Gregory Ries

These are NOT my abs. And for the record, they’re never gonna be. Just wanted to put that out there.

I’ve been meaning to post this for sometime now… after receiving such a strong positive response from our peeps. So if it’s not obvious… it’s a two-sided postcard.

TheWife has this group of friends who run these crazy, muddy trail, early morning, cold weather (or really hot depending on the season), hill climbing, half-marathons, marathons or “ultras”. So yeah, they’re crazy. Anyway. They asked about a logo… and here’s what they got.

I got a postcard in the mail from this guy (Kurt Campbell) who apparently sold a house on our street. Quite an accomplishment given the state of our current housing market. Have you heard? It’s not so good! However, as impressive as this is, it’s not my reason for posting.

No, I post this because I feel this is THE RADDEST real estate agent photo I have ever seen! Honestly, for years I have been “hatin’” on real estate agents for plastering their photos all over their marketing materials, but this… this is awesome! My hats off to the bold Mr. Campbell!

It’s been some time now, but I think emotionally I’m now ready to actually talk about it. I say that, somewhat sarcastically, but somewhat not. Our cat Louis (Lou Lou) was hit by a car while the wife was out of town. I found him in the house at about 4.30am acting weird and covered in some nasty stuff (may have pee’d himself). Rushed him to a 24hr pet hospital where they determinded he had been hit… with head trauma, a bladder hemorrhage, and lots and lots of bruising.

Gotta say, I was a freakin wreck. Feelin awful for ever letting him out of the house. Spent my Saturday night reading articles online about the whole “Inside Cat vs. Outside Cat” debate. Trying to figure out if there was a way I could chain him to the house.

He came home a day later. Spent a week confined to a single room and peeing blood all over my closet (awesome!). He’s now certainly on the mend and right back to all his old quirky tricks. Still not sure if he’ll ever see the light of day again.

So I got this postcard in the mail last week and I found myself saying out loud, “really?” Like the Amy and Seth bit on SNL. Folks before we get together and “… talk about transportation in our community,” can we PLEASE talk about our communication efforts with said community? This postcard makes me cry inside. The huge white borders on the paragraph copy, really? The blah blah blah amateur photo. I mean I get it, it’s about transportation and it’s got the bike rider and the RT train… so content-wise it sorta makes sense. Though all the “junk” in the middle could go, as well as the Verizon Wireless billboard, the trees, the poles, etc.

People if your going to lay all your copy over a photograph, please make it a simple photograph… with some “white-space.” Give us a place where we can rest our eyes and truly take in the content you want us to know about. If you have to put a fat white border on your paragraph text, please please please, reconsider whether or not this layout is indeed the one you want to go with.

If you could go ahead an address these issues, I’d be happy to attend your meeting to discuss transportation in OUR community. Thank you.

Ok, I have a pet named “Peeve” and it’s women wearing open toed shoes with nylons. Something about it just drives me nuts. I saw this recently and feel its related… ultimately, not a good look!