Totally Off Topic: Why the Walking Dead is Horrible
The show is so poorly written.
There is not a single character that has continuity from one scene to the next. At times, I think the writers are suffering from a lack of extra actors to say certain lines. For the most part it comes off as a bunch of feminist crap, because they have a female character say something evil to a male character.
The writing is just really poor. Instead of developing a scene they are just throwing paint on the wall and seeing what sticks. add on top of that, bad directing and bad acting. it is the director’s job to time lines and time scenes. this show has awkward scene after awkward scene with a character pausing between lines. there’s not an actor I even like the show.
Returns and Attendance Bad and Getting Worse Each Year
According to Hollywood, this summer saw a 3rd consecutive drop in revenue and attendance. Summer movie revenue was down 3% and summer attendance was down 4%. Other than the avengers, box office returns were flat or bad. Hollywood blamed the Olympics and the Colorado shooting, however that doesn’t explain the previous 2 years.
One analyst says that Hollywood can no longer put out huge marketing for a bad movie because by 1am Saturday morning, tweets are going to be flying about how awful the movie truly is.
A Hollywood defender said that as the economy contracts, not gets better, executives will get more conservative and not take risks, which means they will put out cash cows, such as twilight and cater to the “tween” crowd. They will stick to franchises and not do new movies.
Critics of this position say that, this is exactly why the numbers are bad and getting worse. They said that putting out bad movies, year after year will drive audiences away. With twitter and rotten tomatoes people turn to independent films more and more for fresh entertainment.
I finally take time to address you the reader personally and thank you.
Hey everyone. I’d like to first say thank you all for reading my blog. I check my stats constantly to see who’s reading. While I do have lots of readers, I don’t seem to get a lot of genuine comments. I say genuine, because I receive a lot of spam. In fact 99.999% of all comments I receive are spam. I even receive hand written spam comments. Now, I don’t understand what’s the point of trying to post spam comments. Do you see any spam comments on my blog? No! Why? Because I delete them all before they are even posted. I welcome each and everyone to comment. Even if you disagree with me. I love a good conversation as well as a heated debate. I think I even let someone comment that called me racist. Which is sort of strange, seeing as nearly all of my idols, if he took the time to read my blog, are nearly all white: Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Ludwig Mises, Jim Rogers, etc…
Anywho…
I’d like to announce my new blog @ Shakaama Live . I’ve made this step to allow me the opportunities, wordpress doesn’t allow, afford, think of. On that blog you can find all sorts of great posts like: self improvement; financial opinion; stock market opinion; public policy opinion.
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But, back to shakaama live, I just wanted to personally invite you to come read my blogs there and also invite your comments on there. The comments are, of course, based on approval, so nothing crazy will ever get through, nor will spam.
We have had one hell of two weeks here with all the famous deaths: Michael Jackson – a personal favorite of mine; Farah Fawcett – who didn’t age so well; Ed McMahon – ahhh when America could be real adults and watch Johnny Carson [who i also was sad when he passed]. I don’t know if I’m a storm crow, coming in after such sad news with my glad news. Or, maybe I’m a morning glory, bringing cheerful tidings after the storm. I have high hopes for all my blogs and websites.
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I’d be glad if you checked out all my projects really. But, I never address you, my readers, directly, so I thought I’d do it for a change, give a personal touch and let you know i’m human. I pray for each and every U.S. born, tax paying, citizen of America. We have it hard and I think we’re being swindled. I hope everyone can hear my voice so we all can be uplifted together.
Jackie Chan is in the news. He made comments that he personally believed. Supposedly there is going to be some backlash from it, but… I don’t see who could be influential enough and take offense to the comments that Jackie Chan would care. At some point we need to stop getting offended because people are speaking their mind. Why are we putting microphones into people’s faces that realistically mean nothing to us, other than they are a curiosity for our entertainment. Actors, basketball players, singers, these people are not role models, they are entertainment. When these media icons say stuff we need to take it with a grain of salt. I know that they can make insane amounts of money from endorsements, but if we as parents or a society actually base any life decisions on what an actor or basketball player says, we need to go commit suicide post haste.
[ I’d like to point out in the AP news report they say the “Chinese race”. Why are we still paying attention to the media when they are so ignorant as to call Chinese a race? ]
Jackie Chan
HONG KONG – Jackie Chan’s comments that freedom may not be good for China were taken out of context, his spokesman said Tuesday, while Facebook users and Chinese scholars condemned the veteran actor on the Internet in a spreading backlash.
