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Just a casual observation as noted on several blog posts of late.If you have tweet arguments (is that a real term or did I just make it up?) they can come back to bite you. There are other examples we could share here, but don’t want to stir up crazy people from past tweet discussions that seemed to drag on beyond it’s life span.

One recent example of that is right here below. Or you can go to the site to see the original post here:

WhizTechCafe’s social media miss by ericasmith A spat between a local business and one of its residential neighbors turns ugly.

It started with a simple complaint.

“	It sounds like there is some sort of party under my window, what the hell @WhizTechCafe, this is why no one who lives here likes you.
	TabithaKMeyer  October 2, 2011

“	@TabithaKMeyer @WhizTechCafe rent space from time to time.. If u don’t like it or us were not mad it’s about business at the end of the day
	WhizTechCafe October 4, 2011

“	@WhizTechCafe understandable that you rent space. But if you’re going to be a coffee shop otherwise, be open during coffee shop hours.
	TabithaKMeyer October 4, 2011

Then it started to take a turn for the worse:

“	@TabithaKMeyer Its called part of downtown living maybe you should consider suburban living or get a loft that is not on the 2nd floor
	WhizTechCafe  October 4, 2011

Tabitha tactfully tried to end the conversation:

“	@WhizTechCafe Thank you, I’ll take your advice into consideration. Have a fantastic day!
	TabithaKMeyer October 4, 2011

But others already had picked up on the public conversation:

“	@WhizTechCafe Swing and a miss! Come on guys, can’t talk w/ customers like that. At least, it’s a bad idea. cc: @TabithaKMeyer @michaeltomko
	RizzoTees  October 4, 2011

“	@WhizTechCafe if you’re going to call out a customer ( @TabithaKMeyer ) at least use proper punctuation even if you can’t be a good neighbor
	PTtheIslander October 4, 2011

“	Wow, @WhizTechCafe, I think you picked the wrong person to aggravate. cc: @TabithaKMeyer @rizzotees @michaeltomko
	therebirth October 4, 2011

“	@therebirth @WhizTechCafe @TabithaKMeyer @michaeltomko Yes, Tabitha is not to be played
	RizzoTees October 4, 2011

“	@therebirth @WhizTechCafe @TabithaKMeyer @michaeltomko And btw, the wrong person to aggravate is…… your next customer. #justsayin
	RizzoTees  October 4, 2011

Again, that could’ve been the end of it. But it wasn’t:

“	@RizzoTees @michaeltomko talk like what?? @TabithaKMeyer has some sort of personal issue with @WhizTechCafe our REAL customers are all :-)
	WhizTechCafe October 4, 2011

“	@WhizTechCafe how many people were real customers before they got bad customer service from you ? @RizzoTees @TabithaKMeyer @michaeltomko
	PTtheIslander  October 4, 2011

“	@PTtheIslander lol punctuation this is twitter @WhizTechCafe offer 10% discount to printer lofts we r good neighbors but we cant pls every 1
	WhizTechCafe October 4, 2011

“	@PTtheIslander @WhizTechCafe have been open almost 1 yr I have never seen @TabithaKMeyer you have to visit to get bad customer service
	WhizTechCafe October 4, 2011

“	@WhizTechCafe nope, you don’t. This is an extension of your business. And please learn have vs had. Cc @TabithaKMeyer
	PTtheIslander October 4, 2011

“	@whiztechcafe @michaeltomko @TabithaKMeyer With respect, telling someone to move to the county. Just an odd tweet from a business
	RizzoTees  October 4, 2011

“	@whiztechcafe @michaeltomko @TabithaKMeyer Unless you’re a real estate agent, that’s just a weird msg to send.
	RizzoTees October 4, 2011

“	@whiztechcafe @michaeltomko @TabithaKMeyer Again, with respect, you have customers that have expressed confusion at multitude of changes
	RizzoTees October 4, 2011

“	@whiztechcafe @michaeltomko @TabithaKMeyer changing hours, etc. I don’t make it downtown much anymore, but downtown residents feel this way
	RizzoTees October 4, 2011

“	@whiztechcafe @michaeltomko @TabithaKMeyer If your message to them is, “Just move, you’re not a REAL customer,” then we’re clear.
	RizzoTees  October 4, 2011

“	@whiztechcafe @michaeltomko @TabithaKMeyer I sense you guys are trying hard and want to stick it out, and I’ve had good food there
	RizzoTees October 4, 2011

“	@whiztechcafe @michaeltomko @TabithaKMeyer But respectfully, & last thing I’ll say, this entire Twitter conversation should not be happening
	RizzoTees October 4, 2011

That last tweet, by the way, is the moral of this story. But I’ll go ahead and let it play out.

“	@TabithaKMeyer @pttheislander stay out of this?? WOW!! You are the one who started this if there was a problem our number is listed 241-whiz
	WhizTechCafe October 4, 2011

“	@WhizTechCafe @pttheislander Ok, I was trying to stay out of this. But now you’re lying. I ate a Cobb salad there last week! Never seen me?
	TabithaKMeyer October 4, 2011

“	Is the customer always right? Appears that @WhizTechCafe and @TabithaKMeyer have a difference of opinion. #twitterspat #meantweets
	EvanBenn  October 4, 2011

“	@WhizTechCafe And you could have DM’d me rather than starting a visible argument.
	TabithaKMeyer October 4, 2011

“	@TabithaKMeyer WHO DO U THINK U R?? YOU STARTED WITH THAT IS Y NO ONE LIKES U N THE BUILDING SO DO NOT TELL ME WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE!!
	WhizTechCafe October 4, 2011

About 30 minutes after this story was published and shared, Whiz Tech Cafe deleted all of its tweets related to this conversation.

