And her name is Janeane Garofalo. Hear me out here. Kaufman’s genius, or his insanity, was to blur the line between performance and reality to the point where the audience’s reaction (is this really happening? Is this guy serious?) becomes part of the act. Unlike some latter-day acts (can you Read more…
Ever buy a house? Remember signing all that paperwork at the bank? Let’s just say you’re there, a couple of hours before five, and there’s a stack of paper, maybe 1200 pages worth. You don’t have a hope of reading it all before closing, and you have to close today. Read more…
The subject that will not die has reared itself again. So, if we don’t tax the Internet to pay for dead trees killed by a dying business model, and we don’t turn copyright law into an undead brain-eating zombie under the control of the RIAA, what do we do? Well Read more…
UPDATE: Fixed dick quote attribution. I have mentioned before that there are certain rules that authors should abide by when gliding across this meadow of rainbows and unicorn farts we call the internet. It is not all smileys and lolcats out there, and forewarned is forearmed. Anyway, most rules boil Read more…
You will love this. And I quote: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from Read more…
The Dutch government wants to tax the internet to fund print media. To put a finer point on it, the Dutch have come up with the swell idea that the way to save print journalism is to tax another, different, sector of the economy. Now as a friend said on Read more…
But an asshat named Robert Stanek seems to think otherwise. This gentleman appears to think that anyone’s success comes at the expense of his own career. I’ve heard of misguided authors trying to game Amazon to pump up their own work, but this has got to be the most vindictive Read more…
I’m not going to rant about this, because it was pretty damn obvious what was going on as it happened. However, as a little bit a hypothetical I want to ask you the following: Let’s just say our last president made some policy announcement about a cornerstone of his administration’s Read more…
David Letterman doesn’t read this blog, but it’s ok, in his mind she was 18. DHS says told ya so, veterans are dangerous, if they’re racist white supremacist whackjobs who hate Fox News, but it’s really Limbaugh’s fault. But someone gets it, and the Huffington Post suggests that a change Read more…
Lest one think I’m suggesting that the idea of using offensively asinine statements that allege to support one’s point of view while fatally undermining the political principles one claims to support while being cringe-inducingly tacky at the same time was in fact a monopolistic practice on the left side of Read more…