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Turn The Radio Off

Turn The Radio Off

By Dirk | Comic Book Geek, Film Fanatic, Media Futurist, Pop Culture Addict

Ok so I wrote the following for Deathscribe 2011—which is, for those who came in late, a contest for live performances of original short – horror themed – radio plays. And since your friend and humble narrator was once again  rejected. Which is getting to be an annual event where this particular contest is concerned. So anyway, Until

The Strange Case of M O'Loughlin

The Strange Case of M O’Loughlin

By Dirk | Film Fanatic, Media Futurist, Pop Culture Addict

This is going to be one of those rant post that started off as one rant and ended up as another. You see, the other day Alias (the show not the series) came up in conversation with a buddy of mine who’d never seen it. And over the course of singing the praises of its

10:15 Saturday Night

10:15 Saturday Night

By Dirk | Comic Book Geek, Film Fanatic, Media Futurist

It’s 10:15 on a Saturday night … ok no. Actually it’s 3:15, but 10:15 sounds better right? Anyway I’m on this whole song title post title kick and whatever so. And y’know what, I need you to put however sad that sounds behind you, because I’ve just read something that you might want to check

Radio Retaliation

Radio Retaliation

By Dirk | Comic Book Geek, Film Fanatic, Media Futurist

Ok so I wrote the following about two weeks ago as an entry for Deathscribe 2010—which is, for those who came in late, a contest for live performances of original short – horror themed – radio plays. Which a friend and I just happened to catch last Halloween at Chicago’s one and only Music Box

TONIGHT [@Twitter Don't Go Down Tonight #iranelection #nomaintenance]

By Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Media Futurist

  It’s hardly necessary to say anymore that Twitter is the main social network still accessible within Iran, and it simply has to stay up tonight. It’s become too important to take a few hours off.  Why? Because roughly twelve hours ago an anonymous Iranian twitter user I and many others have come to know

SUICIDE SOLUTION

By Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Media Futurist

The mainstream media mostly died yesterday … it’s lost any claim it had to relevance and any right to sympathy its financial woes might happen to engender in the nostalgic. There’s just no other way to say it, to interpret the incomprehensible apathy of CNN, MSNBC and FOX News to events unfolding in Iran.  Yesterday,

IMAGE UNION

By Dirk | Media Futurist

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