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My favorite video so far of Jayson Werth’s Game 4 walk-off home run for the Nats
This is my favorite video so far of Jayson Werth’s NLDS Game 4 walk-off home run for the Nats. “I HIT RECORD!” is the new “GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!” (via @recordsANDradio) Related articles StubHub before and after Jayson Werth’s Game 4 walk-off home run (mikeholden.wordpress.com)
#hiremikeholden on washingtonpost.com
March 22, 2012
The #hiremikeholden hashtag made it onto washingtonpost.com, thanks to my fantastic wife! The Post wished good luck on Twitter too, after I tweeted the image below. Thanks to them and everyone else who has been spreading the word about my job search and solo PR and marketing work. I appreciate it!
Supporting my local brewer
February 11, 2012
I made my first trip to DC Brau headquarters today, after reading a @dcbrau tweet that they had the FWR Imperial Pumpkin Porter on tap—I’m a sucker for any pumpkin beer and it’s usually tough to find them outside the fall season. I’d had DC Brau’s The Public two or three times at some local […]
Kevin Weekes says Caps now “the main team” in DC area sports scene
December 2, 2011
Speaking on the NHL Network about the Anaheim Ducks hiring of former Caps coach Bruce Boudreau, Kevin Weekes praised Boudreau for putting Caps “back on the radar” and said, “they’re now the main team back in the DC area in terms of the sports scene.” True? Do the Caps come ahead of the Skins as […]
Kickball in DC on NBC
July 29, 2011
NBC 4 in Washington DC put together a very nice piece on WAKA’s kickball leagues in DC . Check it out at that link and you can visit WAKA’s DC area kickball page if you’d like to find a league to play in — we’re in DC, where it all started in 1998, and also […]
CSN has Caps & Wizards in HD tonight simultaneously for first time ever
November 5, 2010
Tonight will be the first time during the 2010-11 regular season that the Washington Capitals and Wizards play at the same time. And as CSN Washington notes on their blog, the regional sports network will broadcast both teams’ games simultaneously in HD. As many Caps and Wizards fans know well, this was not possible in […]
D.C.’s new West End Cinema “a compliment, not a competitor”
October 22, 2010
Continuing what is unexpectedly a series on competition and collaboration… There must be something in the water in D.C. or Jamie Shor, co-founder of the new West End Cinema, has been hanging out with Steve Buttry, Tom Meyer and Seth Hurwitz. In an article in today’s Washington Post, “D.C.’s West End Cinema to provide outlet […]
Healthy views on competition and collaboration
October 13, 2010
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement for TBD, offers up some great “thoughts on competition and collaboration” in a recent post about Patch, the AOL series of local news sites that some bloggers are worried will cost them web traffic. Buttry writes: “I don’t know that Patch being in your community is necessarily a bad […]
D.C. Metro Escalators Summed Up in One Lyric
September 15, 2010
“We sent a man to the moon brought him back two weeks later apparently not as long as it takes to fix an escalator” – GoRemy
MIKE HOLDEN
I'm a blogger and communications professional, writing here mostly about sports, PR, marketing, and the media. I also blog about hockey at BrooksLaichyear.com.
I'm a blogger and communications professional, writing here mostly about sports, PR, marketing, and the media. I also blog about hockey at BrooksLaichyear.com.
October 12, 2012
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