In other news, one of my good friends from Stern came down from Westchester today to hang out with me and li'l Chikoo in Manhattan. She has been jobless since graduation (3 years now!) partly by choice (don't ask! she claims the stress of work makes her a crazy person, which I can see, but she is the kind who manages to find something to get stressed out about even when nothing's going on...) and I was very happy to hear that she is starting to look for a fulltime job finally. Anyway, she is very smart (Ivy undergrad and all that) and was giving me some good ideas and things to consider with respect to my website. Some of it is really obvious stuff that I should absolutely be thinking about - market research, how big is my target audience, when will i start to look into advertising, what is my marketing strategy beyond Facebook etc. It made me realize I really must take a more disciplined approach to the whole thing and try to apply some of my b-school strategy and marketing lessons to the new "venture" (which it is SO NOT). So far, I've simply been winging it - hey, I have a fulltime job taking care of my kid and can devote all of 30min a day to the website, so even the winging it strategy seems to be a reach some days.
Lastly, what is with this HBO show "Game of Thrones"? I mean, what's up with the gratuitous nudity? I haven't been watching, but Lamboo seems to be watching it on HBO on Demand at the rate of one episode a week (or sometimes, a month) and I usually sit with him and space out on the interweb (this is all past Chikoo's bedtime so we feel like our old selves again for a bit till Chikoo decides we've watched enough TV for the day and should be entertained by him instead). Anyway, I occasionally catch glimpses of the show and am shocked by the amount of nudity and sex. I'm hardly a prude, but is this much sex and nudity particularly necessary to further the plot? I doubt it. The show seems interesting and complex enough without it. One scene in particular bothered me about the episode we're watching tonight - a 12-year old boy feeding from his mother's breast! I am all for breast-feeding, but this is just cree.pee. I know it's probably a 'stunt boob' (yeah, I had to google it, so the next time someone starts type "st" on my google search, it is going to bring that up as the first suggestion), but isn't there some law protecting child actors from this sort of thing? He may be sucking on plastic, but doesn't the act of sucking on a boob-like object at the age of 12 scar you psychologically somehow? Not sure what directing that scene must have entailed. Or maybe there's more cgi at play and the kid is actually sucking on something not resembling a breast at all in reality. I hope.
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