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If you find one of these and want to send it to me. I’d appreciate it.
I’m feeling all Harold Lloyd and I look smashing in hats. I had one of these and wore the crap out of it. It died a very honorable death yet I miss it.
Seriously, I love this hat and have my whole life.
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I’ll let Joe tell you:
My brother’s zombie movie premiered at the SXSW festival in Austin and the reviews have been just fantastic. Okay, so my brother is only a zombie in the movie “Dance of the Dead“, so it isn’t really his movie … but it is in my mind – and his.
The point is the movie, about a zombie horde attacking a high school prom (such fun to write that!!) is a hit with audiences and critics, like Scott Weinberg, and raves from Ain’t It Cool News, and here’s a choice write-up from Cinematical:
“The zombies rocket-launched out of their graves are only the beginning. That’s part of an early, truly impressive sequence where the dead begin rising to life in a graveyard lying in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. It looks like dozens, if not hundreds of zombies start bursting forth, shambling around, crying out for “Brains!” (only one of many, many movie shout-outs). It’s an iconic sequence, a turning point in the narrative, and a test for the filmmakers. If they failed to execute it properly, it would derail the entire movie. Director Bishop and his talented team hit the bull’s eye with funny, horrific variations on what you might expect, and from there the game is on.”
No, they did not mention my brother by name, but they did give a massive approval for the movie and it’s zombies and that’s close enough. As soon as I get word of the distributor for the flick, I’ll post it here.
And there is picture goodness. Joe, come to Horror Fest and stay with me, dammit.
Yay to Joe and his brother.
Cathy has a wonderful post today from the perspective of a reader of newspapers. The whole post is very thoughtful and direct.
The newspaper professionals know that things have changed. I started predicting who subscribes and who doesn’t to the advertising woman standing in the booth. She knew the data because of the “reader surveys.” Are newspapers doing “non-reader” surveys? People were very willing to share their opinions yesterday. “By the time I am able to sit and read it, it’s already old news.” I’m not a subscriber, but I do visit the newspaper’s website. I visit it to read about local news and read the comments that people make on each article. I read the editorials and the letters people have written to the newspaper. I don’t read the newspaper for news. I read it for reactions. I just don’t know how print newspapers are going to survive once the computer-phobic generation is gone.
There is so much more over there. Go now.
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I see the Internet and blogging in an unusual way. When I was a teenager, I loved radio and I wanted to be a disc jockey.
And I was.
This morphed its way into doing news maybe because I could say Reagan correctly (it was during that time) so I don’t know. It was an organic thing that happened and I won’t lie, I miss radio. And it all started in Nashville winding it’s way into northwest Tennessee.
Blogging and the tubes are somewhat like personality-driven radio for me. I listened to DJs I liked who engaged me. That’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to be one of those people that made me people want to stop by on the dial.
And to a small degree, this is what I did.
I think about blogging the same way.
The reason why Brittney Gilbert was so successful at Nashville Is Talking was she had that same vibe. Adam Kleinheider did too although there styles were completely different. It was personality driven and it reminded me of my time of being enamored with radio (Stewman and I have talked about this) where our love for being in that field of communication was that is was about engaging our listeners.
I think it’s such an odd thing right now that WBIR is doing what WKRN did. Katie Allison Granju has created a personality driven (albeit more low-key) media-based blogging portal in Knoxville Talks that works but her personality does shine through her posts. It’s very similar to NiT. Different people with varying personalities engaging readership. Michael Silence balances the pragmatism of being a news man with his personality as well when he blogs.
I know that people want different things in their blogging experiences. Some people like the more clinical approach of sending and receiving information. When you think about it, we watch television in the same way. Do you watch your favorite anchors on news programs? Is Brian Williams your favorite or Keith Olbermann? Or, God forbid, Bill O’Reilly?
As a Cardinals fan, I still miss Jack Buck.
For me, this blogging thing is not my job. I do this because it amuses me. I don’t do just one thing over here. If you visit with me, you know you just might find a zombie video in one post and then me being serious about media or political stuff in another. I have no idea what it would be like to do this professionally. I’m sure in many ways it’s just as stressful as planning the radio programming I used to have to write and prepare.
I like personality. And it has been proven that it works although it may not be a money-making venture YET, but it will be or Silence and Granju wouldn’t be doing what they are doing. I started working in media when I was 19-years-old and I can tell you I’ve seen a bunch of changes come down the pike.
It’s a whirlwind and constantly morphs into something new. The Internet has everyone on their toes.
You see, I’m more engaged by Christian Grantham than I am Nashville is Talking right now although I know he’s put a ton of work into it and I respect what he’s done. I go to his personal site more than I do the work one. I relate more to our personal/professional similarities than I do to the new upgraded site. That’s not me slamming NiT. I just liked the old one better.
As an avid reader of blogs, I like personality driven. That’s why I adore Aunt B.
And I like human aggregators. I just see blogging a bit like radio. I listen/read you because I dig what you, the person, says/writes.
My two cents …
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Apparently the stereotype of tornados just hitting trailers in rural America has been proven wrong.
However, I was reminded by the very bright and savvy Squirrel Queen about New York’s tornadoes and of Miami which sideswiped a cruise ship.
You know, I found myself mesmerized watching the game last night where the entire Georgiadome was shaking.
It’s going to be a long day for SEC teams.
So let’s listen to Brian Setzer and Marty Stuart in an homage to Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Makes sense to me.
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