tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60566099169049955152024-03-17T20:03:26.065-07:00Ideas By ChuckI will be giving away some of my best ideas for inventions, businesses, stories, and marketing ploys.
I don't have the resources or passion to make these ideas reality, but I know that you might.
If you use any of my ideas to make tons of money, please let me know and think about sending me a small percentage of your profits.
I hope this blog makes the world a better place.
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Ideas By Day : Ideas By Night : Ideas By Chuck</center>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-60277746270563597392011-10-12T13:56:00.000-07:002011-10-12T15:55:52.456-07:00Hoarders Billionaire Edition<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L0kHfFnMB7s/TpYa7-8TGPI/AAAAAAAABhU/-lJ9eDIIUuY/s1600/HBE8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L0kHfFnMB7s/TpYa7-8TGPI/AAAAAAAABhU/-lJ9eDIIUuY/s400/HBE8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662743199275489522" /></a><br />Our country, nay... our world is in financial turmoil, and guess who has been thinking about this problem. Yeah, me, Chuck McCarthy.<br /><br />I don't have all the answers, but I do think I have come up with an idea that could help all of us out, and it is very simple.<br /><br />Most of us think of billionaires as being more fortunate than the rest of us, but have you ever stopped to wonder why all these super rich people have such giant houses? Have so many giant houses?<br /><br />They have giant houses, because giant houses have giant garages.<br /><br />These super rich people are suffering from a terrible and debilitating disease... Many, if not all, of these super rich people are compulsive hoarders suffering from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding">disposophobia</a>. The houses, the boats, the cars, the diamonds, the shoes, the gold nuggets, the sports teams, the Faberge eggs, the paintings, the sculptures, the copies of the constitution, and even the billions of dollars they have in the bank are all signifiers of their inability to let go of things.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yW1Tz7puLeA/TpYWEY0BzoI/AAAAAAAABgk/VR1EYWRB3Vw/s1600/faberge1.jpg.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 282px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yW1Tz7puLeA/TpYWEY0BzoI/AAAAAAAABgk/VR1EYWRB3Vw/s320/faberge1.jpg.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662737846100938370" /></a><br />It is only because these people have maids, managers, housekeepers, butlers to keep all their crap in order and the ability to buy or build larger and larger houses, that they are able to hide the illness from everyone.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What the world needs is <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Hoarders Billionaire Edition</span></span> to help all the billionaires in the world with their compulsive hoarding.<br /><br />Only one or two of you might have the TV production chops to make this happen, but this idea can help everyone, for it is my belief that if all of these billionaires are cured, trickle down economics will actually work.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tG_fGFQamww/TpYX9sGOc5I/AAAAAAAABg8/zEgN7XJmQAg/s1600/tv%2Bhoarders-1776949160_v2.grid-6x2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tG_fGFQamww/TpYX9sGOc5I/AAAAAAAABg8/zEgN7XJmQAg/s320/tv%2Bhoarders-1776949160_v2.grid-6x2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662739930041709458" /></a>Beyond helping everyone in the world by helping these billionaires get rid of millions of dollars of things they don't need, cleaning out billions from cluttered bank accounts, and helping free up capitol that the rest of the world might actually need, this show could be the start of making you into a super rich person.<br /><br />Think about it. This show would basically be a cross between <span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Hoarders</span></span> (super popular) and <span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cribs</span></span> (super popular) and <span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous</span></span> (super popular and fabulous). <div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWdD-pgiQVQ/TpYVU_ZFQyI/AAAAAAAABgY/QcHRrXOuwZQ/s1600/soulja-boy-mtv-cribs-071509.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IWdD-pgiQVQ/TpYVU_ZFQyI/AAAAAAAABgY/QcHRrXOuwZQ/s320/soulja-boy-mtv-cribs-071509.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662737031823180578" /></a>You don't have to be as smart as Soulja Boy to know this is a good idea. People love to see how super rich people live just as much as the love seeing rats living in someone's living room and hundreds of boxes of light bulbs stacked in the bathroom of a two bedroom Brooklyn apartment.<br /><br />This show will be a hit!<br /><br />Do it, and please, if you become super rich because of this, send me some of that money, or encourage billionaires you have on the show to send me some of the money they are trying to get rid of.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--m8DBLiDFFI/TpYTjLvPLxI/AAAAAAAABgM/VjYyu1RQYac/s1600/imelda.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--m8DBLiDFFI/TpYTjLvPLxI/AAAAAAAABgM/VjYyu1RQYac/s320/imelda.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662735076632243986" /></a><br />P.S. I am on Twitter still: <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a><br /><br />P.P.S. I am still Hollywood Acting. If you want to be my Hollywood agent, go <a href="http://bechucksagent.tumblr.com/">here</a>.<br /><br />P.P.P.S. Let me know if you have any want to be my personal historian.<br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. Dear Billionaires, Don't let Imelda Marcos take the fall for you all. You know you have a problem too. The first step is admitting you have a problem.</div>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com190tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-10915947348261207192011-06-18T14:16:00.001-07:002011-06-18T15:04:10.629-07:00Murder Murder She Wrote<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LegAKR4FFio/Tf0dmVGF6hI/AAAAAAAABfo/hmV52KkginY/s1600/murder-she-wrote-about.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LegAKR4FFio/Tf0dmVGF6hI/AAAAAAAABfo/hmV52KkginY/s320/murder-she-wrote-about.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619680454363179538" /></a>Some of you may have started to wonder if I have been murdered. Well, I haven't been murdered. If I had been murdered, I wouldn't be able to write this. <br /><br />Sadly, I have become caught up in being a Hollywood Actor, and as a Hollywood Actor, thinking too much can really get in the way, especially when the Hollywood Acting job is to lay in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb28DLnUKJc">bed and drool</a>. <br /><br />Sometimes, I do imagine being murdered though. I don't know anyone who doesn't have these thoughts. I just hope that my friends are clever enough to kill me cleverly, so that the only way they could possibly be caught is if say... an old woman who writes crime novels stumbled into my life just before my killer or killers carried out their plan. <br /><br />Fine! You didn't come here to hear my musings about my own murder (lots of alliteration in that). You came here to get an idea that might make you a millionaire, and here it is. <br /><br />I have been watching a bunch of murder mystery movies and TV shows etc. and I started wondering what would happen in each case if the murderer didn't just confess at the end, and even when they do confess if that confession would actually be admissible as evidence. Basically, would these murderers actually be convicted in a court of law. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykt8bdbLbM0/Tf0d6bFkEHI/AAAAAAAABfw/axGf9rzR9Uk/s1600/oj_simpson.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ykt8bdbLbM0/Tf0d6bFkEHI/AAAAAAAABfw/axGf9rzR9Uk/s320/oj_simpson.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619680799568957554" /></a><br />People love court cases... as long as they are not asked to be on the jury or involved in any sort of way that would actually affect them. That's why <span style="font-weight:bold;">Nancy Grace</span> has a career. That's why there are dozens of <span style="font-weight:bold;">Law & Order</span> shows. That's why <span style="font-weight:bold;">Matlock</span> was the man. That's why we have F'N <span style="font-weight:bold;">Court TV</span>, or as some people call it, "The House That OJ Built." <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Murder Murder She Wrote</span> would be <span style="font-weight:bold;">Mystery Science Theater 3000 </span>meets <span style="font-weight:bold;">Murder She Wrote</span> meets <span style="font-weight:bold;">Court TV.</span> Two lawyers give color commentary and arguments for and against the murderer, arguing as to whether or not they believe the murderer would be convicted based on things like admissibility of evidence, confessions, and witness testimony. Would the jury be sympathetic? Etc. etc. etc...<br /><br />Of course one of the lawyers would be a hot chick with a bitchy face and the other would be a flamboyantly gay man with more tenacity and sass than Jessica Fletcher herself. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Q9oD_XGikE/Tf0gfSIETbI/AAAAAAAABf4/IDgUTLo0puM/s1600/audrina-patridge-bikini1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Q9oD_XGikE/Tf0gfSIETbI/AAAAAAAABf4/IDgUTLo0puM/s320/audrina-patridge-bikini1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619683631841955250" /></a><br />People love <span style="font-weight:bold;">Murder She Wrote</span>. People love legal arguments... again as long as they aren't actually involved. Plus, this show would cost almost nothing to produce. You need a green screen, two lawyers, a camera, an editor, and the rights to Murder She Wrote, which is probably almost in the public domain by now. Did I mention that one of the lawyers is a hot chick with a bitchy face, and people love that! Shows get sold based completely on the weight that a hot bitchy face carries. <br /><br />You can make this a hit show. You can make money off of it. You can send me some of that money. Please? <br /><br />P.S. I am still on Twitter -<a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck.com">@ideasbychuck</a><br /><br />P.P.S. I still have another website - <a href="http://chuckmccarthy.com">ChuckMcCarthy.com</a><br /><br />P.P.P.S. I still need money.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com104tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-10737070544328859712010-12-07T12:49:00.000-08:002010-12-07T13:58:03.012-08:00Angry Birds Game Show<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6pC_N-ZcI/AAAAAAAABeI/T0YqOkKd78w/s1600/angry_birds_tv_show.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6pC_N-ZcI/AAAAAAAABeI/T0YqOkKd78w/s400/angry_birds_tv_show.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548057659761911234" /></a><br />I am addicted to Angry Birds. I don't have an iPhone. I don't have any kind of phone that I can play it on, but I bum off of other people like my neighbor Kirsten. I can't get enough of Angry Birds. I think many of you know what I am talking about. You know. You know. You KNOW! Your hands are probably shaking right now. You want to stop reading this and start playing Angry Birds, don't you? <br /><br />DON'T DO IT! Well... wait till you finish reading this. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6qXM7UAaI/AAAAAAAABeg/sGXm4pXQuRo/s1600/angry_birds.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6qXM7UAaI/AAAAAAAABeg/sGXm4pXQuRo/s320/angry_birds.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548059106550743458" /></a><br />I have heard all kinds of rumors about an Angry Birds movie, a cartoon, a video game... oh wait, it is a video game. Anyway, I have heard all these rumors, and I don't know how I feel about any of these ideas, but they got me to thinking... and you know, thinking is something I can really do. <br /><br />What did I think up? What is my new idea? <br /><br />Duh! The title of this post was kind of a spoiler. I think that the perfect, most amazing, expansion of the Angry Birds universe would be into a game show where families compete for fun and fabulous prizes designed for a specific demographic, prizes like jet skis. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6rAWc4irI/AAAAAAAABew/7r7sChPdd6g/s1600/angry_birds_show2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6rAWc4irI/AAAAAAAABew/7r7sChPdd6g/s320/angry_birds_show2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548059813482105522" /></a><br />Two families would compete, like I said, for fabulous prizes. The format would be similar to Double Dare, alternating between quiz questions and physical fun!<br /><br /><br /><br />The quiz rounds would be to win extra ammo and extra building materials, and of course to gain extra knowledge. <br /><br />After the quiz questions, families would take turns shooting weighted plush stuffed animal versions of the Angry Birds out of a giant slingshot similar to those designed for water balloons, in an attempt to crash the other family's fort filled with giant water balloons filled with slime, rigged to explode at the slightest touch. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6qnw19bVI/AAAAAAAABeo/Vb2AHoB80jk/s1600/angry_birds_show1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 197px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6qnw19bVI/AAAAAAAABeo/Vb2AHoB80jk/s320/angry_birds_show1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548059391069875538" /></a><br />The fun would come not only from the shooting, but the building. In each round, both families would be given building materials and time to build a fort to protect their balloons. <br /><br />The building family would have to stand under a giant bird. If all of their slime balloons get destroyed, the bird poops slime all over them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6ruQ-_4wI/AAAAAAAABe4/SVEthTHurvo/s1600/harrison_ford.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6ruQ-_4wI/AAAAAAAABe4/SVEthTHurvo/s320/harrison_ford.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548060602288562946" /></a><br />Sounds like fun right?! Don't you F'n want to travel to Nickelodeon Studios for a chance to be a contestant?! <br /><br />This game doesn't have to be for kids only. Adults love to build stuff too! The show could possibly be designed in such a way where the competing teams are made up of co-workers from various small businesses. Teams would compete not just for fabulous prizes, but also to help advertise their bicycle shop, coffee shop, or adult bookstore. <br /><br />People are loving these kinds of shows these days! Take this idea! Talk to the people at Rovio. Talk to the people at Nickelodeon, ABC Family, or Bravo, and make this show the cornerstone of your game show empire. Make millions of dollars... and don't forget me. Send me a little bit of money, or at least some fabulous prizes. Please. <br /><br />P.S. You can subscribe to Ideas By Chuck. Really. It is easy. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click Here</a>. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6scUZsIPI/AAAAAAAABfA/Rxha_ZAwx_g/s1600/KATY_PERRY.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TP6scUZsIPI/AAAAAAAABfA/Rxha_ZAwx_g/s320/KATY_PERRY.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548061393479803122" /></a><br />P.P.S. Several of my ideas have come to life in one way or another recently. You should read back through my old ideas. Just because they are my old ideas, doesn't mean they aren't new to the world. Your fortune could be buried here in my blog. <br /><br />P.P.P.S. I am on Twitter - <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a><br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. If you have no idea what Angry Birds is, and you are angry at me about this idea, watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNNzRyd1xz0&feature=player_embedded">this</a>.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-22084554013861524172010-10-06T02:03:00.000-07:002010-10-06T16:53:13.119-07:00Lou Ouija's Restaurant<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TKz6IwSyINI/AAAAAAAABdo/s1KVXjmN8DA/s1600/luigi_chef1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TKz6IwSyINI/AAAAAAAABdo/s1KVXjmN8DA/s400/luigi_chef1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525065871186338002" /></a>Sometimes... I feel like I can see the future. Building on my knowledge of the now, I see clearly the winding trails of possibility and fill in any gaps with my imagination.