Filed by Lance at 2:36 pm under Fightin' Words, General, Hatemail, Shameless Plugs, The Arts
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Tip Your Waiter is hosting a recording session for our ongoing, collaborative project called Hatemail on the last Sunday of every month, and here’s what happening this time around:
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Filed by Trevor at 2:05 pm under Fightin' Words, Politics
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This is an impulse post if there ever was one, and if you haven’t watched the video on Bil’s earlier one, do so now.
I spend a fair bit of time worrying about the state of things, especially as world leaders gather more and more power into their claws with the deft use of fear and intimidation. Thus, the video below gives me hope — a sign that there are some politicians yet that still have the grapes to stand up for themselves and the sovereignty of their nation. Plus it’s kind of funny.
Some background info first, though, as best as I understand things. Herman van Rompuy recently was unilaterally appointed “President of Europe”, an office I found to be little disturbing, but the appointment fitting enough as Belgium was one of the founding members of the EU. And now, what someone who knows far more than I has to say on the subject:
Filed by Bil at 8:08 pm under Fightin' Words, Shameless Plugs, The Media
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First things first:
Click to help bring an independent film to theatres!
I want to say right now that I don’t know any of these people. I have only a vague idea of what the movie is about, and I have absolutely no idea at all if the film is any good. However, this is just such an ingenious marketing idea that I want to see it succeed. If nothing else, it’s an interesting experiment in the usefulness of social media and internet marketing.
Building off of that, I want to turn your attention now to an earlier blog post from this same blog:
Must Filmmakers be Businessmen?
One of the ideas that drives me to marry entrepreneurism with my creative interests is the observation that studios are becoming so risk adverse, that the rewards of producing original content will soon be exclusively in the hands of individuals with the vision and the cajones to take the risk on themselves.
According to this article in the Hollywood Reporter, the same is becoming true in the distribution market - even for wide releases!
This process will only continue, as shareholders drive the studios into more and more conservative investments and social media changes the marketing landscape. What we’re seeing now is only the beginning.
Filed by Bil at 10:20 pm under Fightin' Words, Homophobia, Politics, The Media
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Well this is just incredible:
For 5 days, 5 Journalists will only source news from Twitter and Facebook to test quality of news.
This is bound to be a fascinating little experiment, and I am eager to read the results.
>> Update: you can follow the journalists here.
Speaking of breaking news via Twitter, I’ve been sitting at my computer for like half an hour now just watching the real-time tweet feed come in on the Prop 8 trial in California. For all of you on Twitter, just search #prop8 (or click this link) and sit still for ten seconds. You’ll see. They won’t stop coming.
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Filed by Bil at 8:56 pm under Fightin' Words, Love
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This music video doesn’t really have anything to do with anything, I just find it enormously entertaining.
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Filed by Bil at 9:10 pm under Fightin' Words
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The Olympics are going to Rio De Janeiro in 2016. This news was met with mixed emoticons here in Chicago last week. By the time they finally made the announcement, the latest polls were showing roughly half of the city still wanted the Olympics and roughly half the city did not – in fact, I think the nay-sayers even had a slight edge in that poll. Personally, I wanted them. I won’t lie. But I wasn’t exactly devastated by the loss.
A lot of people were so worried that the city would lose money on it. News flash: the city has been losing money on far stupider ideas than hosting the Olympics for years now, and guess what? I’m still alive with a roof over my head and I’ve still got cable TV.
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Filed by Bil at 10:54 pm under Damn Hippies, Fightin' Words, GOP, Politics
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http://benonymous.tumblr.com/post/198803171/divorce
Please, everybody go and read this blog post. It is a divorce of right and left proposed by the right, and a supremely clever response from the left. I’m enamored with the reply, it sums up just about everything about the strife we find ourselves with these days, and while it stands firm, it is not a mean-spirited reply. The wink comes with open arms; or, the open arms come with a wink. One of the two.
While you’re at it, check out the rest of the blog. This is one interesting mind.
Filed by Bil at 10:46 pm under Fightin' Words, Stuff to Read
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Returning to the sentiment that journalism in the iPhone age is a constant battle between quality and quantity, I would like to point out sports journalism hasn’t suffered any, because it’s pretty much always sucked, and there has always been too much of it.
Filed by Bil at 1:54 pm under Fightin' Words
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In addition to my handful of anecdotes about random strangers declaring their lust for me, I now have one about a random stranger spewing his hatred towards me. That’s what I love about city life. The variety.
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Filed by Bil at 2:27 pm under Fightin' Words, Politics, Social Issues
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Now that “Reading Rainbow” is done, what does the future look like? I’m worried because it wasn’t one of those things that fulfilled a specific basic human need. It’s not like it was the only pizza delivery company around; but if it was, you know damn well somebody else would pick up the torch. If there’s one thing that binds us all, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, it’s the same — we all want our pizza brought right to our front door.
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