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New Post 3/4/2009 11:32 AM
  Mike Smith
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Re: Extreme Championship Backyard Wrestling 

Okay, apparently it's "Extreme Championship Backyard Wrestling," and not what I originally wrote.

I just left a message for the current reigning champion--and the number apparently belongs to his mom's cell phone.  Her name is Laura.

I told a little story about my kids seeing the flier, being new to the area, and being excited to have a fun championship with a creative neighbor kid.  I was purposefully vague about their ages, and will match them up with her kids when I find out what it is.  I left my number and saved theirs to my cell phone, so I'll be ready.

In the meantime, while we're waiting, I welcome ideas about how we can doctor the flier before mass reproduction, and how we should present this to Craigslist, the Alibi, Local iQ, and our other local media contacts.  Do we pitch this solely from the perspective of the kid?  Or do we make it look like something funny that others can be in on?  Or like something epic and serious?  Or a mix of different angles for different outlets?

And yeah, costumes!  Cheap luchadore masks, capes, Randy the Ram costumes, whatever, the weirder and the more colorful the better.  I'm thinking of going with a cheesy devil theme for mine, since the flier's only illustration is a Celtic (or possibly Presbyterian) cross that seems to have nothing to do with anything else on the announcement.


"Such a dream of shifting images this world is, yet how attached we get...." --Matsuo Basho
 
New Post 3/4/2009 4:16 PM
  Ewen
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Re: Extreme Championship Backyard Wrestling 

Mike,

 

Really glad the ball is rolling on this one, however -- I'm thinking we can not advertise this in forums like craigslist/Alibi.  We need to bear in mind that this is some family home and some little kid's game.  We should keep this one within the brigade for reasons of safety and liability.  Way too many sketchy possibilies with Craigslist and Alibi, local media.  We don't want to overwhelm some little kid or his family with people we can't even vouch for.  Or get the cops called on them/us.

 

I think that's just a practice of responsibilty and ethics on this particular mission.

 
New Post 3/4/2009 10:30 PM
  Mike Smith
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Re: Extreme Championship Backyard Wrestling 

Hmm....

Maybe you're right, though I do love that degree of unpredictability that advertising a bit would bring into the picture.

So long as we get a good amount of people to go, I suppose I could go with that.  Though I wouldn't care if the cops showed up, and I may still print fliers up for brigade agents to hand out to friends.


"Such a dream of shifting images this world is, yet how attached we get...." --Matsuo Basho
 
New Post 3/5/2009 10:27 AM
  Mike Smith
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www.mystrangenewmexico.com/
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Re: Extreme Championship Backyard Wrestling 

I got a call back from that phone number at 7 a.m. this morning, but didn't get to my phone in time.  They didn't leave a message, but I called back and left one of my own.

Moving ahead, waiting....


"Such a dream of shifting images this world is, yet how attached we get...." --Matsuo Basho
 
New Post 3/5/2009 11:23 AM
  Lapayasa
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Re: Extreme Championship Backyard Wrestling 
Modified By Lapayasa  on 3/5/2009 12:13:12 PM)

 yeah, no public advertising on this one I'm afraid

 

 
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