<br /><br />Others though, see the future through the eyes of ghosts and spirits. This is for them.<br /><br />People love theme restaurants. Even restaurants without blatant gimicky themes like Hooters, TGI Friday's, or Hard Rock Cafe still have themes. Sometimes the theme is as simple as the type of food. Indian, Ethiopian, or German, people go to restaurants wanting an experience. <div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TK0EDgjm5tI/AAAAAAAABdw/jAD0HQaI-yY/s1600/French_opium_den.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TK0EDgjm5tI/AAAAAAAABdw/jAD0HQaI-yY/s320/French_opium_den.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525076776178869970" /></a><br />Lou Ouija's would be a paranormal themed Mediterranean/Eastern European fusion restaurant, dimly lit and decorated like an opium den mixed with a gypsy camp and a Victorian library, curtains and tapestries, dark wood, and private booths enclosed in tents. The waiters and waitresses would be dressed like sexy gypsies. Most importantly, the tables would look like Ouija boards and customers, being guided by their server/medium, would choose what they want to eat using a Ouiji planchette or pointer. </div><br /><br /><br />The tables would either have the menu items on it or just a set of numbers that would correspond to various dishes, so that patrons would choose blindly. I know that the cartoon character I used for the graphic does not scream upscale, but I have to get your attention somehow. This would be a very upscale place.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TK0Fjid64II/AAAAAAAABd4/f1Bry6Alstc/s1600/ouija-board-tattoo--large-msg-1121952672-2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TK0Fjid64II/AAAAAAAABd4/f1Bry6Alstc/s320/ouija-board-tattoo--large-msg-1121952672-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525078425959325826" /></a><br />Over 75% of the population of the United States believes in the paranormal in one form or another. Haunted houses, haunted attractions, psychic 900 numbers, Tarot card readers, and countless numbers of TV shows and movies tap into this bottomless market year after year without falter. Plus, Ouija boards are still popular, even among men with "bacne." <br /><br />Let's talk marketing. <br /><br />Sure there will be people not so happy about an occult restaurant opening in their neighborhood, but this is the best part of this idea. With Lou Ouija's, you will be opening a restaurant that will possibly get national news coverage right off the bat when some overly zealous christian group announces a boycott of it. Sure, you deny any and all satanic connections publicly, but you circulate rumors that the head chef was born to a woman with thirteen toes, and you have a destination restaurant built overnight! Open several locations around the world, always in cities, and always near sites of tragedies... <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TK0GFat1GYI/AAAAAAAABeA/y_FyHqBEvPs/s1600/sexygypsycostume.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TK0GFat1GYI/AAAAAAAABeA/y_FyHqBEvPs/s400/sexygypsycostume.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525079007994124674" /></a><br />When you make a million dollars off this idea, please send me some money... or you might end up being haunted by my ghost. You wouldn't want that now would you? <br /><br />P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck is easier than contacting the dead. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click Here</a>. <br /><br />P.P.S. If you want to read a paranormal, erotic, mystery, thriller, comedy about Anna Nicole Smith's Ghost, <a href="http://annaintheafterlife.blogspot.com/">click here</a>. <br /><br />P.P.P.S. I am still on Twitter. <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a><br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. If you see me in your living room, it's because I am a <a href="http://www.chuckmccarthy.com/post/1156707242/look-for-me-on-the-series-premier-of-mr-sunshine">Hollywood Actor</a> now, not because I am a ghost.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com304tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-37168918393412326882010-07-28T13:32:00.000-07:002010-07-28T18:44:04.812-07:00Fresh Chuck Of Bel-Air<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCvmqIkr4I/AAAAAAAABcg/aM6Thhloydg/s1600/chuckprince.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 130px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCvmqIkr4I/AAAAAAAABcg/aM6Thhloydg/s400/chuckprince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499088223699513218" /></a><br />People love a good rags to riches story. From <span style="font-style:italic;">Little Orphan Annie</span> to <span style="font-style:italic;">Different Strokes</span>, and all the <span style="font-style:italic;">Brewster's Millions</span> in between, people love hearing about a downtrodden ragamuffins suddenly being lifted out of the gutter and put on a pedestal. <span style="font-style:italic;">Pretty Woman, King Ralph, Cinderella</span>, and the list goes on. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air</span> was a rags to riches story, and a huge hit show, and when Will Smith went back to the well with <span style="font-style:italic;">Pursuit of Happyness</span>, it was an even bigger hit. <br /><br />I feel like I am beating a dead horse, but I want to make sure we are all on the same page. You get it, right?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCyROr4wuI/AAAAAAAABdI/VWHw5gVAJww/s1600/fresh-prince.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCyROr4wuI/AAAAAAAABdI/VWHw5gVAJww/s400/fresh-prince.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499091154089067234" /></a><br />Here is the idea. <span style="font-style:italic;">Fresh Chuck Of Bel-Air</span>: a reality show about me being adopted by a super rich family and going to live with them in their mansion, being taught how to be rich etc. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I know what you are thinking, "Chuck, you are a grown ass man. You look like you are homeless. You probably have bad breath. Why would anyone want to adopt you?" <br /><br />First of all, I don't have bad breath. My oral hygiene is impeccable. Second of all, being a grown ass man has nothing to do with it. People love to see people of all ages stumble into fame and fortune. Third of all, me looking like a homeless person can only help make this show a hit. Just look at <span style="font-style:italic;">My Fair Lady</span>, and don't be so careless as to forget <span style="font-style:italic;">Down And Out In Beverly Hills</span>. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCwX5SSn9I/AAAAAAAABco/ZTeWF_oL7XQ/s1600/nolteREX2002_468x349.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCwX5SSn9I/AAAAAAAABco/ZTeWF_oL7XQ/s320/nolteREX2002_468x349.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499089069580394450" /></a><br />Still not convinced?<br /><br />Really? Why not? <br /><br />What you talkin' 'bout Willis?!<br /><br />Fine! I'll try EVEN harder to see the stars from the gutter.<br /><br /><br />Look. Almost all reality shows center around this concept already. <span style="font-style:italic;">American Idol, The Apprentice</span> (before they started hiring celebrities), <span style="font-style:italic;">Project Runway, Jersey Shore</span>, all these shows are about getting plucked out of obscurity and being placed on a pedestal and or getting punched in the face. You know what I am saying. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Fresh Chuck Of Bel-Air</span> would be <span style="font-style:italic;">Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air</span> meets <span style="font-style:italic;">Down And Out In Beverly Hills</span> meets <span style="font-style:italic;">Strangers With Candy</span>. I wasn't a teen runaway and I have never really done hard drugs, but it would be funny like that, the part about me being adopted. <br /><br />Take this show idea and run with it. Find me a rich family, and make it a big hit! Don't forget to give me some of the money you make off of me. I know I will be part of a rich family by then, but they will probably appreciate me pulling my weight none the less. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCxznmL9dI/AAAAAAAABdA/oFuTDvZ6OLc/s1600/kim-kardashian.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TFCxznmL9dI/AAAAAAAABdA/oFuTDvZ6OLc/s400/kim-kardashian.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499090645379970514" /></a><br />P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck has not, not been proven to cure blindness. Subscribe now <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">HERE</a>.<br /><br />P.S.S. Dear Kardashian Family, this is your chance to have yet another TV show. Don't pass it up! <br /><br />P.S.S.S. 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Think about it.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-39516499707080001962010-07-12T18:16:00.000-07:002010-07-12T21:38:47.188-07:00Robot Wars 2.0: LEAGUE NET<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvmg8JzSpI/AAAAAAAABcY/3OOiOmrueD0/s1600/killer-robot.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvmg8JzSpI/AAAAAAAABcY/3OOiOmrueD0/s320/killer-robot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493237624085891730" /></a>Do you remember <span style="font-style:italic;">Robot Wars</span>? Do you remember Gyromite? Do you like video games? Do you know anything about the Predator Drone? Have you read <span style="font-style:italic;">Ender's Game</span>? If you answered yes to all of these questions, you might already have an idea as to where I am going with this. If you answered no to all of these questions, you might not be interested in this idea at all. Stop reading! <br /><br />Are you still there? Fine... I'll try to recap and explain everything, so that you will see that this idea is not only brilliant and doable, but every part has been done before. What I am telling you is that this idea... this idea is kind of like putting peanut butter and chocolate together. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDviOMX5MhI/AAAAAAAABbw/eIA0uVZtSrI/s1600/Russell-Crowe-robot.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDviOMX5MhI/AAAAAAAABbw/eIA0uVZtSrI/s320/Russell-Crowe-robot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493232903975940626" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Wars_(TV_series)">Robot Wars</a></span> was created by George Lucas henchman, Marc Thorpe and basically consisted of moderately crappy remote control robots with pick axes and circular saws going at each other in an arena full of obstacles designed to make the battles more interesting. They turned the live event into a TV show. If you never saw it, imagine a crappy RC robot version of the movie <span style="font-style:italic;">Gladiator</span>. It was fairly entertaining, but the cool factor wore off pretty quickly. The fact that these robots were being made in people's garages and the basements of college science buildings was part of the appeal, but also part of the downfall. Okay it's a remote controlled shop vacuum. Big deal. Furthermore, if my memory is at all accurate, the crappiest, simplest, and most boring robots always seemed to win. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvijwcGTgI/AAAAAAAABb4/TCKs8mL7ljE/s1600/ROB.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvijwcGTgI/AAAAAAAABb4/TCKs8mL7ljE/s320/ROB.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493233274434506242" /></a>Speaking of crappy robots, <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyromite">Gyromite</a></span> was one of two crappy Nintendo games designed to be played with a crappy robot named ROB. You had to guide the crappy robot through tasks using your Nintendo controller. Like I said, the game was crappy, but the concept of controlling a robot with your video game system is key to this idea. <br /><br />Remote controlling robots has been taken to the next level with devices like the Predator Drone, unmanned, remote control aircraft that the U.S. Military has been using for several years now to spy on and take out our enemies. These drones are controlled by soldiers sitting behind desks, nice and safe back at the base, just like the kids in <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_series">Ender's Game</a></span>, a sci-fi book series about kids in the future remote controlling fighter ships to destroy an alien race. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvkYGTMVeI/AAAAAAAABcQ/U4kG6VwuJzM/s1600/sexy-marketing.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvkYGTMVeI/AAAAAAAABcQ/U4kG6VwuJzM/s200/sexy-marketing.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493235273167558114" /></a><br />Man, that was a lot of nerd to unleash on you... Are you okay? Can you go on? Should we rest? <br /><br />Did you catch any World Cup games? Me neither. I don't have cable, and I couldn't seem to get up early enough... Oh you want to keep going? Okay. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />So, here is the idea: Team up with one of the big video game system companies, like Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft to create a video game called <span style="font-style:italic;">Robot Wars 2.0: League Net<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></span> - a robot fighting game that could be played online like so many other games these days. Sony would probably be best company to team up with, because the robots in the game need to simulations of real robots. Yeah, the robots in the game would be exactly like real life robots. You see where this is going?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvjWsWNuOI/AAAAAAAABcI/t3yY_4j9UIw/s1600/mac12.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvjWsWNuOI/AAAAAAAABcI/t3yY_4j9UIw/s320/mac12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493234149509413090" /></a>I'm sure that with the backing of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vwZ5FQEUFg">Sony robotics division</a>, you can come up with some better robots than the rest of us Homer Simpsons in our garages. These robots need to be cool and customizable- different weapons, colors, decals, wheels, etc. <br /><br />Players will battle it out online every week in the virtual world with their customized robots, winning points, buying add ons, repairing damages, and having fun. At the end of the week, the players with the highest scores get a chance to battle it out live on TV (maybe <a href="http://g4tv.com/">G4 Network</a> would be a good fit), controlling real life versions of their robots, right down to the decals. This would be a full on event with sponsors and prizes, but the contestants would control their robots right from their living rooms, using their familiar video game system controllers just like in the virtual world. <br /><br />What have I just handed you? A hit video game and a hit TV show with a built in audience and out of control marketing and licensing opportunities. I didn't even say anything about possible government funding... Yeah... you heard me. Think about it... Plus, once you have this under your belt, and robotics advances just a little further, you will be perfectly positioned to bring the world the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db09hIOJsBw&feature=player_embedded"><span style="font-style:italic;">Robot Pillow Fighting League</span></a>.<br /><br />Please, please, please, when this makes you the richest person in the world, can you please remember to give me enough money to make me like the 1000th richest person in the world? Please. I promise not to park my yacht in your spot.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvi7njClAI/AAAAAAAABcA/bvX1aI3l8TE/s1600/Picture+78.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TDvi7njClAI/AAAAAAAABcA/bvX1aI3l8TE/s320/Picture+78.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493233684364563458" /></a><br />P.S. 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If you know anyone that might want to hire me, send them <a href="http://hirechuck.tumblr.com">here</a>.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-33794001997743120372010-06-28T14:01:00.000-07:002010-06-28T15:20:45.033-07:00Gulf Oil Spill Silver Lining<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkc6x_vc0I/AAAAAAAABaw/BBbGQUX754k/s1600/chocolate_bird.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkc6x_vc0I/AAAAAAAABaw/BBbGQUX754k/s400/chocolate_bird.