No, DeParis Redinger, LLC, isn’t Paris Hilton’s own personal PR firm. It’s a Charlottesville company that offers "boutique investment banking solutions," and it’s just announced that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in the "gossip" website, cVillain.com. The deal will give the folks at cVillain freedom to focus on keeping the website’s anonymous content flowing, while DeParis Redinger works to develop the business side. Seems cVillain is lucky to have this kind of support: Francesco DeParis and Kyle Redinger were recently featured in Business Week magazine as finalists in their 2007 Best Young Entrepreneurs. And get this: both are only 24 years old.
[October 24]
Anti-apocalypse
Some see North American Union in future, look to Goode for leadership
When the countries of North America merge and the apocalypse is nigh and the three horsemen are waiting for the fourth to mount up, the country’s going to have some problems, according to a story in The Arizona Republic. Such as, what the hell will we call the newly merged currency? The deso? The pollar? (The amero, speculates The Republic.)
 Virgil Goode: leadership for a new, single-government, post-apocalyptic era. |
And right in the middle of the big, boiling pot of crazy is Virginia’s own Virgil Goode. The story notes that Goode introduced a non-binding resolution (and really, what other kinds are there?) opposing a North American Union. While NAFTA has indeed made trade relations more snuggle-inducing between Mexico, the United States and Canada, we’re willing to bet all the desos or pollars or ameros or whatever in our wallets that for years to come, Mr. Goode will be good for at least a laugh a week.
[October 23]
Dylan rides in style
Bob turns up in Cadillac commercial
 Bob Dylan appears in a new ad with stylish shades and an Escalade. |
Less than a month after appearing at John Paul Jones Arena, troubadour Bob Dylan debuts in a television ad for Cadillac. As reported by the New York Daily News, the singer-songwriter is shown in a western get-up tooling down a desert highway in an Escalade. Trippy music plays as he surveys the landscape through aviator sunglasses. Next, he is standing at a dirt crossroads, apparently trying to hitch a ride, Escalade nowhere in sight. "What’s life without the occasional detour," he croaks.
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Dylan’s Cadillac ad.
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