Aug. 5, 2006 - Why are they sitting in a tree?
sitting in a tree?
Columbus real estate was a bit cartoony this week. My blog has a cartoony feel... from the Morphing Real Living Lady/House, to many of the graphics I use...it is cartoony. I own a lot of discs of images from Animation Factory, so I use the images I have... you'd hardly guess I don't like animated gifs from my blog would you? This font is Comic Sans MS... I used it for awhile because it seemed to really fit my blog and then switched over to Arial... more sophisticated, less cartoony... maybe I should switch back to using Comic Sans MS to match the images I use.
Merv Forney a blogger in Virginia wrote an entry about style, in May. He wrote something negative about cartoony blogs. I vowed then to be less cartoony, to be more serious... I think that is when my font went back to Arial.... but I keep slipping back into cartoons.... from my Cartoon Doctor, to Hugh MacLeod's cartoon's on business cards, Blaugh ... the "(Un)Offlicial Comic of the Blogosphere!"....... Saturday AM cartoons.... cartoons seem natural.
Actually now that I find Merv's blog, Northern Virginia Real Estate Guide...he just said of one blog, "I hate cartoonish logos and icons. How juvenile." That statement looks funny in Comic Sans MS. He was not saying it about my blog... but the offending blog is way less cartoonish than mine.
What's style got to do with it...?
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Columbus own James Thurber was a cartoonist!
I wish I could draw cartoons. For some reason this week's Columbus Dispatch story about Columbus number one real estate company, HER Real Living and a competitor seemed like it should be decorated with cartoons... the term cyber sqautting seems comical to me. Coca Cola defended their brand against cyber squatting..... Is Central Ohio real estate more cartoony than other parts of the country? Edina Realty in MN has a law suit against a competitor... internet....interesting... no one is sitting in a tree.
I got the Herbie Jr. letters... I've read about it in the Columbus Dispatch and Inman news covered it... but I can't figure it out ...I certainly don't agree with a competitor owning or using Harley E Rounda Jr's or Harley E. Rouda Sr's names but I can understand why the competitor bought those names...valuable domain names... but the Columbus Dispatch says in part, that the competitor:
"admitted in court that he owns domain names that include..... harleyandkairasittinginatree.com."
I am puzzled why any one would buy that domain ... The domains do not forward anywhere, anymore... I am puzzled that people are puzzled by that now... of course they wouldn't.... but mostly I am puzzled why would they'd be sitting in a tree?
Previously on Columbus Best Blogs - More about cartoons and cartoonists
Pickles Down in Loozy Anne James Thurber
c. 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe
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