The bright side of a Moon
Ms. Ensign co-hosts a podcast about Babylon 5, the first serialized novel-for-TV that I was aware of. It seemed groundbreaking at the time, though now it’s a standard format that’s given us awesome entertainment like Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
And this essay suggests that binge-watching-from-the-beginning shouldn’t be the default if you’re new to a serialized show.
Samantha Gardella took some cool pictures of the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center, better recognized by more folks as Litchfield Minimum Security Prison from Orange Is the New Black.
And the staff running the OITNB Twitter account gave her a SHOT.
They don’t draw that line at cinematography – if a film were out of focus, or if it were continuously framed in such as a way as to obscure what was happening onscreen no one would say “What did you expect, Citizen Kane?”
Exactly right.
Naomi Klein telling us to get organized. I suspect that the marketing push behind “act locally” is related to the fear of unions and organized labor of businesses.
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Godsdammit, Democrats.