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Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? →
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
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Talking Del Close and the Early Days of Chicago Improv with SNL's Alex Baze →
I did this interview with Alex Baze for splitsider.com. You read splitsider, right? Don’t be dumb: read splitsider.
He was in his late 50s when I was taking classes from him and he had a shitty apartment and slept on a futon and all he ever did was hang around Improv Olympic, watching or teaching, never really performing. His classes were so insane. It was a three hour class and sometimes he would tell two people to get on stage and we would just do scenes for three hours and get notes from him and then sometimes he would come in and say, “Did I ever tell you the time that John Belushi and I did acid?” and he would just tell you stories for three hours and nobody would get on stage. You’d be like, “What the hell just happened?” But it was clear that he just had unfounded enthusiasm for this form and it was contagious. He was a charismatic guy.
- SNL’s Weekend Update head writer Alex Baze on his time studying under Del Close in Chicago in the early 90s. He performed with The Victim’s Family (later shortened to just The Family), a legendary team that featured Adam McKay, Rachel Dratch, Matt Besser, and Ian Roberts, amongst others.
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A Ron Swanson/Rorschach mashup?
The internet is wonderful.
Ron’s fitful run up the hill after ‘the bacon is gone’ speech is one of my favorite moments in recorded comedy.
Swanson for VP 2012
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caro:
surprised they werent all hired by NBC news first
Whether you agree or disagree, this is hysterical right on down to the shopped HBO logo.
I wonder if Mamet’s daughter has improved at all since her awful performances on “Mad Men”.
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"HOW TO 'MAKE IT' IN COMEDY" by Rob Delaney. This is good advice. Also applies to writing, music, cheesemonging, technical drawing, everything. →
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My name is Douglas Rushkoff
I am humbled and honored to be amplified by your voices.You are not fighting against people, but against a machine.
It was put in place over 500 years ago.
By a wealthy elite - trying to repress a booming peer to peer economy.
Those people are all dead, but their program lives on.They invented an operating system called central currency.
People who used to trade directly,
were now forced to borrow money from the king’s bank.
At interest.The elite also invented software for that operating system.
It was called the chartered monopoly. Today we call it the corporation.It is a program designed to extract value.
It has legal monopoly over its industries.
We are legally prohibited from creating and exchanging value
unless we do it through the corporation.
We cannot work unless we have a “job.”We outsource our work, we outsource our savings, we outsource our borrowing, we outsource our investing - all instead of sourcing one another.
This 13th Century, printing-press era operating system
is incompatible with a 21st Century economy.
It is broken and dying. But it is still occupying our reality.Too many are mistaking this operating system - for the way things are.
They see the Occupy Movement as the impediment.
No.
We are not asking for wealth to be redistributed.
We are asking for the redistribution to STOP.The Long Extraction is Over.
The peer to peer society is back.
We are ready to create and exchange value as people.They say that the Occupy Movement has no leadership.
They are wrong.
You are the leadersThe rest of us are your followers.
What you do here - shows what we can do out there.You are the classroom - we are the students
You are the experiment - we are the results.
You are the proposition - we are the resolution.
If you can sleep under tarps
the rest of us can tell your story to our children at bedtimeIf you can resist the cops.
The rest of us can resist the market and the mallIf you can live on shared food
The rest of us can buy and grow local cropsIf you can live with no money
The rest of us can start using alternative currenciesIf you can stand firm in the streets
The rest of us can stand firm in our foreclosed homes
and stand with our neighbors in theirs.If you can occupy Zucotti Park
The rest of us can occupy reality.And by that same logic:
As the nights get colder,
as the Mayor grows less tolerant,
or as the police get more violent,Remember that you have already won.
Whatever happens in this square,
the day you leave is not the day you have lost
it is not the day you have surrendered.It is the day you have spread out.
It is the day you have declared a bigger battlefield.
It is the day you teachers and we students become the same.It is the day we Occupy the World.
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Why Harry Potter Should Really Be All About Hermione Granger →
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Superman's Powers Put To Most Efficient Use For Good →
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Hal Phillips: Miracleman →
Even though it’s acknowledged as one of the all-time classic comics, I still feel like Miracleman gets unjustly overlooked. This is probably mostly because it’s been out of print forever (although you can download it). Also, its two writers are Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman, each with a better-known…
It’s truly unfortunate that the series is out of print and hard to come by. I think that Marvel has actually since acquired the rights to reprint the entire Moore/Gaiman run, and unless something changes (and with Miracleman everything changes when it comes to ownership) Marvel was scheduled to reprint within the next year or so.
The series really doesn’t waste any time, it’s pure economy of thought when it comes to the superhero story. It definitely seemed like Moore must have just been sitting around asking himself ‘If superheroes were real there wouldn’t be any of this bullshit or that. So what would it be like?’
Oh man and the 2 page spread of the devastation of London in Issue #15 still creeps me out. My favorite series of all time.
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