August 30, 2004
Runs, Hits, ERRORS
Whoops! That little round ball rolled right between my legs, as my knees knocked together and my stomach tightened in max embarrassment. An error! Well, I haven't been playing baseball lately, but I did send out a mass email newsletter on Friday. I added a bunch of news to it, so as to keep our online newsletter subscribers informed, etc. In a rash decision to entertain, I included a link that a friend had sent over which featured 10 of the "most ridiculous" photos of black metal bands. You see, many of these bands pose with face paint on and holding old medieval weaponry. Very silly looking at face value. But, when I previewed this content that I was passing on to 6800+ people, I failed to carefully read the commentary beneath the photos. Turns out there was some rough language there. Oops! Bad mistake. I'm sorry. This week's email newsletter will include an apology. I should've taken more care. It was just a wreckless decision on my part.
We just hired a new Ad Sales person here at HM Magazine!
Heather Reynolds is a friend of ours (she helps her husband lead worship at our church -- Calvary Chapel of Austin), and we have confidence that she is going to improve our ad sales here. This will help free me up to do more editorial stuff as well as marketing and promoting the magazine. Tomorrow night here in Austin (at Antone's) I plan on seeing what I think will be one of the next breakout artists of this year and next -- Dan Dyer. A wonderful soulful voice (reminds me of Lenny Kravitz, Aaron Nevill, Charlie Peacock...I dunno -- the man's got soul!!). Interesting lyrics:
"Why are we
so afraid
to go lay down in the river
wash away
everything
so we can be delivered..."
("...of what lies beneath")
I love it!
By the way, we recently added some new content to the website, including the latest issue (Sep/Oct #109) is in the online store available as a back issue.