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487949417106338626" /></a>Everything has a silver lining. The BP oil spill is no exception. Millions, if not billions of dollars are being made by PR firms, advertising agencies, and media distributors in BP's attempts to save their image. Oil companies and the US government were forced to take Kevin Costner seriously. Furthermore, though I have no data to back this up, I am sure that chocolate animal sales have gone through the roof. Now it's your turn to join the silver lining of one of the worst ecological disasters in US history, so get pumped... get oil pumped! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkdcPTgwdI/AAAAAAAABbA/lGrJGM5RPPQ/s1600/chocolate_croc.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 156px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkdcPTgwdI/AAAAAAAABbA/lGrJGM5RPPQ/s200/chocolate_croc.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487949991909573074" /></a><br />As some of you know, I'm an artist. I'm actually a pretty good artist. It's true. No really... seriously. Fine! You don't have to believe me. It is not important, because you don't have to be a great artist, a good artist, or have any artistic talent at all to make this idea work.<br /><br /><br />What's the idea? <br /><br />Collect oil from the BP oil spill, and use it to paint giant black and brown depressing paintings... oil paintings. Then you can have a show in cooperation with someone like Greenpeace or the Audobon Society and donate a portion of the sales to helping clean up the oil spill. You will have people eating out of your hands. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkd_LWRKuI/AAAAAAAABbI/O0KDZY8ChPc/s1600/IMG_6168_black_owl.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkd_LWRKuI/AAAAAAAABbI/O0KDZY8ChPc/s320/IMG_6168_black_owl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487950592142813922" /></a><br />Rich people love art that means something. Rich people love art that has a story behind it, especially a depressing story that makes them feel like they have experienced something more terrible than a chemical peel. Rich people love to feel like they are helping solve problems by drinking wine, looking fabulous, and buying things to fill up their mansions.<br /><br />The most important thing about making this idea a success and launching your art career is giving the show an important and meaningful name and naming the pieces accordingly. Lucky for you, you know me, and I have some ideas for names. <br /><br />Show titles: <br /><br />Oil Paintings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkeS8wqQSI/AAAAAAAABbQ/e_h0zgQuTjk/s1600/bp.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkeS8wqQSI/AAAAAAAABbQ/e_h0zgQuTjk/s320/bp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487950931824361762" /></a> <br />Deepwater Poison<br />Screams of the Sea <br />Oil and Water<br />Red Black & Brown<br /><br />Painting titles:<br /><br />sad sea<br />death of a bird<br />bird fish dead<br />black gold: black death <br />crying over spilled oil<br /><br />The really genius part of this whole thing is that you can probably get BP to buy a bunch of these paintings by telling them that one of their competitors such as Exxon is interested in buying several of them. <br /><br />Do this. Become a famous artist. Make tons of money and send me some. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkfQZlbr9I/AAAAAAAABbY/eSgtiqbdfrE/s1600/waterworld.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 289px; height: 289px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCkfQZlbr9I/AAAAAAAABbY/eSgtiqbdfrE/s400/waterworld.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487951987533918162" /></a><br />P.S. My mom isn't subscribed to Ideas By Chuck, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click here</a>. <br /><br />P.P.S. All of <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/chuckhistory/search/drawing">my art</a> is packed with meaning and stories, so if you are a rich person, you should buy some of it. <br /><br />P.P.P..S. Did you ever think that someone would put millions of dollars into a project involving Kevin Costner and the ocean again? Also, did you know that <span style="font-style:italic;">Water World</span> cost more money to produce than the NASA Mars Rover program.<br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. I actually liked <span style="font-style:italic;">Water World</span>. Dennis Hopper was always an amazing villain.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-28996839674381446762010-06-21T14:28:00.000-07:002010-06-24T13:53:33.381-07:00100 Hours of 100 Jacuzzis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_mUj77o8I/AAAAAAAABaA/vSxMWiyQJ4U/s1600/jacuzzi-1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_mUj77o8I/AAAAAAAABaA/vSxMWiyQJ4U/s320/jacuzzi-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485356112078939074" /></a>Maybe you are in event planning or promotion, and though you love reading my ideas, you have always thought, "None of this is for me. I plan big concerts and events. I wish with my heart of hearts that Chuck would come up with an amazing idea for an event that I could partner with several large corporate sponsors to pull off, something like Live Aid or The Annual Boy Scouts of America Jamboree." <br /><br />Today is your lucky day. You have a chance to be the person behind 100 Hours of 100 Jacuzzis: Jacuzzigeddon, the most powerful display of massaging jets of water... ever. <br /><br />Sounds good, but what the hell is it? <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_nNlWMylI/AAAAAAAABaI/QT9dtzpc9XE/s1600/hot-tub-time-machine-group1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_nNlWMylI/AAAAAAAABaI/QT9dtzpc9XE/s320/hot-tub-time-machine-group1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485357091710093906" /></a>The 100H100J would be exactly what it sounds like, a small town of 100 Jacuzzis forming streets would be constructed in an open field or possibly a giant convention center. Each Jacuzzi could be sponsored by various companies and products, and the whole event would be sponsored and presented by Jacuzzi, <a href="http://www.fritolay.com/tostitos/index.html">Tostitos</a>, and <a href="http://cervezatecate.com/">Tecate</a> (JTT but not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Taylor_Thomas">Jonathan Taylor Thomas</a>). At the center of the Jacuzzi town would be a Jacuzzi filled with cheese dip for dipping Tostitos. <br /><br />Bands would play, people would mingle, people would relax, people would turn to prunes, and canoodle in and out of the warm massaging jets of the Jacuzzis. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_pxZgdIMI/AAAAAAAABaQ/-6Rn-25X7Aw/s1600/jacuzzi-model-360.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_pxZgdIMI/AAAAAAAABaQ/-6Rn-25X7Aw/s200/jacuzzi-model-360.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485359906030428354" /></a>I know you are thinking about that Jacuzzi filled with cheese dip. You want to get in it don't you? You want to get in the cheese dip Jacuzzi don't you? Well, eight lucky people would be chosen to spend the last hour of the event basking in the melted cheesiness of the cheese Jacuzzi.<br /><br /><br />What's that you say? This is going to take some time to plan? <br /><br />Well, you have until 2015, the 100th anniversary of the <a href="http://www.jacuzzi.com/">Jacuzzi</a> to put this all together. Also, <span style="font-style:italic;">Hot Tub Time Machine 3: Prehistoric Man Soup</span> will probably be coming out around that time. Tell me they wouldn't want to get on board this Jacuzzi love boat. Go ahead tell me. TELL ME THAT! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_r12jKvWI/AAAAAAAABaY/b4S9fJUW1Ek/s1600/Manny-Pacquiao-Los-Angeles-Media-Day-Workout.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TB_r12jKvWI/AAAAAAAABaY/b4S9fJUW1Ek/s320/Manny-Pacquiao-Los-Angeles-Media-Day-Workout.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485362181569166690" /></a>That's what I thought... <br /><br />Don't let this chance to make event history. Be the person to put together the 100H/100J. Be the man, and if you make more than a million dollars off of this event through advertising sales, merchandising, and licensing, please send me some of that money. <br /><br />P.S. If you <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">subscribe</a> to Ideas By Chuck, you will get to read Ideas By Chuck for free!<br /><br />P.P.S. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be me? <a href="http://www.chuckmccarthy.com/post/677193791/chuckmask">This can help you</a>. <br /><br />P.P.P.S. I am on Twitter... yep. <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a><br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. If you help me become a famous Hollywood actor, I will be able to help you promote this event. I don't really know what you can do to help me with this. Just sayin...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCPFrhPjZEI/AAAAAAAABao/-p_I4J0qQXo/s1600/100h100j.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 182px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/TCPFrhPjZEI/AAAAAAAABao/-p_I4J0qQXo/s400/100h100j.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486446122516046914" /></a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-64481051779489396292010-05-03T18:42:00.000-07:002010-05-04T21:17:15.217-07:00Micro Spokespeople<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-RTat63cI/AAAAAAAABZg/mWXfAVmrJIk/s1600/Picture+43.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-RTat63cI/AAAAAAAABZg/mWXfAVmrJIk/s320/Picture+43.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467248235426536898" /></a><br />A few weeks back, I ran a Facebook ad for myself, targeting only people who identified themselves with Tumblr, people that I might know already, inviting them to check out my <a href="http://chuckmccarthy.com">Tumblr blog</a>. Really, I was just testing to see how effective these ads are. I wanted to know if people completely ignore the ads on Facebook and or if they would respond to a familiar face. <br /><br />Not only did I get more than a few click-throughs, I was also contacted by a number of people directly simply interested in how or why my face was showing up on their sidebar. A couple of the people who contacted me were online journalists thinking there might be some bigger reason behind the ads, like a book deal or a TV show. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-SHKnwshI/AAAAAAAABZo/kKbwqkLndeU/s1600/Picture+44.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-SHKnwshI/AAAAAAAABZo/kKbwqkLndeU/s320/Picture+44.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467249124458934802" /></a><br />This test cemented my belief in this concept, the concept of Micro Spokespeople, and no, I am not talking about the Micro Machines guy. Although, his super swift speech on how many marvelous Micro Machines there are, may never leave my head or heart. <br /><br />Mirco Spokespeople would be fans of your product contacted and contracted to be used in Facebook and other similar pay per click ads on social networking sites to be targeted specifically at their possible IRL (In Real Life) friends and connections they might have through work, hobbies, and or location. <br /><br />Spokespeople are chosen because they can come across as the guy's guy or the girl's girl or the old people's old person (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILIvPzyK_8I">see Wilford Brimley</a>). Great spokesmen and women have broad appeal and often either come from greater things, or go on to greater things. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-TqsGSTBI/AAAAAAAABZw/lgcCcUwA0Nc/s1600/bad_banner_ad.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-TqsGSTBI/AAAAAAAABZw/lgcCcUwA0Nc/s320/bad_banner_ad.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467250834252385298" /></a><br />The problem with spokespeople these days is that there are just too many of them. There are just too many celebrities, period. <br /><br />Marketing and advertising through online social networking has become so important because word of mouth has always been the most effective and most sought after form of advertising, because other online modes of messaging have proven to be totally unreliable, totally ineffective, or totally immeasurable. You like the lively alliteration in that sleek sentence? <br /><br /><br /><br />Creating Micro Spokespeople would combine word of mouth with the celebrity spokesperson by turning kinda guy's guys and sorta girl's girls into a celebrities amongst their friends. Enticing their friends to ask how or why they are popping up on the sidebar, and if the new Low Fat Honey Italian Ranch from Hidden Valley is just as tasty as the original. Think of these Micro Spokespeople as ball-bearings instead of the monster truck tires of celebrity spokespeople. Ball-bearings are cheaper, more versatile, and nine times out of ten, more important. <br /><br />I don't feel like this is the most brilliant idea I have ever had, but I don't see anyone doing it. I believe wholeheartedly that this could really be a game changer. So, if you or your advertising agency uses this concept to make millions of dollars, can you send me some, or maybe just give me a <a href="http://hirechuck.tumblr.com">job</a>. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-UqqtkQpI/AAAAAAAABZ4/9vtT1p5lS00/s1600/chuck-sexy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9-UqqtkQpI/AAAAAAAABZ4/9vtT1p5lS00/s320/chuck-sexy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467251933391897234" /></a><br />P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck might be the smartest and sexiest thing you do today. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click here</a>.<br /><br />P.P.S. I am looking for a job as either a copywriter, social media manager, or celebrity image consultant. Let me know if you hear of anything. You can contact me via Twitter - <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a><br /><br />P.P.P.S. I think I have said this before, but I actually know what box the term, "Think outside the box," is referring to. <br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. <a href="http://hirechuck.tumblr.com">Hiring me might be the best idea you have ever had.</a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-75121665354264322262010-04-25T13:11:00.000-07:002010-04-25T15:47:06.167-07:00The Deuce<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S70LmyDSI/AAAAAAAABY4/gi8pWza7G4A/s1600/The-Fat-women-ride.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S70LmyDSI/AAAAAAAABY4/gi8pWza7G4A/s400/The-Fat-women-ride.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464198753050299682" /></a><br />The other night, I went to a gallery opening. It was this gallery's two year anniversary show. Unfortunately for the world, I was not one of the featured artists. I doubt the art world will recognize my deep and profound artistic talent until after I am dead, but the lack of respect given to me for my art is not the point of this. <br /><br />At the gallery opening, I met a guy named Chris, and together we created the next best worst reality show you have ever heard of... <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Deuce</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br />I don't know anything about Chris, and I didn't get any of his contact info, so if you use this idea to make millions of dollars, you might have to hire a detective to give him his cut of whatever you might give me for making you rich and famous. <br /><br />What is <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Deuce</span>? <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S8KCwmFgI/AAAAAAAABZA/11XToXn2Nsw/s1600/Reallife1_280_380443a.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S8KCwmFgI/AAAAAAAABZA/11XToXn2Nsw/s320/Reallife1_280_380443a.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464199128632661506" /></a>The Deuce is a reality show similar to The Bachelor or Bachelorette, but with a twist- of course! <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Deuce</span> is about a millionaire bachelor trying to find love, but he needs more... more love than the average man. This millionaire bachelor is a chubby chaser- he loves BBW (Big Beautiful Women). He doesn't want to marry a woman under 200lbs - hence: <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Deuce</span>. <br /><br />The show begins with 30 women arriving at the bachelor's mansion. None of the contestants are 200lbs. Through the course of the show, they must gain weight to win his love. Unfortunately, there is not quite enough food in the mansion to go around, so the women must compete and fight for every morsel. <br /><br />Halfway through the show there is a weigh-in. Any of the women that are not at least 200lbs by this point, are eliminated. