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(83)-FOR-TRUTH
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
December 29, 2023
Words
84

“ The ubiquitous roadside billboards promoting Christianity are sponsored by a group called – appropriately – Gospel Billboards , which is a subsidiary of Christian Aid Ministries . They have been erecting these billboards since 2006. Here’s a map showing all the billboard locations. ”

Agitprop
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
December 16, 2024
Words
111

“This is a portmanteau of the words ‘agitation’ and ‘propaganda.’ Historically, it has been used for propoganda in support of communism. I couldn’t find a definition that made it clear what the difference was between it and ‘regular’ propoganda. The only thing is that the ‘agit’ part of it tends…”

Algonquin Round Table
Section
Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
February 21, 2023
Words
198

“This was a group of creatives that would meet for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the interwar period of the 1920s. Many of them were newspaper writers and columnists, and the subjects of their conversations were often printed in the papers of the day. Later, several actors and…”

Bowdlerization
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
January 26, 2022
Words
238

“It was named for Thomas Bowdler. In the 1800s, he published The Family Shakespeare , which was a version of Shakespeare’s plays which he felt were more suitable for families. Wikipedia has some examples of his changes. In Hamlet, the death of Ophelia was called an accidental drowning, not a…”

Breaking News
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Words
68

“ This term will go away when traditional TV goes away, because it means that news is so important that the TV networks ‘break’ into normal programming ”

Camera Blocking
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
January 20, 2025
Words
189

“This is the precise placing of actors in a film scene. It’s a rehearsal process where actors decide and plan where they will be at each point in the scene, and where they will move during the scene, in relation to the camera. It’s important because an actor has to be in frame, usually facing the…”

Chevy Chase
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
September 13, 2024
Words
361

“Neither. Both the actor and the city were named (indirectly) for a medieval English hunting ground. The actor, who was born in 1943, is actually named Cornelius Chase. ‘Chevy’ is a childhood nickname. (Apparently, he was also indirectly named after the English land, not the city.) The city in…”

Clear and Present Danger
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
March 20, 2022
Words
385

“Before this was a Tom Clancy novel (1989) and subsequent film (1994), it was a phrase taken from a landmark Supreme Court decision. In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote an opinion for a unanimous court in Schenck vs. United States . Two people were arrested for distributing pamphlets…”

Colorist
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
October 19, 2024
Words
322

“Broadly speaking, this is an artist who applies or manipulates the color of media. In comic books, the original drawings were done in black-and-white, and a colorist then applied color to them. So the lines of the drawing and the color were done by two separate artists. (See a good example on the…”

Contentful File Selector
Section
The CMS UI Database
Type
Captioned Photo
Date
September 14, 2020
Words
48

“ When creating media entries in Contentful, you can not only upload images from your machine, but connect to a bunch of other systems to find images stored in them. From this interface, the ‘My Device’ option is the only one that leads to a traditional file upload UI. ”

Crip Walk
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
September 27, 2024
Words
447

“This is a dance style, popularized by the Crips gang of Los Angeles. Technically, it involves pivoting on the balls and heels of the feet to spell out C-R-I-P. Often, the hands are held high, sometimes pointing at your feet. An authentic gang member might make gang signs with their hands during the…”

End Billing
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
April 30, 2024
Words
285

“When an actor appears at the end of the credits prefixed by ‘and’ or ‘with,’ this is called ‘end billing.’ It’s usually reserved for bigger name actors who have smaller parts. For example, in beginning of the movie True Lies , Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis are the main stars of the…”

Gonzo Journalism
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
January 4, 2022
Words
241

“This is a style of journalism in which the author’s opinion and perspective is injected into the story. It abandons notions of objectivity and dispassion, and tells stories from a clear perspective, often highly stylized and biased. From an article at MasterClass : Gonzo journalism is an…”

Greenlights
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
October 16, 2021
Words
285

“I very much regret not getting the audiobook. It would have been spectacular to listen to the author read this. This is a memoir. It was made out to be more than that because (1) the cover is funky, and (2) it has a lot of pictures of artifacts (?) of McConaughey’s life, but make no mistake – this…”

