Category: Ideas
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Feed Me
WARNING: I am about to GO SCOBLE. So I get my “I’ve got a shiny new website” email from my personal all-time favorite candidate for president, Ohio Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, and I check out the site. It’s great. Much slicker than what he had up during the 2004 race. There’s video, a little flashy…
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In San Francisco Today
I am now an official cliche. I am sitting in a Starbuck’s in San Francisco with my notebook computer hooked up to the wireless, and I am blogging. Ugh. If it can get any sillier, Leonard Cohen is on their stereo satellite radio. A few amusing sightings today, but given my city years, it takes…
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Still In Recovery Mode
We’re no wild party people, but I am still recovering from the lack of sleep and sensory onslaught of hanging out in Vegas for a few days. The coolest part of the whole thing was seeing my mom give her presentation at WPPI in front of 200-300 people. These people were taking notes. I’m not…
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Tomorrow It’s Las Vegas
…and there we’ll be. Going to the WPPI convention? Interested in Marilyn Sholin‘s talk Tuesday night? Drop me a line at ryansholin@yahoo.com. If there’s easy access and power, I’ll blog what I can from the convention.
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St. Pat’s Day Survival Report
Maybe I shouldn’t have been so flippant in recalling my music video days yesterday. I ended up spending the copious majority of 15 hours behind the bar yesterday. I don’t have too much green dye on my hands though, so that’s a plus. And yes, the first phone call of the day was the ubiquitous…
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Jerry Brown gets all “hyphee”
Jerry Brown, Oakland Mayor and my favorite blogging politician, is teaching me a bunch of Bay Area urban slang. I feel so nineteen-ninety-now when I think of everything I’ve missed being this far away from the hip-hop game. The last music video I ever worked on was Fabolous’ first big hit. So Mayor Brown’s rant…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Once again, I will be behind the bar today at Rosie McCann’s in Santa Cruz serving all the amateurs wanna-be Irishmen fine citizens of this town and its outlying areas. Have fun, don’t drive drunk, and try not to speak with a brogue if you’re not Irish. Yes, we serve Corned Beef and Cabbage. We…
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Sound of Urchin
Stuck in my head = Spirit of the Radio by Rush (trust me, you know the song: the words of the prophets profits are written on the studio walls) as covered by Sound of Urchin with Jack Black not resisting the urge to join them on stage. The Urchin in question is a band that…
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Now Playing: Off The Map
On a personal note, a movie I gave about seven weeks of my life to as a Dolly Grip has opened in the usual “selected cities” and is getting great reviews. Off The Map was lots of fun to work on, and good work. Campbell Scott directed, Juan Ruiz-Anchia was the director of photography (and…
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Busy Days, Busy Nights
Precious little new content popping up here, I know, but (excuse coming) I have been working on setting up my mom’s blog… She’ll be speaking at WPPI next week, and I’ll be working the merch table in the back of the Las Vegas Ballroom at Bally’s Hotel and Casino Tuesday March 22nd. Meanwhile, I’m thumping…