tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51037202011-04-21T11:44:28.101-07:00The blog of David MarklandThe Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comBlogger3191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-55140025731338384622008-03-07T23:24:00.000-08:002008-03-07T23:25:41.928-08:00

I'm writing, but elsewhere.I'm leaving my updates here:www.davidmarkland.com

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A quick recap of some of my favorite recent entries at blogging.la:First is a "series" I put together counting down the Top 25 Legends of Los Angeles - conspiracy theories, rumors, tall tales, urban legends, etc. About nine other writers contributed to the project, including some amazingly well researched and written entries on assorted legends, including the one about Jamie Lee Curtis being a

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From the Associated Press (via Breitbart): A Roman Catholic elementary school adopted new lunchroom rules this week requiring students to remain silent while eating. The move comes after three recent choking incidents in the cafeteria. No one was hurt, but the principal of St. Rose of Lima School explained in a letter to parents that if the lunchroom is loud, staff members cannot hear a child

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Thanks for still checking here. As stated many times before, all of my efforts have been spent writing for blogging.la. In the sidebar you'll see a link to my most recent posts, and is constantly updated.Here's a few recent posts I've done over there that I'd like to get more people to check out:Katy Sullivan - I've been posting video work from LA filmmaker who aren't at Sundance this week,

The Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-1151516708752564632006-06-28T10:45:00.000-07:002006-06-28T10:45:08.820-07:00

I've been working far too long on a larger post about credibility, relating the the Bush Admin, James Frey, Truthout.org, and bloggers in general. Alas, it always gets too long winded, so I'll keep it down to occasional brief posts...I saw An Inconvenient Truth. I thought it was pretty good. I also followed up by surfing the net to back up the some of Gore's claims. My largest problem is his

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Why Bill O'Reilly Lost My RespectI think I've mentioned this before - I used to respect Bill O'Reilly, even though I disagreed with him often, until this interview with Jeremy Glick. Any other news network would have fired O'Reilly for the way he treated this guest.The video enough is bad alone, let alone O'Reilly later spinning/lying about what Glick said on the program:"on this program, Glick

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Once again, I pipe in to point out that I am, indeed, blogging quite a bit... albeit at blogging.la.I recently added a tool bar on the right that offers an easy way to see my most recent posts there. The Los Angeles-centric, but sometimes still fun. And if they inspire you to come visit, all the better.I'm particularly proud of my most recent entries, part of a series called "Six Six Six Days of

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Gene Garcia, another Group 101er from my team just made and posted this fun MasterCard spec commercial.If you're a sucker for puppies in video like I am, you'll enjoy.PricelessAlso, our group mentor, Nick Towle, recently invited me to help out on a reshoot for a short he made (actually, he invited my camera and I just tagged along). Some pics from the set can be viewed here... interesting to note

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A little over a year ago I adapted and shot a short film based on the Laymon short story "The Worshipper". This was actually supposed to be the first of three Laymon shorts I wanted to adapt for my director's reel, and I chose "The Worshipper" mainly because I knew I could shoot it with little or no budget (actually this was secondary - I really liked the story, too).While I still have the

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I'll post the whole story in the next couple days, but in short one lucky shot under my front door wettened my feet, thus eliminating me from Street Wars.In the meantime, CNN will be covering Street Wars tonight on The Situation Room at 7pm EST.

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If you're wondering what the hell I was talking about with Sumner Redstone coming after me, check out this article for a clue...LA Times: "Assassin Game Is A Hit, Man"In the meantime, I think I was a little paranoid at the time. A newsvan was parked outside my apartment and, really, who wouldn't think they were anything but assassins?(if you're asked to log in to read the article, try:login:

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Dr. Greg Bales, associate professor of urology at the University of Chicago, said severed penises are uncommon but surgery usually works. "As long as the penis is placed on ice and reattached within a few hours, the success is usually pretty good," Bales said.Phew!Although if it was MY penis it would have been an effective weapon and taken out an entire SWAT team, unlike this guy who was easily

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But no, he will not get me.

