A number of Twitter tools and apps exist to help us visualise the millions of tweeple and their billions of tweets. I kept toying with one for a while, and I found it particularly well-suited to generate a snapshot of the foundational Twitter celebrity that is Alyssa Milano. This particular Twitter tool is called, “Twitter …
Tag Archive: entertainment
Feb 21 2010
Warner Bros. Heralds Future of Video Rental
The Blockbuster closest to my house recently sold, shuttered, and gutted, grimly foreshadowing the end of the video-rental store era. Like Sony Walkman cassette players (do my younger readers even know what these are?), VHS has all but vanished. DVD and Blu-ray, too, are trembling before the inevitable growth of online video streaming. Like a …
Feb 10 2010
All Actors Under One Union
It’s sheer idiocy that so many of my fellow actors cannot qualify for health insurance and benefits these days. Many factors contribute to this dilemma, including rising out-of-state production and a lack of production investment funds due to the Great Recession, but the most ridiculous of these is the work division between SAG and AFTRA. …
Jan 19 2010
Square Pegs, Round Holes
I found, in deleting my old and very embarrassing blog, a little poem I wrote in high school: You say I’m blind. But am I?The feelings might yet exist.But in the face of such denial,my hopes and dreamsdon’t stand a chance.With a heavy heart, I realize:My strongest weaponsto fight away the dark despairare insubstantial mists;ghosts …
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