve been thinking lately that perhaps I should spruce up the soundstage upon which I record Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend which is located on a lot in Culver City though it’s designed to look like my living room in New York. It’s amazing what they can do with two pieces of foam board and a dream! So I wanted to ask you guys:
1) If anything were possible, what kind of set should have I have?
2) Give that not much is possible, realistically, do you have any fun ideas for things I could do to make it all more visually exciting? Here are some considerations: I’m poor, I’m lazy, I’m only one person, I actually live here when I’m not doing the show, I’m not zoned for cannons
Here's an email from a guy I wanted to punch (video)
Here I am talking about ARIYNBF and online dating on America's Morning News radio show
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Trouble in parrotdise plus info on my show's first sponsor
A couple big announcements:
1) The parrot I was planning on interviewing on tonight’s show doesn’t speak on command so now I’m sans parrot. Damn! Any emergency birds out there who don’t get phone shy? Flap your wings twice for yes. Eat a seed or pace left to right and then right to left for no.
2) My sponsor for tonight’s show is Chip-N-Dough Cookie Company which is pure deliciousness in cookie form. I will tell you more about the cookies and the woman who runs the company on the show but just wanted to have something on here so if you are wanting to know where to go to get more info and you come here you won’t be all, “Where the hell is it? And where the hell is the parrot?” And if you use the promo code ARBF on any orders you place on Chip-N-Dough you’ll get $5 off. Yay! So please show my first sponsor some love and put some of her items in your mouth. But not like that!
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On the next Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend: Single, Reluctant to Mingle
Yep, that’s me, still preferring to stay home and play with dolls and talk to a computer than get out there and date a bunch of goobers and lawyers. Actually, I have absolutely nothing against lawyers, my sister is one and my best friend in CA is one and my ex-boyfriend has jury duty and thinks he’s one (I am kidding! KIDDING I SAY!) however “lawyers” went well with goobers and so I went with it. I also could have said goobers and Shriners or goobers and knickers or goobers and spoons. Seriously, lots of ways one could go with that. But the point is that I have dating fatigue, a condition characterized by not wanting to date and also being tired. Wait, that’s not what it means? Well then I have dating grogginess. Whatever it is, talking to people like one of the guests we’ll be chatting with who has a hilarious story of a funny date that didn’t go well will do nothing to encourage me to get my shapely heiney out there, but it will do a lot to make us all laugh, which is one of my favorite things to do. So we’ll be talking to her and we’ll also be talking to Dustin who just returned from Mexico with a towel featuring the virgin of the village or something. The likeness of her. Not the actual virgin. Still, I hope he hasn’t brought some kind of curse upon himself which is what would be happening if this were a short story and the soul of the towel virgin was angry. I really should not be writing these things late at night.
Also we’ll be phoning a fan or fans and we’ll be listening to more bits of musical genius by Tom Rapp (aka @trappdog) and singing the praises of @kezilla who designed my logo which I love and we’ll be doing all the other stuff that is super duper fun. Remember on the last episode when @Boinkity had the weird dream about me that I read on the air? That was pretty fun. I’d do that again. Also, I now have the theme song available as a ringtone (thanks @chi_mike) but I haven’t figured out how to make it downloadable, mostly because I haven’t had time to figure that out so get excited! (While I’m giving thanks it occurs to me that there are a million more people I should thank. This is like an Oscars speech! You know who you are, special people who deserve thanks!)
But we won’t be talking to Jim Norton because he’s at a benefit and not in NY. A benefit for what you ask? A benefit for not being on my show. I mean, I don’t think that’s what it is but that’s all I could hear when I received his text.
And a friend I haven’t hung out with since college is in town and he might come over!
And also, I’m really excited to be announcing my first sponsor tomorrow! I’m torn between announcing it here on the blog or waiting until the episode so I’ll just say that she’s someone I knew in California and she owns a small business and I respect her and now that I’m trying to be more small businessmenical myself (yep, must made that word up. feel free to use it) I’m trying to learn from other people who’ve created their own businesses and what I’ve learned from her is that if you want to be successful you should make something everyone wants to eat. And because I am amazing and so are you and so is she and so are ducks, she’s giving fans of the show who enter a special promo code (it’s ARBF or Alison Rosen Best Friend) a discount on orders of the secret item to be revealed pronto. Yay!
And I’m also excited to say that I have even more sponsors lined up and there’s another one in the queueueueueueueueueueueueueue (oops, did I just lapse into French? it happens sometimes) who owns a totally different kind of company, one that involves science! Yes, science!
Anyway, RSVP for this hot action tomorrow oh and one more thing. I’ve been thinking that for all the people who watch my show, we all spend Wednesday nights feeling like we’re hanging out together (sorry, sappy moment for a sec) and yet we’re all sitting in front of computers in our separate homes and such and I began to feel curious about what everyone’s set up looks like and I want to upload a photo of what I’m looking at when I broadcast and invite you all to upload photos of what your area looks like and I’m wondering what the best site for this is. Anyone know? Fan photos on my FB page? Dailybooth? Lemme know if you have thoughts.