Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 21, 2009, 12:45 pm
Forty is the year that a lot of people seem to believe the body starts falling apart. Is it any wonder so many people dread hitting the big four-oh? I’ve found a list of ten things that men should ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 21, 2009, 2:01 am
For the past few years now, a familiar holiday commercial has been missing from the airwaves.  I’m talking about that Folger’s Coffee commercial in which “Peter” returns home, apparently earl...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 21, 2009, 1:31 am
Here’s a toast to the 293rd edition of the Saturday Six and this week the subject is alcoholic beverages. Not that I expect anyone to get tipsy while they’re answering questions, but I do hope yo...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 21, 2009, 12:13 am
There.  I said it. Since I switched to this new theme — and very soon there will be an entire post about that experience — there have been a few little issues I’ve had with various sections not...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 20, 2009, 10:58 pm
Here’s a recap of some of the past week’s posts. If you missed any of them, here’s an easy way to find them all in one place, divided by category: Advertising Thirty Years Later, Green Gets Hi...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 20, 2009, 5:24 am
Mika asked a few questions about what happens behind the scenes in TV, so I figured I’d answer a few of them here and a few more in a future post.  I also thought they might answer some questions y...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 20, 2009, 2:17 am
Last year, Esquire published a list of the 75 Skills Every Man Should Master. Some of them are no brainers, like #2: “Tell if someone is lying.” That’s a great skill to have, and that’s one ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 19, 2009, 9:12 pm
I’m really not a fan of Survivor.  But I caught the tail end of tonight’s episode and saw something truly ridiculous. There were ten people at tribal council, the ending segment of each episode i...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 19, 2009, 11:16 am
This is an ongoing series of posts about making blogs better. I’ll take a look at what “experts” say we bloggers should be doing to attract more readers and make our blogs more user-friendly, a...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 19, 2009, 2:03 am
The older people get, the more they like to talk about “bucket lists,” compilations of things they hope to try before they “kick the bucket.” I’ve never had one, and I really don’t feel a...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 18, 2009, 8:24 pm
And the good news just keeps rolling out of the Palmetto State. The ethics panel investigating travel and campaign finance records of Governor Mark Sanford says it believes he should face charges he v...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 17, 2009, 8:55 pm
Leave it to my crazy state! South Carolina has screwed up its own Christmas tree. The tree is being heavily criticized because the bottom of it looks terrible. It’s missing limbs and is shockingly ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 17, 2009, 11:10 am
I’m about to have something in common with the Internet and Sesame Street: I’ll be blowing out 40 candles this year. Although I don’t really want that many candles burning at once: the last thi...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 17, 2009, 2:25 am
The Ten Commandments were one of the first things I remember hearing about in Sunday School. To a kid, some of them are a lot easier to understand than others. The whole adultery thing isn’t exact...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 16, 2009, 9:20 pm
One week from today, I celebrate a milestone that has been the butt of jokes for as long as jokes have existed. I turn that age Jack Benny refused to turn. The big four-oh. Am I happy about that? We...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 16, 2009, 7:28 am
CNN caught a little criticism last week about an ad for TravelZoo that was designed to look exactly like a clickable thumbnail for one of its top story windows. The ad mimicked the size and even the ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 15, 2009, 1:30 pm
It was 1979. A commercial premiered featuring a limping football player forced to leave the game early, and a little boy who regarded him as a hero sneaking behind him to offer him a Coke. After drin...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 15, 2009, 11:44 am
Last week, I managed to pick a topic — de-stressing — that just happened to coincide with National Stress Øut Week. I had absolutely no idea. This week, I’m not picking a topic that really rel...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 14, 2009, 7:56 pm
There’s a headline rich with punniness, isn’t it? Non-celebrity Levi Johnston has completed the photo shoot for Playgirl that is getting far more attention than it ever should have, so there is at...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 14, 2009, 3:15 pm
In her new book Going Rogue, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reveals her anger with Katie Couric over the debacle of an interview that aired last fall on the CBS Evening News. In the bo...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 14, 2009, 11:34 am
Here’s the first edition of the Saturday Six with the new look here at Patrick’s Place. I’m glad you’ve found it and I appreciate your visit! First to play last week: Ambrosia Jefferson of B...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 13, 2009, 12:59 pm
I promise that I’m not trying to ask for trouble by introducing a brand new design for this blog on, of all days, Friday the 13th! I’ve been particularly happy with the previous design, based on ....
