The Couch Potato Chronicles: A Home Remedy for Chronic Trumpitis
Over the last little while it has occurred to me that I had become obsessed with Donald Trump and massive amount of bullshit he has created in the US and around the world.In the beginning I was determined to be part of the force for good that would put a stop to him. And so I started following him everywhere, almost stalking. Then, through long format post and several different types of memes I contributed to the very powerful “#resist’ movement.
But as the year went on, I started to see that we were no closer to putting Trump out of business, as so I started scaling back my activities, first cutting out long format posts then various memes.
I am now down to infrequent commenting.
However, I had a rhythm going for the year and I was suddenly confronted with a gap in my social media activities.
After some consideration I decided that a good thing for me to do would be to revive my original social media property, The Couch Potato Chronicles.
This was a column I started well in advance of social media, and kept going (in longer format posts) for about 10 years. These posts ranged in length from 1500 to about 3000 words, depending on how much time I had to write and were published once a week.
So the challenge for me here was to be able to create valid mini-reviews in a much more restrictive format.
What you see below are the first 3 pieces of my revived CPC. These will be posted on beBee, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. If you like them, please feel free to follow me there and share them with your buds. I will be producing anywhere from 2 to 4 per week. I may very well sneak in something political, but I assure you that this is not, and never will be, the major focus.
Cheers, Jim
Jim Murray is an experienced advertising and marketing professional. He has run his own business (Onwords & Upwords), since 1989 after a 20 year career as a senior creative person in major Canadian & international advertising agencies. He is a communication strategist, writer, art director, broadcast producer, mildly opinionated op/ed blogger & beBee Brand Ambassador.
Jim lives in St Catharines Ontario and is a partner at Bullet Proof Consulting. www.bulletproofconsulting.ca
You can follow Jim
On beBee: https://www.bebee.com/bee/jim-murray
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-murray-b8a3a4/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jimbobmur
On Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y97gxro4
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Comments
Jim Murray
5 years ago #7
Me too Jerry. 'm weaning myself off.
Jerry Fletcher
5 years ago #6
Jim Murray
5 years ago #5
Jim Taggart. Yeah we still flip over to the CNN shitshow. But somehow it's just become so ludicrous as to be depressing. But I know what you mean about how hard it is to avoid it all.
Jim Murray
5 years ago #4
Paul Walters. Phil and I have started a new He Said He Said post about what's going on in social media, so IO have explained a bit more about my self-initiated cease and desist order against Trump posts. I was never any sort of journalist like yourself so I am happy as can be just writing these little snippets. After 1000 or more long format posts, I can recycle a lot of them, and save the grunt work for my Bullet Proof web site.
Jim Taggart
5 years ago #3
Paul Walters
5 years ago #2
Jim Murray
5 years ago #1
Yeah, I can see that. I'm now fearful that the Raptors will actually blow this series. Hopefull home court works in their favour. Bill King