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S9eJLw9GI/AAAAAAAABZI/JwnKDEJQ8qc/s1600/donuts.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 146px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S9eJLw9GI/AAAAAAAABZI/JwnKDEJQ8qc/s200/donuts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464200573466244194" /></a><br />The rest of the show operates basically like the bachelor. They go off to exotic locations and eat tons of exotic foods. He meets the families, obviously "weighing" his options based on the size of each woman's parents. There would be one or two differences, such as the fact that the CCB (Chubby Chasing Bachelor) hands out jelly donuts instead of roses to the Delta Burkes he wants to stay. <br /><br />Not convinced that this would be a hit? <br /><br />Imagine the drama! Imagine how much more dramatic each elimination would be. These women have put on 50-60lbs to be with this man. Not only are they being rejected, being sent home, but now they have added "plus" to their size. DRAMA! <br /><br />Still? You still don't get it? <br /><br />Think of the tie-ins and spinoffs possible! If NBC picked this show up, they could do a season of The Biggest Loser starring the women that were rejected by the CCB. The Biggest Loser: Biggest Losers Edition. Or all the losers could automatically become part of an online campaign for Weight Watchers, documenting their return to fitness. This show could draw on a whole host of sponsors that have been excluded from the genre, such as Lerner's and Krispy Kreme. <br /><br />Okay... Are you serious? You still don't see this being a mega hit? For REALZ? <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S99Szyl7I/AAAAAAAABZQ/EcQswJXZvQM/s1600/2ns3v3o.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S99Szyl7I/AAAAAAAABZQ/EcQswJXZvQM/s320/2ns3v3o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464201108625987506" /></a><br />How angry do you think all the feminist and health forward groups would be? There will be a firestorm of anger and criticism ignited by the announcement of the addition of this show to your Wednesday night lineup. Soooo much free publicity! Soooo much! Remember how mad people got about Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire? Remember how upset all the Magicians got when their secrets were revealed? Remember? Those were just drops in the bucket! This is a John Candy Cannon Ball! <br /><br /><br />This is a huge hit waiting to happen, HUGE! Please make it happen, and when it is a mega hit, send me some money. And look... if you are really worried about backlash, you can label the show as being, "from the twisted mind of Chuck McCarthy," and blame it all on me... and Chris, if you can find him. Chris came up with the name. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Deuce</span>!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S-XeO9YHI/AAAAAAAABZY/SUOdmxeRYuQ/s1600/dooce_deuce.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S9S-XeO9YHI/AAAAAAAABZY/SUOdmxeRYuQ/s320/dooce_deuce.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464201558369329266" /></a><br />P.S. Did you subscribe? Why not? Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck is one of the easiest things you can do to make your life awesome! <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">DO IT!</a><br /><br />P.P.S. Have you checked out <a href="http://chuckmccarthy.com">ChuckMcCarthy.com</a>?<br /><br />P.P.P.S. I truly understand that this is a step backward for humanity, but if you ever played much football (soccer), you know that sometimes you have to go backward before you can go forward. <br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. I am on Twitter - <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck"> @ideasbychuck</a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-2106699223943976132010-02-09T20:31:00.000-08:002010-02-09T21:34:03.081-08:00Dyslexia Through The Looking Glass<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S3JCv_U-45I/AAAAAAAABYY/pms-cUtOmIY/s1600-h/AG_Int_20090109_907831_GaborMate_320x240_0k.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S3JCv_U-45I/AAAAAAAABYY/pms-cUtOmIY/s320/AG_Int_20090109_907831_GaborMate_320x240_0k.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436481092410336146" /></a>I was listening to a guy called Dr. Gabor Maté on this hippy liberal radio/tv show called <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/addiction">Democracy Now</a>. He was mainly discussing the correlation between people having been abused as children and drug addiction, but he also discussed several other disorders such as ADD that he believes also stem from trauma in early childhood development, and not genetics.<br /><br />The more I listened to him, the more I believed that a little theory, a little hypothesis of my own that I have been turning over in my head for a while, may have more validity than I ever imagined.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S3JC8LoFfNI/AAAAAAAABYg/IyhvPanzIJ0/s1600-h/256940968_tp.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S3JC8LoFfNI/AAAAAAAABYg/IyhvPanzIJ0/s320/256940968_tp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436481301870116050" /></a><br />I have been contemplating the idea that mirrors are the cause of dyslexia, that those of us who were exposed more to mirrors as babies and young children are more likely to have signs and symptoms of dyslexia. <br /><br /><br />Mirror + Baby = Dyslexia <br /><br /><br />A couple of things point me in this direction. One, most dyslexic people are of <a href="http://www.chiff.com/a/EK12903Dyslexia.htm">average or above average intelligence</a>. This intelligence, this ability to learn, could very well be the thing causing the problem. A sponge will soak up gasoline just as well as it will soak up water, but most rocks won't soak up either. Does that make any sense? Two, the very nature of the disorder along with an increase in the number of people showing symptoms taking into account the increase in the number of mirrors per capita in the last 100 years. <br /><br />Of course, I am me, and I don't have any kind of psychology, physiology, or even a pimpology degree. I am not any kind of doctor, and without any kind of credentials, I am not very likely to land any kind of serious grant money to study this hypothesis. Moreover, even if I did conduct some sort of airtight scientific study, everyone would probably ignore it... I don't even wear glasses, and the mirror industry probably has some pretty strong lobbying power in Washington. <br /><br />If you are studying these kinds of things, and or you are Dr. Gabor Maté, I really think you should pursue this hypothesis. Of course, I would like some of the credit, and maybe some money if you win the Nobel Prize or a MacArthur Genius Grant or something. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S3JExdAgxrI/AAAAAAAABYw/Gc0SKeq05bA/s1600-h/2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S3JExdAgxrI/AAAAAAAABYw/Gc0SKeq05bA/s400/2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436483316580665010" /></a>P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck does not cause any kind of major neurological disorder... I don't think. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Subscribe Here</a>.<br /><br />P.P.S. I used to show more signs of dyslexia when I was better looking and looked at myself in the mirror all day long, so if you are dyslexic, stop looking at yourself in the mirror, and your dyslexia will probably go away. That's right girl! Turn your back on that mirror!<br /><br />P.P.P.S. Have you checked out <a href="http://chuckmccarthy.com">ChuckMcCarthy.com</a> or started following my Twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a>? <br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. I think Democracy Now should change their name to Democrazy Now. It's a little catchier.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-32443138605966894962010-01-31T14:31:00.000-08:002010-01-31T16:27:04.189-08:00Super Supers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2YYBHAhU9I/AAAAAAAABXw/TaAlc6jbMEM/s1600-h/Picture+8.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2YYBHAhU9I/AAAAAAAABXw/TaAlc6jbMEM/s320/Picture+8.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433056407809250258" /></a>Over the last couple of months, I have worked on a few "viral video" campaigns. I acted in, produced, and directed (as much as one can direct something like this) a project to promote <a href="http://adasport.com">ADASport.com</a> that involved a bunch of people going into an Apple store and playing with stuffed animals. If you want to check it out go <a href="http://youtube.com/adasportnetwork">here</a>. I also acted in and worked in the production of a video featuring comedian/pundit Mo Rocca, promoting a global temporary housing company. You can see that one <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/OakwoodTempHousing">here</a>. Yeah, I made the thumbnail. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2YY2I7gSUI/AAAAAAAABX4/pEH3Us0nZMA/s1600-h/Picture+9.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 172px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2YY2I7gSUI/AAAAAAAABX4/pEH3Us0nZMA/s200/Picture+9.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433057318858148162" /></a>I have also been working on developing a bunch of branded content concepts. Branded content is basically a return to the single sponsor TV show, like the good old days when Tide and other detergents sponsored "soap operas." This is the inevitable evolution of advertising in conjunction with online video content. As it becomes harder and harder for a video to "go viral" it is more and more important to build fan bases. One-off "viral videos" still have a place in the world, but branded content is where any major advertising investments should be made. <br /><br />Wow. Boring! And don't think that I don't know what you are thinking. You are thinking that it seems like I have been way to productive for someone without the time or energy to do anything, but I never said that I didn't have the time, energy, or passion to do anything, just to make these ideas reality. Checkity check yourself! <br /><br />What is Super Supers? <br /><br />I started thinking about Super Supers right after I did the video for the global temporary housing company, and it is designed as branded content for either a global temporary housing company, or a hotel chain. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2YcbTO8X8I/AAAAAAAABYI/TDlQL6_xcME/s1600-h/smoking-hot-chicks.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2YcbTO8X8I/AAAAAAAABYI/TDlQL6_xcME/s320/smoking-hot-chicks.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433061255814078402" /></a>The basic concept is that a couple, <a href="http://www.boymeetsblogger.com/">some handsome youngsters</a>, or a couple of hot chicks, travel around from apartment complex to apartment complex, or hotel to hotel, and check up on them. Yeah, like building supers. Get it? <br /><br />It's basically a travel show, which people love (they do have their own channel), but a travel show that highlights the sponsor's locations and services. Did you know that the Millennium Hilton, Bangkok boasts sweeping city views (apparently also a perpetual puddle-see below)? Did you know that the Ritz Carlton, Berlin is an unforgettable 5-star hotel just steps from Potsdamer Platz. I wish I knew what Potsdamer Platz was, don't you? Think about it. <br /><br />What's that? You think this idea needs a little twist?<br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2Ydr33NFtI/AAAAAAAABYQ/OiF8Ul-TJwI/s1600-h/BKKHITW_Millennium_Hilton_Bangkok_home_right.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 183px; height: 215px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2Ydr33NFtI/AAAAAAAABYQ/OiF8Ul-TJwI/s320/BKKHITW_Millennium_Hilton_Bangkok_home_right.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433062640036157138" /></a>Here is the twist. At every location visited, the hosts place a sticker with a special code on it in a secret place, someplace that no one would ever look without having seen the show (someone finding it without having seen the show won't know its importance anyway). The code will be redeemable online for sweet prizes, real prizes, not like a key chain or some 10% off coupon. This will encourage people who travel a lot for business to watch every episode and pressure the person who books their travel arrangements to book them rooms at the sponsor's hotels. <br /><br />I know you can sell this to someone, so go make a pilot, and remember that even though I now have a real job (<a href="http://thebrandxgroup.com">Brand X Group</a>), I could still use some of that money, so please send me some.<br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2Ya7XVDS0I/AAAAAAAABYA/8Rdg-FlBFMo/s1600-h/2010-1-lohan_tab.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/S2Ya7XVDS0I/AAAAAAAABYA/8Rdg-FlBFMo/s320/2010-1-lohan_tab.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433059607645997890" /></a>P.S. There is still time to subscribe to Ideas By Chuck. It's quick and easy. Click <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">here</a>. <br /><br />P.P.S. If you were scared to hire me to think for you before, back when I was a lone gun, but now you are thinking you would like to hire me, contact me at <a href="http://thebrandxgroup.com">TheBrandXGroup.com</a><br /><br />P.P.P.S. Have you bee keeping up with me on <a href="http://chuckmccarthy.com">ChuckMcCarthy.com</a>? Why not? <br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. I did a guest writing stint on <a href="http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Blog/Suck-My-Blog/The-Apple-Tablet-Will-Probably-Make-Celebrities-More-Annoying">LiquidGeneration.com</a> for the last couple of weeks.<br /><br />P.P.P.P.P.S. I am still on Twitter. <a href=http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-21177372831958201312009-12-12T14:29:00.000-08:002010-01-04T21:40:17.706-08:00Texting Implants<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWBl4BW-UI/AAAAAAAABXI/ykenUCU1J3Y/s1600-h/shaq_geni.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWBl4BW-UI/AAAAAAAABXI/ykenUCU1J3Y/s320/shaq_geni.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414876614676117826" /></a>I have been on <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">Twitter</a> for a while now, and the most amazing thing to me about <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">Twitter</a> is the fact that <a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ">Shaq</a> tweets. This does not amaze me because he is a pro athlete, or because he never struck me as someone that had all that much to say, but because he tweets from his phone. If I have trouble texting and twittering on my phone with my little fingers, I can't imagine what it is like for him with his giant thumbs. You can't be a giant without giant thumbs. Trust me on this one. I looked it up.<br /><br />Maybe he has an assistant to whom he dictates his tweets. Maybe he has some sort of special <a href="http://www.jitterbug.com/phones/"> Jitterbug/Sidekick</a> hybrid. Maybe he pays his cousin Larry to tweet for him. Who knows?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWC0_LxM_I/AAAAAAAABXQ/N3ZPlqkj-HY/s1600-h/SIDESHAQ.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 260px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWC0_LxM_I/AAAAAAAABXQ/N3ZPlqkj-HY/s320/SIDESHAQ.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414877973808493554" /></a><br />I have tried to ask him how he does it, but he has never responded, which makes his twittering even more suspect, but that is really beside the point.<br /><br />All I know is that unless he has a little Orlando Magic left or Kazaam was actually a documentary, Shaq is not texting without making more than a few errant key strikes.<br /><br />The main point is that <a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ">Shaq</a> got me thinking about how to make texting etc. easier for people with big, meaty thumbs like me... me and <a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ">Shaq</a>.<br /><br />What did I come up with? What is my idea?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWDWndTFBI/AAAAAAAABXY/YUn95J4aaQE/s1600-h/TextThumbImplant.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWDWndTFBI/AAAAAAAABXY/YUn95J4aaQE/s320/TextThumbImplant.