davio1962:

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Nice.

Finally I don’t have to choose.

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dielaughing:

Speaking of fucking retarded… Dean Allen is not an anthropologist, social scientist, or in any way an expert on the behavior of humans. By his own admission he created Favrd for himself, to aggregate funny tweets, to crowd source the filtering of said tweets, and avoid paying the authors for their work.

Payment? WTF are you talking about? Well, remember I said that Mr. Allen wasn’t an expert on people? SOME HUMAN INTERACTION REQUIRES TIMELY FEEDBACK. This is not always an indication of an insecure individual. If I am making jokes to make people laugh, TO MAKE PEOPLE RESPOND TO MY ACTION, then payment is the feedback I receive.

Timely feedback does depend on the individual, but lots of humor is in the timing. An election joke just isn’t going to get the reaction today, when there is no election. Likewise, a comedian who feels like he is losing his audience will change topics or the method of their delivery ENTIRELY BASED ON THE LACK OF A TIMELY RESPONSE.

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Just because I know how to replicate Favrd in a day, doesn’t mean I wasn’t grateful for its existence. I literally scratched it off my ToDo list when I found out it existed. Why hadn’t I done it before Dean? Money. Hosting and bandwidth cost money. You say it’s cheap? I say I don’t even have that. Time? Not that either. But ever since he shut it down I’ve been tempted to open source a framework for replicating Favrd so *anyone* can hump the Twitter servers and their own bandwidth to death.

So what’s stopping me? Tim Haines and Favstar. I may not agree with everything he does, but he’s A LOT more accessible than Dean, and frankly not as big a douche bag to me. I’m shocked at how nice everyone was to Dean for what I feel was a really fucking dick move. No matter what his stated reasons, I will still conclude that it is more likely that his skills couldn’t match the requirements of the site. The simple math is that he found a problem that he couldn’t or wouldn’t solve so he quit. He’s a quitter and I have to equate Favrd to many projects killed before their time by the weak and inadequate.

Hallelujah. I wondered if anyone was going to call Dean out, and I was shocked to see how much love he got from Favrd’s jilted membership after he shut it down. He decided to take his ball and his bat and go home, and nearly everyone gushed to him about how great the game had been, as if he had invented baseball.

Zeldman gave him a tiny nudge toward perspective by suggesting that the Favrd community was bigger than Dean himself. And Dean replied to that by 1) Insulting the emotional maturity of his users even more completely than in his initial flippant statement and 2) going on to further insult Tim for attempting to build his own much more functional aggregator at Favstar.

It seems in Mr. Allen’s mind, no one’s judgement or abilities can compare to his own. And it’s discouraging to see how many seem to agree with his generous self-assessment. Thank you for pointing out the Emperor’s nudity so well.

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suicideblonde:

Blanche DuBois may well be the great part for an actress in the American theater, and I have seen her portrayed by an assortment of formidable stars including Jessica Lange, Glenn Close, Patricia ClarksonNatasha Richardson. Yet there’s a see-sawing between strength and fragility in Blanche, and too often those who play her fall irrevocably onto one side or another. and

Watching such portrayals, I always hear the voice of Vivien Leigh, the magnificent star of Elia Kazan’s 1951 movie, whispering Blanche’s lines along with the actress onstage. But with this “Streetcar,” the ghosts of Leigh — and, for that matter, of Marlon Brando, the original Stanley — remain in the wings. All the baggage that any “Streetcar” usually travels with has been jettisoned. Ms. Ullmann and Ms. Blanchett have performed the play as if it had never been staged before, with the result that, as a friend of mine put it, “you feel like you’re hearing words you thought you knew pronounced correctly for the first time.”

The New York Times’ review of Cate Blanchett in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is a thing of beauty in itself.  And yes, they did just say there that she was essentially a better Blanche than Vivien Leigh.  That’s high praise indeed. Read the whole review here.

I had the good fortune to see Streetcar at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, with Gary Sinise as Stanley. That was some excellent acting. The NYTimes review makes this sound like it might be even better.

gordonshumway:

Really, FOXNews? That’s the headline you’re going with?

It’s one thing to report the news with an ideological point of view. It’s another to pay absolutely no attention to how to use the language.

Just in time for the holidays

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Does Zoey Deschanel own a controlling stake in Tumblr? There seems to be something in the bylaws that requires she be featured in every 3rd post.

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Aaaaaand Dean’s a dick again. (via nickdouglas)

Again? That was my conclusion on Sunday, when he told all the visitors to his website to take a flying leap, while disparaging their emotional maturity for ever having enjoyed it.

Viddy well, my droogies.

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