Okay, buying your way to cool is just not as cool as innate coolness. However, Boxer Floyd Mayweather’s $4.8 million diamond coated hotty is still really a Cool Car. The Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita rules as the most expensive street-legal production car in the world because it is literally coated in diamonds. The Swedish manufacturer developed a new exterior […]
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THESE ARE REAL! 20 Idiotic Travel Complaints Made By Tourists
“Nobody Told Us There’d Be So Many Foreigners.” For the most part, tourists seem like normal everyday people spending time in a foreign land. BUT, unless you are a concierge or a front desk attendant at a resort you probably have no idea how many standard deviations they actually are from the mean! “The beach […]
The Hilarious Differences In How Americans REALLY Talk: Bubbler, Yinz, and Caramel?
Tag Sale and Lightning Bugs? It’s true, we don’t have to leave the country to have absolutely no idea what our fellow American is talking about. Bubbler, Yinz, Tag Sale, and how do you say ‘Caramel?’ These nine ingenious ‘Topic-Graphical’ maps show you what they say, what it means, and where they say it. Yes, […]
What Happens When Your Cat Eats Your Pot Plant? WAY TOO FUNNY!
Nice Cat . . . Nice Plant . . . Nice Cat Eats Nice Plant . . . OMG! Dude . . . My cat is eating my pot plant. I wonder what happens when my cat eats my pot plant? I won’t have a pot plant. Hey, let’s make a video. Then my cat […]
THE LAST FREE PLACE ON EARTH: A Visit to Slab City
East Jesus, Slab City, California About 150 miles northeast of San Diego, situated just east of the Salton Sea, lies Slab City. Slab City gets its name from the concrete slabs that remain, an afterthought of the World War II Marine barracks that once dotted the landscape. Since the first migration into the “city” in 1956, […]
Writing Book Descriptions – The Dance Between Keyword Optimization and Brilliant Copywriting
Writing compelling book descriptions for books, ebooks and audiobooks means balancing your promotional copywriting between the head and the heart. It takes both wit and a winsome turn of phrase to make your readers fall in love with your book before they even think about buying your work. On the brainy side, your description needs […]
Recording Audiobooks Fit for a King: Mastering Techniques of Studio Audiobook Recordings
Selling audiobooks can amplify your book sales in a way few other things can. Imagine being able to move your audience and sell your message with the sound of your own voice. Few other methods create such a compelling influence as the spoken word. In another article on mastering audiobook recording sills, we took a […]
How to Record Audiobooks Fit for a King
In the Oscar-winning movie The King’s Speech, England’s reluctant King George VI hated microphones. He had good reason: he stuttered like a Model-A Ford, in need of a tune-up. The movie is a surprisingly upbeat and watchable journey through the real-life king’s struggle with public speaking. He had to record and broadcast messages to his […]
American Medal of Honor Recipient, Author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” – Harper Lee –Dies
The American author of one of the most popular pieces of fiction ever written, Harper Lee, died in her sleep in an assisted living facility in Alabama at 89 years of age. Nelle Harper Lee won critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1960 for her “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which the Library […]
NOT JUST AN EBOLA COUNTRY: Guinea, West Africa
A few years ago, people couldn’t point to Guinea on a map. Even people who thought they knew something about the West African country were usually just confusing it with somewhere else. People still probably can’t point to Guinea on a map, but at least now they’ve heard of it. “Isn’t that where they have […]