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414878551555118098" /></a>Teflon implants that go under the skin of the thumb to create a raised bump, allowing for easier texting with little or no inconvenience and or maintenance. <br /><br />Is this taking texting too far? Is this turning twittering into torture?<br /><br />Some of you are probably asking these questions, and some of you probably think that this is crazy talk. Maybe you don't believe that anyone would ever want to undergo a surgical procedure to enhance their texting skills. I would like to feel the same way, I really would, but have you seen the surgical procedures that people are getting for no apparent reason, for no practical benefit?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWFXRjXG0I/AAAAAAAABXg/Og0V6ro7MVQ/s1600-h/horn+implants.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 180px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWFXRjXG0I/AAAAAAAABXg/Og0V6ro7MVQ/s200/horn+implants.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414880761878092610" /></a><br />People are getting everything from calf implants to horns. Horns. If there is someone out there making money on horn implants, then I think you can easily turn this idea into cold hard cash. Of course, the devil is in the details (don't know if that was a pun or just cheese factor). Perfecting the process and making it affordable is the key. <br /><br /><br />There is a market for this. Make it happen. Make lots of money, and really, seriously, please don't forget to think about sending me some.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWG69eXarI/AAAAAAAABXo/uqUAIb0JqFo/s1600-h/big+breast+implant+image.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SyWG69eXarI/AAAAAAAABXo/uqUAIb0JqFo/s320/big+breast+implant+image.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414882474475350706" /></a><br />P.S. Virtually all the words and phrases on the SideShaq phone were taken from his <a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ">Twitter</a>. <br /><br />P.P.S. Not so very long ago, I got to hang out with someone much smarter than me, Mo Rocca. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FXbzhWqIpU">Here is proof.</a><br /><br />P.P.P.S. I know I just said that people are getting implants for no reason. I would like to say that I do support some types of implants, even if they serve no practical purpose.<br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. You know how you can find out about all my new ideas with little or no inconvenience? Yeah, subscribe. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click here to subscribe.</a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-53387656032554656242009-10-25T22:30:00.000-07:002009-10-26T14:15:53.942-07:00Toilet Terraforming<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYJwTMoq4I/AAAAAAAABWI/74VZCZkG0rM/s1600-h/drunk020202.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 232px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYJwTMoq4I/AAAAAAAABWI/74VZCZkG0rM/s320/drunk020202.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397011928841759618" /></a>Lately, I've been working on tons of different projects, but every day I take time out to think, to ponder, to touch my oversoul... to think and reflect in my own way. <br /><br />Where do I take this time? Do I go to the woods, to nature, as suggested by the traditional Transcendentalists? <br /><br /><br />No. I do my pondering on a much smaller pond than Thoreau's Walden. I do most of my really deep thinking in the same place and position as most of you... on the toilet. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYKNr1k6cI/AAAAAAAABWQ/FebkUlyeuWE/s1600-h/a144_toilet.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYKNr1k6cI/AAAAAAAABWQ/FebkUlyeuWE/s320/a144_toilet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397012433672137154" /></a><br />Recently, I was philosophizing, and the oversoul reached out and touched me... Not like that! No... but it did touch me... deep down, and this idea came to me, this idea that has to be my single most viable and marketable idea to date. It combines two things that people love: gardening and pooping. Moreover, this idea promises to enrich and simplify people's lives with minimal effort. Everything I just said can be summed up with one symbol: $<br /><br />What is this brilliant idea? <br /><br /><br />A planter that replaces the lid on the back of your toilet, allowing you to grow flowers or herbs in your bathroom, allowing you to get in touch with nature while you are getting in touch with your crossword puzzle, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, and your deep philosophical ponderings. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYLObxjmBI/AAAAAAAABWY/2s4RxR9vX0Q/s1600-h/toiletplanter.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 286px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYLObxjmBI/AAAAAAAABWY/2s4RxR9vX0Q/s320/toiletplanter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397013546051803154" /></a><br />I know. I know. You have no gardening skills at all. You have killed everything from ficus to ferns, from daisies to daffodils. You either overwater or forget to water your plants. Here in lies the beauty of this idea, you never have to water these plants! A wick hanging down into the toilet reservoir soaks up just the right amount of water to keep your bathroom garden perfectly watered. <br /><br /><br />Think about it. You could have a little herb garden or wonderful smelling flowers growing in your bathroom, acting as living potpourri. Try telling me people don't like potpourri. Go ahead try. You can't! People don't just like potpourri, they love the word, "potpourri." Next time you go to a party, drop the word, "potpourri," and see what happens. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYMmHIe7TI/AAAAAAAABWg/DFaYdcMtvd4/s1600-h/obama_chia.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SuYMmHIe7TI/AAAAAAAABWg/DFaYdcMtvd4/s320/obama_chia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397015052339309874" /></a><br />Are you a naysayer? Do you think this idea won't sell? Try telling that to the guys who invented the Chia Pet. They will laugh in your face, take this idea, and make another couple of million dollars, because the price points are perfect and this idea has that kitschy quirky "it factor." <br /><br />In my research for this, I came across a self contained herb garden selling for $180.00. If there are people out there dropping that kind of cash on herbs that you can't smoke, then I know you can move at least a million units of the Toilet Gardener® for $19.95 at Walgreens or $59.99 at Brookstone.<br /><br />Don't let the Chia Pet guys laugh in your face. Take this idea and make millions of dollars with it... and send me some of that money, or at least a complimentary Toilet Gardener®, so I can rename my toilet, Chuck's Pond. <br /><br />P.S. 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If you are the head of a major studio or a not so major studio looking for some new vampire blood, let me know. <br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. As you can see, I did find one reference to a retro toilet designed to hold a plant, but I am sure that the self watering mechanism was not a part of their design, and that is the genius part of this idea.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-73389674414486204002009-10-06T16:08:00.001-07:002009-10-06T22:03:01.337-07:00Megan Fox Saves The Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SswVgoZUMII/AAAAAAAABVY/O5nanoHtJig/s1600-h/megan_fox_money.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SswVgoZUMII/AAAAAAAABVY/O5nanoHtJig/s320/megan_fox_money.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389706504399237250" /></a>This is another one of my ideas that is a little less about personal gain, and a little more about furthering mankind's journey towards the goals of humanism and building a better, stronger society. I want to make the world a better place, and I know many of you feel the same way. Think of me as an NPR underwriter with no money. <br /><br />But, enough about me being a bankrupt philanthropist. I have figured out a way that California can solve it's current budget crisis, saving thousands of jobs, ensuring continued funding for social programs, and maybe helping some little kids learn how to read, because even though it is possible to teach yourself how to read, it helps to have a teacher.<br /><br />Now, I know many of you are smart enough not to live in California. That's okay. I am sure that California isn't the only state with budget problems, and if your state has a lottery, you can try to make this happen there too. I am just going to use California for this post because I live here, and so does Megan Fox... not together... yet...<br /><br />Here is the idea: Lotto scratch tickets featuring semi-tasteful nude photos of Megan Fox. Semi-tasteful, because everything Megan Fox does is semi-distasteful, and we love it. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SswV_aWiWhI/AAAAAAAABVg/2MBiJx_OvAk/s1600-h/megan_fox_scratch_loto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SswV_aWiWhI/AAAAAAAABVg/2MBiJx_OvAk/s320/megan_fox_scratch_loto.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389707033205430802" /></a>You would scratch to reveal her naked body. There would be several different photos. The photos could be printed as silver holograms, so people couldn't scan or photograph them easily. Only 1 in 5 would actually show her naked body. All the others would either be winners, or you would find her in a sexy lingerie. This would encourage people to buy multiple tickets.<br /><br />Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be Megan Fox, but she is the sexy chick of the moment, and I feel like, for a couple of hundred thousand dollars, she would be interested in helping little kids learn to read. After all, if they can't read, they can't read her amazing quotes. Plus, this might help her make some friends. <br /><br />"I have no friends and I never leave my house." - Megan Fox, <span style="font-style:italic;">Times of London, June 2009</span><br /><br />Think about it. You have to be 18 to buy lotto tickets and pornography, so you wouldn't have to send out any special memos to 7-11 workers. These tickets would have a certain amount of collectibility. People who wouldn't normally buy lotto tickets would buy these for the novelty etc. California has already tried to broaden their lotto market by teaming up with the entertainment industry, selling scratch tickets featuring bands like the <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/09/02/goo-goo-dolls-seal-coming-to-california-lotto-tickets/">Seal and the Goo Goo Dolls</a> (yeah really) and movies like Mad Money. I know that I am not just speaking for myself, when I say that I would choose a naked Megan Fox over a turtlenecked Diane Keaton any day.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sswcx89KXKI/AAAAAAAABVw/ZFYqBLgS1ZM/s1600-h/pastedGraphic2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sswcx89KXKI/AAAAAAAABVw/ZFYqBLgS1ZM/s400/pastedGraphic2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389714498557467810" /></a>Even better than expanding the market here in California, there would be a secondary market for already scratched tickets on the internet, selling to Megan Fox fans all over the world, so this would bring money into California, not just act as a voluntary tax. The collectibility factor might even lead to tickets being purchased and never being scratched. <br /><br />Now, I know some people are going to have a problem with this, but those are the same people who already have a problem with the lottery. Yeah, yeah, gambling is a sin. Nudity is a sin... Oh wait... Is it? Really? Where does it say that in the Bible? <br /><br />Make this happen and you will make a lot of people happy... a lot. Make it happen! Do it! <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SswdRDxGDmI/AAAAAAAABV4/BTNvmK6KONs/s1600-h/chuckmodel.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SswdRDxGDmI/AAAAAAAABV4/BTNvmK6KONs/s320/chuckmodel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389715032961846882" /></a><br />P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck makes a lot of financial sense. It is free. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click Here</a>.<br /><br />P.P.S. I am on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a><br /><br />P.P.P.S. Megan Fox, I am single, so if you ever decide you want to drop the B.A.G., look me up. <br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. Sometimes, people forget to look at all my past great ideas. There could be an idea just waiting for you!<br /><br />P.P.P.P.P.S. If Megan Fox won't do it, I am available.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-87341821011777687682009-09-21T17:28:00.000-07:002009-10-05T23:36:53.010-07:00Lego Clothing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Srgo39XOkVI/AAAAAAAABUU/vw2JpRU1lpY/s1600-h/zipperdress.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Srgo39XOkVI/AAAAAAAABUU/vw2JpRU1lpY/s320/zipperdress.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384098296351330642" /></a>I have been away for a while. Did you think that I had left the internet forever in an attempt to save the economy? This couldn't be further from the truth. Believe it or not, I have actually been sucked deeper into the internet. Besides, I wasn't saving the economy with my spending before I became one with my computer. <br /><br />That said, I have a new and exciting idea that could make you super rich and maybe even... famous. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SrgpDL37JmI/AAAAAAAABUc/8M8uyaWNLgc/s1600-h/fisher9.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SrgpDL37JmI/AAAAAAAABUc/8M8uyaWNLgc/s320/fisher9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384098489225127522" /></a><br />Have you ever said to yourself, "Self, I wish that this dress I am wearing was a little tighter, or looser... Oh! I don't know! I just wish it was a little different. I mean, I like this dress, but..."? <br /><br />I know you have, because you were talking about a dress, and since you were talking about a dress, you are probably a woman, a transexual, or a cross dresser, three types of people known for their inability to accept things for what they are. Well, what if you had a dress that you could easily change? Would that make you happy? I know... Yeah.. Okay, lets just imagine that you can be happy. Yeah? Now? Okay.<br /><br />Lego Clothing would be that dress. <br /><br />Lego Clothing would be clothing easily assembled from small, connectable and interchangeable pieces, allowing people to easily design, redesign, and alter their own clothing just like playing with Legos. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SrgpTu8CQMI/AAAAAAAABUk/yeX80KiouT4/s1600-h/modular-shoes.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SrgpTu8CQMI/AAAAAAAABUk/yeX80KiouT4/s200/modular-shoes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384098773515518146" /></a><br />There have been many attempts at modular clothing, from the ever cheesy Abercrombie + Fitch zip off pant leg cargo pants/shorts, to the more fashion and gimp forward 120 zipper dress, but all of the examples I have found fall short of the versatility and simplicity of Legos. You can do better. I am not saying this is going to be super easy, but I am confident you can do it, even if you have to team up with Lego to get it done. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Srgp82F3lkI/AAAAAAAABUs/9vl6-CJBZuM/s1600-h/puerto_rican_racer.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Srgp82F3lkI/AAAAAAAABUs/9vl6-CJBZuM/s320/puerto_rican_racer.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384099479810446914" /></a><br />The clothing would come in kits just like Legos, with instructions, and the person assembling them can follow the directions to a tee or not... kind of like Ikea furniture, but not following the directions won't mean your bed falling apart while you are having sex with a Puerto Rican race car driver or a girl who insists on chanting, "Oh You're a big boy just like CHASE! JUST LIKE CHASE! JUST LIKE CHASE!" the entire time. <br /><br />You might have some reservations. Here are some envisioned FAQs along with answers. <br /><br />Q: How will someone wash and dry all these little pieces without them getting lost?