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My biggest problem with the US invading Iraq, isn't that we shouldn't have never ousted Sadaam, but that deceiving the public about the threat of WMDs was the wrong way to go. I know my right wing readers will say we weren't lied to, and more on this in a bit, but first I was to stress that I think Sadaam did need to be kicked out, and personally I would back removing almost any dictator or

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Here's one strike against Dubai and the UAE: they're genuinely excited by an upcoming concert by Bryan Adams. A Canadian.However, I find it pretty damned telling that not only is this concert apparently selling out a Dubai stadium, but the sponsors include Virgin Megastores, the Hard Rock Cafe, and Hallmark greeting cards.I know that the main stream media and especially the right wing blogs won't

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I visited an interesting internet/computer convention/fest/thingy called BarCamp on Saturday night, mostly because I heard a bunch of reputable bloggers would be attending. It was also put together in part by Sean Bonner from blogging.la, and I thought it might be great material for my first vlog.The concept and execution for BarCamp is fascinating, and the subject of the video I made about it

The Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-1141081091059927732006-02-27T14:58:00.000-08:002006-02-27T14:58:11.060-08:00

I'm actually blogging frequently, but not here...Keep an eye on blogging.la where I've been posting at least once every other day. (Its largely Los Angeles themed posts, so my out of town readers might be bored... )

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So, yeah... my theory that Cheney will quit or get dumped by the Bush Admin so Condi RIce can become VP was given a little more credibility after the Drudge Report linked to this article:Insight Magazine: Cheney seen retiring after midterm electionsSenior GOP sources envision the retirement of Mr. Cheney in 2007, months after the congressional elections. The sources said Mr. Cheney would be

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In press lingo, the Cheney shooting story certainly has legs. Not so much over the actual shooting than the VP's office repeated delays on informing the public, and perhaps even the White House, of critical details. This, of course, raises many questions and suspicions, and highlights the concerns that people opposed to the Bush Admin have been saying all along: its secretive to a fault. Why did

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I know how horrific it is to laugh at someone else's misery, but I can't quit chuckling at Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of attorney Harry Whittington.As a Constitutionalist (the political party I just made up, I think) I believe in the right to bear arms. And I have no problem with hunting at all.But Cheney and the NRA Republicans who talk about how safe a sport hunting is, and that firearms

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NATIONAL JOURNAL: Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information (02/09/2006)Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar

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Again, I'd like to bring up the focus at Reverse Vampyr's blog about the cartoons of Muhammad causing protests, rioting, and deaths in Europe and the Middle East.I think that it goes without saying that the violent reaction is simply inexcusable.However, the American perspective on this is a bit wrong - the usual argument is that you don't see Christians reacting this way to art such as "Piss

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Reverse Vampyr recently posted a quote from the Face of Muhammed blog that I believe is bigoted, hate mongering, and promotes religious intolerance. Here's the quote:It is suddenly coming to our attention that Islam is not, cannot, and will not be integrated or assimilated to the values of freedom and democracy. Islam is not only a religion; it is a totalitarian and expansionistic political

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My favorite Republican, John McCain just sent a clean and solid blow to my favorite Democrat, Barack Obama in the form of an open letter.Painful to me, as I respect the apparent honesty and bipartisanship of both men. But in the letter, McCain disputes Obama's efforts of trying to be non-partisan with regards to lobbyist reform, and shuffles his feet without going outright and calling Obama a

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UPDATED 2/6/06: Susan Natalie doubted my original lineup was complete (see comments) and jogged my memory... I added two more (starred) and filled in details for #6.I wondered if I could sum up every first kiss I've ever had, in order, in just a few words. No offense to anyone here...first kiss, open mouth, holy crap that was hotsecond kiss, way too easy, don't think i want to be a man slutthird

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Am I the only one who's noticed that some right wing bloggers will refer to people in Iraq differently based on their actions? When they're voting, or saying good things about the United States, these people are Iraqis? But when there are bombings or other violence, the people committing these acts are just Muslims?

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After posting news that blogging.la had recruited a handful of new writers, Mack Reed at the LA Voice encouraged anyone wanting to post at his blog to give him a shout. Mack's a power house blogger, and if he were posting a handful of different nicknames he could fool anyone into believing his roster was larger than than of blogging.la's. But I think the guy deserves a break and some well earned

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Its a cake. A real cake. A yummy cake. For real.Now I must vomit.(thanks, I guess, to The Sneeze for pointing this out... now, who's got a birthday coming up?)

