Tag: Entertainment
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De Vast Atery
DailyMail tries to transcribe Fetterman’s question to a bureaucrat about the recent major problem on I95 in Philly. (It wasn’t a failure of the bridge itself; it was a tanker truck that burned up a bridge. So it wasn’t a Federal policy concern, and didn’t need to be discussed in Congress.) “I, uh, would just,…
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What you mean WE, theory man?
McDiarmid praises two professional arguers for arguing without nastiness. The result is the type of interaction we’re secretly craving more of these days — energetic conversation between people with differing views but who demonstrate respect for one another, for themselves, and for those who may be watching. I’m not craving pointless argument whether civilized or…
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One advance
This 1950 episode of Hollywood Byline is in my bedtime OTR playlist. It happened to be playing when I woke up after a much-needed heavy sleep. The guest in this episode was Celeste Holm, and the discussion at the moment of waking was postwar economics in Hollywood. In the sleep/wake transition state, I thought it…
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Neuralink vs Alidade
Elon’s Neuralink is the latest and nastiest step in our long departure from senses and reality. Elon wants to get directly into our brains with both transmit and receive so he can update our software in the same way he updates the Tesla. Maximum Github, maximum Room 101. Last year when I was showing the…
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Kirn vs Cervantes
Latest from Kirn: Privacy, censorship, surveillance, and freedom of expression must be explicit, top-tier issues in the upcoming presidential contest. All candidates must be pressed to take clear stands. First, there’s never any point in saying must. Government does what it wants. Government doesn’t care what peasants think it must do. Writers who put must…
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More flip
Lately I’ve been noticing establishment types who understand reality better than independent types. This reversal happens only on specific issues. The debt ceiling stageplay is a good example. Yahoo Financial gets it. The whole thing is pure noise, and even the changes made by each “side” to finish the negotiation are marginal and temporary, reverted…
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Good bad example
When making illustrations and animations for anatomy, I should be sure to avoid comparisons like this. EDITING is the most important part of creating. Later thought: The above ‘bad example’ is French. There’s a long French tradition of inserting sly double entendres and plain old silliness in technical illustrations. Maybe the example is continuing the…
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What would be familiar?
Listening to continuing coverage of the writers strike. They’re mentioning all the companies that make movies and how the companies are handling the strike. What would a 1950s movie writer think if she tuned into this broadcast through an ionospheric timewarp? How would the Martian visitor explain it? Martian: Well, they’re striking against Paramount, NBC/Universal,…
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Required listening
Speaking of Entertainment as a Duty, and speaking of the British quick recovery from NAZI OCCUPATION… Tess Lawrie interviews musician Cambel McLaughlin who was touring Britain during the two years of occupation. He focuses correctly on the LOCKDOWNS and the total mental, emotional, and physical effects of the LOCKDOWNS. He never uses the C-word or…
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Random thoughts
Couple of random thoughts. 1. Thinking about the old Hollywood attitude that entertainment is a duty. Is entertainer one of the basic types? Humans unquestionably have a predesigned set of roles and duties just as bees do. Each basic type has an obvious old job, with modern variations. I hadn’t tried to include Entertainer in…
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Sane response
I’ve been steadily impressed by the plain old sanity that shows up in the Hollywood types writing at the Ankler. Maybe they’re not the norm, but many of them are well-known names. Here’s another example, from their coverage of the upcoming writers strike: There were some writers, however, who expressed something close to a Zen-like…
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Classical symmetry
The Enid Postcards site runs a few hundred old pix in slow rotation, eliciting more or less the same comments every time. Repetition tends to bring out patterns. When I lived there I didn’t appreciate the SKILL of the bricklayers who turned out intricate and sturdy art on every wall, whether visible or not. Enid’s…
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Poor assumption
This writer has some interesting details of digital journalism, but he starts from the assumption that “news” and “investigative journalism” are intrinsically valuable products that NEED to be made, whether profitable or not. Bad assumption. Nobody actually needs “news” as it’s commonly formed. We could use prior warning of incoming weather and demonic government projects…
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Durable goods
Gaming is already larger than movies and TV shows in the younger generations. Hollywood and gaming are overlapping both ways, with movies based on games and games based on movies. The companies and executives are also overlapping both ways. Gaming still doesn’t show up in mainstream media, which almost solely covers Hollywood and TV stars…
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It’s an old truth
Buzzfeed is shutting down the “news” part of their service and continuing the part with quizzes and listicles and such. They’re realizing a very old truth, which pre-TV newspapers and radio understood well. Facts are not commercially valuable. Normal people don’t want to pay for facts because normal people have eyes and ears and neighbors.…
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