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fuckyeahmassachusetts: ohryankelley: Boston T map poster By:...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:57:40 -0500

fuckyeahmassachusetts:

ohryankelley:

Boston T map poster

By: Big Nickel Graphics

Adam said, “I want this on a shirt. Get it? T shirt!”

he’s a funny kid

No hard feeelings

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:20:00 -0500

Alice in Thunderdome is back in my good graces after apologizing and removing the article.

Let’s all welcome her back into the derby fold, in hopes she won’t make the same mistake again. We’re one twisted sorority in roller derby … And ya can’t leave a sister behind.

UPDATE: Just realized that Universal Hub picked up this situation … so she’s probably having a pretty shitty day today. I think she’s paid for the mistake pretty heavily at this point…

It's down, and I got an apology

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:21:26 -0500

Look, I’m all for publicity for roller derby … but I’m not going to lower my standards or allow someone to steal my work for that to happen.

Update

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:55:30 -0500

When I click on the article now, it says

Article Not Ready
This article is currently being published.
It should be available for viewing in 5 minutes.

Thanks,
The Examiner.com Team

Hmmm… will be interested to see what appears….

In which a writer steals my work outright

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:03:00 -0500

As the Communications Committee head for the Boston Derby Dames, I spend a lot of my time producing content for our website and for outlets like Derby News Network. This includes previews and recaps of games, and while some of these pieces may be short, I put a lot of work into them. I don’t earn a penny off any of it. It’s all done for free, in my spare (ha ha…) time.

Have you ever heard of The Examiner? It’s a blogging website where they hire bloggers, then pay them based on pageviews, etc. So the writers on the Examiner are making money.

Beth Eisenberg, aka Alice in Thunderdome, a skater for a New England League (not sure which) is currently the “Roller Derby Examiner.” And she has taken to lifting copy from league websites, posting it, and making money off it.

And friends, she just messed with the wrong derby girl. She lifted, WORD FOR WORD, a recap I wrote of our season opener. She posted it under her name and her photo … with only a small, italicized attribution at the bottom. No link. No permission.

Now, if you want to post this on your blog and link to the site, fine. If you want to post it on your own league’s website with a link, that’s fine. All those things spread publicity for my league, but they also don’t bring you any kind of money.

I did not give permission for this, and in fact expressly told her she could not lift my work (um, who needs to be TOLD that?). I just sent her a very nasty email demanding it be removed and threatening legal action.

Fucking lazy bloggers. Go to hell.

Dear Internet,

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:39 -0500

Please bring me either a) a new job or b) a winning lottery ticket.

I can’t take this for much longer.

Sincerely,

Lauren/Mona

ps- anyone want to hire a super cool roller derby girl? I’ll do just about anything, so long as it involves me leaving my clothes on.

Hilary Duff to write a YA series | EW.com

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:13:17 -0500

Hilary Duff to write a YA series | EW.com:

I think the truth to this story lies in the following sentence:

Actress Hilary Duff has just signed a multi-book deal with Simon & Schuster to produce a series of young adult novels, the first of which is titled Elixir and will hit stores in October.

Produce, eh? Yup, I thought so.

viciouscupcakes: jewcakes:divination:iguessthatscool:zizzlezazzl...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:28:36 -0500

viciouscupcakes:

jewcakes:divination:iguessthatscool:zizzlezazzle:kenmat:shunta:pootee:howtofly

soupsoup: cookiepuss: jaredgeller: We Are Plastic Ono...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:13:14 -0500

soupsoup:

cookiepuss:

jaredgeller:

We Are Plastic Ono Band

(via Yoko Ono official)

I always kind of don’t like Sean Lennon because I feel so bad for Julian Lennon. I feel like Julian got such a raw deal as far as fathers go and Sean got all the love and attention and some pretty song. Julian got a song too but it’s kind of sad and it wasn’t written by his father for him. I think Yoko Ono is cool as hell but Sean Lennon can go fly a kite. I’m not down with him in any way. I’m glad we have that covered for today.

Julian is a much better singer and songwriter who has never been given his due.

I think Julian suffered because he both looked AND sounded so much like his dad … and his record came out fairly close to John’s death. People just couldn’t get it… but he’s much more talented than Sean.

I have had, without a doubt, the most trying day of my professional life

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:23:14 -0500

Did you make your supervisor cry this morning? Because I did.