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If you're sick of the partisan bullshit and muckraking as I am you should always keep an eye on Fact Check (that's dot ORG not dot COM, as Dick Cheney embarrasingly mistook it for). They site readily slams inaccuracies from Democrats as it does Republicans. Fact Check's statement is that they are "a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception

The Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-1138756321810485432006-01-31T17:12:00.000-08:002006-01-31T17:12:01.873-08:00

Right now, CNN Pipeline is airing on one of its four channels the 2004 State of the Union Address, to be followed, presumable, by the 2005 speech, leading up to live feed of this years's address.Yes, a snore fest, but for a newshound like me its a godsend.CNN Pipeline isn't perfect, but its one of the greatest web services around. For $2.99/month you get live streams and archives videos from CNN

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I'm currently working on a couple different posts to debut at blogging.la, considering I've officially been a writer there for three days but have yet to post a thing. But, with a readership in the thousands, I feel a little more pressure to make sure the info is a. interesting and b. grammatically profound.Not that I don't respect this small crowd here... although this post won't be indicative

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I spoke to God once. It was a few years ago, and I was housesitting for his long lost sister. The phone rang and the voice asked, "Is Mona there?" and I said no, but offered to take a message. "Just tell her Steve Jobs called." I knew who Steve Jobs was, but at the time had no idea why he'd be calling the house I was staying at. Mona was a bestselling author, so maybe she was interviewing him. A

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Dear my partisan minded friends...Sploid: Study shows Left and Right equally denseUnfortunately, this doesn't indicate of the more centrist among us are any smarter...

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I so don't rock enough to have been accepting as a contributor for blogging.la, but I was.An open call was issued on Saturday for new writers to one of my favorite blogs, I applied, and well... its time to start conspiring what my first post will be...

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If abortion were murder, I'd be charged and convicted a willing accomplice. I'd also be friends with countless other killers and their co-conspirators. And if you think abortion really is, indeed, murder, if you still like me then you've got a crap sense of character.Bottom line is while abortion may be ugly and foul, it isn't the same as murder. More importantly, what happens to anyone's body is

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Martin Garbus has an excellent piece at the Huffington Post entitled "How Close Are We to the End of Democracy?".It clearly lays out the argument that Bush's abuse of power is unprecedented and an offense to the Constitution. In summary, "No President In Over 200 Years Of Our History Has Ever Before Claimed The 'Unitary Powers' That Bush Claims", not during the Civil War, Vietnam War, or Cold War.

The Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-1137921957098536352006-01-22T01:25:00.000-08:002006-01-22T01:25:57.106-08:00

Bloggers Shane Nickerson and AJ Gentile's postings have come to a screeching halt around the same time that Jessica Stover announces that she may not be online so much...Coincidence?

The Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-1137753665582991982006-01-20T02:41:00.000-08:002006-01-20T02:41:05.586-08:00

I decided to give this site a new look, and instead of spending the time designing it myself I snagged one from this site.I'll still be tweaking it, but the most important improvement to note here are the additions of "permalinks" and an xml feed in the side bar.

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Homophobes, I strongly encourage not to read this:No Milk Please: The Top Bunk

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People wearing the slogan "Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy" t-shirts and hats.I want to shove a pair of Uggs down each one of these people's throats.

The Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-1136788160831513952006-01-08T22:28:00.000-08:002006-01-08T22:29:20.846-08:00

Woot! is a highly addictive website that features one item for sale a day, usually some electonic gizmo, at sometimes outrageously low prices.They don't hide too much that they sort of suck - products often misrepresented, they double, triple, or quadruple bill people for orders, and their site can be embarrasingly glitchy. While they may be honest, I often question why I return as a customer.

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Just found this on CraigsList:NEED - Two to Four STORM TROOPERS for an event Feb 10th & 11thI'm looking for two to four Storm Trooper's to attend a two-night event to be held at an art gallery in Hollywood. Members of the 501st preferred...The event spans two nights, it's for an art opening - where many of the pieces on display are Star Wars themed/inspired.