<br />A: Simple. In a specially designed washing bag. <br /><br />Q: What if I am retarded and or have no hands, and I can't assemble my own clothing, but I still want to buy this product? <br />A: "Lego tailor shops" will no doubt spring up, employing 10 year old boys to assemble and alter this clothing. <br /><br />Q: I don't like anything that involves imagination, innovation, or having my own unique style, is this product for me? <br />A: No. <br /><br />Many people in the world are on a constant quest for their own unique style, and I can't throw a rock without hitting a girl that who would like to be on Project Runway. Why do you think Lifetime just payed $150 million for the rights to it? <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Srgq5WA4SFI/AAAAAAAABU0/brdWSWlyWs8/s1600-h/chuckmodel.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 339px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Srgq5WA4SFI/AAAAAAAABU0/brdWSWlyWs8/s400/chuckmodel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384100519171606610" /></a><br />Make this happen, and you will not only make money, you will make fashion history! But don't forget to think about tossing me some of those billions of dollars. I will even model for you. <br /><br />P.S. It is so hot right now to subscribe to Ideas By Chuck. Do it now! <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click here</a>.<br /><br />P.P.S. 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Yes, I am still on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a>.g7sh4kv9mdCharles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-36248540003415903672009-08-31T13:30:00.000-07:002009-08-31T18:22:40.321-07:00The Internet Is Killing The Economy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SpxyLjPTAaI/AAAAAAAABSY/wMh9icsE4j0/s1600-h/economic_commandments.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SpxyLjPTAaI/AAAAAAAABSY/wMh9icsE4j0/s320/economic_commandments.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376297597937058210" /></a><br />I think a lot. I have been thinking about a lot of things. I have probably been thinking about too many things, because there are a lot of things going on in my life right now. <br /><br />One major thing that I have been thinking about, that I think we have all been thinking about is the economy.<br /><br /><br /><br />The country seems to be slowly climbing back out of this "downturn" in the economy, but sales are slow across the board. People just aren't buying. But, wouldn't you know it, have an explanation beyond the obvious, and more importantly, a solution. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Spx1gcmvO-I/AAAAAAAABTQ/5bh3CjbLiDA/s1600-h/internet.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 158px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Spx1gcmvO-I/AAAAAAAABTQ/5bh3CjbLiDA/s200/internet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376301255468465122" /></a>It's not just consumer confidence that is down, but more importantly, consumer desire. We as a society are not clamoring for the same endless amounts of crap to fill the holes in our souls in the same way that generations of Americans before us were. <br /><br />Why? <br /><br />A majority of Americans have gotten pretty deep into the internet. I know I have. Now we are filling the holes in our souls with online role playing games, social networking, porn, blogging, and a laundry list of other widgets, gadgets, and applications that are all serving to distract us from buying real stuff. For many people this "Second Life" had already quickly become a first life taking up all the time that they might have spent shopping before. All it took was this economic crisis to cement the transition from the material world where most people are losers to the virtual online universe where anyone can be a king, a queen, an elf, or even an <a href="http://attractiveeightieswomen.com">ogre king deep in the woods.</a> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SpxzFJ2D7QI/AAAAAAAABSw/ZZGqU7yUVLE/s1600-h/certificate2b.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SpxzFJ2D7QI/AAAAAAAABSw/ZZGqU7yUVLE/s320/certificate2b.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376298587552738562" /></a><br />Why blow all your money on a new car when you are getting chicks by posting pictures of Chuck Norris riding a unicorn? Why buy a new stereo system when your earbuds plug straight into your laptop and sound great? Why worry about stylish new shoes when you already have a pair that you hardly ever use?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SpxziYCtReI/AAAAAAAABS4/Ffop1PJ3e90/s1600-h/chuck_norris_unicorn.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SpxziYCtReI/AAAAAAAABS4/Ffop1PJ3e90/s320/chuck_norris_unicorn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376299089580082658" /></a>Maybe you are saying to yourself, "Hey, I don't play no faggy nerd role playing games. I ain't all sucked into the internet." Guess what. You are. Even people like you who want to pretend like they don't play role playing games are playing things like Maffia Wars on Facebook or engaging in something similar on the NASCAR community website. <br /><br /><br />Plus, if you are reading my blog, you are probably pretty deep into the internet already. <br /><br />So what is the solution? <br /><br />I know that companies have been pouring hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars into the internet, jockeying for search engine rankings, developing newer, slicker websites, and paying top dollar to have these very same games created to keep people coming back to spend more time on their site and in turn see more advertising. Damn that was a long sentence, and I didn't even mention porn. If you ask me, without porn, there would be no streaming videos etc. on the internet. Long story short, a lot of money has been put into building the internet up and getting people to get on it, and you know this man. But, if companies want to see people buying real stuff again, they are going to have to rally against the internet. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Spx0HQioZ8I/AAAAAAAABTA/X3U_bw9sjfk/s1600-h/Internet_boy.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Spx0HQioZ8I/AAAAAAAABTA/X3U_bw9sjfk/s320/Internet_boy.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376299723221657538" /></a><br />I recommend PSA's, pop up windows reminding people how long they have been online, big clocks on websites, celebrity endorsements against the internet, and if you want to get shady, paying off cable and phone companies for strategic network failures, slowdowns, and or viruses... if no one could get online the day after Thanksgiving... they might just go shopping. <br /><br />We have to get people off the internet and get them to the mall! Unless, that is... they are checking out IdeasByChuck.com. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Spx05I-Tm8I/AAAAAAAABTI/5PcZgbBskxg/s1600-h/3321829085_d7c38f2efd.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Spx05I-Tm8I/AAAAAAAABTI/5PcZgbBskxg/s320/3321829085_d7c38f2efd.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376300580183710658" /></a>P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck is still patriotic. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click Here</a>.<br /><br />P.P.S. I am now on <a href="http://chuckhistory.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a>, so you can easily reblog me all over the place. Just be sure to go buy a new purse or watch afterwards. <br /><br />P.P.P.S. Molly and I are still working on getting our own reality show. You aren't too late to the party. Go to <a href="http://boymeetsblogger.com">BoyMeetsBlogger.com</a> to find out more.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-20984967432611309542009-08-12T12:59:00.000-07:002009-08-12T17:37:50.362-07:00Boy Meets Blogger<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMuk3CVXCI/AAAAAAAABPQ/-aj0PBKrPoE/s1600-h/boymeetsblogger.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMuk3CVXCI/AAAAAAAABPQ/-aj0PBKrPoE/s320/boymeetsblogger.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369186391539670050" /></a>I am sure that all of you, my millions of fans, will remember that a while back I had an idea for a reality show staring me. Well, yeah, I know I have tons of ideas, so if you don't remember, you can <a href="http://www.ideasbychuck.com/2009/02/ideas-by-chuck-reality-show.html">click here</a>. <br /><br />Unfortunately for the viewing public, and all those would be reality show moguls nothing has come of this idea...yet. <br /><br />But, since I let that idea float out into the world, like a Scooby Doo shaped mylar balloon spiraling to the heavens, I have been in contact with a bloggirl (that's pronounced blog-girl not blo-girl) named <a href="http://laist.com/2008/10/20/play_your_part_molly_mcaleer.php">Molly McAleer</a> or Molls. If you have been paying attention, you know she interviewed me for her web show, <a href="http://e.blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F2282212%3Freferrer%3Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.ideasbychuck.com%25252F%26source%3D3&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer.swf&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthemollsshow.blip.tv%2Frss%2Fflash&brandname=The+Molls+Show&brandlink=http%3A%2F%2Fthemollsshow.tumblr.com%2F&enablejs=true&tabType2=guide&tabType1=details&tabTitle1=About&tabType3=guide&tabTitle3=Extras&tabUrl3=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Fbookmarks%2Frss%2F181104&tabTitle2=Episodes&tabUrl2=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Fbookmarks%2Frss%2F181105&lightcolor=0xf35516&allowm4v=true&preferredRole=Web&backcolor=0x000000&frontcolor=0xFFFFFF">The Molls Show</a>. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMyEbvsz3I/AAAAAAAABPY/iLEfObzTQOY/s1600-h/slaughterhouse.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMyEbvsz3I/AAAAAAAABPY/iLEfObzTQOY/s320/slaughterhouse.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369190232504455026" /></a><br />Now, I never met Kurt Vonnegut, but I can't imagine him not accusing me of having a brain to big for my own good. Thoughts started to swirl through my brain, thought of some sort of show about me and Molly hitting the mean streets of Hollywood like Laverne and Shirley, trying to make it our way, but in Hollywood, not Milwaukee. Well, these thoughts just kept swirling around in my brain until I finally told Molly about them... <br /><br />YOU GUYS GOT LUCKY! She liked the idea, and together we came up with this:<br /> <br />Title: Boy Meets Blogger <br />Genre: Reality<br />Logline: The Hills meets Real World: Season 1 meets the Internet. <br /><br />Back Story:<br /> <br /><a href="http://laist.com/2008/10/20/play_your_part_molly_mcaleer.php">Molly McAleer</a> and I were brought together by a plot line ripped from the pages of a terrible romantic comedy script. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMzGO8kWFI/AAAAAAAABPg/EXKnsy4FgDU/s1600-h/7bCHUCK.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMzGO8kWFI/AAAAAAAABPg/EXKnsy4FgDU/s200/7bCHUCK.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369191362940131410" /></a><br />Molly saw a flier for my website <a href="http://www.ideasbychuck.com">IdeasByChuck.com</a>, took a picture of it, and made fun of me for it on her blog <a href="http://molls.tumblr.com/">MollsSheWrote</a>. She said that I was clearly just some guy trying to get a book deal by using budget fliers with quaint hand-drawn illustrations. My friend Mack saw her <a href="http://molls.tumblr.com/post/90748227/i-saw-this-at-a-coffee-shop-this-morning-im">post </a> and sent it to me along with this message, "This girl saw your ad. She is famous on the internet." <br /><br /><br />I found Molly on Twitter, and asked her if she had even looked at my website. She hadn't, so I bugged her until she checked it out. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMzXyht8OI/AAAAAAAABPo/ss7RSuMX5CE/s1600-h/mollsmona.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 191px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoMzXyht8OI/AAAAAAAABPo/ss7RSuMX5CE/s200/mollsmona.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369191664548966626" /></a><br />When she finally really read my site and discovered that I am pretty famous on the internet too, she asked to interview me for her web show. I said yes, and made her a <a href="http://drawnika.com">$5000 tshirt</a> to show that there were no hard feelings.<br /><br />We finally met in real life, hit it off, and discovered that we had a lot in common... way too much in common...<br /><br /><br />Synopsis: <br /><br />Boy Meets Blogger would be about internet personalities, Chuck McCarthy and Molly McAleer teaming up to create new, high concept blogs (think stuffwhitepeoplelike.com) and other internet projects in an attempt to land a book deal or something even bigger... <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoM0odj0d4I/AAAAAAAABPw/lFmr_83T4pA/s1600-h/top10douche_7.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoM0odj0d4I/AAAAAAAABPw/lFmr_83T4pA/s320/top10douche_7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369193050490042242" /></a><br />Research for these new blogs would take them from the mean streets of LA to Hollywood clubs, dive bars, and car parks and everywhere in between, while revealing the day to day drama of their lives that will whip audiences into a frenzy of speculation over their relationship... Is there something more than friendship there?<br /><br /><br />Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, I know, pure gold right? This show has the two things that people are looking for these days, web ties and awesomeness. <br /><br />Take this idea and run with it! Make it happen! If you need something to pass around to get people excited about this, you can send them <a href="http://boymeetsblogger.com">BoyMeetsBlogger.com</a>. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoM0_lkSptI/AAAAAAAABP4/c_jefMzk6tw/s1600-h/U127P200T1D251514F12DT20090627222759.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SoM0_lkSptI/AAAAAAAABP4/c_jefMzk6tw/s320/U127P200T1D251514F12DT20090627222759.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369193447776495314" /></a><br />P.S. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Subscribe</a> to ideas by chuck before there are too many people on the internet and we stop letting people in.<br /><br />P.P.S. Go Go Lucky Pants! You know what I am talking about. <br /><br />P.P.P.S. Have you checked out <a href="http://decepticondoms.com">decepticondoms.com</a>?<br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. I am on twitter now. <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a>. I promise that even my inane chatter is still fairly amusing.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-56104164054166241932009-08-05T00:37:00.000-07:002009-08-05T03:28:43.997-07:00The HoverDuster<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Snk4bRWiTcI/AAAAAAAABNQ/FfrCMNLSxQs/s1600-h/hoverduster.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Snk4bRWiTcI/AAAAAAAABNQ/FfrCMNLSxQs/s320/hoverduster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366382472154205634" /></a><br />If there is one thing in this world that I hate unabashedly with great passion, it is dust. I hate dust! I hate it more than anything in my day to day life. I hate dust more than the thought of another Transformers movie. <br /><br />A couple of months ago I decided to try to figure out a way to defeat dust, and thoughts of dust have been consuming my mind for the last couple of months. Dust. Dust. Dust. <br /><br />Many dusty thoughts have gone through my mind in the last couple of months. I have thought of everything from a spray on shield that you could peel off your possessions like a snake shedding it's skin to simply killing everyone in the world, since %90 of dust is actually human skin... but most of my ideas seemed a bit... impractical, not to mention immoral. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Snk56XGJLqI/AAAAAAAABNY/RwGaMl2Ucv0/s1600-h/1_hacked_roomba.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 289px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Snk56XGJLqI/AAAAAAAABNY/RwGaMl2Ucv0/s320/1_hacked_roomba.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366384105783635618" /></a><br />Then I started thinking about the Roomba. You have all seen the commercials for the Roomba or known some single guy with too much money from winning Merv Griffin's Crosswords, who bought one to feel like he was in Star Wars. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Though I have to admit that the Roomba is much more effective and durable than it might seem, it is still only really effective for already anal people who live alone in single level apartments with hardwood floors. It's not going to deal well at all with big cereal spills, lots of dirt, shag carpet, or little kids. <br /><br />But, imagine a robotic blimp duster with Roomba-like programing floating through the air, constantly dusting your furniture (if you have been working on this concept for 3 years and have written your post doc dissertation on indoor wind currents effects on autonomous robotic sensor arrays, I am sorry)! