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Dec.17.2010
He created your own little world. A virtual Online Life, per-say.
Not to say that others did not come before him. Alt Newsgroups. Friendster. Tribe. MySpace.
He just did it with a little more "oomph" with a system where you are in full control of what your friends can see. ...
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Dec.07.2010
This year immortality has done a number on my ass. A big ass number. My mom. My cousin Nicole. My uncle Earl. My husband's sister. My 24 year old cat. Death and immortality has been a forefront conversation along with creeping very close to being 50.
Monday, December 8th, 1980 that evening...
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Nov.12.2010
Maybe I'm the asshole in this relationship. You know, I meet this great guy named Tom who does all of this Social Networking stuff for me. He lets me store my pictures and videos in his garage. He lets me use his online account to meet all of his other friends and in turn I introduce my...
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Nov.11.2010
I come from a very proud family. A family full of professional bankers, nurses, teachers and everything in-between. I'm very lucky to come from a place where integrity was always the forefront of my education and well, education was the forefront of everything.
When I was younger I would head...
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Oct.27.2010
(Originally posted on Oct. 21, 2010.)
Today I was sent a wonderful email from the gang at The Red Room asking to write an article about Bob Guccione. In part some of the email read regarding Bob putting Vanessa Williams nudie pictures in Penthouse:
What impact did Guccione's actions have on the...
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Oct.23.2010
Oh Kanye. Apparently you have a need for people to see you.
If its not the almost gravitational pull to a stage the moment you see Taylor Swift, the almost amazing lack of vocal punch when singing even with Auto Tune help, or your incessant Twittering where you should put down your iPhone and...
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Sep.08.2010
I got a thing about certain people's 15 minutes of fame. I also try to keep everything in perspective when it comes to this pop culture phenomenon of performers like Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton, et all.
I try to keep it in perspective. I remember a cartoon parody in an underground...
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Sep.01.2010
Today I watched a CNN Video on the first Cannabis club commercial that aired here in California. The dispensary is run by a woman who says she is a Conservative Christian. She does not believe in Prop 19, but instead stricter laws for existing Marijuana clubs.
Okay. That seems sort of...
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Oct.05.2008
As the election finally comes to a grinding three year close and the debates switch from stuff that mean nothing to an election to "Mean Stuff" that means nothing to an election, Aren't you still glad that we have gotten to know over these years the real inner workings of both Senator...
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Jul.27.2008
When I first got on the Redroom as a completely unplublished writer/rabid blogger the overwhelming welcome was warm, genuine and wonderful.
A year later as an unpulbished rabid blogger doing a seven week improvisational theater festival in San Francisco I still find the words genuine warm and...
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Jul.06.2008
Today Spotted Walking to Urban Market (the end of the block):
A man on the stoop three door down hunched over. He does not live there. He is talking about how "Whores should think twice about the consequences" This conversation is going on without anyone around him.
A woman fifty...
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Jul.02.2008
It is almost hard at this point to express The Chicago Improv Festival Experience, as, but I will try.
It was incredible. Wonderful moments. Strange moments. Joy, bewilderment. Great shows, emotional shutdowns fits of laughing all mixed with Viva Las Vegas, The Rat Pack, it being on like...
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Jul.01.2008
I have been touring on the road so much (Chicago, Los Angeles, and now Minneapolis) along with the upcoming San Francisco Improv Festival, I feel I have left the Redroom in the corner crying Why don't you love me.
Well, I do. I love you Redroom. So this is a full on excerpt of my blog of The...
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Mar.11.2008
I wonder how long it took for Silda Wall Spitzer to pull herself together before she was hauled in front of the camera. How much crying did she get out? What sort of eye makeup she used to cover the puffiness. What sort of decent mood relaxants to numb her enough to stand there for a full hour....
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Mar.11.2008
There are very few things to be relieved about when you are a few (translation: more than a few) pounds overweight. There is also some joy of not being completely competitive.
Some joy in being somewhat of a passive aggressive slacker.
One of these particular moments in time and space when...
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About Shaun
Shaun is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed, and original African American Touring Sketch Comedy and Improvisational Theatre Company Oui Be Negroes. She is also the founder of Landry & Summers Productions and producer emeritus of...
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Causes Shaun Landry Supports
The Alzheimer's Foundation, NAACP, Breast Cancer Foundation, Gilda's Club.