The ghost of Jack Valenti would be proud Oh no you guys, the MPAA doesn’t approve of today’s internet-wide SOPA protest/blackout. DON’T BE CORPORATE PAWNS YOU GRASSROOTS ASSHOLES, BE… more →
a sandwich, with words???wrote 2 months ago: March 31st in history: On this date in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announced on live television t … more →
wrote 3 years ago: The music industry is cheating you out of your right to own CDs! Yes, you heard it here first. They … more →
wrote 3 years ago: This may be the single best piece of writing advice I have ever heard (and which I cannot find any r … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Naturally one should expect the two most divisive divisions of America to surface during a heated ca … more →
wrote 4 years ago: There is a lot to like about Kirby Dick’s 2006 documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated. It is punchy … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Who is the real Online Pirate, YOU or THE STUDIOS? This is a documentary about piracy made solely fr … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Walk down Canal Street in southern Manhattan on a Sunday afternoon and every direction you look loom … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Saint Jack? I don’t think so. One must be a very dedicated movie or Jack Valenti watcher to p … more →
wrote 5 years ago: Lots of luminaries shuffling off this mortal coil over the past few weeks–Ray Nasher, Kurt Von … more →
wrote 5 years ago: The damn home computer has been giving me fits the last three weeks. Initially, I thought it was a f … more →
wrote 5 years ago: Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for 38 yea … more →
wrote 2 months ago: by Robert Cain for China Film Biz March 7, 2012 This week Hollywood welcomes one of the Chinese film … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Time to Settle Accounts February 11, 2012: Many moons. “Here’s what’s troubling about what Newt Ging … more →
wrote 4 months ago: The ghost of Jack Valenti would be proud Oh no you guys, the MPAA doesn’t approve of today … more →
wrote 4 months ago: As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is th … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Normally I’d just roll my eyes about this, maybe make a snide comments about how cybercriminal … more →
wrote 6 months ago: The Great Firewall of China has been an inapt metaphor for the entirety of its existence. Its purpos … more →
wrote 8 months ago: As usual (and weirdly, I swear I’m not doing this on purpose), the thing I wrote yesterday is … more →
wrote 10 months ago: For the past 10 days or so, I was researching how Arabs are stereotyped. Has the stereotype changed? … more →