May 2013
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Are Animated Gifs a Type of Cinema? | Press Play →
I know what you’re thinking - no. They’re not. But read on, there’s an interesting argument for the potential of the ‘animated gif’ as a medium with a capacity for startling juxtaposition, and as the path back to the original web video, the kinescope.
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HOW DID DARK MINIONS STACK UP NEXT TO THINGS IN...
It’s the question on everybody’s lips. Since Amazon passed on taking our Dark Minions Pilot to series, I’ve been scouring the customer reviews to figure out why. Fortunately, once someone writes a review of something, we get to see every other review they’ve posted. So enough with comparing Dark Minions to Betas or Alpha House (congratulations to both shows, seriously,...
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REQUIEM
Dark Minions will not be moving forward to series at Amazon.
Kevin and I want to thank Amazon Studios, the incredible artisans at ShadowMachine and the wonderful people who signed on to Amazon and told them how much they loved the show. We are in Good Company - Zombieland isn’t going forward either - and we very much enjoyed the process.
Feldenbaum, get us out of here …
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“It’s strange how “scandal” gets defined these days in...”
– The real IRS scandal
This should be the last word in the so-called “IRS scandal” which is getting smaller with each detail I hear about it. It won’t be, because Benghazi is revealing itself to be an old fashioned failure of intelligence and not an Iran-Contra style liefest, so...
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Today in what’s wrong with the economy: full-time... →
Over at Jacobin.com, Kurt Newman has written a really fascinating piece about the wage slaves of the E! reality television show, Fashion Police. The program, which stars Joan Rivers, is…
For a little Sunday Night Socialism … I’m kidding, of course, there’s nothing socialist about wanting to be paid commensurate with the revenue you help generate. This article singles out Fashion...
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See Poehler, Corddry, Fey, and More Having Fun at... →
Despite some glaring omissions, this is a fun set of images by the great Jason Spiro. Dig in!
April 2013
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Too Drunk to Rock? | The Fix →
@maggieserota shares her experience, strength and hope in explaining how to rock whilst sober. Fresh takes on old drinking songs abound, but allow me to be among thousands to ask: where the fuck are the Pogues on this list?
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A WORD ON DARK MINIONS
Stop motion is a medium that rewards patience. They don’t show ‘dailies’ at production meetings, they show ‘weeklies’ — because it takes a week to pull together 2 minutes of footage if EVERYONE is working literally around the clock. When Amazon commissioned a pilot and said that they wanted a stop-motion version it was understood at the outset that we would not...
“Great piece about the delightful @matthewspecktor, his Los Angeles, and his new...”
– A Hollywood of the mind
“This is the playground where Nate [age 9] gets his first quaalude — and … the backboards are the same!”
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Well done, BPD. Here’s the Standells with...
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BEHOLD!
The Trailer for Dark Minions is Online!!! Please Share/RT/Evangelize!!!
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The Attack of the Killer Novel
Just finished Infinite Jest. Seriously, JUST now, it’s sitting next to me at the desk. Dense. Impossible at times. Joyously detailed at others. Laugh-out-loud funny, as it had better be if it’s going to be 1068 pages, counting footnotes.
I’m exhausted and confused. The ending baffled me - the book seemed to trail off, put some characters into non-linear peril and then just...
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Margaret Thatcher vs. British Musicians | The... →
Interesting mixtape of songs bashing the recently diseased Baroness - I,for one, had never realized “Ghost Town” was about her, even indirectly.
I post this not to pointlessly gloat at her demise - I post this because she inspired some of my favorite songwriters from the Britain of the late 70s and 80s. My British followers are more than welcome to tell me to pess off and mind my own...
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THAT'S THE CHICAGO WAY
Where do you even start with a guy like Roger Ebert? The man who took film writing out of its tour d’ivoire and made it accesible and populist? A man who didn’t like having his precious time wasted, but was not above a enjoying a cheap laugh or a lascivious hip swivel? A man who dominated Twitter and basically invented blogging, in the sense that he told the world that they...
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Bassem Youssef
This Egyptian Comedian story is completely worth following for a number of reasons - one, it reminds us how nice it is to live here where we can just piss and moan at each other on Twitter, two, it makes a conservative like the Daily Beast’s Justin Green leap out and almost kind of endorse Jon Stewart. I like it when we all get along.
The National Memo » LOL Of The Week: Scott Walker... →
March 2013
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