You know the old saying – “any publicity is good publicity.”
But might not some publicity be utterly pointless? We ask, because we have come across some that seems to be just that.
Now ordinarily, a little blurb about your event in a paper like Dublin’s The Irish Independent would be a PR coup. After all, the 103-year-old paper is Ireland’s most widely-circulated daily newspaper.
But why on earth would they be sending a shout-out to local alternative paper Free Press Houston’s
Start saving those nickels and dimes, kids, because the biggest tour of 2009 (so far) is headed for Houston. At a press conference in House of Blues' Foundation Room this morning, Live Nation President Bob Roux and Toyota Center General Manager Doug Hall announced Elton John and Billy Joel will bring their "Face 2 Face Tour" to the venue March 19. Sadly, Rocks Off will be in Austin covering SXSW, but he hopes all of you have a lovely time.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, with a top price of $175.
It's near-freezing, there's a huge accident causing traffic nightmares, half the workforce has called in gay (and half the others are coming in with hugely contagious flu symptoms just to show they're not gay), so who needs bad news?Houston, apparently.A Washington radio station has talked to a terror expert this morning, and he states pretty plainly that Houston should get ready to duck and covre any minute now because of a pending al-Qaeda attack.
Thanks to some generous people in Houston and from as far away as New York State, J. Will Jones Elementary will celebrate its annual "Gift of Giving" celebration this Thursday, distributing "donated presents and hurricane relief supplies to students and their families," HISD announced today. St. Nicholas will show up and everyone gets a gift. "This year is especially important since so many families have faced hardships in our community," says Principal Brian Flores. "Hurricane Ike,
Folks, I am scared shitless. Yet I am unable to properly process this shitless feeling.
The economic situation is not good. In fact, it is very bad. I am regularly breaking out in cold sweats, dreaming of Suze Orman (not in a good way), and practicing my rendition of, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" This is my life right now.
But I think my biggest problem with living in the middle of the current cataclysmic economic meltdown (other than the obvious), is that because in this modern world
This spring -- the day before St. Patrick's Day, in fact -- we wrote about Ireland's plans to open a consulate in Houston.Today -- the day before St. Mary Major Day -- we write to say it may not happen after all.The Irish Echo is reporting that the economic downturn is affecting the Celtic Tiger as much as it is everyone else, and the government is weighing plans to delay the opening of new consulates and possibly closing some existing ones: Irish diplomatic outposts around the U.S. could be
If you're a Texan, you're getting ready to blow the budget this Christmas because, apparently, why the hell not?The 24th annual holiday survey by financial firm Deloitte says (not in so many words, of course) that Texans are ignoring every piece of news available about current economic conditions. Fears about the recession are slowly subsiding, with more than half of Texans surveyed (55 percent) saying they expect the economy will improve in 2010, compared with 27 percent who responded favora
