@Salon film reactionary terrified of current indy movie paradigm.

Don’t let the snide references to Reaganomics and Walmart fool you: this is straight up, 100% freeze-the-market-because-I-fear-change reactionary thinking.  The problem? Salon feels that it’s too easy to make an independent movie, these days: and that all those people who work on independent films aren’t getting enough money (despite the fact that said people keep doing it, which at least suggests that maybe they’re still getting something out of participating).  The solution? Continue reading @Salon film reactionary terrified of current indy movie paradigm.

My inexplicable fisking of a Barack Obama fundraising email.

Really, I have no idea why I did this.

Barack Obama
To Me
Today at 4:55 PM

Hi, Barry! Can I call you ‘Barry?’ – I don’t care: you work for me, not the other way around. Barry it is, then, fellow-citizen. Who will be out of office in less than three years, so don’t get huffy about it.

Barry. Continue reading My inexplicable fisking of a Barack Obama fundraising email.