Charlie Brown School of Dance
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Category: Culture
Calvin & Hobbes Documentary Coming In November
I want to see this! [vimeo 5708115 w=599 h=337]
A Few Thoughts on International Futbol
Association Football known world-wide as football or futbol but tagged with soccer in the United States is the world’s game by any measure. I have my own complicated relationship with the game which has meant different things to me at different points of my life. Right now it’s World Cup qualification season across the world. In each of six regional confederations, tournaments are ongoing to determine which teams will make the final cut of 32 nations at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (England may claim to be the home of the game because it propagated the rules the World …
Bookmark: Keith Olbermann
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgrlqL2vmGA?rel=0] Keith Olbermann remembers a story of talking to his father about sports and civil rights that is quite moving. I get it that Keith is a big personality and a bit of a diva at times in his career. Even I don’t actually watch him regularly most of the time (some of the time though). But he’s got a talent for talking to the camera. Not necessarily a talent for getting along with management or owners but… I lived in Southern California when Keith got what had to have been his first really big job doing Sports for …
Bookmark: Spaced
I finally got around to watching the first season of Spaced, the British TeeVee series featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and directed by Edgar Wright. I have to say, it is really funny. Perhaps a little too targeted to my life experience in terms of age and pop culture; it makes me wonder how well it will hold up over the years. Director Edgar Wright is pretty heavily influenced by Sam Raimi and everyone Raimi was influence by. He’s very inventive and you can see the style he employed on Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim and …
Star Trek Fan Fiction
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G-ziTBAkbQ?rel=0] I have no idea how this project exists given our copyright regime. And yet, why shouldn’t it? The original Star Trek series now has been out for more than 40 years, giving its owners ample time to recoup their investment and make a tremendous amount of profit over their creative efforts. On balance, society is better off with the freedom for others to make their own versions after forty years (I might even argue twenty-five years is plenty of time). What amazing stories and spins on things people will come up with if they don’t have to ask …
Interview with Tim Wu on Net Neutrality
This is from about a year ago. Wu’s book The Master Switch is long but a great history of the evolution of communications networks and their trend towards consolidation. http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=dcc84e41db014454b08662a766057e2b&ec=Nucnc3NToJPWkvWsbvSjWN-Y5GWP252R