The 55-year-old star of the ” Rush Hour ” action films caused a huge uproar after he told a business forum on Saturday that it may not be good for authoritarian China to become a free society .
“I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not,” Chan said Saturday, adding freedoms in his native Hong Kong and Taiwan made those societies “chaotic.” Taiwan, which split from China in 1949, is democratic and Hong Kong , a separately ruled Chinese territory, enjoys some free elections.
“I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want,” he said.
Hong Kong and Taiwanese legislators lashed out at the comments, with some accusing Chan of insulting the Chinese race.
Solon So, the chief executive of Chan’s company JC Group and his main spokesman, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday the actor was referring to freedom in the entertainment industry and not Chinese society at large.
Chan was speaking at a panel discussion about Asian entertainment industries and was asked to discuss movie censorship in China.
“Some people with ulterior motives deliberately misinterpreted what he was saying,” So said.
Meanwhile, the public backlash against Chan grew.
A group of Chinese scholars published a letter on the Internet on Monday accusing Chan of “not understanding how precious freedom is,” even though “free Hong Kong provided the conditions for you to become an international action star.”
A Facebook group set up by Hong Kong users calling for Chan to be exiled to North Korea had drawn more than 2,600 members by Tuesday. The group also posted form letters urging Hong Kong’s Baptist University and Academy for Performing Arts to strip Chan of honorary degrees they gave the actor.
The Hong Kong Tourism Board , for which Chan serves as an ambassador, had received 17 complaints as of Monday that his comments “hurt the image of Hong Kong and aren’t reflective of Hong Kong people ,” a publicist said. She declined to give her name because of company policy.
Opposition Taiwanese politicians on Monday demanded that the city government of Taipei strip Chan of his role as ambassador of the Deaf Olympic Games to be held in the Taiwanese capital in September.
“Here’s Boston late night talk radio legend Larry Glick in his prime getting “The story behind the story” from a caller reading a
newspaper article to him. This call was replayed dozens of times by Larry at the request of his callers who almost nightly would ask him to play “The Orangutan”. To his credit he would only play it once every 2-3 weeks. about half way through Larry and the caller are laughing so hard they can hardly speak. Larry’s laugh was so infectious you can’t help but laugh with him. As Larry was WBZ’s overnight host I was on the receiving end of my parents wrath at about 1:30AM when I would be giggling and snorting into my pillow trying to be quiet while hysteria ensued on the air.”
Longtime WBZ radio host Larry Glick died Thursday night in Florida after undergoing 10 hours of open heart surgery. He was 87.
“A typical show might feature a sometimes serious guest, an exchange of repartee with his hapless (and usually less witty) engineer at the station, and free-ranging free associations on current events and life. Some callers became institutions like Larry: Arnold Tarbox, the dry and droll Maine fisherman; Charlie DiGiovanni, a wisecracking Boston cabdriver; the Champagne Lady; Boston newspaper legend, Kenny “The Night” Mayer; and a number of others. A call from some of these regulars could seem like a visit from an old friend.”
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“Prior to ending its run on WHDH in 1992, Larry’s show went out first over WMEX in 1965. By 1967, he had been hired by WBZ, where he would spend the next 20 years. WBZ Radio was a powerful 50,000-watt station that blanketed the six New England states and reached well beyond, from the Maritime provinces of Canada down through the Carolinas in the South and as far west as the Rockies. Third-shift workers and insomniacs throughout much of the eastern seaboard and midwest took comfort when Larry’s unique brand of talk radio came on at midnight. For six hours, Larry’s affable and charismatic voice enfolded a mix of lighthearted chat, sassy sound effects, obscure and funny musical numbers, and lots of generally wacky calls from listeners.”
Larry Glick and Jack Williams
“Long time and famous late night talk show host Larry Glick returned to Boston from his home in Boca Raton, Florida, to celebrate a milestone birthday with friends. Larry and Jack Williams have been close friends since 1975. Jack made frequent appearances on Larry’s talk show on WBZ Radio. Among those in attendance at the big celebration were Roger Berkowitz, president of Legal Sea Foods, and David Mugar. ”
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Excerpt from an article one of his regular guests wrote: ”
The “Glick University” held its classes very late at night, so if you did attend, your relationship with the president, Professor Glick, became very personal. Many lonely people have told us that his show helped them get through the night. He provided a great public service for years, so it is nice to see that he is richly enjoying his retirement.
I called him today and as always he answered, “Hello, Glick here.” I asked how he was and he whistled and said, “Let me check.” Larry looks and acts 25 years younger than his age and I believe his happy disposition is the major reason. …”
The show is so poorly written.
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