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Posts Tagged ‘Stranger than Fiction’
Your Favorite Posts
25
Mar
11
In celebration of our blog’s first birthday last Tuesday, we asked you to tell us your favorite posts from the past year. Thanks for all your responses. Here are the results:
Most fun
• Summer: An Official Sawtooth Holiday
• Great American Bake Sale
• That Was Awkward
Most relevant
• Trending Now – Kindness
• Tis The Season To Be Gory
• Lightning And The Power Of Words
Most Sawtooth
• Spring Gardening In NYC
• A Toast To Melissa
• Sawtooth Celebrates Anne Marie And Arlene
Most surprising
• Write Your 57 Character Future
• Delicious Sawtooth Secret Revealed
Most passionate
• The Power Of Cause Marketing And Social Media
• A Truly Inspiring Night
• Thank You
Most thought-provoking
• Think Wild. Find Your Inner Child.
• Brilliance: It’s In The Bag
• America The Advertised
Most Stranger than Fiction
• Sawtooth Twitter Highlight Of The Day
• Media Director Runs For House
Here’s to another great year of blogging!
Blog’s First Birthday
15
Mar
11
A year ago today we posted our very first post here at Stranger than Fiction. Since then, we’ve given you a peek into the wonderful world of Sawtooth. We’ve shared truths that we couldn’t resist sharing. We laughed. We cried. We blogged.
Exactly one year and almost two hundred posts later, we’re so thankful to all of our readers and all of our contributors that make this blog exactly what it is. Truly fun. Truly inspiring. And truly Stranger than Fiction.
We want to hear from you. What are your favorite blog posts from this year? Use these categories or feel free to add your own.
Most fun
Most relevant
Most Sawtooth
Most surprising
Most passionate
Most thought-provoking
Most Stranger than Fiction
Please share the link for each post and one sentence explaining your choice.
Email your votes to blog [at] sawtoothgroup [dot] com
Entries due this Friday, March 18.
Ghosts Of Halloweens Past
29
Oct
10
We asked our fellow Sawteeth to share their wackiest, weirdest, most wonderful Halloween memories. In true Sawtooth-style, we got some truly stranger than fiction responses:
A certain copywriter was dressed as Batman. Thinking the plastic costume gave him superpowers, he leapt from a high wall, only to land awkwardly. He thought he was fine till his co-trick or treaters began to laugh at him. It seemed his costume has split right at “the Bat Cave” as it were, rendering him powerless the rest of the night as he had one hand carrying his pumpkin and the other holding his costume together. -Mike
My funniest story is being chased and beat up on Mischief Night when I was caught soaping up someone’s car window. Don’t know if that is really funny, but very memorable. -Lee
My funniest story is my friends and I chasing this kid who soaped up my car window on Mischief Night. Now I know it was Lee. -Charlie
The year 15 of my friends and I became a smack of jellyfish complete with glow-in-the-dark capabilities and phosphorescent streamers hanging from our umbrella costumes. Instead of marching in the Village Halloween Parade, we glided along with jellyfish choreography. -Jenny
When I was 15, I got chased down Monmouth Street in Red Bank by a guy wearing green briefs and sneakers. Nothing else. I was just walking back to the Count Basie for rehearsal and this guy popped outta nowhere. -Alyson
On our way to a Halloween party a few years ago, my sister and I stopped into a costume shop to grab something to wear, like a goofy prop or funny hat. Upon entering the store, we became possessed with the spirit of the season and left wearing matching head-to-toe gold lamé bodysuits with wide lapels, black wigs with sideburns and thick gold sunglasses. We quivered our lips and shook our hips. We were the Elvis Twins. -Melissa
When we were 14, my friends and I dressed in all black (except for our neon clown wigs) terrorizing a quiet and well-meaning neighborhood. We were a gang of 12. Unknown to 10 of us, 2 of our friends peeled off from the group. Upon seeing the rest of us raiding the candy basket, they screamed “Get out of our yard” and “We’re calling the police.” We ran home and huddled in closets. We sat there, much too close, for 30 minutes. The next year we pretended to be 11 year old zombies. -Tim
I once “dressed up” my alpha male, 70 lb. husky like a cat. He wasn’t that into it. Apparently cat costumes taste as delicious to a crazy dog, as candy tastes to a sugar-craving kid. -Adria
My mom would give me a pillowcase and send me on my way. I was only allowed to go two blocks from the house and then return. But there were so many houses that the pillowcase got so heavy I would go home to unload. So after unloading my stash (and thinking I had enough candy for the entire year) I headed back out, only to return to find out my mom dumped my whole stash in the candy bowl she was giving out. –Richard
Special, spooky thanks to Tim and Adria for photographing the official pumpkin of Sawtooth for this very blog post.
So tell us, what’s your most-Stranger-than-Fiction Halloween memory?
Blog Love
13
May
10
There are three blogs that live in my heart of blog hearts. I don’t just read these blogs, I fully subscribe to them. In fact, I literally “subscribe” by getting them sent to my inbox. I’m a full-on “subscriber.”
When the latest posts of these brilliant bloggers show up on my email’s door, they shed sunshine not just on my inbox, but on my day. They’re the visual and intellectual stimulation I crave to stay inspired and informed. I want you, too, to love these blogs. Here’s a glimpse of just exactly why I adore them.
Seth Godin: Author, Agent of Change
Seth Godin is a marketing guru whose poignant blog posts always get me thinking. His name is a staple around Sawtooth. We are fans. What’s not to love about someone who asks questions like “Where do you find good ideas?” And challenges the usual responses with ideas like:
“The best ideas come out of the corner of our eye, the edge of our consciousness, in a flash. They are the result of misdirection and random collisions, not a grinding corporate onslaught. And yet we waste billions of dollars in time looking for them where they’re not.”
Oh Seth Godin. Please keep it coming.
Martha Beck: Life Coach, Columnist, Author
I have not read every single book a writer has written since Carolyn Keene wrote her last Nancy Drew book. But now, in my adult life, I read anything by Martha Beck I can get my hands on. Here’s a taste:
“If you’re reading this at a time when the odds against you feel large and your chance of success tiny, pay attention. Go for a lot of walks. Notice what you feel compelled to learn. Follow your hunches. Hold in your mind’s hands, see with your mind’s eyes, hear with your mind’s ears, the unbelievable good fortune you hope will happen to you. Then work your hind end off, travel to wherever the odds are good, and never stop searching. Oh, and always travel with a child, or at least a child’s-eye view. You never know where a 9-year-old is going to find a friend.”
Martha’s take on life is like music to my ears. I take her advice as it relates to not just my life but everything that encompasses, including advertising. As I write, I’m channeling my inner 9-year old to work on my next assignment. Anyone wanna go for a walk? Or go play in the park?
Design Sponge: Home and Product Design
Design Sponge is a feast for the eyes and fuel for the imagination. It celebrates design in homes, in stores, in cute little towns and big cities around the world. Creator Grace Bonney is sort of my hero. She’s a regular person like me who decided to start a blog by sharing her passion for all things design. Now, with her staff of like-minded bloggers, they have 60,000 subscribers and 50,000 RSS Feed-readers later.
Design Sponge introduced me to one of my favorite designers, Tanya Aguiniga.
I got to meet Tanya Aguiniga and Grace Bonney at a Design Sponge event. Then, I even got to get a peek into Aguiniga’s studio:
Now before I sign-off, let me ask this. Have you subscribed to my latest love? This very blog: Sawtooth’s Stranger than Fiction.
Show the love by subscribing in the box to the right.