It’s been quite a while since I’ve done this, but I’ve actually dedicated three past Fame Days to YouTube channels/shows: StarCrafts, Geek Love, and Munchies. Thinking hard on what to write about for today, I almost slapped myself when I realized that I’ve never blogged about my three favourite YouTube comedians.
Late in December 2011 “Bathroom Blues” came online, heralding the first of dozens of videos to come-
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Tagged Ahmed Bharoocha, comedy, Comedy Central, Dead Kevin, Dead Kevin Sketch, Fame Day, Friends, funny, Jack Robichaud, John Hale, Maureen Bharoocha, roommates, Ryan O'Flanagan, sketches, videos, YouTube
A while ago (and with great reluctance from Evan), I posted a defense of piracy.
Understanding how much Evan and I differ on the subject, I wouldn’t have written anything more about it- had the BBC not just put forth an article kinda vindicating my entire position.
Oh, you better believe I’m gonna be cocky about this…
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Tagged art, artist, box office, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, HBO, mainstream sources, money, music, musician, netflix, piracy, pirate, prevention of access, profit, quality speed, Reed Hastings, SOPA, television, Time Warner, vince gilligan, YouTube
Look, let’s be clear, I’m not a fan of DC. To be a little more specific, I am not a fan of DC’s business practices and editorial decisions. All of that being said, yesterday the internet perpetuated one of my least favourite of its trends: snap judgement from journalists fishing for hits.
Late Wednesday night W. Haden Blackman and J.H. Williams III, the writer and artist of Batwoman, respectively, posted a message on the former’s blog that they would be leaving the title. Here’s the section of that post that has received the most attention [emphasis added]:
Unfortunately, in recent months, DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series. We were told to ditch plans for Killer Croc’s origins; forced to drastically alter the original ending of our current arc, which would have defined Batwoman’s heroic future in bold new ways; and, most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married. All of these editorial decisions came at the last minute, and always after a year or more of planning and plotting on our end.
From what I can tell, the news was first broken by The Outhouse, and was soon followed by all the other major comic book news outlets. ComicsAlliance and Newsarama both likewise delivered the news straight, but elsewhere this wasn’t the case. Continue reading
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Tagged Batwoman, comics, DC, gay marriage, internet journalism, J.H. Williams III, Kate Kane, lesbian, Maggie Sawyer, Mary Jane, Mephisto, One More Day, sensationalism, Spider-Man, W. Haden Blackman
I wrote about this a long time ago on a vastly inferior blog, and I’m going to state it again here in the first sentence of this post: I don’t want to see people throwing their cigarette butts on the ground.
Two weeks ago the image below popped up on imgur, and being pretty interested in where this conversation could go I clicked to see what the discussion was on reddit.
A good portion consisted of people agreeing that having cigarette butts all over the ground is unsightly, disgusting, and can have a toxic environmental impact. On the other side, however, were smokers complaining that things just aren’t that easy. Continue reading
Posted in environmentalism, health, internet, Shame Day
Tagged ashtray, cigarette butts, cigarettes, environment, environmentalism, excuses, internet, litter, littering, pollution, reddit, responsibility, shame day, smoking, trash
There are a number of Twitter pages I could have focused on today, from the subtly hilarious to the judiciously-minded, but none of those address a pretty hefty issue a lot of us young people find ourselves bumping into.
The page For Exposure, by comic artist and generally all-around cool guy Ryan Estrada, does.
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Tagged artists, compensation, design, disclosure, exposure, Fame Day, freelancing, jo, job listing, pay, professional, Twitter, unpaid, work, writing
So yesterday I was reading through comic book news, as I do, and came across
this image that features award-winning actress Glenn Close as Nova Prime in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy.
When I saw this I thought to myself, “Huh, that doesn’t look a darn thing like Glenn Close as Nova Prime in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy.” Then I moved on with my life. Aside from that brief thought I didn’t really question it. The thing is, neither did most sites. Continue reading
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Tagged Bleeding Cool, Gamora, Glenn Close, Green, Guardians of the Galaxy, inaccuracy, internet journalism, news, reporting, set photos, shame day, stunt double, Zoe Saldana
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