TSF12: Quality Otter Haircuts and the Pirated Music of Bjorkestra (not necessarily in that order) – NOW ONLINE!
Posted on June 29, 2010 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 12: Quality Otter Haircuts and the Pirated Music of Bjorkestra (not necessarily in that order)
Tune in to see just how the words in the title actually combine to form a coherent episode of The Slacker Factor.
Links:
Meandering Rant: Business and Competition by Christian
Book Report: Music Piracy by Rob
Music Segment: Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra
TSF11: Crazy like Patty (or Snooki) – NOW ONLINE!
Posted on June 13, 2010 | By Robert LaFrance | 1 Comment
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 11: Crazy like Patty (or Snooki)
Your crack team of Slackers explores what’s real and what’s faux and Patty decides she’s cooler than Snooki in her “Reality is
Overrated” rant. Christian ponders the future of the suprising long-time coming electric car. And we feast our ears on the alt-pop of Draz. Now that’s a show! (or is it?)
Links:
Meandering Rant: Reality Is Overrated by Patty
Book Report: Electric Cars by Christian
Music Segment: Sunday Rain by Draz
Alms. Alms for the poor!
Posted on June 10, 2010 | By Christian | 3 Comments
Ticket Donations
Ok, this is nothing new but I think it’s something that is worth saying again. The summer is here and with it come the fun things we all enjoyed as kids and would like to do the same with our children. I remember going to baseball games as a kid and concerts (as I got a bit older) every summer. It’s a right of passage. Well, it’s a right of passage if you are wealthy anyway. Have you seen how much it costs to go to a major league baseball game?? And God help you if you want to buy a baseball hat or shirt while you are there! Rock concerts are no better. Even has-been bands that are touring, like the powerhouse combination of REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar, are ridiculously expensive!
I think I need a ticket subsidy.
Here is a great idea from the Hippodrome in Florida. ”Can’t make your regularly scheduled performance? Can’t exchange tickets? You can donate your tickets back to the Hipp and we’ll make them available for another arts patron to enjoy.”
Wired on Chris Hardwick Joke Analysis
Posted on June 4, 2010 | By Patty Pino | 1 Comment
- Stagetime matters big time.
A long time ago, when Madonna didn’t speak with a British accent and the US was actually cleaning up oil spilled from that Exxon DUI in Alaska, I climbed onstage in front of a bar full of strangers and attempted to make them laugh. I succeeded, and those few minutes in a red-velvet-decorated strip mall comedy club changed my life. I could write a joke.
Before and since that night, I have enjoyed and analyzed comedy. (Admittedly, I analyze everything I enjoy.) How psyched was I, then, when the May 2010 issue of WIRED magazine featured comedian and Web Soup host Chris Hardwick’s article Crafting a Joke: The Arc of an Act? Completely, and I was completely impressed. Many, many comedy professionals and feigned comedic personalities have attempted to describe their joke processes, but Hardwick, in sharing his approach and the perspective of others, boils it down to the essentials.
Want people to laugh with you instead of just at you? Read Hardwick’s advice, start thinking funny, right it down, and go.
~pp
