John Kelly’s Voxford on Hard Rock Park
I work about 3/4 of a mile from Hard Rock Park but I’ve never been there. However, this dude who lives in England has been and posted a review of it that I found via Largehearted Boy. He seemed to generally like it. It’s one of those things I feel like I should go to, [...]
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Tags: hardrockpark, myrtlebeachLunches at the Beach
Some days I really just feel the need to get the hell out of the office at lunchtime. I really prefer if possible to work in a quick walk on the beach, so I tend to head towards the water. This means that often I’m lunching on Kings Highway or Ocean [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeachMyrtle Beach’s War on Tourism
Myrtle Beach is not only looking at driving away the May bike weeks, but when a recent flap arose over an ad encouraging gay travelers people were quick to back away. I’m no tourism expert but it seems to me that in a down economy with crazily rising energy and travel costs, when airlines are [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeachSamantha Brown in Myrtle Beach
I got a pair of emails from a publicist type who is working with the Travel Channel. Tomorrow night on the Samantha Brown program, they will be featuring Myrtle Beach. I got an email to my regular address here, and then the identical one for the contact address of Grand Strand Bloggers. I could be [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeach, samanthabrown, travelchannelMyrtle Beach’s War on Tourism
I’m reposting verbatim some text from commentor Dennis. I personally think the city government of Myrtle Beach has recently gone insane in their efforts to get rid of the bike weeks in May. Let’s see, during Black Bike Week one local resident shot another local resident, neither one of which were participating in the rally. [...]
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Tags: bikeweek, harleydavidson, myrtlebeachBike Weeks
A year ago I posted about Myrtle Beach’s bike week, which quickly devolved in the comments to an interesting but orthogonal discussion of class and gated communities. This year was fairly uneventful. The Harley week seemed to be the mellowest one since I’ve lived in the area. For big portions of the week it would [...]
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Tags: bikeweek, myrtlebeachMyrtle Beach’s Comic Shop is Back!
There used to be one comic shop in my area, which was in Surfside Beach at Highway 544 and Kings Highway. We’d drive by it if we were going to Myrtle Beach State Park or the dog park. That shop closed a while ago, which left me with no local comic options. I have periodically [...]
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Tags: comicbooks, comics, fotis, futuredreams, myrtlebeach, suncitycafeMyrtle Beach Zombie Walk
I just randomly happened across this poster while I was looking at something else. Apparently there will be a Zombie Walk this weekend in Myrtle Beach. I’m not 100% certain at this point if I’m going to be in town or not on this Saturday. If I am, I’m definitely going [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeach, zombiesCreateSouth, New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach April 19th
OK kids, registration for the CreateSouth conference is open for business! The conference is April 19th from 9 to 5 PM in downtown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All attendees are invited, whether you live and breath new media or are interested but slightly frightened by it. If you are a professional journalist or a politician [...]
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Tags: createsouth, myrtlebeachLed Zeppelin Roller Coaster
Alright, I for once clicked a YouTube link for some video of a test of the Led Zeppelin roller coaster at the Hard Rock theme park. That does look pretty bad asssed. This park is close enough to my office that it would be feasible to get a season pass and go there at lunch [...]
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Tags: hardrockpark, myrtlebeachMyrtle Beach Blogging Conference is Go
We decided that we want to hold the conference next spring, and that even if 20 people show up we’ll consider that a success for the first year that we can build on. Our first order of business is to name the conference so we can start to do all the other things like set [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeachRon Paul in Myrtle Beach
Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be in Myrtle Beach today. A number of my coworkers are deep in the Ron Paul Madness. I’m not really sure what drives it myself. The best I can guess is that he is the guy who allows you to disapprove of the ridiculous waste of the war without having [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeach, ronpaulA Blog/Podcasting/New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach?
Several years ago, I came home from the BloggerCon in Palo Alto and mused on this blog about holding a blog conference in the Myrtle Beach area. I got a lot of interest, enough so that it wigged me out a little because it meant that I’d have to really do it right. At the [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeachMytle Beach Craigslist
Hey, Myrtle Beach is in Craiglist! When the hell did that happen? I don’t see anything older than the 15th, and only one thing older than last Sunday so maybe it just went live this week. Right on!
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Tags: craigslist, myrtlebeachEGC Clambake For June 18, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 18, 2006.
I talk about a very important change in my life; I play a song by the Sharp Things; I discuss net neutrality and market forces; I play a net neutrality protest song by The Broad Band; I play a [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeach, myrtlebeachpelicans, rosieperez, sharpthings, sonicyouth, thebroadband, yosoyboricuaOphelia
It has weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm, thank goodness, but Ophelia is now coming right through here. It is more likely to hit Wilmington NC, but landing at Myrtle Beach is quite possible. I don’t expect much drama in our neck of the woods, but stay safe out there. I take every [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeachWhat Happened to the Myrtle Beach Blogging Conference?
Last November, when I came home from Bloggercon in Palo Alto imbued with the holy fire of citizen media I floated the idea of doing a blog conference here in the Grand Strand. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and I got a lot of feedback from people who said they would [...]
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For the first time in one of my outbound flights, I get to use the free wifi. I actually had a conversation with someone yesterday about the value of free wifi. It doesn’t really change anything per se - I’m going to fly out of this airport regardless because it is the one here - [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeachAnother Beach Trip
For the second time in three days, we took a spontaneous trip to the beach. I’m downright liking this! The dog seems to be taking well to the beach and ocean, which she’d never seen to before this weekend. After 4 PM you can take your dog to the beach at Myrtle Beach State Park, [...]
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Tags: myrtlebeachBeach Jaunt
As you saw from the previous post, we jaunted to the beach on the spur of the moment. We were a little worried about the traffic from the second bike week and/or Memorial Day revelers but it wasn’t too bad. From where we live, we can make it to Myrtle Beach State Park without ever [...]
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