Moved......

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Moving this Blog - Please come along

I am still not quite ready yet, but I wanted to move the blog before I leave for Washington next week. So here is the URL http://joespakeblog.com. I am moving to the Wordpress platform, and I think that, once I get it all tweaked like I want, you will enjoy it more that this platform.

I have already moved over the posts from this blog, so you can make a seamless transition to http://joespakeblog.com starting NOW.

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Twitter - Tweet Stats - Wordle

For you Twitter addicts, check out http://www.tweetstats.com to look at your stats, then navigate to your Tweet cloud. After being amazed by that for a bit, hit the Wordle link, and go wild!

My Twitter production, graphically presented in Wordle

click for larger view.

Spring Cleaning - Been there, got the T-shirt

"I've been sifting through the layers, of dusty books and faded papers........" so go the lyrics of Kate Wolf's Across the Great Divide (great song, but you will have to look it up-I can't find a sharable copy online). Spring cleaning time, and I am going through stuff I haven't looked at in years. The other day it was books, and the Library was the beneficiary of such an eclectic collection of books that even the bookworms were scratching their heads.

Today was T-shirt clean up day. Since I was in the radio business back in the 70s I had a great T-shirt collection which was mostly liquidated 10 years ago. Its funny, though, how well a 35 year old t-shirt holds up.

I didn't make it to the David Crosby Concert back in March of 1974, but I've got the t-shirt. Never monkey-wrenched a piece of heavy equipment or spiked a tree, but I've got the Earth First! t-shirt.

I did do some interviews with Memphis' most successful wrestler, Jerry, the King, Lawler, during his short-lived singing career with Barbarian Records.

These are going to interested friends, and the rest (about 30) are going to MIFA. Of course I have a few left that you will have to check Ebay for the pictures.

It's interesting what we choose to keep and what we choose to part with. I am not seeing much value these days in keeping things just to have them. I am looking forward to continuing my deep cleaning. Next I am jumping to hundreds of vinyl albums.

Seth Godin - Broken from 2006

Seth Godin speech on what is broken - ThisIsBroken.com. This is a good investement of about 20 minutes.

Seth Godin at Gel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

Facebook Manners And You

One of the best FaceBook "instructional" videos I have ever seen:

Be sure and visit me on facebook at http://www.spakebook.com

or my facebook business page at http://joespakepage.com

3 Unrelated Memphis Things

I just posted about the March Real Estate sales stats for the Memphis Area.

Anyone who ever saw Memphis Wrestling in the old days will appreciate http://Lancerussell.com

I would like to get Omari Fleming to show me how he ties his necktie.

If you build it (and get a big enough tax freeze), they will come

I posted last month about the failed Horizon Condo project converting to luxury apartments and getting a $10 Million+ Pilot tax break.

Today's Commercial Appeal reports that another Downtown property, a 204 unit apartment complex on Mud Island, yet to be started, has been granted a 10 year tax freeze worth $2.47 Million.

"The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. waived a policy against property tax freezes for apartments on Mud Island after representatives of Grand Island LLC said the project wouldn't be feasible without one."

As a taxpayer, I would like to know who is accountable for the tax dollars that the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. gives away. Everyone I know has been hit with reappraisals that exceed previous appraisals by double digits. One way or another we will be squeezed for more property taxes to complement our nearly 10% sales tax.

What is the Center City Revenue Finance Corp.'s budget? Who approves the credits? Why has the Corp.'s "policy" been "waived" twice in a one month period?