Category: Live Bullshit Free
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There’s A Difference Between Storytellers & “Storytellees”; That Difference Is Why American News Media SUCKS…
First things first. Journalists are storytellers. News is a story about what’s happening (theoretically out here in reality) right here, right now. As news anchors all over the world put it as they start yakking — “Here’s what’s happening now“. Then they proceed to tell you the story. Except way too many journalists are piss-poor…
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Lessons In How Media Works — FOR THE MEDIA
I sure hope someone at CNN or MSNBC reads this. I know I can help them. I’ve got real world bona fides in my pocket, too. Having run TV shows, written and produced feature films, written scripts for computer games, advertising, blah-blah-blah-blah-blah, I know a thing or two about VISUAL storytelling. I know how the…
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Not A Revelation: The War On Drugs Was An Exercise In Naked Racism Top To Bottom
I’ll apologize up front for doing a little cross pollination here — citing the series I just finished over at weedmapsnews.com: “Blunt Truths“. It’s about the deep down dirty truth behind the 100% pure racist illegalization of cannabis. At no point in the process did anyone EVER ask the question “But, is cannabis actually bad…
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Conservatism Is A Disease – It Says So Right In Its Name…
Though the word “liberal” has a long history, it’s too malleable, too easily redirected in the current vernacular where words have been unmoored from their meanings. That’s what LYING does. I prefer the word “PROGRESSIVE” to describe my politics because, in a culture where getting people to read a goddamned tweet is a challenge, billboarding…
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There’s A Huge Honkin’ Difference Between Being “Spiritual” & Being “Religious”
Even a stone cold atheist can feel profound awe as he or she stares up at the stars. Atheists especially understand the scale — tiny human on a rock at the far edges of a galaxy in the middle of a billion galaxies feeling both his insignificance in the greater scheme of things while also…
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I Grew Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
According to Donald Trump, “Jews” are a “nationality”. That’s not the first time a country’s leader has started down that road… I was born in 1959, 14 years after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated. In my brain, those camps never went away. I grew up in the 1960’s & 1970’s in a Jewish suburb…
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Just Because You Don’t Know You’re At War, Doesn’t Mean You AREN’T At War. Ask The Folks Who Lived At Pearl Harbor…
Ever been cheated on in a relationship? Ever discover the cheating was going on practically forever? What hurts most about it is the deception, right? YOU thought your relationship was one thing but, in fact, your relationship was something else entirely: YOU were the dummy. Just because you didn’t know you were living a lie…
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My Earworm Is Now Yours… You’re Welcome
We all get obsessed with songs. That’s the whole point of writing a song, I guess. To get everyone who hears your song to be unable to get the song out of their heads. Sounds mighty powerful. I wouldn’t know; I’ve written lyrics to songs but the melody part — the actual point of the…