Comments for Inverted Soapbox http://invertedsoapbox.com Stories from a freelance writer in Brooklyn Wed, 02 May 2012 18:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on How do you get to Sesame Street? Practice, practice, practice by durfffy http://invertedsoapbox.com/2010/05/04/how-do-you-get-to-sesame-street-practice-practice-practice/#comment-3886 Wed, 02 May 2012 18:47:10 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=1557#comment-3886 hey, I just read an article about Mari Jaye Blanchard doing some animation work for the popular children’s show Sesame Street and a New York City recording studio called 
  MetroSonic . You could read the article and watch the her animation by clicking right here!

]]> Comment on Will horizontal loyalty save journalism? by Rachel http://invertedsoapbox.com/2011/05/31/will-horizontal-loyalty-save-journalism/#comment-3046 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:37:57 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2269#comment-3046 I agree wholeheartedly with this, except for the garnering advertising dollars part of it. We aren’t going to be a consumer culture for long, and advertising and propaganda are growing into one strange braid. There are major questions about whether the internet, as our surviving means of communication (if so) will be free, and I think that’s where the real fight is. Banding together with others to help shape what kind of communication system is possible for us, who has access to it, how we develop new institutions of trust that replace publishers, research institutions, universities, public schools, libraries, newspapers, etc.is a dire essential if it’s going to happen at all.
And my apologies to the person who has posted before me, because I’m far more alarmist than this article is. We’re in a transformation as sweeping as the printing press, and everything, including our political system, is plainly up for grabs. The most “proactive” (hateful piece of vocabulary) groups are certainly not the guys who are rolling up their sleeves to fight for the public good. Waiting to see what happens is about the most dangerous thing we can do right now. I mean, aside from setting out to wreak mayhem and selfish profit.

]]> Comment on Live from the Pete & Pete reunion show, or: Growing up is for blowholes by Eliza Stein http://invertedsoapbox.com/2012/02/27/live-from-the-pete-pete-reunion-show-or-growing-up-is-for-blowholes/#comment-2966 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:44:37 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2398#comment-2966 Great article, thanks for the memories!
My favorite episode will always be “Rolling Thunder.” That scene where Artie’s wrestling the bowling ball still makes me break down laughing.

]]> Comment on Live from the Pete & Pete reunion show, or: Growing up is for blowholes by Stephanie http://invertedsoapbox.com/2012/02/27/live-from-the-pete-pete-reunion-show-or-growing-up-is-for-blowholes/#comment-2963 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:56:37 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2398#comment-2963 @Cribbster – That was Inspector 34!! I was just thinking about that episode this morning. As a kid who was dealing with some undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive issues at the time, that episode was pretty much the only thing in my life that reminded me it was okay (and sometimes even preferable) to not be perfect.

Also, I was at this event – They said Miss Fingerwood was originally named Miss Fingerhut. I can’t decide which one sounds dirtier. :-P

]]> Comment on Live from the Pete & Pete reunion show, or: Growing up is for blowholes by Cribbster http://invertedsoapbox.com/2012/02/27/live-from-the-pete-pete-reunion-show-or-growing-up-is-for-blowholes/#comment-2956 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:04:43 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2398#comment-2956 The only thing I remember from that show was the eating contest where the guy ate BBQ rips to a completely clean plate and the Go button in the older dude’s convertible.

]]> Comment on On trying not to abandon your blog by David Carr on Russians, escaping the grid and douchey elitists | Inverted Soapbox http://invertedsoapbox.com/2011/12/21/on-trying-not-to-abandon-your-blog/#comment-2789 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:55:29 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2339#comment-2789 [...] After that, we were talking shop for a minute, when Carr grabbed my arm, twisted it toward his wife and said “Yeah, but this guy’s hardcore. Look at his tattoo.” [...]

]]> Comment on On trying not to abandon your blog by David Carr on Russians, escaping the grid and douchey elitists | Inverted Soapbox http://invertedsoapbox.com/2011/12/21/on-trying-not-to-abandon-your-blog/#comment-2787 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:36:04 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2339#comment-2787 [...] We chatted shop talk for a minute after the event, when he grabbed my arm, twisted it toward his wife and said “Yeah, but this guy’s hardcore. Look at his tattoo.” [...]

]]> Comment on Fictional bands clearly based on Sparklehorse by Tim Donnelly http://invertedsoapbox.com/2012/01/02/fictional-bands-clearly-based-on-sparklehorse/#comment-2481 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:09:00 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2363#comment-2481 says the guy with 250 Sparklehorse on his ipod

]]> Comment on Fictional bands clearly based on Sparklehorse by Barry http://invertedsoapbox.com/2012/01/02/fictional-bands-clearly-based-on-sparklehorse/#comment-2480 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:07:38 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.com/?p=2363#comment-2480 Great band.

]]> Comment on The best time I got rejected from The Awl by Tim Donnelly http://invertedsoapbox.com/2011/12/23/the-best-time-i-got-rejected-from-the-awl/#comment-2368 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:19:06 +0000 http://invertedsoapbox.wordpress.com/?p=2344#comment-2368 also: him not her.

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