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Saturday, December 15, 2007

That video…

by Frank Paynter on December 15, 2007

might work for a while until lane hartwell tells shoutfile to take it down, which she has a right to do. all she wanted was a credit. amazing that there is any discussion about this whatsoever. she owns her photo. she didn’t say they could use it. editing their flaky little vid would have been a matter of minutes. I hope all the other people whose work has been ripped in this one ask for a credit or compensation or both.

eric rice has a good take on the whole matter.

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Penelope Trunk

by Frank Paynter on December 15, 2007

Penelope had the advantage of going to New Trier High School, so she already knew about life in the land of milk and honey…

Q: Where are you based?
A: I have spent roughly ten years each in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and New York City. Seven months ago, I wrote a series of columns about how to leverage scientific data about what makes us happy in order to choose a job and a place to live. I took my own advice and moved from New York City to Madison, Wisconsin even though I had never been there before. The first word my baby learned in Wisconsin was cow.

[tags]Penelope Trunk, say cheese[/tags]

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Denying Darwin

December 15, 2007

Between four and four-thirty this morning the dog went nuts.  Beth got up and looked out the window.  Two men were standing in the drive.  She threw up the sash, opened the storm window, and asked what they wanted.
They had run out of gas.
“Tell them we have none,” I mumbled into my pillow, and the [...]

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