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the HoverDuster. <br /><br />Maybe you don't think that a blimp can move with enough agility to do the job. Maybe you should watch this video of a flying saucer blimp narrated by a guy with a lisp. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zJzOIsH3P0I&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zJzOIsH3P0I&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />Wasn't that cool? If this guy can make a flying saucer that can reign down business cards like manna from heaven, I am sure you can get the HoverDuster up and running... though it might take the brains of a couple of Roombas and kidnapping a couple of kids from MIT or Caltech. <br /><br />If you can get the HoverDuster into stores and on sale for under $100.00 by this Christmas, you will sell millions of them. I will even buy one if you aren't classy enough to send me one along with a couple of million bucks. The Go-Duster is your strongest competition. Come on. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Snk6QTw6LkI/AAAAAAAABNg/CGPFCHDMmJI/s1600-h/go-duster.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Snk6QTw6LkI/AAAAAAAABNg/CGPFCHDMmJI/s320/go-duster.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366384482846387778" /></a> <br />P.S. Subscribe to Ideas By Chuck today and you will be subscribing before tomorrow. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click Here</a>.<br /><br />P.P.S. <a href="http://www.cameronballoons.co.uk">Cameron Balloons</a> and <a href="http://www.rctoys.com/">DragonFly</a> are two companies to approach about teaming up to make the HoverDuster a reality.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />P.P.P.S. The fact that the paparazzi aren't using <a href="http://www.draganfly.com/uav-helicopter/draganflyer-x6/">this thing</a> to get pictures of Tom Cruise making out with dudes is substantial proof that the whole clash between the paparazzi and celebrities is manufactured.<br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. If you work at <a href="http://irobot.com/">iRobot</a> makers of the Roomba, you should really bring this idea up in your next meeting. If you don't, then I don't think you are smart enough to be working at a robot company.<br /><br />P.P.P.P.P.S. I am taking over Twitter. <a href="twitter.com/ideasbychuck">Follow me.</a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-88742491017749178342009-07-26T23:25:00.000-07:002009-07-28T10:02:55.688-07:00Laundry Marketing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sm6paigQohI/AAAAAAAABLw/QcUNe42CXw0/s1600-h/IMG_1331.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sm6paigQohI/AAAAAAAABLw/QcUNe42CXw0/s400/IMG_1331.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363410479648645650" /></a><br />The other day, a magical thing happened. I did laundry at the laundromat. <br /><br />NO! That is not the magical thing! <br /><br />I did laundry and when I got home, I found that instead of losing a sock, I had gained a promotional t-shirt for some musical called "Lost In Hollywoodland." It has a cartoon drawing of a devil on it... kind of a rockabilly vibe. I inspected it and read it very carefully, trying to remember if it was mine... maybe I just forgot about going to a rockabilly musical about the devil. I paid some serious attention to this t-shirt. I don't think I have ever inspected a piece of clothing so well.<br /><br />You should know that I consider laundromats to be part of the seventh level of hell, hot, poorly lit, depressing, full of crazy people, hot, bad soft rock, and for some reason, dirty. But, finding this shirt got me to thinking about this idea. <br /><br />I started thinking about how effective slipping promotional t-shirts or towels into people's laundry could be, especially for certain thing like movies, bands, restaurants, and possibly detergents. Half the battle in advertising is to get someone to pay attention to what you are saying, whether they believe you or remember your message is secondary to getting people to pay attention, and finding that shirt in my laundry had definitely gotten my attention. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sm6qOORQI2I/AAAAAAAABMA/Hx2P6QjVkYE/s1600-h/napoleon_dynamite_pedro.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sm6qOORQI2I/AAAAAAAABMA/Hx2P6QjVkYE/s320/napoleon_dynamite_pedro.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363411367570187106" /></a><br /><br />Imagine if Fox Searchlight had sent street teams out to laundromats to slip a couple of thousand "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts into people's laundry before the movie came out. The movie was huge, but what if they had been able to plant that buzz out there in people's wardrobes long before it's release? <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sm6rAH3nKrI/AAAAAAAABMI/BLE1PeFokGA/s1600-h/hypercolor2_chick.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Sm6rAH3nKrI/AAAAAAAABMI/BLE1PeFokGA/s320/hypercolor2_chick.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363412224845490866" /></a><br />The key is making really cool shirts. This might be a perfect arena to implement hidden agenda hypercolor shirts. These hypercolors would come out of the dryer looking like plain white t-shirts, but when they cool down, a slogan or message is revealed. <br /><br />Pairing this idea with the right product is just as important as putting the right socks together, and there are infinite possibilities, so I can't go into all of them. Obviously there is a certain demographic that goes to laundromats, and certain products you would never want to associate with laundry even if only millionaire super models washed clothes at laundromats. <br /><br />Take this idea and build your guerrilla marketing company around it. Make tons of money. Maybe you can hire me, and give me some of that money. <br /><br />P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck is still super cool, so <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">SUBSCRIBE</a><br /><br />P.P.S. Drink lots of fluids. <br /><br />P.P.P.S. I am on twitter- <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-91021712713467806992009-07-19T17:15:00.000-07:002009-07-21T16:28:03.294-07:00Intimidating Uncle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SmZLqXcjbQI/AAAAAAAABLM/OoVgAGXK4e8/s1600-h/intimidating_uncle_show.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SmZLqXcjbQI/AAAAAAAABLM/OoVgAGXK4e8/s320/intimidating_uncle_show.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361055597651520770" /></a><br />I know you have all been waiting for yet another reality show idea from me. Guess what. I was waiting for another reality show idea from me too, and as luck would have it, I had one... I had one in my back pocket all along and didn't even realize it until just now. <br /><br />As some or all of you, my billions of adoring and sexy readers, know, I have another blog called <a href="http://intimidatinguncle.blogspot.com">Intimidating Uncle</a>, where I basically bring down the law on little kids. I play the roll of the Intimidating Uncle. <br /><br />You know the Intimidating Uncle, the uncle who always said things to you that you only half-way understood but could tell from the tone of voice that they were either blatantly or mildly insulting, the uncle who wouldn't take any of the crap you would get away with around your parents, the uncle who didn't believe in unconditional love, the uncle who intimidated the crap out of you (in some families this roll is played by a close family friend). <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SmZKQDs0uMI/AAAAAAAABK8/U3Wh1g7A1Zk/s1600-h/unclebuck.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SmZKQDs0uMI/AAAAAAAABK8/U3Wh1g7A1Zk/s320/unclebuck.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361054046162827458" /></a><br />Here is the idea: Intimidating Uncle the reality show. <br /><br />Title: Intimidating Uncle <br />Genre: Reality<br />Logline: Super Nanny meets Wife Swap meets Uncle Buck. <br /><br /><br /><br />Synopsis: Parents are sent on a vacation for a week leaving their children in the care of an uncle, an Intimidating Uncle, giving the uncle a chance to bring his brand of discipline down on the children. The Intimidating Uncle tries to whip the kids into shape, the parents get a much deserved break. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SmZKpMdgYUI/AAAAAAAABLE/rNMzp3li5r4/s1600-h/cool-kid.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SmZKpMdgYUI/AAAAAAAABLE/rNMzp3li5r4/s320/cool-kid.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361054478011228482" /></a><br />This has smash hit written all over it because it is basically playing off the same formula as several other very popular shows like the ABC hit shows Super Nanny and Wife Swap, but it also has the advantage of being able to showcase resorts and other vacation destinations. Can you say advertising dolla dolla billz yall? Plus, if you cast the right uncles, single and moderately handsome (like me), you can broaden the shows appeal and demographic. <br /><br /><br />P.S. You better <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">subscribe</a> to Ideas By Chuck... or else! <br /><br />P.P.S. I have to thank my friend Ben for pointing out/opening my eyes to this idea. If you want to produce this, you should bring him on as a co-producer. He knows his stuff, and he is somewhat of an intimidating uncle himself.<br /><br />P.P.P.S. I am still doing things on <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">Twitter</a>. Follow me if you want to - <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">@ideasbychuck</a>Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-1742831679370266062009-06-28T10:52:00.000-07:002009-07-12T16:08:49.360-07:00PitchMen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklCaQZcgbI/AAAAAAAABJc/mV_qKXYXno4/s1600-h/billy_mays_last.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklCaQZcgbI/AAAAAAAABJc/mV_qKXYXno4/s320/billy_mays_last.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352882650952270258" /></a><br />Don't you hate it when your favorite AS SEEN ON TV pitchman dies? Can't see yourself watching TV stoned at 4am ever again? Are you looking for an answer?<br /><br />How about an Ideas By Chuck IDEA? What's that?! Stay tuned to find out more!<br /><br />When I heard that Billy Mays had passed away, I got sad. But then I thought to myself WWBMD? Billy Mays would dry his tears away with a <a href="https://www.zorbeez.com/?cid=381468">Zorbeez™</a> the AS SEEN ON TV super absorbent towel, and turn this tragedy into opportunity. <br /><br /><br />I know what you are thinking! How can you do that? Well Sharon, in the next few paragraphs I am going to tell you about an amazing new idea that can turn your life around and that frown upside down! So stick around and find out how! <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklB2jcDR-I/AAAAAAAABJU/tP8iGIUPv8Q/s1600-h/pitchmen_master22.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklB2jcDR-I/AAAAAAAABJU/tP8iGIUPv8Q/s400/pitchmen_master22.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352882037588183010" /></a><br />Now, I am sure that you are all avid followers of Billy's Discovery Channel show <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/pitchmen/pitchmen.html">PitchMen</a>, a brilliant combination of advertising and drama, but where will this show go now that Billy is gone? Do you really think that Anthony "Sully" Sullivan can carry the show by himself? <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklCq8ObUSI/AAAAAAAABJk/YBmpQKD8BvY/s1600-h/Anthony+Sullivan.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 178px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklCq8ObUSI/AAAAAAAABJk/YBmpQKD8BvY/s320/Anthony+Sullivan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352882937595121954" /></a><br />Say it with me! - I DON'T THINK SO!<br /> <br />Sullivan can't handle all the pitching by himself, so who will carry the show? Who will step in to sell fine products to the good people of America? Who will make offers even sweeter by doubling what you get for the same price for limited times? Who will throw in additional amazing items at NO EXTRA COST? <br /><br /><br /><br />WHO WILL FILL BILLY MAYS' SHOES?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklF_P5v7TI/AAAAAAAABJs/6vp26DxHk_g/s1600-h/shamwow.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklF_P5v7TI/AAAAAAAABJs/6vp26DxHk_g/s320/shamwow.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352886585009368370" /></a><a herf="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Offer">Vince Offer</a>, A.K.A. The Shamwow Guy? No! His image is so dirty that even <a href="http://greatcleaners.com/">OxiClean™</a> could get it clean. His recent arrest for attacking a prostitute has knocked him off the short list. Vince Offer? <br /><br />Say it with me! - I DON'T THINK SO! <br /><br />Ron Popeil of RonCo fame? No! He is too old! He's so old, he could have invented breathing. Do you think America will trust a guy that old? <br /><br />Say it with me! - I DON'T THINK SO!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklG0EcHOqI/AAAAAAAABJ0/41QBzs1GKqY/s1600-h/s-RON-POPEIL-large.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 146px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklG0EcHOqI/AAAAAAAABJ0/41QBzs1GKqY/s200/s-RON-POPEIL-large.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352887492465343138" /></a>Say, Sharon, do you remember when I told you that I had an idea? Say folks, do you remember when I said I had an idea? Well, here it is! <br /><br />PitchMen should be turned into a search for America's Next Big Pitchman! <br /><br /><br /><br />What do you think about that folks? Just imagine watching the exploits of 15 unknown pitch men and women as they try to become the next Billy Mays! And don't forget about all the amazing product placement that this makes possible! Doesn't that sound exciting folks? <br /><br />Say it with me! - I DO THINK SO!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Skl8sujC4SI/AAAAAAAABKc/TMQmV14x1XM/s1600-h/michael_jackson_ove_glove.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Skl8sujC4SI/AAAAAAAABKc/TMQmV14x1XM/s200/michael_jackson_ove_glove.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352946739957653794" /></a><br />The show would be hosted by Anthony Sullivan and each week a panel of judges randomly composed of stoners, housewives, and the unemployed would decide the contestants' fates. Special guest appearances by Ralph Nader could also be a regular part of the show.<br /><br />Act now! If you are a Discovery Channel Executive Producer, Anthony Sullivan, or someone else at <a href="http://www.sullivanproductions.com/pitchmen/">Sullivan Productions</a>, and you use this idea to make millions, please send me some of that cash +S&H. Sorry, no CODs. Hurry! Act now and I will throw in another idea for FREE! The special limited edition Michael Jackson sequin covered <a href="http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/ove_glove.html">Ove Glove!™</a>. This is a limited time offer, so act now! <br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklN4ExdCMI/AAAAAAAABKU/77sgfYuFAnY/s1600-h/billy_mays_tool_band-it.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 172px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SklN4ExdCMI/AAAAAAAABKU/77sgfYuFAnY/s200/billy_mays_tool_band-it.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352895257855723714" /></a>P.S. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Subscribe to Ideas By Chuck</a> and for a limited time I will dedicate one of my prayers for Billy Mays to you for FREE. <br /><br />P.P.S. I was sad about Michael Jackson too, but with ideas like the vibrating yoga ball, I think you all understand why I had to make this mainly about Billy Mays.<br /><br /><br /><br />P.P.P.S. I am still on Twitter. Follow me - <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">ideasbychuck</a>.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-35867157608713696102009-06-22T12:29:00.000-07:002009-06-23T05:13:19.656-07:00MasterDaters<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkDGFuXbjlI/AAAAAAAABJE/xLsPttdcQow/s1600-h/masterdaterslogochicks.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkDGFuXbjlI/AAAAAAAABJE/xLsPttdcQow/s320/masterdaterslogochicks.