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Actually, there's no worthwhile end of the year list, but if there was, this would be it:retroCRUSH's 100 Most Annoying Things of 2005Some highlights: 85 AMERICAN IDOLGetting advice on being a star from Paula Abdul is like getting driving lessons from Lindsay Lohan. 46 PHILLIP MORRIS ANTI-SMOKING ADSReally want kids to stop smoking? Stop showing commercials with kids saying how uncool it is, and

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While its fun to watch these clips of David Letterman sticking it to the man (Bill O'Reilly), and telling the Spinmeister, "I get the feeling that 60% of what you say is full of crap", its a shame that the clips leave out the rest of the exchange..."Halfway through the exchange Letterman got himself into a corner, conceded he was not smart enough to argue his case but darted out, through a wall

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Not since 9/11 have I been so emotionally engaged in a news story.For the past couple days I was mostly ignoring the news of the miners trapped in the mine. It seemed like a story I'd seen a dozen times before, and always somehow ending in survivors being pulled to safety.I gained a bit of morbid interest later on Tuesday evening when they discovered that one miner had been found dead...

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Over at the BankofKev's blog is a post about the supposed demise of short films on the internet, which I highly disagree with. The basic point Kev tries to make is that "the idea of putting up a short online and getting WB to fund you 30 million and distribute your opus is most likely not going to happen." Which is largely true, but so is the idea that any random script is going to be produced

The Unsomnambulisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03771386443113912308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5103720.post-1136111720728900052006-01-01T02:35:00.000-08:002006-01-01T02:35:20.833-08:00

Some interesting items I'm surprised liberal conspiracists haven't been blogging about, especially in light John Hinckley Jr.'s recently relaxed prison terms (allowing for overnight visits with his parents)...-Hinckley is the son of a mighty Texas oilman who was a top backer of George H.W. Bush's first bid for the presidency. Hinckley's brother Scott actually had dinner plans with Neil Bush (the

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I know, I know... I owe you my final "award"... the Blogger Full Monty Line-Up. All I can say is, seemed like a fun idea at the time. But considering nobody has been asking about this, maybe if I just let it go noone will notice.Did want to point out that my tiny experiment was a mild success - I had quadruple the traffic last week. Not sure if this was due to multiple postings on a daily basis,

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Innocent Bystander Is Shot, Badly Wounded in Westwood Restaurant - Los Angeles Times The Habibi restaurant where this took place is literally across the street from the Mann Village theatre, the greatest single screen theatre in the US. Before moving to Hollywood and the opening of the Arclight, Westwood was where I spent most of my time. Home to the UCLA campus, for years Westwood has straddled

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Unless you grew up around a Dunkin' Donuts, you probably never get the joke when in the early morning people mutter, "Time to make the donuts", made infamous by actor Michael Vale in countless commercial spots for the donut chain. Vale died Christmas Eve, perhaps ironically, of diabetes. CNN.com - 'Time to make the doughnuts' actor dies - Dec 27, 2005 On a side note, two weeks ago Franklin

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Will Campbell at blogging.la posts about his recent experience seeing Narnia for $22/seat at the El Capitan. Looking for a Christmas Day tour through the magical land of Narnia, I ended up settling on the El Cap because it was the nearest theater in the area that offered online ticketing and reserved seating -- but that "VIP" option comes at a hefty premium. When the price came up on screen I

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For this one, I'm stepping into the realm of celebrity bloggers. And, because its Friday and I'm tired, I'm going to be brief.The TonyP for Blogger I'd Most Like to See Naked goes to the Wonkette, political editorialist, satirist, and most importantly, gorgeous redhead.(The Wonkette with fellow blogger the Washintonienne)

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I'll admit that some of these awards were custom titled for the recipient (like Rex Adventure, below). But a couple challenged me a little, such as blogger who most inspired me to write.The award I wished I'd never mentioned is this one, for Best Blog Post of 2005. A couple years ago, this would have easily gone to this post about a hot wing challenge written by MIA blogger Tyranny - but this

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What the hell is a Buzznetter? some may ask... Buzznet is a site that will host your pics online and allow for people to comment on them. Pretty much a blog but with pictures instead of posts. Most people who have blogs have either a Buzznet or Flickr (another photo hosting site) account. But many people who use Buzznet don't have a blog, and a lot of hot girls like to post pictures of themselves

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Sorry this is a few hours late... so many choices!Unfortunately, I couldn't even bring myself to consider BigTanky or LorenzoBenzo, two incredibly sexy bloggers, as they've barely been blogging lately. At the very least had they kept up their Buzznet accounts they could have qualified for sexiest Buzznetter. Maybe next year?This year's Offine Adventures award for Sexiest Blogger goes to a woman

