Wall Street Journal video: Private Properties: WSJ correspondent Lauren Schuker on Anna Kournikova selling her home on Sunset Island off Miami Beach for $7.4 million. February 2, 2012. http://youtu.be/Z18liMWHHMI
Justine Ezarik, a.k.a. iJustine, modern-day Digital Renaissance Woman and well-known YouTube Partner, back from CES, is in Miami for NATPE and checking-out the South Florida scene.
I originally meant to post the two videos -below- of lovely multi-tasker Justine about three months ago, back when she was visiting Norway and taking some awesome photos and videos of that beautiful country that's been the sad subject of so many posts of mine here since the massacre in Utøya, and home to so many friends, talented musicians -and, let's be honest, very beautiful women.
Plus, in case you missed it, Justine finally explained, to those who didn't know, what the reality of the Swedish Fish situation was. So there's that!
Curiously enough, that video of Justine and her Norwegian tech friends doing the glacier trek was one of the things that I had waiting for me in my YouTube inbox one night three months ago, when I'd come home from spending a few hours with my Dad when he wasn't doing very well after he'd taken a fall earlier in the afternoon at the Hollywood ALF he's living at up the street. I'd had to jump into the gridlocked traffic on US-1 and rush up US-1 to get him and then head south to the Mt. Sinai ER in Aventura, with a large and disconcerting gash above his right eye.
Right where he had had surgery back in 1973 after he was the innocent victim in a car accident in North Miami Beach, while I was in Junior High School.
When I finally got home and flipped on my computer and the TV, with Jimmy Kimmel
about mid-way thru his monologue, I was both physically exhausted and emotionally distraught, and driving home I'd once again been mentally debating my idea of whether or not my visiting Sweden and Iceland soon for two weeks to just get away from here for a while and clear my head is such a great idea. Something I've mentioned a time or two here before. But as she has so many times before, especially the rough last year-and-a-half, with all of its upsetting ups-and-downs concerning my Dad's health, Justine made me laugh and smile when I really needed it... so there's that. She's Pittsburgh thru-and-thru! Something my Steubenville-born dad would surely appreciate if he only fully comprehended the whole Influencer scene.
Months after I'd originally planned on doing so, I'm going to be over on South Beach Monday afternoon to take some photos and shoot some video of the space on Lincoln Road that was supposed to be the new H&Mstore many months ago, but which is, well, STILL not open.
I'm going to try to get some straight answers from some responsible people as to when that soon-to-be cash cow store is going to be a reality, but if by chance I run into Justine, with her camera in tow, well, that sleuthing of mine may well have to wait until another time.
Even though I'm NOT a fan of reality shows anymore, per se, since the only one I consistently watch is CBS'sThe Amazing Race, Justine is definitely someone whose quirky personal adventures, misadventures and hijinks I would watch on the small tube. Yes, smarts, savvy and personality still counts for a lot with me, and Justine has enough personality for any two women. Take that as a hint, NATPE programming types looking for new ideas.
A head's-up for those of you with YouTube Channels, esp. those of you who DON'T receive anywhere near the volume of visits that Justine gets.
Which is to say, all of you.
And me!
After originally planning on posting it over Christmas week but not being able to do so for reasons that some of you know about, in the next day or so I'll be posting the fascinating and instructive video of ABC News' 20/20 program from September called "YouTube Generation" that I've already spoken to some of you about via email.
I'll also post some of my pithy observations about it.
To see what the recently-reformed Miami Beach Taxpayer’s Association wants from the developer, regarding their huge project on the site of the Miami Herald's current HQ and the adjoining area properties, featuring a destination-style casino, see
*May 2013 update: meant to mention this before but Anna has not only moved from Sweden to the Miami area, but has also moved her very, very popular blog to her own site: http://annahibbs.com/blog/ Go check out what the always-interesting Anna is up to now at her new site full of her adventures and thoughts! *April 2015 update: no blog posts since October of 2014 :-( ------- Above, charming personality-plus Swedish DJ and blogger extraordinaire Anna Hibbs, one of the featured bloggers of the hugely popular Stureplan.se media platform -covering news, music, nightlife, fashion and entertainment- is visiting family and friends in Miami for a bit while making her way back to Stockholm after a trip out west.
Yes, that's the same very successful media platform that London-based Tess Montgomery is at, which I've mentioned a few times previously here, esp. in a post that compared it to how feeble and slow the Miami Herald's media platform is, esp. the one for blogging:
IF it's not too much trouble, South Florida, I humbly beseech you all to treat Anna (and friends) with the utmost courtesy and respect due a traveling Blogger Ambassador of Good Will, esp. one with such an eye for detail and a good time.
This especially goes for all you chefs, taxi drivers, retail clerks, night club owners, et al out there.
If Anna's visiting your store, restaurant, club or gallery and asks you what's good or popular, please don't just say the first thing that pops into your head, tell her the truth.
She wants to know and to be accurate if she mentions it later, plus, well, she's very sharp and discerning anyway, so it would be a shame if you tried to mislead her.
Think of Anna as the sort of ideal client you'd want coming back over-and-over because of the quality and service you offer, who's only too keen to tell all her friends how well she was treated.
Seriously, a positive word or two from Anna will reach lots of consumer eyeballs.
Just saying...
Plus, she's sweet and it'd be the right thing to do, anyway, right, so how about it? You can also follow the latest with Anna on her Instagram account: https://instagram.com/annahibbs/
My last post on Steve Dahl, someone I listened to everyday for years during and after I lived in Chicago, Evanston and Wilmette was six months ago in a January 18th post titled, The funniest discovery of the new year: "Jeff from Tallahassee" on Red Eye; reminds me of the Steve & Garry, Don & Mike comic genius I miss
Check out this interesting Steve & Garry audio clip from the late 1980's that involves South Florida, which made me decide to complement it with other reminders of that visit by The Beatlesfor their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show:
WLUP-AM, Chicago- Steve Dahl & Garry Meier Show: on eating on-the-air in the studio; Ed Sullivan; The photo shoot of The Beatles February 14, 1964 for LIFE Magazine at the Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach.
ABC News Nightline: March 3, 2011, High-End Real Estate Action
National Correspondent Vicki Mabrey pays a visit to Miami Beach to check out the digs at 3 Indian Creek Drive, Indian Creek Island, and see what makes it worth $60 Million.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEQM7PZ4hE
3 Indian Creek Island Drive, Indian Creek, Florida http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY3M9VQlkkc
Australian TV real estate ad for 15 Queen Anne Court, Sovereign Island, Gold Coast, Queensland (UNCENSORED & UNCUT) - Adrian Jenkins and Ian Adams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9LBQZ3nxCU
