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Real Housewives of the Radio Happy Hour

Monday, March 3rd, 2008


Coming up this week on DR. BLOGSTEIN’S RADIO HAPPY HOUR: (Live on Tuesday March 4th at 9PM ET and forever archived at BlogTalkRadio.)

Jill Zarin sits down for a hard-hitting interview with Dr. Blogstein just hours before her new reality show debuts on Bravo.

alg_real-housewives.jpgZarin (second from the left,) one of The Real Housewives Of New York City,is a staple on the endless New York party circuit and represents the quintessential Upper East Side socialite who claims that Manhattan is the “center of the universe.”

Find out what is motivating her to put her entire life on television, what her family thinks about this, and what she thinks of the rest of Bravo’s programing.

Also on this week’s show, Michael Malice of WorstEmailEver.com and “Super Jabs“of the most read blog on all of Myspace.

All that, plus, Dangerous Lee co-hosts, Vinny Bond drags his Big Leather Couch into the Radio Happy Hour Lounge to chat live with the listeners and Justin the Weatherman stops in his final forecast before he heads off to Costa Rica and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804

Join us live every Tuesday night at 9PM ET. The Radio Happy Hour Lounge-a live chat room during show time-is a whole new reason to make sure you listen live! It’s the show within the show!

But if you can’t and miss us live, we’re ALWAYS ON at www.DrBlogstein.com

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BRAD THOR UNVEILS JACKET FOR NEW BOOK

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

 

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In what is becoming an annual event here on
Dr. Blogstein, New York Times Bestselling Author Brad Thor has given us the opportunity to give you the opportunity to get the first look at his new book jacket for this summer’s release.

On July 17th, Brad Thor will release his sixth high-octane thriller featuring tough-as-nails and sarcastic bad-ass Scot Harvath. In The First Commandment, the president of the United States has broken the nation’s #1 commandment in the war on terror, and by doing so has put himself in the crosshairs of America’s #1 counterterrorism operative…Scot Harvath. (Click here for a full synopsis of what you have in store this summer)

And this is what the book will look like:


But wait, there’s more! Brad Thor has entrusted me with a small quantity autographed copies of the rare uncorrected advance galley proofs that ordinarily only get sent to the media. If you’re a blogger and promise to write up a review of The First Commandment after you’ve read it (NO SPOILERS ALLOWED!) I’ll have one of these autographed galleys sent to you! (while supplies last) Just shoot an email my way.

Also, keep your eyes and ears open because Brad Thor will be a guest on the Radio Happy Hour this summer.

 


UPDATE 5.04.07

How does a nice offer like the one above turn into a controversy? Who knows…but it has:

Whoring by any other name

More Adventures in Online Marketing

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FUNNIEST POSTS OF 2006

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

I wish you all could see me right now, typing all this up while wearing my well pressed tuxedo. Oh boy, this is a big event! We are unveiling the funniest posts of 2006 from across the entire world wide web!

What you’re about to see are submissions from bloggers worldwide of what they considered their funniest post of last year. You’ll be surprised at what some people consider funny. But I’m not here to judge, I’m just here to host. . .

Welcome to The Bestest Blog Carnival 1.3 which is concept thought up by the P.T. Barnum of the blogging world, Mr. Bobby Griffin of “The Bestest Blog of All-Time” where content comes before correct English.

And speaking of correct English, I’d like to begin by calling out a post that wasn’t submitted by the blogger but that I’ve chosen nominate myself. “Janna”, who was kind enough to design the brilliant looking logo atop this post, writes about Australian slang on her blog “One More Raindrop In A Bloggy Ocean” Excuse me as I go chunder in the dunny.

Now, onto our show. I will begin by playing favorites. The first group of the Funniest Posts of 2006 are from “Friends of Blogstein.” These are just some of the personalities (read: wackjobs) that stop by here at Dr. Blogstein and frequently contribute their two cents.