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 13, 2009, 12:42 am
While I was at work today, I spent some time in an edit bay pulling in footage for a promo I was working on. The editor who normally works in that bay had just arrived, and ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 12, 2009, 3:05 am
This is the first in a series of posts about making blogs better. I’ll take a look at what “experts” say we bloggers should be doing to attract more readers and make our blogs more user-friendl...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 11, 2009, 8:26 pm
Over at his blog, Signal 46, Chris posts about what appears to be the end of the “I Believe” license plate saga in South Carolina. In his post, titled “Not a Shocker,” he says it’s sad that...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 11, 2009, 5:28 am
The media insider website Newsblues made mention of an interesting rumor about NBC and its struggling Jay Leno Show: some of the network’s affiliates may have a “trigger clause” that would allo...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 11, 2009, 4:27 am
This past weekend’s editions of the Saturday Six and Sunday Seven shared a theme of getting de-stressed. I had no idea how appropriate that timing was! The Anxiety Disorders Association of America ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 11, 2009, 4:16 am
Maybe it’s because it doesn’t feature either the tired cavemen or that weird stack of cash with the big eyes, but this Geico commercial cracks me up. Sooooooooo….
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 10, 2009, 8:35 pm
Amy Morris and I went to college together, and for a few short years, we worked together at the same small little television station. My passion had always been television.  Hers was and is radio.  ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 10, 2009, 7:53 pm
Appearing Tuesday morning on NBC’s Today show, former Miss California Carrie Prejean told Meredith Viera that the liberal media attacks conservative women. Prejean said she has been the target of at...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 9, 2009, 6:17 pm
For journalists, the AP Stylebook is a revered guide to writing. It contains the grammar and usage rules that tend to standardize the way we write. But a clearly — and intentionally — fake versi...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 9, 2009, 11:56 am
If you can’t get enough of the Jackson family — and you aren’t willing to seek professional help — then a new reality show will be like an early Christmas present for you. The rest of us will...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 9, 2009, 7:15 am
A Texas teacher is suing her state because it is attempting to require her to be fingerprinted as part of a background check program. Her objection, she says, has nothing to do with any skeleton in he...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 8, 2009, 8:32 pm
Here’s another reason to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date! A former Massachusetts government employee has finally been cleared of child pornography charges, after eleven months of st...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 8, 2009, 6:00 pm
There’s a very old joke in the media business that those of us who work in communications are generally the worst at communicating. A recent internal memo at the Toronto Star points out that the eco...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 8, 2009, 10:05 am
Just days before it celebrates its 40th birthday, Sesame Street has angered some of its obviously-conservative viewers with a sketch that parodies cable news. In the sketch, Oscar the Grouch is trying...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 8, 2009, 2:26 am
Continuing with the “de-stressing” theme that began in yesterday’s edition of the Saturday Six, I present a list from LifeHacker of people’s favorite stress relievers. Just to keep everyone o...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 7, 2009, 3:27 pm
My friends have a wide range of political views. I have some friends who are far on the left who think that “Obamacare” is the greatest thing since the Polio vaccine. I have some friends on the ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 7, 2009, 6:45 am
Having a stressful week? Oh, the stress meter’s off the scale here at Patrick’s Place, so I thought I’d make de-stressing a topic for this week. It might even make its way to tomorrow’s quiz...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 7, 2009, 1:14 am
A new study in Australia suggests that bad moods can actually be good for you. It also finds that people who tend to be more sad are less gullible and have a greater ability to discern other people’...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 4, 2009, 8:34 pm
If you haven’t already received it — several times — in your email inbox, just give it time.  You will. We received it at the television station, and I’m sure it won’t be the first time we ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 2, 2009, 12:38 pm
Advertisements that use models tend to use “beautiful people” over out of shape or even “average” folk. That’s one thing. But parents and children’s advocacy groups complain that those �...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 2, 2009, 8:29 am
In this week’s Saturday Six, I posed the following question: There’s only one day of the week that Halloween hasn’t fallen on since this blog began. What day of the week would you guess that is...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 1, 2009, 11:25 am
The nicest part about November 1st is that it means that for the most part, it’ll be another year before I have to battle with the word Halloween again.  For some reason, I almost always misspell i...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 1, 2009, 1:52 am
Continuing with the Halloween theme, since the day after Halloween is the day that parents are still dealing with the leftover candy, those trick or treat handouts become the subject of this week’s ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Nov 1, 2009, 1:37 am
Eh, not so much. I don’t know about anyone else, but I fully plan to still be alive and well on December 22, 2012. That’s the day after the world is supposed to come to a grand, sweeping end becau...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Oct 31, 2009, 7:02 pm
Apple’s new 27-inch iMac is stunning, says Compuworld.  Apple sent the site one of its newer widescreen versions for review purposes.  How do I get on that list?? Related Posts:Killer RecordingApp...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Oct 31, 2009, 3:00 pm
One of the things I’ve learned through having a blog for more than five years is that there are certain things I’m always going to get a lot of reaction about. One of those things is the subject ...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Oct 31, 2009, 11:00 am
Note to Bank of America: When I’m on the phone with you because of a problem with your online payment system suddenly forgetting that it has ever heard of me, effectively locking me out of my accoun...
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Patrick Phillips posted an article on Patrick's Place - Oct 31, 2009, 9:03 am
Though I’m sure I’ve asked Halloween-themed Saturday Six questions before, this is the first time since this blog began that Halloween actually fell on a Saturday. So I couldn’t possibly ignore...
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