And just to be clear … I was right.

daveholmes: So I have some thoughts about this. A few months...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:30:58 -0500

daveholmes:

So I have some thoughts about this.

A few months after I moved here, Brian Graden invited me to sit at his table for the Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards. He was getting a special award, as he did about twice a week. I jumped at the chance, since I’m gay and in the media, and I didn’t really get invited to things like this very much. Still don’t. I took my best black suit (slimming!) to the fancy dry cleaners in West Hollywood, got a haircut, shaved, and eagerly waited an empowering night for the gays. I was young.

Halfway through the night, the creators of “Will & Grace” got a special award, as they did about nine times a week. Sean Hayes presented it to them, and the beginning of his speech went something like this:

“Folks, it’s great to see so many gay and gay-friendly people here tonight. And I’ve chosen this occasion to share something with you. You may have suspected this, and I’ve kept it to myself for years, but now feels like the right time. You see, ladies and gentlemen, I am…really happy to be here.”

The crowd roared with laughter. I winced and did the thing where you put your index finger under your collar and pull on it. The rep from GLAAD said, “Why?”

At the reception afterwards, I pulled the GLAAD rep aside: “What was that?”

“What was what?”

“What was the crazy rich closeted gay actor making a joke about not coming out of the closet at the GLAAD Awards?”

“Oh! He does that every year. It’s his thing. Isn’t it funny?”

Like Eric Stoltz in “Kicking & Screaming,” I’m going to paraphrase myself here:

“No. No, it isn’t funny when the guy playing the gay Stepin Fetchit on the network show that’s in its seventh season looks out at a bunch of gay people who aren’t all zillionaires living in a city where it’s relatively easy to be openly gay- gay people who saved their pennies and closed their salons and antique stores, and got their weird blue tuxedos out of storage and bought a bolo tie and drove in from Needles or whatever, and who take actual risk with their actual lives being actually out EVERY DAY in those places, and who come here to feel proud and powerful for a night- to not only stay in the closet, but to make a joke about it. No, that’s not funny at all, and it might be the kind of thing that you, since you are the Gay & Lesbian Alliance AGAINST Defamation, might want to be AGAINST.”

Guess which one of us got invited back the next year.

Trying to find the email address for one of my instructors...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:48:13 -0500

duplo:

Accidentally found a spreadsheet including her’s and hundreds of other Portland State staffer’s monthly salaries!

I bet they’d be glad that’s on the internet for anyone to see!

Geez.

I think all public schools are required to list salaries publically. There was a great searchable database at Indiana University …

An independent film just beat the biggest movie ever made

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:20 -0500

caseydonahue:

That is just the best.

I need someone to talk some sense into me

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:50:01 -0500

Because right now, being a waitress at a really nice, organic, locally-owned, fancy pants restaurant down the street from my house sounds like a great job to me.

raenovafire: Fuck. My baby doll brawl team is down to 11. Two people dropped this weekend. I’m...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:59:34 -0500

raenovafire:

Fuck. My baby doll brawl team is down to 11. Two people dropped this weekend. I’m sorry, but I don’t think we can play a full on bout with 11 people. There is never less than 14 on a regular team. Arrgggg. This is fucking annoying.

It can be done. The Pissahs once played a bout with just 10. We lost, and we were all fucking tired (that’s with 2 minute jams!)… but it can be done!

With all the ambulance-calling and ankle breaking that took...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:43:14 -0500

With all the ambulance-calling and ankle breaking that took place tonight, I totally forgot that Floral Derangement took a shirt whip off me … and took some of my shirt with her.

What a weekend

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:37:08 -0500

A teammate broke her leg on Saturday, and another teammate broke her ankle on Sunday.

Roller derby is a full-contact sport, and the women who play it do it for free. Hug a rollergirl today.

I had a very vivid dream last night

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:47:58 -0500

that I was some kind of runner/page on Saturday Night Live.

Oh would that it were true…

Just watched No Impact Man. Really entertaining documentary, but...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:31:22 -0500

Just watched No Impact Man. Really entertaining documentary, but the true star is his wife, Michelle.

She is my high fructose corn syrup addicted, reality TV watching soul sister.

Sallie Mae is about to make me seriously lose my shit

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:18:51 -0500

All I want is my stupid 1099 form so I can do my taxes (and get some much needed money, since Sallie Mae keeps stealing it all!) … and of course the website isn’t working.

Sallie Mae is a dirty whore