How Kevin Smith made the top story on CNN.com

I'd be willing to bet that bookmakers in Vegas are now laying odds on which "Evening with Kevin Smith" dvd will contain the rant about Southwest Airlines.  I'm thinking number 5, depending on how far along they are on producing number 4.

This is not a good thing for Southwest, because Smith is pretty much a self-effacing and honest guy with a pretty rabid fan base.  Which means he's not going to sugar coat it ("Dude, I know I'm fat,") and it's going to get a lot of play online.  Witness the fact that in the middle of the Winter Olympics it topped CNN's web page.  

Probably this won't be a major financial issue for Southwest, but it is going to focus a lot of attention on their fat people removal policy.  Plus a fair number of Smith fans are big guys like him, and I'm betting they're going to be avoiding Southwest at all costs in the future.

Some new insanity

I posted a little bit ago that I was going to be messing around with the html code on this page to make it a little more to my liking.  I'm still going to do that, but I'm going to wait a bit, as I'm going to be doing that exact thing on...my new blog.  Yes, I will now have two blogs, this one, and one I will be operating as part of my Digital Media course that I just started today.  This new blog (which I'm calling A Bad Move) will focus much more on issues pertaining to the publishing industry and generally be of a nature to try and induce the lecturer to give me a good grade on it at the end of the term.  As part of the course I will be messing around with the template, so I figured I'd do it there first where I've got someone to tell me how to fix it when I inevitably screw it up.

So what does this mean for this blog?  Well, probably that I won't be posting here quite as much, except when I've got something that wouldn't work on the other blog.  I'm going to be doing 2-3 posts a week over there, so we'll see how much energy I've got for posting over here.  This blog won't go completely dark (not that I haven't done that before), because I'll eventually lose the other blog at the end of the summer.  

You can check it out here.  Comments are welcome if you're at all interested in what I'm talking about.