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Especially in the past year I've barely felt the need to read the LA Times, or any newspaper for that matter, as I've mostly turned to online sources for news. Especially in the case of local news and events, I've turned entirely to the blogosphere, even neglecting my old favorite LA Weekly. This isn't just due to my ready accessibility of the net so much as the fact that Los Angeles can boast a

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Sometime last year I posted about having a naughty dream involving recently engaged blogger Bunny McIntosh. It was a one night stand - I've never dreamed about her again. Which is highly unfortunate, for me anyway.Anyway, this award would probably be better titled "Blogger I Had the Naughtiest Dream About", but I don't want to creep out the recipient. Since she appeared in more than one dream of

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Yep, I'm gonna hold off an extra hour or so before posting the salcious award for "Blogger I Dreamt Most About This Year". On the bright side, the winner of this category can be assured they didn't win this one.I'd also like to give an accolade to the "Blogfather" himself, Tony Pierce, by giving the Offline Adventures Award a name, and that name is The TonyP ("the Tony" award is already taken but

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I know this is late notice, but in a little experiment to see how much original and return traffic I can drive to this blog I present a week long series of dubious honors!As you know, I already spontaneously awarded Simpleton "Offline Adventure's Best Blogger of 2005", but there are a number of other blogs that deserve some recognition, and, as you'll figure out soon enough, I'm simply looking

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Saw Kong last night, which is not the point of this post... but in brief: easily one hour two long, a structural mess, but some outstanding actions sequences made it worthwhile.Now, onto my newest critique of the Arclight. I point this out not to dissuade anyone from heading over to what I still feel is the greatest theatre ever (the Mann Village remains the greatest) so much as an open complaint

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According to Sploid! - no more journalism than, say, Drudge Report - last weeks shooting by US Air Marshalls of a man they suspected had a bomb is incredibly suspect:...undercover agents pumped five bullets into U.S. citizen Rigoberto Alpizar, who had just had an emotional argument with his wife and wanted to get off the plane while it was still parked at the jetway... Then the air marshals

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A little over a year ago I asked my friend Al Kramer to read a few lines for the short, "How To Vote". I ended up using him as the bookends. If you've seen it, you may have believed Al was Tony Pierce, Age 110. In actuality, Al is a sprite 92 years old, and still quite interested in pop culture and the world at large.After the shoot, Al gave me a dog he made out of pipe cleaners, a token he often

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Now that Governor Schwarzenegger has denied clemency for convicted gang killer Tookie Williams, word in the press is that there may be some rioting in protest. At least from the sanctity of my local Starbucks full of more than a dozen white folks, like myself, everything appears calm... maybe because we're all placated by the equally white iPods that isolate us from the outside world. Of course,

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Perhaps best blogger ever.

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Hammer of Truth ? Ironic: Fox News Sells “Holiday Tree” Ornaments The same network that claims "the left" is attempting to attack Christianity by taking the word Christmas out of the Holiday season, was up until recently selling "Holiday Ornaments"... they've since renamed their items as being "Christmas Ornaments". Whoops.

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I kid not. Once again reminding me that youngsters have every reason to distrust their elders.

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Obama Calls on Bush To Admit Iraq Errors Sen. Barack Obama said President Bush should admit mistakes in waging the Iraq war and reduce the number of troops stationed there in the next year. But the Illinois Democrat, a longtime opponent of the war, said U.S. forces remain "part of a solution" in the bitterly divided country and should not be withdrawn immediately. Without citing specific

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The Advocate: "Far right group?to use Macy's parade to spread antigay message" Dr. James Dobson's organization, Focus on the Family, will be handing out 5000 "stress balls" to spectators at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to promote a Web site it operates that claims that homosexuality is a disorder that can be changed through faith. Visitors to the site, TroubledWith.com, who think they

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Without revealing too much, I'll repeat my vague description of this short as a comedy about abortion. That alone should serve as a parental warning, and possibly as a convincing pitch.I had the vague concept for this short a few months ago, but never intended to ever shoot it. But when the theme "magic wand" was given at the previous Group 101 Films meeting, it seemed to fit all too well - the

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Thai Tourists Warned Of Sedative-Spitting Transvestites Members of a Thai transvestite gang have confessed to hiding strong sedatives in their mouths and spitting them down the throats of victims during deep kissing. Then they rob the drugged tourists. Unsure whether or not this would make for a better porn film or thriller. Comments?

