With the release of High School Musical 3 today, I think it’s timely that we discuss yet another important tool that you can use to further your EffTD training.  While music unto itself is a great tool, it spawns several tools as well.  Lessons, clubbing and “iPodding” are some of these.  Watching music-based programming like MTV, MuchMusic and the like used to be considered as well, but they no longer play music videos as a major part of their programming.  These channels had already succeeded in their missions of killing the careers of less TV-friendly faces like Christopher Cross and countless others (that I cannot remember as I can’t put faces ot the names), so there is really no need for them to continue doing what they did.  Now they can just fill the void left by the absence of Robin Leach and show off celebrity homes (known as “cribs”) and leave music programming up to reality television.

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I promised myself that I wouldn’t delve in too deep into the current economic “crisis” that is gripping the globe, but frankly, I can see there’s a lot of interest in the topic…and where there’s interest, there’s money to be had.

During this inconvenient situation, I’ve made note of several ideas that are being put out there that not only go against everything Eventualizm and EffTD stands for, but simply don’t make long-term sense.  I’ve gathered three of these for your consideration:

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