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De-douching America

August 2, 2009
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This weekend, I’m catching up on my Daily Shows & Colbert Reports that I missed while in SF. I just watched Wednesday’s Daily Show, and was blown away by “So You Think You Can Douche”, taking on the talking heads on cable news networks. It’s not that it was so much better than the typical Daily Show bit, but just that it seemed to encapsulate perfectly the ways in which TDS is an essential corrective to today’s media.

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Angry Bob with Rick Sanchez on CNN

January 11, 2009
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I always love it when I see art stars break beyond the walls of Bowery Poetry Club and other downtown art holes and into the world at large.  Recently, perennial LES ranter Angry Bob has been making talking head appearances performing “political satire” on CNN with Newsroom anchor Rick Sanchez.   In the first (from Friday [...]

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Reviv

January 10, 2009

I am resurrecting inc.ongruo.us.  I woke up one day last month – just before Christmas when I had no work or school and found myself with a little time to realize things – and remembered that I had left various abandoned blogs carelessly strewn about the internet.  When I left Oxygen in summer of ‘07 [...]

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Departure Motifs in “Fringe”

September 20, 2008

Last night, I finally watched the 2-hour pilot episode of Fringe – J.J. Abrams’ new drama on Fox – and recognized a number of the common “departure” themes mentioned by Campbell and discussed in class.
To give a brief summary of the episode, the plot revolves around FBI agent Olivia Dunham whose partner/lover is injured while [...]

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Content vs. Communication

May 27, 2008

Mike Masnick has an interesting post on Techdirt today, reporting on Google’s recently filed response to the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube. In a nutshell, Google’s response is that a) it’s doing nothing wrong and taking all measures to remove copyrighted material and b) a threat to sharing on the internet is a threat to [...]

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