“	@WhizTechCafe nice strategy to delete all your tweets. Good thing it’s been given the @storify treatment
	PTtheIslander  October 4, 2011

“	@PTtheIslander deleted = non-factor @WhizTechCafe
	WhizTechCafe October 4, 2011

“	@WhizTechCafe Wow. If you think that, you understand social media even less than you let on.
	LoganJames October 4, 2011

By then, this story was trending in St. Louis.

I’m a big believer in learning from mistakes; I hope everyone has.

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Southern California-based New Vo Riche Debuts Thing Parade Revolving Around Los Angeles, Collection of Characters

New Vo Riche’s first album will debut on digital outlets through Century Park Records on June 22 featuring first single “She’s Not Your Girl”

LOS ANGELES, CA – New Vo Riche’s debut album Thing Parade follows the group’s EP Rhetoric, both combining the trio’s love of genres like indie, rock, folk and alternative music. With a sound mixing the singer/songwriter vibes of the iconic soft rocking Simon and Garfunkel and the popular alternative musician Ben Folds, New Vo Riche wrote 11 of the 12 tracks on the debut, each with insight into the three guys’ lives and beliefs.

The inspiration behind the title and overall theme of Thing Parade stemmed from an idea of a collection of characters coming together with spontaneous creativity. “Thing Parade” also serves as the album’s opening song, with the repetition of opening lyrics “Story goes like…” getting ready to tell a tale of “a thing parade from out of the mountains” and “out in the snow.”

Emmy-award winning composer Rich Dickerson produced Thing Parade after wearing many hats in the entertainment music industry, including music supervisor for feature films like “Queen of the Damned,” VP of music for the web company Icebox.com and theme songwriter for TV series “What’s New Scooby Doo?” which was recorded by the band Simple Plan. Producer/songwriter/musician Jeff Gross also produced Thing Parade. His production credits include writing music for “Baywatch,” MTV’s “Road Rules and “Real World” programs, FOX and CNN.

The album’s first single, “She’s Not Your Girl,” was written by band member Ian Kieffer to describe the universal experience of boy-meets-girl who is trying to escape from her life. Originally, the track was written for Sky Ferreira whose debut single “One” was produced by Bloodshy & Avant. New Vo Riche ultimately kept the song for the album with lyrics, “they don’t know it, but she’s scared out of her mind, she’s not their kind/Tidal waves soak up the city from her window pane/they don’t know it, but she’s got a way out to save her soul.” Meaning can be found in the story by anyone, whether thinking of a daughter, wife, girlfriend or innocent crush, according to the group. Another standout track is “L.A.,” based on the guys’ hometown and the striking dichotomy of happiness and moroseness of the beloved West Coast city. Written to be an anthem for Los Angeles, New Vo Riche wanted to combine a somber-sounding melody with an authentic, new age sound and lyrics representing hope and faith, describing the place they call home. “There’s gotta be something more than just money and fame/Freeway trash begins to pile, but this whole sky is worth it all…maybe you’ll make it out okay…” Thing Parade will debut on digital outlets on June 22.

About New Vo Riche and Century Park Records:

New Vo Riche was formed in the summer of 2009 in Los Angeles with brothers Ian and Geordie Kieffer and best friend Justin Ostroff. Each call Los Angeles their hometown and played music separately through high school before realizing they should band together, and the result had an overwhelmingly good response among their friends and community. The trio mixes musical genres like indie, rock, folk and alternative, demonstrated first on the EP Rhetoric. The band originally hails from Southern California, but now all three members attend different colleges across the country. Geordie attends Georgetown, Justin studies at UPenn and Ian will go to USC in the fall. Even with the distance, the three still find time to make music together and recorded Thing Parade. Century Park Records made New Vo Riche its first signing in December of last year. Based in Los Angeles and Boston, Century Park Records is led by Parker Liberman.

More information on New Vo Riche can be found at http://www.myspace.com/newvoriche.

Press Contacts for New Vo Riche:

Mary Beth O’Toole Transfer Media Group 908.872.2501 mb@transfermediagroup.com

———- Mandy Rodgers Transfer Media Group Los Angeles, Calif. mandy@transfermediagroup.com

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Technically Speaking, this originally came from right here…

The IFL United Conference championship game is set for next week in Wichita now.

The RiverCity Rage won last night’s Atlantic division championship game in convincing fashion over the Maryland Manics, 55-31 – and were leading 35-7 at the half. Half time included a Michael Jackson impersonator named Scorpio.

Here are a few pics of Scorpio performing at halftime. I actually took a short video where you can hear the person behind me going crazy about it. Quite interesting to hear in person the fanaticism that MJ brought out in people!

I have some game pictures that I haven’t uploaded, and these were taken with the iPhone. You can obviously tell by the quality of the images.

Technically Speaking, indoor football is really fun to watch live and it was nice watching a local pro football team win and advance to their conference championship game!