When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Chuck It All and Head for Grown Up Camp.

The news is bad and getting worse.

No one is giving you $443,000 to spend a week at a fancy resort getting Chardonnay Scrubs and four-handed Mediterranean Harmony massages.

No one has paid you $350 million dollars over the past seven years to do your job.

No one is giving you a couple million porky bucks because you like wooden arrows.

At times like this, the best plan may be to simply run away from your heavily mortgaged home and your worthless SUV and head for: Grown up Camp.

GrownUpCamps.com is the Internet’s most comprehensive directory of traditional, sports and fantasy camps, recreational activities and educational vacations for the adult traveler. Sailing, Tennis, Golf, Spas, Canoeing, Kayaking, Car Racing, Pet Friendly Camps, Camps for Rent, Learning Experiences, Culinary Programs, RV/Campgrounds and so much more!

Wannabee Rock n Rollers can go to London:

JAM WITH LEGENDARY ROCK STARS
PLAY IN A BAND WITH FAMOUS MUSICIANS
PERFORM LIVE AT MAJOR CONCERT VENUES
LIVE THE ROCK AND ROLL DREAM
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp™ is the ultimate music experience, that allows musicians and enthusiasts alike the once in a lifetime opportunity to jam with legendary rock stars, play live on stage at major concert venues, and live their rock ‘n’ roll dreams. Simply stated, our mission is to bring people’s musical fantasies to life!

Wannabee Archaeologists can go to Colorado:

The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, located in southwestern Colorado, is dedicated to understanding, teaching, and preserving the rich history of the ancestral Pueblo Indians (also called the Anasazi) who inhabited the canyons and mesas of the Mesa Verde region more than 700 years ago. Crow Canyon’s campus-based programs allow you to participate in actual archaeological research, making exciting discoveries in the field and laboratory that add to our collective understanding of the Pueblo past.

Wannabee Surfers can learn to surf at camps from Mexico to Australia to Singapore.

Wannabee Do-Gooders can be inspired to sign up for a life-changing Meaningful Adventure:

Are you looking for a travel experience that means more than sightseeing… the opportunity to live with locals, give back to communities, and enjoy a bit of adventure along the way? Our Meaningful Tours let you combine voluntary work with adventure, so you can contribute to vital projects abroad whilst exploring one fascinating experience after another along your memorable tour.

Or for pure adrenaline, take an Incredible Adventure.

Because we agree:

Life is either an incredible adventure…or nothing at all.

New Media News: Daily Candy Sweetens Up Comcast. Microsoft’s Latest Attempt at Cool –CrowdFire — to Launch At Outside Lands Fest.

Media junky favorite, Cynopsis, reports the following tidbits this week:

Women’s fashion and lifestyle email newsletter DailyCandy was acquired by Comcast for a reported $125 million. The site sends out daily emails to some 2.5 million readers in 12 U.S. cities and London, England. Guru’s Note: This simple announcement does not do justice to Daily Candy’s pioneering role in spreading juicy new products, sites, styles, and do gooder causes to a vast network of lifestyle-hungry readers.

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Federated Media Publishing and Microsoft teamed up to launch CrowdFire, a social networking platform for uploading, sharing and remixing music and musical performances with the festival scene as a sweetspot. Federated Media CEO John Battelle describes his vision of it as a happening enabler of sorts. Users are encouraged to send SMS, email and uploads of media directly into the CrowdFire database and media jockeys will create streams of CrowdFire imagery in real time, sent back out into the festival grounds through a network of digital screens. Groovy.

Crowdfire will be on full display at the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco on Aug. 22-24. Guru’s Note: Naturally, Guru & company are already planning to attend Outside Lands (Favorites Andrew Bird and Wilco are playing on the 24th, and rumor has it that Beck may show up all three days) so uber-cool ticket holders (and me) have already been pinged by Crowdfire.

Granddaddy of web video news shows Rocketboom was acquired by Sony Pictures Television for a seven figure guarantee plus a share of future revenues generated from the show. Sony plans to distribute the show across multiple digital platforms including Crackle and its syndication network, the PS3, the PSP and Bravia internet video link televisions. Rocketboom is already one of the most widely distributed video blogs on the net, available via iTunes, Tivo, Apple TV, Pando, TVTonic and multiple web video portals including YouTube, Metacafe, blip.tv and Vuze.