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Posts Tagged ‘Photos’
Saint Nips
Friday, December 25th, 2009Frozen
Sunday, November 29th, 2009I spent Saturday night at ICE!, a walk-through Christmas attraction hand-carved from two million pounds of ice over at the Gaylord Palms Resort. According to the website, it's a "whimsical wonderland of larger-than-life, three-dimensional hand-carved ice monuments and scenes, including fantastic frozen creations, slippery ice speed slides, and heart-warming holiday vistas."
Was it worth the $25 per person to enter? Probably not, unless you have an ice or Christmas fetish. The work done was very impressive, and the sculptors were extremely talented, but I think I was hoping for a wee bit more interactivity. Regardless, I'm glad that I went and checked it out, because it was still a fun night! Here are a few photos from it, and the whole set is up on Flickr:
Invaded! Studio Photos of Avitaween 2009 Guests!
Monday, November 9th, 2009Click the tiny Stormtrooper to go see all of the Invaded! studio photos on the Halloween blog!
If Avitable loses his beard and nobody's there, is he still Avitable?
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009I started growing facial hair when I was 13 years old. By 14, I was able to grow a passable beard that my parents detested. When I left for college at 17, I grew a goatee and for the last 15 years, my face has been covered in a beard or a goatee.
Three years ago, I looked like this:
In February 2007, I got a membership at a barbershop. Every week, I go in for a shave and a haircut. And sometimes eyebrow, forehead, cheek, ear, and nose waxing. It kept me from looking like a homeless psycho on the run from the law.
And each week, when I go into the barber, I usually look like this:
And when I'm done, I look like this (or some bearded variation):
But this week, when I left, I looked like this (picture behind the fold):
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Narcissism 101
Saturday, August 1st, 2009After uploading my photos to Flickr from BlogHer, I spent some time searching around for some of the better photos taken of me during the conference. And because I'm nothing if not narcissistic, I thought I'd post a few here:
By Maria:
By Lindsay:
By Mr. Lady:
By me:
I'm looking for additional photos that people may have taken of me or of my shirt – if you see any on Flickr or other photo sites, please send me a link!
Help me choose my next hairstyle
Friday, July 10th, 2009Yesterday, Hilly posted about InStyle's new fun little widget that lets you try on new hairstyles. She neglected to mention that it was for women only. These are the options I've come up with so far:
The Farrah:
The Aniston:
The Rihanna:
The Romijn:
Finally, after looking through all 64 pages of hairstyles, I realized that you could also add eyeshadow, eyeliner, lip gloss and liner, and blush and concealer. Here's how I've decided I'm going to look at BlogHer 09:
America's Next Top Moob Contest
Monday, May 18th, 2009A few nights ago, I posted this tweet on Twitter: "I'm bored. Who wants to talk to me? Or call me. Or send me pictures of their boobs."
While the response from my female followers was severely disappointing, the men came through in spades, sending several photos of their naked breasts. And while each picture was in and of itself erotic and I was able to furiously masturbate to each of them in turn, I couldn't decide which was my favorite.
So I've decided to have a contest. Let's hold a blogosphere-wide contest to vote for the best moobs on the Internet. Women, send pictures of your husbands' or boyfriends' manmaries. Men, shoot your own brosts. Send the pictures to me via email [adam (at) avitable (dot) com] by Friday, May 22nd. I'll post the photos and let you vote for your favorite. The owner of the moobs with the most votes will win the title of the 2009 Best Moobs on the Interweb and the following free T-shirt:
What are you waiting for? Men, let those puppies breathe and send a photo in today!
Caption This
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
Give me your best caption. The one I pick as the best wins a prize!
Avitaweek 2009: For my birthday . . .
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009For my birthday, could I get someone to clean my office? I'm completely overwhelmed here and to the point that I don't even know where to start to make headway.
The left side of my desk
The center desk
The right side of my desk
The far right side of my desk
In other Avita-news:
Tonight (that's Wednesday night for you short bus riders out there) is a brand new installment of "Clearly, You're Retarded"!
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama indicated his desire for peace, and what better way to show his determination than the executive order closing down Guantanamo Bay and ending the use of torture such as waterboarding?
But maybe torture has its place in society. Or does it?
Britt and I are going to lightly discuss the easy topic of torture from 9 PM to 10 PM EST on Talkshoe. You can listen live online at Talkshoe.com, or download the Talkshoe application and you can chat and even call in!