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350494158964100690" /></a>Yeah, this is my 75th idea, and I know some of you are wondering when I am going to either become super rich, and or give up on this whole ideas blog thing. If I am bad at one thing, it is giving up. Men who refuse to give up on other people's ideas are zealots, fanatics, and obsessive compulsive. Men who refuse to give up on their own ideas are men of vision. I say, "men" because I am a man, and my friend has a hat that says, "men of vision" on it, but you can put a "wo-" in front of all the "mens" if you want to. There are definitely some women of vision out there too, but I am a man, so I want to be a man of vision. Long story short - I'm not giving up yet. <br /><br />For this Special Edition 75th Idea I am going to give you, my millions of loyal readers, an idea that I actually worked on selling to someone before I got sidetracked. I almost had the time, energy, and passion to bring THIS idea to life.<br /><br />MASTERDATERS - A multi-platform dating spectacle. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkAEmWgJ-OI/AAAAAAAABIk/A4lX6a47uYU/s1600-h/almostanythinggoes1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkAEmWgJ-OI/AAAAAAAABIk/A4lX6a47uYU/s400/almostanythinggoes1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350281414238140642" /></a><br />MasterDaters is a speed dating event with combined with Iron Chef, Wipe Out, Singled Out, and Monday Night football. Participants go on a series of speed dates while having their moves and mistakes documented and analyzed by snarky commentators using all the modern sports coverage tools such as screen graphics and instant replay. <a href="http://www.buckhollywood.com/">Michael Buckley</a> and <a href="http://www.gregbehrendt.com/">Greg Behrendt</a> could be a good host duo, especially if their hair can be brought under control. <br /><br />The show would also feature rotating special guests such as Dr. Sue, Dr. Drew, Dr. John Gray, Neil Straus, and other relationship experts, plus a roving on-field reporter (the usual hot chick with big breasts, raspy voice, and a slightly checkered past brandishing an oversized, overly phallic microphone). She would interview participants of interest as they move to their next date. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkDGXME_tpI/AAAAAAAABJM/1tYbjQ5xnbM/s1600-h/masterdatersinterviewchicks.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkDGXME_tpI/AAAAAAAABJM/1tYbjQ5xnbM/s320/masterdatersinterviewchicks.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350494458997618322" /></a><br />The main point to make about this show is that there are no winners or losers, well... at least not in the usual game show sense of these words. This is more about the spectacle, the event - People meeting People. There would be a live audience, a DJ, lights etc. and the show would be filmed at a hot club.<br /><br />Every episode ends with a big dance party. <br /><br />INTERNET TIE IN - Everyone wants this so bad! <br /><br />The show would tour from city to city, and would be promoted like a big party with a MTV Spring Break vibe, single people flocking to it for the chance to be on TV, meet other singles, and party. Participants would be chosen from the crowd like the Price is Right, and casting would be fairly loose. Every person chosen to be a participant would be given a profile on the MasterDaters singles networking/dating site in a special "as seen on TV" section (obviously, this could also be worked out as a partnership with Facebook or Myspace). <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkAFm_bXihI/AAAAAAAABI0/itSY-c7Ia-E/s1600-h/cobra_snake_ideas_by_chuck.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkAFm_bXihI/AAAAAAAABI0/itSY-c7Ia-E/s400/cobra_snake_ideas_by_chuck.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350282524735539730" /></a><br />Everyone else who comes out will be strongly encouraged to join the MasterDaters site etc. and they will all have to go to the MasterDaters sight the next day to check out the branded Cobra-Snake-like photos of themselves from the crazy after party. <br /> <br />Unlike other dating shows that are very LA-centric until they run out of people in LA claiming not to be actors, this show would reach out to the rest of the country. You like someone you see on the show they shot in your city, you can go online and contact them. Plus, the large amount of contestants on each episode would present a wide variety of interest for the viewing public.<br /> <br />Get this show on TV, and get your diamond bedazzled checkbook out to write me a check with lots of zeros involved. This is going to make someone a ton of money because done right this show can tie together live events, television broadcasts, and web content in a very cohesive and powerful way that sponsors will be fighting tooth and nail to get a piece of, and after all, that's what it's all about, gettin a piece! <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkAGOVgNHNI/AAAAAAAABI8/eIxZQw2SFjU/s1600-h/chuck_mccarthy_dog.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 269px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SkAGOVgNHNI/AAAAAAAABI8/eIxZQw2SFjU/s400/chuck_mccarthy_dog.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350283200676306130" /></a><br />P.S. Subscribing to Ideas By Chuck might make you sexy. <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Click Here</a>. <br /><br />P.P.S. 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If you want the PDF one sheet for MasterDaters, contact me through <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">Twitter</a>.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-23701671599679725452009-06-07T16:31:00.000-07:002009-06-07T20:00:38.794-07:003-D The Movie<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six4aa9hIdI/AAAAAAAABHc/zek6PMvbzjs/s1600-h/tom_hanks_seth_rogen.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six4aa9hIdI/AAAAAAAABHc/zek6PMvbzjs/s400/tom_hanks_seth_rogen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344779253091213778" /></a><br />Some people have been calling Seth Rogen the next Tom Hanks, and for a while now I have been pushing the idea that Tom Hanks and Seth Rogen will be in a movie together soon. It just seems like some movie executive's wet dream. I even made a shirt that says, "Untitled Tom Hanks/Seth Rogen Project." This is one movie idea that I think I can really will into existence, especially since it is basically like predicting that it will rain sometime in the next year.<br /><br />Recently, I started really thinking harder about it and came up with a title and plot for the film. I also decided that the movie should be shot in 3-D because all the movie studios have hard-ons for 3-D because it gives people a reason to actually go to the movies again.<br /><br />Title: 3-D The Movie<br />Genre: Laugh Out Loud Romantic Comedy<br />Logline: Be Kind Rewind meets The Majestic meets Doc Hollywood. <br /><br />Synopsis: Party boy Barry Bender (Seth Rogen) is on top of the world until his trust fund's entire stock portfolio tanks and everyone abandons him. He contemplates suicide, but as he climbs out onto the ledge of his lawyer's 54th floor office, he gets a call from Jerry Reynolds (Tom Hanks), his long lost older brother that he never knew he had. Jerry explains that their father just passed away, leaving Barry half of everything he owned. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six5kXjUR4I/AAAAAAAABHk/2kykp7lA-qw/s1600-h/seth_rogen.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six5kXjUR4I/AAAAAAAABHk/2kykp7lA-qw/s200/seth_rogen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344780523486332802" /></a><br />Barry travels to Bozeman, Montana for his father's funeral and to survey his newly acquired assets. Barry is feeling pretty good until he discovers that all he has inherited is half of a floundering second-run movie theater. With nowhere to go, he decides to stay in town and try to sell his half. <br /><br /><br />Barry and Jerry clash at first and Barry sticks out like a sore thumb, and wants out as fast as possible until he meets the beautiful, mysterious, and slightly nutty Shali Patel (Freida Pinto). Sparks fly, but she wants nothing to do with his party boy, do nothing lifestyle. He has to change to win her heart. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six7zIoi0TI/AAAAAAAABIE/nln5pUINLQ0/s1600-h/review_jaws_3.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six7zIoi0TI/AAAAAAAABIE/nln5pUINLQ0/s320/review_jaws_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344782976203018546" /></a>Eventually, the brothers find common ground in their love of movies and Barry comes up with a whacky plan to turn the theater around. They make every movie they show "3-D" by hiring actors from the community theater including Shali Patel and using kooky DIY special effects - spraying water on the audience during Jaws, shaking the seats during Earthquake, etc. <br /> <br />The "3-D" movies are a hit. People start coming from miles around to see experience their favorite old movies in this new, wacky way. It is such a big hit that a giant movie theater chain comes to town and offers to buy the theater. At first, Barry jumps at the chance to get back to his old life and says yes to selling the theater. Shali overhears him agree to the sale and storms off. Barry realizes that he would rather stay in Bozeman with her than leave. He runs after her, only to discover that she has left town, and that she is the heiress to a hotel chain fortune. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six7Klo5SCI/AAAAAAAABH8/cf19iA6liFU/s1600-h/Meg+Ryan-thumb-350x333.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six7Klo5SCI/AAAAAAAABH8/cf19iA6liFU/s200/Meg+Ryan-thumb-350x333.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344782279614482466" /></a> <br />With Jerry's help, he is able to track her down, and the movie ends with him coming out on stage at a charity screening of When Harry Met Sally that Shali is attending in Hollywood. Barry professes his love for her. Jerry meets Meg Ryan, and they instantly click. <br /><br /> <br />The four of them live happily ever after. <br /><br />Are you ready to write this yet? Are you ready to executive produce it? Are you ready to act in it? Tom? Seth? Doesn't it have "hit" written all over it? <br /><br />Selling Points: <br /><br />1. 3-D! The studios love 3-D! <br /><br />2. Tom Hanks and Seth Rogen get butts in the seats. <br /><br />3. Using footage from old movies would save money in the production of the film, and also boost DVD sales, rentals, and downloads of those movies.<br /><br />4. America is F'n jonesing to see Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan on screen together again. <br /><br />If you decide to write the script, please give me a writer credit, and if you sell it, please give me some of the money. Actually, try to get some points. I'll take one point. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six8V-12neI/AAAAAAAABIM/hzhAoAfbc3s/s1600-h/00001f.jpeg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 272px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/Six8V-12neI/AAAAAAAABIM/hzhAoAfbc3s/s400/00001f.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344783574869908962" /></a><br />P.S. I heard that Stephen Hawking subscribes to Ideas By Chuck. Besides being paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, don't you want to be like Stephen Hawking? <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">Subscribe.</a><br /><br />P.P.S. Freida Pinto is so hot! <br /><br />P.P.P.S. Why do Indian women hate me? <br /><br />P.P.P.P.S. I am on Twitter, and it seems to be going well. You can follow me if you want. <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">Click Here</a>.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6056609916904995515.post-21562415585350613072009-05-29T14:54:00.000-07:002009-05-29T19:41:48.994-07:00Zingerade Spicy Lemonade<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBpr6TJULI/AAAAAAAABGM/7WZ7jh_-q5M/s1600-h/zingerade_cayenne_lemonade.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBpr6TJULI/AAAAAAAABGM/7WZ7jh_-q5M/s320/zingerade_cayenne_lemonade.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341385361166258354" /></a><br />Do you want to start your own bottled drink company, but you're worried that the market is saturated? There are tons of teas, tonics, sodas, sport drinks, colas, waters, ales, punches, potions, and elixirs out there on the market. Where could you possibly fit in? What kind of market share could you possibly hope to dig out of that mountain of refreshment? <br /><br />You have your heart set on starting your own drink company don't you? Don't you? Yes you do. Yes you do. Don't you?<br /><br />Lucky for you, you know me, and I can tell you a drink that no one is bottling, no one is marketing, no one is selling, and yet hundreds of thousands of people are drinking. What is it? <br /><br />The master cleanse lemonade, made from lemons, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and of course, water. If anyone is selling this pre-made, I can't find it. I would brand it "Zingerade." Zingerade.com is available, it sounds cool, and conveys the general vibe of the product. It is slightly cliche, but so was Powerade, and that was put out by CocaCola. Give me a couple of million bucks and I will come up with a better name (that is an offer for CocaCola too). <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBuW69hfII/AAAAAAAABGU/vpDJD9z0vb4/s1600-h/fat-guy-smoking.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBuW69hfII/AAAAAAAABGU/vpDJD9z0vb4/s320/fat-guy-smoking.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341390498124889218" /></a><br />I know what you are thinking. You are thinking that the master cleanse lemonade sounds really gross. Well, it is actually pretty good. I have never been on the master cleanse, but for some reason every woman that I know tries to do it at least three times a year. Most of the time they fail, but I have had many chances to taste the spicy lemonade, and I like to take chances. It has a definite zing and a taste that just keeps giving. A unique flavor is hard to find, but this is one that is sitting right there giving you the finger. <br /><br />Even if it tasted like total crap, it has medicinal properties. We all know that if you tell people something is good for them, it can taste like poop mixed with tartar sauce, and they will still drink it or eat it. Cayenne pepper quells hunger and boosts your metabolism. You don't have to be on a seven day fast to want to drink something that will stop you from eating seven twinkies between lunch and dinner while helping you burn more calories. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBviDzA3oI/AAAAAAAABGc/4jfRyMLUkJI/s1600-h/225629_fat_guy_in_car.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBviDzA3oI/AAAAAAAABGc/4jfRyMLUkJI/s320/225629_fat_guy_in_car.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341391788986916482" /></a><br />The convenience of this drink would attract anyone doing the master cleanse, and though it might sound crazy, there are tons of people out there not on the master cleanse or trying to lose weight who would drink Zingerade. People who smoke or drink heavily crave spicy foods because their taste buds have been killed off (I know all you drinkers are already thinking about what this would taste like mixed with vodka). Why do you think Bloody Marys are so popular? <br /><br />Even if you hate the product just think of the marketing campaigns. <br /><br />"Spice up your lemonade! Spice up your life! Zingerade!" <br /><br />"Zingerade! The Juice with real Juice!"<br /><br />"Jump-Start Your Lemonade! Zingerade!"<br /><br />"Drink Zingerade or DIE FAT AND ALONE!" <br /><br />You don't have to be a genius to see that this has some real potential. Make this idea happen. Make some money. Make your bed. Make out a check to me for two million dollars. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBwBrgtY5I/AAAAAAAABGk/5IBqtFyvfyM/s1600-h/1lemon_meter.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PiAHbeJCzIo/SiBwBrgtY5I/AAAAAAAABGk/5IBqtFyvfyM/s320/1lemon_meter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341392332223505298" /></a>P.S. You really should <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=IdeasByChuck">subscribe</a> to Ideas By Chuck. If you don't who will? <br /><br />P.P.S. Zingerade and vodka is great. <br /><br />P.P.P.S. If I can follow a chair that reports every time someone farts on it, you can follow me. Click <a href="http://twitter.com/ideasbychuck">here</a>.Charles McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16629487201770149509noreply@blogger.com13