  • First up, my man “Slaghammer” of “Alchemy Anyone?” After reading his post titled “Grand Entry” I wasn’t able to sit for days.

  • Next, let’s hear from a chick that’s been kickin the retro cat-eye librarian look for years, the sexy “Starrlight” of “Here Comes A Storm“. You wont want her as your travel agent after reading her humorous post, “Girl, Get Me Out Of This Hell Hole

  • Finally, and this happens to be one of my favorites of the entire carnival, we all know him as “The Bizarre Jokester” of India’s funniest blog, “The Jokes Blog” and the dude (I think it’s a dude) even manages to make math funny in “The MATHS Joke!

Let’s move on to what we’ll call Best in Show. These happen to be my personal favorites out of all the carnival submissions. Not being included here does not necessarily mean that your post isn’t funny, though it might.

  • If you know anything about me, you know I get a kick out of those Spam Scam emails so when I saw this goof on a “Nigerian Blogging Scam” I damn near plagiarized the whole thing! Don’t worry, Justin, if I steal your ideas I’ll be sure to give full credit to your blog, “More Cowbell .”
  • Admittedly, I had never heard of the blog “Antichrist & Minotaur Man” before I started doing this Carnival but now that I’ve discovered it, I’ll have to return some more. This guy is funny. Check out his wacky, insomnia induced story called “Units in the Ocean.” Die you devilish creature of the sea!

Well, it looks like it time for our first musical performance of the evening. Ladies and gentleman, put your hands together for this touching tribute to The Children of Myspace:

Wow! Inspiring! Thank you! Next category is The Faux-Interview. This was a comedic device used with tremendous success by two of our contributors.

  • Bobbarama goes soaring into uncharted waters at bobbarama.com with an exclusive interview with gruffy Professor Phil Pelican, the leading expert on ‘pels’ — Mother Nature’s unlikeliest ‘flights of fancy.’

Holy crap this is a lot of work! For the record, this is the most thought I’ve ever had to put into one of my posts! Speaking of crap. . .tell me, who in their right mind doen’t like bathroom humor? Seriously! Well, if you’re as sophisticated as I am, you are in luck. Whether you’re a fan of “#1″ or “#2″ do I have a couple of posts for you!

Moving on. . .Let’s face it, if you’re reading Dr. Blogstein, you’re a nerd or at least a part nerd. Its nothing to be ashamed of, in fact, it means that you should enjoy the next grouping of Nerdtastic Humor featuring topics such as blogging, video games and The Simpsons.

  • Last though possibly the most nerdy of the Nerdtastic Humor grouping is Idea Book’s Ask Hawkins B.A.: Wee Pirate vs. Leprachaun. But don’t anyone try to pretend that you never spent nights wondering who would win in a fair fight between a wee pirate or a leprachaun?

And now, a word from our sponsors:


And we’re back to what is easily becoming the longest post in Dr. Blogstein history! Our next category is the
Alzheimer’s Humor. That’s right, we have two submissions that poke fun at or laugh at the disease because I guess if you can’t laugh at dementia , then what can you laugh at?

  • Karma Karma of JewBu Quest is a Jew who practices forms of Buddhist meditation & spirituality. She also makes the best of a tragic situation in “My Mom is Cute” a touching and very human post. Keep laughing!

How about we move onto a little Holiday Hilarity? We have some X-Mas lights and Halloween hijinx.

  • Let’s start with Christmas while its still fresh in our memories. “They’re Everywhere!!!” could have been called “When Christmas Lights Attack” and is your chance to see Kara of “A Bit of Me” use the phrase “I almost wet my pants.”

Let’s check some of the funniest Public Service posts of 2006.

Now onto the Mothers of All Posts: Funny posts by moms, about moms, and for moms. Mommy blogs are great. I will never, ever, ever say anything bad about a mommy blog again. I love them all so dearly.

By the way, my apologies to CaptainDramaticsMom for not posting her link. For some reason I couldn’t open it up without it closing all my browsers. Nothing against you, I swear.

