Comments on: What Owen Wilson’s Pursed Lips Mean to Your Blog

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:31:24 +0000

You were just funny enough to get away with that.

By: Ming

Ming — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:18:33 +0000

I tried to purposely cross the line in my post”Writing for blogs”

this is the link.

http://30dayartist.blogspot.com/2006/04/writing-for-blogs.html

and i once crossed the line, or maybe walked it when it comes to spamming.

OutsiderArtist

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:01:46 +0000

Hmmm… well, pop culture references will be lost on those that might not keep up with popular culture. Sorry about that.

At least I didn’t use my Uncle Marvin as the subject.

As for the wings, it was just the most ridiculous photo of Mr. Wilson I could find.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:53:51 +0000

Given that I don’t have the vaguest foggy (as my 10th grade Bio teacher used to say) _who_ Owen Wilson is (or why I should care), I’m afraid the point was rather lost on me.

And what’s with the feathery wings?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:01:22 +0000

Well put. I would say you were getting close to “going to far”, but it made for an interesting read.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:27:16 +0000

The old is any press good press question? Well, given the example, Owen was getting press from the movie review and the fan site regardless.

So the “bad” press from the pursed lips was extraneous to the publicity angle he had going already.

Now, if some copywriting blog hack turns the pursed lips issue into the main focus of a post, just to see what would happen…

Hmmm.

I guess I’m just a pawn in the Owen Wilson publicity machine.

By: Tammy Vitale

Tammy Vitale — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:56:52 +0000

Here’s a question back for you…do you think that the premise of any news (good or bad) is PR in the print media holds for blogging? So if people are talking about pursed lips or bad blogging on a particular site, they’re still talking/referring…..

Tammy Vitale, http://www.TamsOriginals.com

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:18:42 +0000

Dude, only you would draw a parallel between Owen Wilson’s pursed lips and blogging. Although, now that I think about it, he does do that an awful lot. I guess I never realized it was a “thing.”

Copyblogger: where copy meets pop culture. Next, Char at 11!

By: Remi

Remi — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:56:03 +0000

I LOVE it!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:30:40 +0000

don’t cross the line – walk it…

Very well put Tammy. Maybe inspired by the late, great Johnny Cash?

I may have to borrow that in the future.