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Back in the day I'd spend hours listening to songs from struggling unsigned musicians at mp3.com. And every once in a while I'd stuble across something listenable. The cream of the crop was a band called Calamine, who actually later went on to some level of success when they recorded the main title song for Sealab 2020 on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Lead singer Julie Stepanek had a voice

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For those of you who missed my last short film, "Choke", because it wasn't available for viewing on Quicktime, I bring good news:"Choke"6.6mb .movI'm also currently editing together my newest short, "Magic Wand", which I shot until the wee hours last night. It was almost a disaster - the actor I had lined up for the main role failed to show up, even after I'd postponed shooting on Thursday night

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Bill O'Reilly takes aim at San Francisco - Radio - MSNBC.com: "If al-Qaida comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead."Bill O'Reilly, supposed patriot, encourages al Qaeda to attack an American city. Why? Because of "a San

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"Magic Wand" - the short film, now in production.

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Shane Nickerson suggested I do this months ago --- and seeing how infrequently I post this is definitely long overdue:If you don't know what an RSS feed is, don't worry... I only figured this out recently myself. Some people can drop RSS links, like the one above, into their mail reader (like Thunderbird or Outlook) and whenever I post a new entry in this blog, it magically appears almost like

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It appears that Batman, Spiderman, Marilyn Monroe, and the other people in my neighborhood might be involved in some shady activities... from blogging.la:Via SoCal-dSLR: ---on the news they arrested 3 charactyers for strong arming people taking photos of them who did not tip the characters, police have a sting going because it has become such a problem with the characters going after the

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Wonder what homework must be like for these guys? First day of school for aspiring Vatican exorcists - Yahoo! News

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The promised Ouija board short film is now available for download and review. I may end up cutting this down to around thirty seconds, from its current one minute, fifteen second run time... but I'm waiting for critiques and suggestions before I move forward.The challenge here was trying to replicate a low light situation, with no budget for lights. Even the best miniDV cameras aren't suited for

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Yes, I, the Unsomnambulist, have created my first podcast!Enjoy the suckitude of bad recording and amateur sound mixing as I unleash a mix of songs about witches and witchcraft.Unsomnambulist Podcast .05: "Witches and Witchcraft".mp3, 14mb And go here for further notes, and to subscribe to the RSS feed for future installments. (and if you're wondering what a "podcast" is... its simply internet

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Ok, so I'm even a failure at the blogging five minutes a day...In sticking with the Halloween theme, I thought I'd direct you once again to RetroCrush - this time, their list of the worst Halloween costumes ever.

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Grave Addiction - Photos of Cemeteries and Haunted Places Since I'm crazy busy, but still want to fulfill Tony's challenge to blog for at least ten minutes a day (I'm committing only to five for a start), all I can offer today is this link to Grave Addiction, a cool personal site with all sorts of true stories of ghosts, ouija boards, and graveyards based in Ohio.

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CBS 5: Guardsmen Sense Ghostly Presence In New Orleans Ghosts of Katrina! This was inevitable: stories of hurricane and flood victims coming back to haunt New Orleans. Any where else this would be considered exploitive... but in the Big Easy, this could help with tourism by twisted folks like myself.

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I haven't mentioned this yet, but I've been excited for Halloween long before the "back to school" shelves were replaced with assorted trick or treat items and costumes. Actually, I tend to find myself getting all giddy with the holiday as early as spring. I start humming the Disney "Trick Or Treat for Halloween Song"... and as October approaches, I begin singing aloud "Its the Most Wonderful

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Click here to watch the whole trailer, starring me and Leon.Everyone involved would pulling this together, from the Flash designer geniuses, to the marketing execs, to the agents who allowed this to happen, deserve some sort of Oscar...Thanks to Tony Pierce for pointing this out... you can watch him and W in the trailer here.

