Kevin Lennox

Recently I started working on a project with Vitaminwater Zero.  I'm tight with a person at Glaceau and we found this great project to work on that I'm really excited to start sharing.  Vitaminwater Zero is sponsoring a team of women from a fantastic local website called Urbanmamas to train for and run Hood to Coast.  Since Vitaminwater Zero is such a cool brand and has way more depth than just giving these ladies some free water, they have hired myself and two other people from the wellness team at Indigo to help better these women's lives along this journey.

Myself, Chrisanne, and Brad from the You team at Indigo are all working with the Urbanmamas on a one on one basis to help make their lives not only better, but easier as well.  Obviously I am doing fashion interventions, Chrisanne is a fantastic integrative wellness expert, and Brad is a super certified personal trainer, so each of us are whipping these women into shape in our own respective way.  KINK FM is also a partner on this project, so we're working with fabulous morning hosts Sheila Hamilton and Dave Scott.

One key component of all this is video blogging.  We all have Flip cams, which are super cool, and are documenting each  personal session along the way.  So, I thought I'd start sharing those video blogs on here.  First up is my bio vid.  Sorry it's a bit dark, I did the whole thing by myself, but the view is great on it, right?  Anyway, I'll be updating frequently with these video posts, so please do check back.  And I have some other things in the works right now that will keep me posting more often I swear!  Hope you like the vids, I'm the editor on all of them, so please feel free to (kindly) give feedback.

Below is the email I sent to McMenamin's COO of Pubs (apparently that's a title).  Is it sad I'm this riled up?

Hi Lars,

My name is Kevin Lennox.

I have been a long time and faithful McMenamin's denizen, regularly visiting Blue Moon, Ringler's, Kennedy School and Edgefield.

As such, I'm pretty familiar with your offerings, and I feel compelled to point out what a smack in the face your recently amended happy hour menu is.

You know, I could understand choosing to either shorten the menu or raise prices, but to do both at the same time wreaks of corporate greed, which seems diametrically opposed to the general McMenamin's ethos.

You're the cool brothers who do everything with quality, authenticity and above all, the customer in mind.

I suppose in this day and age of surcharges everywhere this kind of scheme shouldn't be such a surprise, but I guess it just shows McMenamin's did a better than most..... of duping me into thinking you truly did have the customer at heart.

Unfortunately I still like your beer, so I'll probably continue to drink it, but please know your customer confidence has shrunken by at least one, all because you felt the need to charge an extra dollar for fries.  Seriously McMenamin's?

K

I know I usually talk about fashion and fancy things, but I am insanely excited about the final Harry Potter movies, especially after seeing this trailer:

Has anyone else seen this and cried?  I did.....

It made me think of my own reaction.  Which was me, in my underwear, jumping up and down in a hotel room.  Thankfully I was wise enough not allow any video of that.

I'm happy to report I've added another great show to the list of programs I've been asked to appear on.  This one is called Twin Cities Live and is based out of, you guessed it, Minneapolis/St Paul.  It's a really fun, easy talk show, with great hosts who were very nice to work with.  Whenver I go on a new show, I never know if the hosts are going to play nice with me or not.  It can be a bit awkward, but John and Elizabeth were super welcoming.  Unfortunately their site doesn't let me embed, but you can link to the segment by clicking on the still photo below:

Now for some behind the scenes.  First off, all the clothing was being shipped in via Fed Ex, and was supposed to be arrive the day before we shot this segment, but there were big storms in the mid-west, and the box got sidelined in Indianapolis.  Now, I don't know if any of you have ever dealt with FedEx in situations like this, but it can be trying to say the least.  Fortunately I've been in this situation a bunch of times before, so I whipped Fed Ex into shape, and the package arrived a few hours before the segment.

The next issue was arose when my producer, the lovely Melissa, wanted me to hold up a pair of the black pants I was talking about before the models came out wearing them.  Problem was I only had enough pants for all five models, no extras.  So, we decided I would hold up the pants to talk about, and then pass them off to the producer after the camera went to the first model, so she could rush the pants to the last model who was standing off stage pants-less.  Well I wasn't totally sure when the camera had moved off of me, so if you pay attention you can see me throwing the pants off to Melissa's waiting arms for Tracy, our last model, to put on.  Fortunately, other than that minor flub, it all worked out.