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 9, 2025
Words
494

“So, here’s the thing: I thought this book was about Jeopardy! . And it’s fair to think that, given the title. But this book has virtually nothing to do with Jeopardy! . I had no idea who Amy Schneider was when I picked up the book. Given the title, I assumed she had some celebrity from the game…”

The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 9, 2014
Words
59

“This one was tough. It is exactly as advertised – a detailed historical account of the origins of newspapers, specifically in 14th - 18th century Europe. The problem is, that’s kinda boring. I can’t fault the author, but it’s very, very dry topic. And the book is very detailed. I’m glad I read it,…”

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
December 22, 2015
Words
86

“I love Mindy Kaling so much, but she’s not nearly as funny in this book. The book is sort of an auto-biography, but not very deep, and with the obvious intent to be more funny than anything else. Throughout, she has short chapters which are meant to be funny little essays. Some are okay, but a lot…”

Is This Anything?
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
March 13, 2022
Words
132

“here’s the thing to understand: this is 400 pages of Seinfeld’s standup. That’s it. It’s very little more than this. I thought this was an examination of Jerry’s creative process. It’s not at all. There’s 3-4 pages of intro about how he decided he wanted to be a comic. The rest is divided up in to…”

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 30, 2017
Words
102

“A book which counters claims of Left-wing media bias. Chomsky actually claims the media is biased towards big business and government and provides a ‘propaganda model’ which he claims demonstrates it. The rest of the book is mainly history – Chomsky uses things like some murders in Central America,…”

Method Acting
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
August 14, 2022
Words
401

“‘The Method’ is a style of acting that was popularized by the Russian actor Konstantin Stanislavski. It was made much more popular in the United States by Lee Strasborg. The basic idea of The Method is that the actor should believe they are the character that they’re playing. They should ‘lose…”

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
June 17, 2023
Words
750

“This is a book that I probably read for the wrong reasons, and a book that I was ultimately unsatisfied with. But in the book’s defense, it could never succeed at what I wanted from it. This is a book that asks the question: What do we do with the art of monstrous men? That question above was…”

The News: A User’s Manual
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
August 27, 2014
Words
150

“An interesting book which explores how humans react to the news on an emotional/psychological level. It discusses the different types of news: political, economic, disaster, cultural, etc. and how we perceive and relate to them. Some interesting points I gathered: The true measure of news is if it…”

Processing The News: How People Tame The Information Tide
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
September 18, 2014
Words
226

“A fascinating book which details an experiment which took place in 1976. Twenty-one subjects in Evanston, Illinois (north of Chicago) were followed for one year. All of the news that was published in the area was cataloged, as was all the news the subjects consumed. They were regularly interviewed…”

Showrunner
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
June 4, 2023
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367

“This is the producer of a television show who has creative control over the content of the show. The showrunner is almost always a writer, and manages the writer’s room, making the final creative decisions. How the plot unfolds, season over season, is the responsibility of the showrunner. From an…”

Shrek
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Stuff I Looked Up
Type
Explanation
Date
October 28, 2021
Words
215

“Yes. Shrek was a 1990 children’s book written and illustrated by 83-year-old William Steig. The book was quite different from other children’s book. Said one article : …Shrek! in particular inspires a subversive hope: it pushes kids to question the moral and sexual subtexts of fairy tales they’ve…”

The Way I Am
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
May 15, 2023
Words
366

“This is sort of a biography, but more of a coffee table book. It’s a collection of photos of the life of Marshall Mathers (Eminem), interspersed with recollections of his life. It’s actually quite good. He starts by talking about the death of Proof in 2006, who is a rapper I had never heard of. His…”

What is Newsworthy?
Section
Personal Blog
Type
Blog Post
Date
September 26, 2014
Words
428

“In college, I took Journalism 101 (actually 110; Augie’s numbering scheme is weird), which I just loved. I maintain it was the best class I took in college, and the one that has provided me more practical value than anything else I took. In it, I learned about the gatekeeper effect , which is the…”

The World According to Star Wars
Section
Deane’s Library
Type
Book Review
Date
July 17, 2023
Words
249

“This book is odd but lovable. I can’t imagine how it got written. It’s about Star Wars . But not about any particular aspect of Star Wars . Rather, it’s a meditation about the…ideas (?) of Star Wars ? The book was written right after The Force Awakens was released. That was the first film in the…”