Tag Archives: blimp

Sonoma Visitor Guide. Written by You.

by timz2 years ago in Insiders Guide.5 Comments

UPDATE June 2009: We need to assign writers for the guide soon, and since the entire guide is written by the proverbial infinite number of monkeys with the infinite number of typewriters, we are basically putting TONS of newspaper on the ground here at the office. Please get your suggestions in for stories soon! Two years ago Time Magazine punted {…}

Hot Air Balloon Classic

by timz2 years ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

While my ongoing row with the Wine Country blimp has been covered in exhaustive detail by TMZ.com, Perez Hilton and The Economist, little is known of the fierce grudge I hold with all hot air balloons. That is because I don’t have one. Many a cheery morning finds me stepping out jauntily to my car, morning coffee in hand, as I prepare {…}

Game on, Murphy Goode

by timz3 years ago in Insiders Guide.2 Comments

Alright Mssrs. Murphy-Goode. You finally got to tweeting about the dream $10,000 blogger job you are offering here in Sonoma County. World’s Best Job. Blog, tweet, and vlog about life in Sonoma County. (Although, to be honest, having something like 20 different accounts tweet the EXACT same tweet within a few seconds of each other was a little suspicious. Perhaps {…}

$10,000. Do my job.

by timz3 years ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

Murphy-Goode winery is taking a page from the Aussies’ marketing book and offering a job to a blogger/tweeter/videographer for $10,000 per month. While details are sketchy, the internets describes how someone will have the cool job (or a “really goode job” according to the flack who penned the release) of blogging about life in Sonoma County and how it relates {…}

Yeti, Bigfoot, Wine Country Blimp

by timz3 years ago in Insiders Guide.2 Comments

“Is that a dagger I see before me, it’s handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch, thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still…” Yeah, that’s Macbeth, wondering if he is dreaming about a dagger – is it real, or imagined, an image from his “heat oppressed brain” ? I was feeling a bit Macbethish* this {…}

An Open Letter to the Wine Country Blimp

by timz3 years ago in Insiders Guide.1 Comment

Dear Blimp: Where did we go wrong? We were so excited when we heard you were coming to wine country! I mean, we told all of our friends, posted it on MySpace (and do you know anyone that posts anything on MySpace any more? It’s owned by that Wall Street Journal guy, fer crying out loud) and even got a {…}

Dude- Where's My Blimp?

by timz3 years ago in Insiders Guide.0 Comments

For all those blimp fans out there, a blimp update. Or Zeppelin, as the case may be. According to Airship Ventures’ nifty website, you can track the zeppelin as it makes it’s way from Texas to California.     As of Monday night, the “blimpellin” is somewhere over New Mexico, which is odd, because that’s where another mysterious flying object {…}