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Guest Post: Why Botched Teenspeak Says Volumes
Ypulse —
Authority: 524
Todays Ypulse Guest Post is from Supergirls Speak Out author and former Youth Advisory Board member Liz Funk on the cringe-worthy teenspeak we sometimes see in media. If you work in youth media or marketing and have an idea for a guest post, feel free to email me . Why Botched Teenspeak Says Volumes ...1 week ago -
The shame game
Reg on Wry —
Authority: 491
I am writing at 5.15 p.m. on Election Day. The tension and excitement are palpable. The community pulses races. Which one of the three boy mayor candidates will become the boy mayor of Pittsburgh? What about those judicial retention contests? And how can we wait to hear who has been elected to Commonwealth Court? ...1 week ago -
Do First Lines Stack Up?
Suspense Novelist —
Authority: 118
As writers, we are taught that opening lines are important. They do more than grab the reader, though. They set the tone. They let the reader know what they have gotten themselves into. They raise a question or two. I wondered if books I read this year or fifteen-plus years ago, and ...2 weeks ago -
Stories Abide
Inside Digital Media —
Authority: 109
Phil Leigh Inexorable expansion of the Internet results in a lockstep growth in anxiety about threatened obsolescence among incumbent media participants. Yet whatever the changes affecting media, storytelling remains the timeless value. Even before humanity learned how to record them, the Greek Myths were passed ...3 weeks ago -
ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: THE RIGHT STUFF
Hollywood Outbreak —
Authority: 568
On this day in 1983, WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES released THE RIGHT STUFF. Directed by PHILLIP KAUFMAN from the book by TOM WOLFE, this film told the dramatic story of the original U.S. Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. The all-star cast included SAM SHEPARD, SCOTT ...3 weeks ago -
Doubleshot Tuesday: On The Road/The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
dk presents... —
Authority: 127
[Today: Going further...]“There’s always more, a little further – it never ends,” wrote Jack Kerouac in his classic 1957 novel On The Road, an account of his cross-country adventures with fellow Beats such as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. As “Dean Moriarty” (Kerouac’s publisher ...3 weeks ago -
"New York by Line: From Broadway to the Battery"
one piece —
Authority: 122
In 1967, a German illustrator going by the single name Robinson published a collection of pen-and-ink drawings called New York. Like so many non-natives before and after him—Hart Crane, E.B. White, Tom Wolfe—Robinson, whose given name was Werner Kruse, was...3 weeks ago -
Performing is investing is selling
Makin' Ads —
Authority: 116
Recently, Jim was writing about audiobooks , and it got me thinking. A few years ago, I listened to Tom Wolfes book, A Man in Full on tape. (Yes, cassette tape.) It was read by David Ogden Stiers . Great actor. Great book. But having him read it to me was a little ...4 weeks ago
