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The second in my occasional series of blogs about creative friends and stuff I like finds me recommending 7reasons.org which is run by my good friend Marc Fearns (may as well admit the favouritism) and Jonathan Lee.

Marc made the Gate video featuring loving shots of his cat to the Merchandise tune The Last Stand of Pucho Vasquez from or last album Lo-tech Solutions to Hi-tech Problems which you can see here: The Gate

If you like Marc’s cat, and why wouldn’t you, his youtube channel features his classic experiment to see if his cat will walk on foil among some other amusing videos that could only be made by someone with too much time on his hands.

This time has now been put to good use though as the 7reasons blog seems to be taking off well for him. Every day Marc and Jonathan post 7reasons on a bewilderingly wide variety of topics and, just checking, today’s is 7reasons to like Andy Murray - shame he just lost . . .

I’m going to let them describe the site a little better: “Our website is chiefly concerned with providing humorous perspectives on a wide variety of topics.  We do this in the form of an argument, pro or anti something, providing seven reasons to support that argument.  We use seven reasons because it is the right amount to support an argument.  A smaller amount of reasons would be too few, and a greater number of reasons would be too many.”

And loads of people seem to agree with them with fans and followers galore visiting everyday to gain some of their skewed insight into whatever subjects take their fancy. The best thing to do is to just go there and have a read – here are a few picks – 7reasons to check out 7reasons you might say:

http://7reasons.org/2010/05/31/7-reasons-the-osmonds-were-right/
http://7reasons.org/2009/11/15/7-reasons-why-songwriting-is-easy/
http://7reasons.org/2009/12/02/7-reasons-to-write-a-song-about-rain/
http://7reasons.org/2010/03/05/7-reasons-the-new-radicals-should-have-done-their-research/
http://7reasons.org/2010/04/01/7-reasons-it-takes-7-songs-to-tell-you-who-you-are/
http://7reasons.org/2010/04/13/7-reasons-frank-sinatra-talked-nonsense/
http://7reasons.org/2009/12/19/guest-post-7-reasons-to-love-bolton/

I’ve got to admit to writing the last one as a guest post for them a few months ago ;0) Interactivity, that’s what you want! And then there are the promotional videos which I’ve book-ended this post with. Have a look, visit the site and when you’re reading their wisdom all over the place, you’ll remember where you saw it first.

Brad