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WARNING: Video contains adult language.I'm almost embarassed to say that I only spent 90 minutes editing yesterday's video... and then I spent close to eight on this one.While shooting "City of Demons", AJ and I ran across an up and coming rapper on Hollywood who was eager to show us his mad skillz. I said as long as it was about ghosts and the supernatural, we might even use it.Following is the

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For my first Group 101 project of the 2005/2006 season I waited till almost 24 hours before the film was due to begin prepping, let alone shooting.The result is a small "teaser/mini pilot" for a Haunted Hollywood type show - this particular bite sized epidode is called City of Demons. You can click here to give it a peak.The highlight of the piece, besides my swank new camera, is host AJ Gentile.

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I have a secret blog. I've been writing it for the past six months.Now, blogger's who keep "secret blogs" have various reasons, but none like mine. "Secret blogs" are often confessionals detailing parts of the bloggers life that they don't want anyone to see, or know who's writing those thoughts, but still wants to get the thoughts into cyberspace. Indeed, many of the "secret blogs" are about sex

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or so proclaimed Drudge Report yesterday. As skeptical as I was of the last post, I was even more skeptical of this one.But there are some nutty protesters out there, and there is the even higher probablity this was/is a hoax - it doesn't seem like it would take a somewhat unheard of news source to break this. And it seems way too convenient for it be, in Drudge's words, a "conservative outlet".

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NBC 4 - News - Music Producer Disappears After Bizarre Phone Call Something about this doesn't seem right. In abstract: Record producer disappears after calling a friend saying he was being chased behind his Topanga Canyon house. Police say he lost his glasses and shoes in a nearby creek. He recently received a $50,000 check from a shady Nigerian internet offering, got nervous and returned the

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Yep. Offline Adventures is selling out.As you can see to my left is the first ad I've agreed to posting on this site... in exchange for... a copy of the book!Yep, I'm cheap.Actually, what sold me was being contacted by the writer of The Underdog directly along with the content of the book, which appropriately deserves a mention on a site called Offline Adventures.According to Joshua Davis, "I

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Irish Examiner >Catholic priest defends Marilyn Manson Click on headline for link to article. I've been secretly researching material for my own, supernatural and occult themed podcast, and ran across this bit of news: Priest Anton Bobas, who claims the best concert he ever attended was seeing Manson live in Germany three years ago, says: "How could Manson turn young people into Satanists and

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A couple brain puzzlers found at reader's blogs:from 12am:Count every "F" in the following text:FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...HOW MANY ?............................ 3?WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.READ IT AGAIN !...more here...And reverse_vampyre provides a link to one surprisingly challenging IQ tingler...

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Once again, I have joined Group 101 Films. Some people think its crazy to do once, let alone twice. But I've missed it terribly ever since the last wave ended six months ago. It really is my AA to combat procrastination.In short, joining Group 101 means you're paired with ten or so other filmmakers from your neighborhood, who you meet once a month for six months to show off a short film you've

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The Nickerblog announced that today is the last day to get submissions in for the Worf Photoshop/Coverband contest. Alas, ever the late night procrastinator, I had the need to whip one more out... The Worf Stripes. I've put my modification alongside the actual album cover for the newest White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan. I'm most proud of my inclusion of the female half Klingon/half human

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Alas, the contest at the Nickerblog has attracted the attention of the folks at Paramount who handle merchandising for Star Trek, and they've upped the ante by offering some solid prizes for the best Worf coverband album cover...While I'm most proud of my last submission, I made two more: to see a photo album of all the contenders, click here.UPDATE: One more...

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Just preordered this:

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Another entry into the Nickerblog's Worf Cover Band Album Art Contest:(click to enlarge, you pervert)And to be honest, I'm not a Star Trek fan nor do I understand Star Trek lexicon... but searching for Klingon translations and other bits is as easy as Googling what George Bush listens to on his iPod.

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You can buy this shirt designed by blogger Carl Tashian who writes:...in 1902, when the women's suffrage movement was just getting warmed up, the American flag had 45 stars... In protest, the suffragists created their own US flag with only four stars, representing the four states that allowed women to vote... The suffrage flag was my inspiration for a 2004 re-appropriation of the American flag.

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Nickerblog has once again added me to his blogroll... alas, in turn I offer this image to his "Worf Coverband PhotoShop Contest":(and yes, I'm aware that one of those isn't a Klingon)

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Breaking one of Tony Pierce's rules on "How To Blog", but taking a cue from the Reverse_Vampyr I took the Jung + Enneagram Personality Test and am posting my personality results here... INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population. Take Free

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