Masturbation that lasts the whole month of July . . . guaranteed
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Here's the thing. I'm going to go to BlogHer 2009 this July.
There are several reasons for this. First and foremost, it's in Chicago, and I have several friends who live there that I want to see.
Secondly, I think it could be a good experience to do once, to see what happens at these conferences and see if there's anything that can be learned. Although, since I know that I know everything, I doubt it, I am open to the slight possibility that someone might teach me something.
Finally, I really want to speak there. Really. I think I have a good perspective to offer to the attendees. It's clear that I'm not in their typical demographic, and I think that an outsider's point of view could prove invaluable to those who are interested in expanding their audience to all available markets.
So, in order to be a speaker, I could just wait for them to beat down my door asking me to speak, but I don't think that will happen. The only chance I have of this happening is to get enough people to nominate me as a speaker.
You'll help, won't you? Pretty please?
All you have to do is send an email to Elisa at BlogHer at this address: elisa@blogher.com.
In the subject line, just say "BlogHer 09 Speaker Nomination"
And in the body, say something like:
"Dear Elisa,
My name is _____ and I would like to nominate Adam Heath Avitable from Avitable.com to be one of the speakers for the BlogHer 2009 conference. I understand that your speakers are almost always women, but I think he would have a unique and valuable perspective on being a personal blogger who's a man in a blogging world that is heavily populated by women bloggers. This perspective could prove fruitful to those bloggers who embrace male readers or want to open their blogs to new audiences.
Adam is charming, funny, and an excellent public speaker. Your conference wouldn't be complete without him!
Regards,
YOUR NAME"
The bonus? If I get chosen as a speaker, I'll totally do it wearing a dress. That'll be hot.
Thanks to everyone who emailed Elisa. She emailed me this reply:
BlogHer Conferences have two kinds of programming, sessions *we* program, and sessions that are programmed by the community.
BlogHer Programmed sessions:
Until now, and for 2009, programmed sessions feature 100% women speakers. This policy is not set in stone, rather we poll attendees after every event, big and small, and take their pulse on how important our community feels this policy is. So far, the vast majority of our community and attendees still find this policy highly important to them. (While women may indeed be the majority of bloggers and Internet users, as you have pointed out in the past, they are still a noticeable minority of speakers on the roster at most blogging or Internet or tech or marketing conferences.) All this to say: The policy may change, and the longer we stay around, the more likely we will get to a place where it is no longer so important to the community.Community programmed sessions:
There will be two opportunities to participate, however, that are open for men to submit:1. The Community Keynote
We launched a new keynote tradition this year by having Community Keynote which consisted of about 20 bloggers reading pieces across a variety of subject matter areas. We will have an open period for people to submit their own posts, or favorites from others, and then a committee narrows down the list to ~20 bloggers. We currently plan to open the submission process on April 15th or so.2. Room of Your Own sessions
When we announce our skeleton schedule (coming soon) of 30 programmed sessions, it is inevitable that we cannot program all the many topics and interests from the hundreds of submissions we receive. So we set aside two additional break-out rooms for what we call Room of Your Own sessions, 12 additional sessions that will be programmed by the community itself. We put out an open call for people to reserve their time slots. Some years we have gotten so many people wanting to reserve that we set up a little community poll to choose. Some years we don't need to do that, and pretty much everyone who wants a slot gets one. We currently plan to open the call for Room of Your Own sessions as soon as we announce the skeleton programmed schedule, some time next week.FYI: This year we did have a "BlogHims at BlogHer" Room of Your Own session, so if the interest is there, the session can be there.
Hope you will submit for the Community Keynote (there will be a Humor category) and/or sign up for a Room of Your Own session when we launch those.
Thanks for your interest in BlogHer '09, I'll look forward to meeting you in July.
Best regards,
BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY REASON THAT JULY IS ALL MASTURBATION ALL THE TIME!
It's not this picture:
It's not this picture:
But, in the month of July on the 2009 Hot Male Blogger Calendar, there is a photo of me that you totally need to have hanging in your office, kitchen, laundry room, or wherever you keep a calendar.
The calendars have been printed and are shipping now. Make sure you get one before they're all out!
2009 Hot Blogger Calendar – The Men:
2009 Hot Blogger Calendar – The Women (including Miss Britt!):
