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Paying Tribute to Levon Helm As He Enters Final Cancer Stages

Posted by admin in Music, Uncategorized on April 17, 2012

Today, Levon Helm’s daughter and wife (Amy and Sandy) posted the following message on his website:

Dear Friends,
Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey.

Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration… he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage…

We appreciate all the love and support and concern.

To celebrate him as he is still with us, I share a couple of things.

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She Committed Suicide & She Was Talented: Make a Sylvia Plath Comparison?

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 2, 2012

Last week, Slate’s Heather Murphy wrote a piece examining the Francesca Woodman Retrospective at the Guggenheim.

I love photography, I love any examination of it in the mainstream. Woodman was a photographer who happened to take her life at the age of 22. A tragic loss–and a career ended far too young, admittedly.

But I winced when I saw the headline “Is Francesca Woodman the Sylvia Plath of Photography?” I am trying to find another word, but the word that keeps popping in my head is “offended”. Just because you are talented and recognized for a talent in public (two elements which Plath and Woodman share) does not mean that the choice of suicide makes Woodman the Plath of her chosen art. The comparison is not only lazy, it insults both creative talents.

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Batteries Are Recharged

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 15, 2012

It took a little longer than I initially intended. But I am back.

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Recharging the Batteries

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 10, 2012

I took an unannounced break over the holidays, and found that it was enjoyable. I am recharging the batteries and after recently passing the four-year mark at this blog (I am lousy at celebrating anniversaries that do not involve my wife), I am re-evaluating my approach on this blog. Thanks for your patience while I am gone. I will be back, promise!

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Oh boy: Dave is Actually Tweeting! Sorta!

Posted by admin in comedy, late night TV, Uncategorized on January 3, 2012

And yet, there is a familiarity to his Tweets. Consider this.

Then oddly Dave tweets this

 

I hope he keeps “jokingly” ripping off his fellow hosts.

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Typo of the Day: NYT’s Media Decoder

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 5, 2011

How hard is it to spellcheck the headline before posting? (From earlier today at NYTmes Media Decoder blog [it has since been corrected]:

NYT Typo

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Welcome Back, Jim Romenesko

Posted by admin in branding, Uncategorized on November 21, 2011

Given how much of a news junkie I am, it should come as no surprise that I’ve been a longtime reader of media observer Jim Romenesko. So I am glad to see that he now has his own website, where he details how his former website host/employer treated him quite badly in his waning weeks.

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Live Nick Cave: Circa 1999

Posted by admin in Music, streaming video, Uncategorized on November 14, 2011

This video (sent to me by friend of the blog, Kaya Oakes) is a treat on multiple levels:

  • Nick Cave on piano, playing his song Into My Arms
  • The guy on the left at the beginning? John Cale
  • The quality of Cave’s piano on this song

My thanks to Oakes for making me aware.

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Comments No Longer Welcome

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on November 10, 2011

When I started this blog four years ago, I looked forward to fostering an audience that would get into discussions in the comments section. For whatever reason, however, my blog has never generated a great deal of comments. Until recently that is, when I started getting a flood of spam comments.

I have better things to do with my time than filter spam, of course.

So while I appreciate those of you that have commented over the years, the era of comments are over. Unless of course you want to comment on my Tumblr page, or if you are pals with me on Facebook.

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Ryan Dunlavey on Action Philosophers Play Adaptation

Posted by admin in comedy, comics, theater, Uncategorized on October 12, 2011

Article first published as Ryan Dunlavey on Action Philosophers Play Adaptation on Technorati.

Action Philosophers

Action Philosophers, the comic book series by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, has been adapted for the theater by award-winning playwright Crystal Skillman (who happens to also be Van Lente’s spouse). The play has been acclaimed for capturing the flavor of the comics series’ comedic exploration of several world philosophers. Action Philosophers is currently in a limited run through October 16 (Thursday & Friday at 8 pm, Saturday & Sunday at 7 pm) at the Brick Theater (in cooperation with Impetuous Theater Group). Dunlavey recently took the time to share his thoughts with me via email on the comic series’ successful transition to the theater.

When you and Fred first developed Action Philosophers, did you ever envision it being adapted for theater?

Never. I arrogantly believed that it was completely unadaptable to other mediums and it would exclusively live and die on the comic book page, but Crystal Skillman, director John Hurley and the actors have done a fantastic job of proving me wrong!

Interestingly enough (maybe only to me) Action Philosophers originally came about when I asked Crystal to collaborate on a comic with me, but then Fred got to me first!

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