Now, let’s sit back and enjoy our second musical act of the evening, then we’ll return to conclude the BESTEST BLOG CARNIVAL. This song is in honor of all the pansies getting ready to root for the New England Patriots this weekend in the NFL Playoffs.

Wonderful! Wonderful! Thank you for that spirited performance. Is this post dragging on long enough for you guys? Well, stay with me, we have five more of the funniest posts of 2006 to go.

Did you know that in the first season of Gilligan’s Island, the theme song did not include Mary Ann or The Professor? They were important characters but were lumped into the lyrics as “all the rest.” Well, all of that to say that I’m lumping the final five posts into All The Rest because not of them fit any of my categories.

  • Kevin of Humble Tidbits of Vacuity will leave you cracking up with this post. Let’s just say, his friend Stevie loses his “virginity” at ten-years-old. . .to Wilbur the dog.
  • And finally, look no further than “The Missal” for Juan Wartina Garcia’s hilarious look at New York City’s ban on “Trans-Fat.” I, much like Garcia, am stunned that fat people can not use the transit system. But you know what? They could use the exercise.

Well, that finally closes the book on 2006. If you had half as much fun reading this as I had putting it together then I will have doubled your fun.

Thank you all for stopping by. Please come again. Stay tuned for your late, local news except for those of you on the west coast.

Good night everyone!

To participate in the next Bestest Blog Carnival, please see the information below:
Topic: Animals
Deadline: Jan 10 at 11:59 PM
Host: Morgen at “It’s a Blog Eat Blog World
Submission URL: http://bestestblogofalltime.blogspot.com/2006/06/carnival-submissions.html
(the submission URL is new, so Bobby Griffin says that I must be sure to stress that this is the new way to submit your posts!)

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What I’ve Missed

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Happy New Year, everyone! I’m back and thank goodness for that. Boy did I pick an eventful week to be away from this site. I missed out on so much!

The whole Saddam hanging thing just snuck up on us. They didn’t waste any time killing the old guy. It was like how an NFL team lines up and snaps the ball real fast after a bad call by the ref so that they get a play off before the other coach has time to throw the red flag to challenge the call. (Wow, that was a long, drawn out analogy.)

It’s too bad I wasn’t around for the Saddam hanging. I would have titled my post “Well Hung” and maybe came up with the idea of bringing Saddam to Times Square and have him drop at the stroke of midnight. Speaking of stroke, was Dick Clark any better this year? I didn’t see him.

I also missed out on writing about the death of President Gerald Ford. I guess I still have that opportunity since the dude isn’t even buried yet. How many funerals is this guy gonna have? All this pomp and circumstance around Ford makes it easy to forget that Dr. Blogstein has been elected president the same amount of times as Gerald Ford had. Al Gore has us both beat by one.

James Brown died too while I was away. I didn’t really care.

A word to the wise, (you’ll soon realize that this posting is a bit of a stream of consciousness. I have so much bottled up inside after a week off I’m just letting it flow) don’t make your New Year’s resolutions while drunk—especially if “drink less” is one of them. Speaking of which, I was wondering, do alcoholics get hangovers? If not, that would be a check mark in the list of the “pros” of developing that problem.

I’ve got a big 2007 planned for you guys. Some more exclusive interviews, Dr. Blogstein’s Miss Blogger 07 and coming up later this week The Funniest Posts of 2006!

That’s right, Dr. Blogstein is the place where the entire web community is showing off their sense of humor. You’ll get the funniest posts from the entire blogosphere all in one place and that place is here. Just to whet your appetite, here is just one of the hilarious posts that you will see here come Thursday:

“Then a stream of fiery death lava began spraying out, it had the consistency of magma, broken glass, oatmeal and battery acid.”

Click here to find out what Father Bohab is referring to on his blog “When your only
tool is a hammer
”—you’ll be sorry you did.

