I’ve been counting down to March 13. Sturgill decided that this album would only be released on CD, vinyl, and cassette. I don’t have any of those three right now. I was debating whether to finally get that vinyl player or a CD player. The option is kind of a moot point right now because he dropped the entire album on YouTube tonight. For those of you u…

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I’d never related to Holden Caulfield before. I hadn’t actually run away. I’d simply learned that I had a few days in a row that weren’t accounted for and I hopped on a plane. It was the first time I’d shown up in this town unplanned. The difference with this haphazard journey was that I was coming to see someone. I also had important plans to make. All…

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I’ve spent a lot more time on Threads lately, mostly because I’ve been asking technical questions. I’ve asked questions about storylines and plot points to crickets. On the verge of sleep a week ago, I posed a question about camera lenses thinking I was just talking to myself. I woke up to dozens of replies from people in the field from beginners to pro…

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I’ve joked that my refrigerator of choice is the one that is stocked daily at 7-11. It’s easier to just grab a drink on the way somewhere than the psychological responsibility of grabbing them in a box, putting them into a cart and then standing in line. It’s over-priced, and it’s a horrible habit. I’m currently off of …

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In 2023, I submitted the below story to Tatou Publishing for their Fua anthology.

It was reviewed by Lani Wendt Young. Good story, but not the right fit for a YA sci-fi collection. It was an interior story with existential musings on mortality; no, it wasn’t meant for a YA audience. It was recommended that I submit it to other publications.

Driving acro…

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Bari Weiss is walking into CBS studios with bodyguards. I’m not the reader that concentrates on the details, I skim and make my verdict based on my hunch.

I saw that CBS had hired a new boss. I casually looked through the resume and she hit all the right marks. Early 40’s, East Coast, Ivy Leaguer, and a Democrat that didn’t leap …

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I just needed something short to watch for a bit to fall asleep to. Then Hulu reminds me that Alien Earth premiered tonight.

They open by distinguishing how immortality has been achieved in the future: cyborgs, robots, and hybrids that are replicants with our consciousness.

Even before we meet…

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I don’t show up. I just don’t and say I did. I was different this summer. I was invited to a get together six months earlier, and I showed up. I ran into family members I hadn’t seen in a long time. You know the conversations that are had at events - we should get together, we should go on an adventure, what happened to that book club? One of those conv…

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Other than Buffy and Angel, I never watched WB and then I never watched CW. I pride myself on being able to say I have never seen a single episode of Supernatural.

Fast forward to summer vacation and Spotify won’t load on the system. The background sound chosen by the group is Netflix.

I’ve passively watched a lot of cheese on…

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I watched 28 Days Later at the Green Valley Ranch movie theatre in Vegas with my brother. We were a few months into moving to Vegas. Getting dropped off at a casino with different food places, an arcade room, and no closing time was a great intro to our 20’s. When I heard of the third installment coming out I knew …

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Abstract

            The film meme data collection community is made up of anyone that posts memes showcasing their thoughts or feelings with films and television as the basis for the communication. Whether you’re mentioning an ep…

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The information seeking behaviors of film meme data collectors, I believe, heavily relies on the literature of the leisure seeking community. Stebbins wrote about leisure seeking, “Stebbin’s work solely on film, he wrote, “More circumscribed is the benefit of learning something in an enjoyable setting that could stay with the participant well beyond the…

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My matrix template touched upon the blog topic of this week. What issues can the film meme data collection community face on a global scale? It can affect a lot. The media is the message and in countries like Norway and Southeast Asia, steps are being taken by corporations and special interests groups to control the online narrative, especially surround…

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I've argued for years that if you truly want to delve into your feelings about a film, or how to interpret it, you need to walk into your public library and ask a librarian. Information professionals retain not only the entire reel in their mind, but also the public perception of that work of art when it was first relea…

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I initially started out wanting to research film archivists. A dream is to work at the Margaret Herrick Library; surrounded with the works of the best. As I started collecting data on what I was looking for, what I realized is that the community I was interacting with were data collectors. Are we all familiar with memes? Not just the funny ones with cat…

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I spent the Oscars on Hung Up chat. I hadn’t watched it live in years and I was chatting with people that knew how to rip apart the red carpet and understood the assignment during interviews. I referenced things throughout the convo that got laughs, and also, “a newbie knows that much?”

Yeah, about that, I’ve been on these gossip chats since the MySpac…

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I fall victim to social media peer pressure. If you show me an ad even if it’s not in the form of an ad, after a while it will become a part of my thought process and I put it on my to-do list. That’s how after a month of seeing Los Angelenos debate the prices of items at Erowhon it finally became somewhere I had to go. I must preface this by telling yo…

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Did you know that the ground shifts? I learned this the other night driving down PCH when it was recommended that I slow down because the dips can hurt your car. You nod and keep going and as the headlights show road followed by nothing but air, you get what they mean. It was frightening for like a second, but I’m also someone that almost drove off the…

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