"Mr. and Mrs. Incredible: Harley and Kaira Rouda Combine Forces to Create a Superhero Brand at Real Living."

Mr. and Mrs. Incredible as in Super Hero's. 

Lore Magazine has an article about Kaira and Harley Rouda, above is a quote from the magazine article. 

Lore is a Magazine about real estate.  It is written for real estate agents, brokers, etc. so it may be boring for those outside the industry.  I think though how these Columbusites met, what they thought of one another should interest some other Columbusites.  

There's  always been something cartoony about Discover Columbus and even before when it was called Columbus Best Blog ....."Why are they sitting in a tree?"

The Lore Magazine article  titled "Mr. and Mrs. Incredible: Harley and Kaira Rouda Combine Forces to Create a Superhero Brand at Real Living."  says:

 "I joke about world domination, but I think we're the next big brand," says Kaira."

 Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

sitting in a tree?

Columbus real estate was a bit cartoony this week.  My blog has a cartoony feel... from the Morphing Real Living Lady/House, to many of the graphics I use...it is cartoony. I own a lot of discs of images from Animation Factory, so I use the images I have... you'd hardly guess I don't like animated gifs from my blog would you?  This font is Comic Sans MS... I used it for awhile because it seemed to really fit my blog and then switched over to Arial... more sophisticated, less cartoony...  maybe I should switch  back to using Comic Sans MS  to match the images I use.   

Merv Forney a blogger in Virginia wrote an entry about style, in May.  He wrote something negative about cartoony blogs. I vowed then to be less cartoony, to be more serious... I think that is when my font went back to Arial....  but I keep slipping back into cartoons.... from my Cartoon Doctor,  to Hugh MacLeod's cartoon's on business cards,   Blaugh ... the "(Un)Offlicial Comic of the Blogosphere!".......   Saturday AM cartoons.... cartoons seem natural. 

What's style got to do with it...? 

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Columbus own James Thurber was a cartoonist! 

I wish I could draw cartoons.  For some reason this week's  Columbus Dispatch story about Columbus number one real estate company, HER Real Living and a competitor seemed like it should be decorated with cartoons... the term cyber sqautting seems comical to me.   Coca Cola defended their brand against cyber squatting.....  Is Central Ohio real estate more cartoony than other parts of the country?  Edina Realty in MN has a law suit against a competitor... internet....interesting... no one is sitting in a tree.  

I got the Herbie Jr. letters... I've read about it in the Columbus Dispatch and Inman news covered it... but I can't figure it out ...I certainly don't agree with a competitor owning or using  Harley E Rounda Jr's or Harley E. Rouda Sr's  names but I can understand why the competitor bought those names...valuable domain names... but the Columbus Dispatch says in part, that the competitor:

"admitted in court that he owns domain names that include..... harleyandkairasittinginatree.com."

I am puzzled why any one would buy that domain ... The domains do not forward anywhere,  anymore...  I am puzzled that people are puzzled by that now... of course they wouldn't.... but mostly I am puzzled why would they'd be sitting in a tree?

Previously on Columbus Best Blogs - More about cartoons and cartoonists

Pickles  Down in Loozy Anne  James Thurber

c. 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe 

Foxtrot

REALTORS® Magazine Editor's Note  "Life's  affirmations"  in the August 2006 REALTOR  Magazine has a great Foxtrot cartoon...  someone pronounces REALTOR® 'Real-i-tor."  It is a two syllable word... Real-tor. 

Wish I could share the cartoon.... here's the cartoonist's site.  Foxtrot  by Bill Amend.     

The editor wrote:

"A great cartoon puts a knowing smile on the reader’s face. With this Foxtrot cartoon, Bill Amend achieved greatness for me—and probably for a lot of you who share my obsession with the pronunciation of the word REALTOR®.

I knew the cartoon was hitting close to home when my oldest son visited my office and saw the strip posted on my computer. “Mom,” he said, “this could be you.” In the back of his 11-year-old mind, he must have been wondering whether I’d consulted with Amend on the wording—right down to the mom repeating “nu-clee-er” three times."

I can relate. 

Columbus cartoonist

Saturday morning cartoons...a serial to read while eating your cereal.  Have you seen  Columbus cartoonist, blogger Eric Smith's blog with a six part series about a recent trip to Louisianna?  Reading about 'muching on mudbugs' may not be the most appetizing..............

Down in Loozy-Anne, Part 1/6

Down in Loozy-Anne, Part 2/6

Munching on Mudbugs or The Tell-Tail Heart *

Fresh and Francey-Free in the French Quarter or  We (Re)Built this City on Rock n' Beignets 

"You Call That Art?  or  Piddlers on the Roof"

Down in Loozy-Anne, Part 6/6

There is a new Cajun BBQ on 161. 

There is a Praline Queen downtown Columbus....At City Center!  Below came in a DownTown 43215 eNewsletter

"Confection perfection, thy name is New Orleans Pralines.

Decked out in green, purple and gold, the cheerful shop opened July 15 inside City Center's Rich Street entrance selling all manner of traditional Southern desserts—cute little single-serving sweet potato and pecan pies, pound cake, and shaved ice treats known in the Big Easy as snowballs (most popular flavor: "wedding cake").

And, of course, the stars of the show: pralines, the famous Southern pecan candy that gives new meaning to the phrase "melts in your mouth."

Owner Chandra Noble, a Columbus native who lived in New Orleans for 20 years before returning to her hometown in 1998, has been perfecting her praline recipe since she was a teenager. Though her mother is privy to the simple-sounding recipe, Noble is the only person who can make it do magic.................."

I am the reigning Mardi Gras queen for HER Worthington...

I have never been to NOLA.  

c. 2006 Columbus Best Blog