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UPDATE: Permission Denied

Sunday, December 17th, 2006


Find out why Hot Jaime’s “The Girl Also Blogs” is now only open to invited readers …

(Is it just me or is she checking me out in this picture?)

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An Interview With My Penis

Friday, December 15th, 2006
WARNING: The title of this post contains the word “penis”

One full week ago I happened to briefly mention “Little Johnny,” the weapon that resides in my pants. Since then, he’s developed a cult following.

People are begging Little Johnny to start his own blog. Canadian eateries want to buy ad space on Little Johnny. All of this attention is sure making Little Johnny’s head swell!

Well, one intrepid blogger managed to score an exclusive, hard hitting interview with my apparatus.

Tisha, the self proclaimed “Jewish Puerto Rican African Indian American Princess,” gives us a penetrating look inside the mind of my WARNING: I’m about to say “penis” penis on her blog Serenity Quest. Enjoy!

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Permission Denied

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

I’ve been turned away at the door of a club, most likely for being a dork. I’ve been turned away at a basketball game when I tried to sneak in using tickets for a baseball game that was rained out. I’ve been told by people that they are “in an ‘A’ ‘B’ conversation” and then asked to “C” my way out of it. But never before have I been turned away by someone’s blog.

Well, that is, until today.

“The Girl Also Blogs” was a fun site written by a pretty New York chick named Jaime (left) who enjoyed to talk about everything. And I mean EVERYTHING.

From going to see a KISS cover-band on Halloween to her troubles getting batteries into her Pocket-Rocket, Jaime was always a fun visit. I had even planned on making her the first nominee this March in Dr. Blogstein’s Miss Blogger 07!© competition.

Well, that is, until today.

For, today when I tried to read the latest in Jaime’s exciting adventures, I got turned away. Shut out. Given the Heisman.
I felt like I had Clay Aiken’s big fat hand coming straight towards my mouth when I saw this message:
This blog is open to invited readers only

The Girl Also Blogs

It doesn’t look like you have been invited to read this blog. If you think this is a mistake, you might want to contact the blog author and request an invitation.
Ouch! Has anyone ever seen a message like that? And here I thought I was in the cool crowd!

UPDATE: 12-16-06 The following exchange is found below in the comments…stay tuned…
the girl also blogs said…

Hey Dr. B,

Since I was reprimanded at work for using “their” internet service to write on my blog, I’ve given no one access to the blog until I revise it and remove the “objectionable” content. I’m being closely watched by IT, so I also can’t read blogs while at work. I’m sorry you felt denied, but I thought I was going to lose my job.

Anyway, it should be back up after xmas.

-Jaime
12/16/2006 7:12 PM

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Dr. Blogstein said…

Holy Crap! Now I’m sorry I thought such bad things about you.

Seriously though, recently, Jaime had an awesome “To Catch a Predator” type series where she exposed some anonymous commenter that was posting vulgar comments on her site.

Jaime: Did that backfire on you and lead to being banned at work?
12/16/2006 7:20 PM

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the girl also blogs said…

The short version of the story is, the guy I outed somehow, legally or illegally discovered my last name, looked me up on Friendster or something to find out where I worked, and contacted the legal dept. there. So Legal contacted HR, who contacted IT, and yes, they could “prove” I was blogging during work hours. I’m guilty. But HR also lectured me on having my name & pic attached to a blog with questionable content, esp. given that our clients are reasonably internet savvy and could, somehow, find my blog.

So I get it, and out of respect for the company and the fact that they know my blog addy, I’m taking my name and pic off the blog, and will probably be using a lot of euphemisms if I decide to talk about anything risque. Also, I won’t be blogging at work.

What’s interesting is that the guy from Legal who was initially contacted is a friend and told me that the guy sounded like he was really “out to get” me… Legal Guy assured me that he gave my Perverted Anonymous no satisfaction that anything came of his email.

Sorry, that wasn’t “short” at all.

Anyway, I’m going to go drink my face off now.

-Jaime

12/16/2006 8:50 PM

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