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Status: Married
City: NECROPOLIS
State: Texas
Country: US
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December 31, 2009 - Thursday
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Current mood:  curious
Category: Life
From my last post, I've been asked about the "Other" bigot I'd mentioned.
Let's see now, a fake name to hide his identity. How about PassAgg?
First the set up.
I posted a news link at Facebook the same way I often do there, here, Twitter, my website feoamante.com, and so on.
PassAgg wasn't upset at the news item I posted, he was VERY upset at the fact that this particular news link came from FoxNews. And while I rarely post any news by Fox (I'm not avoiding them, but I'm not going out of my way for them either), whenever I DO post a news link from Fox, I invariably get a bitch post asking me why the hell I would post a link to Fox?
Don't I realize that they are LIARS?
Don't I realize that they are not as GOOD as the rest of the news sources? Don't I realize that they are NAZIS bent on bringing humanity down?
Don't I realize that they are RIGHT WING?
Am I a FoxNews lover or something?
So it starts there.
Starting at the 3:00pm hour, Dec. 22, 2009
FeoAmante: Nelson Says More Senators Seeking Special Treatment in Light of Nebraska Deal
...gosh, Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D), aren't you a little old - like REALLY too old - to be so damn naive?
FOXNews.com - Nelson Says More Senators Seeking Special Treatment in Light of Nebraska Deal
www.foxnews.com
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, who has faced a heap of criticism for appearing to trade his vote on health care for millions in federal Medicaid money, said he's considering asking that the Nebraska deal be ...
3:07pm
PassAgg: You a fan of Fox News?
3:17pm
Me: Holy crap. I must list 100 or more sources in any given week.
I'm not a fan of any single news source, but for the sake of argument, what if I was? I'm curious to see where this leads.
3:26pm
PassAgg: I'm a South African. I find the core of Fox News to be more right wing than apartheid-era state TV was. They have at times been as blatant a propaganda arm. You quote them often. I wanted to know why.
3:31pm
Me: I'm unaware of my quoting them more than anyone else. The only ones I'm hesitant to quote is usually MSNBC unless it's some lifestyle item. MSNBC is the blatant propaganda arm of the left-wing in this country and not a month goes by that they aren't busted on outright lies in their news.
Do you have any examples of Fox News being a blatant propaganda arm?
Or any examples of me quoting Fox News more than anyone else?
3:43pm
PassAgg: I never said you quoted Fox more. I was curious and I never intended to start a flame war or put you on the defensive. You have answered my question though, especially if you see MSNBC are more of a propaganda arm than Fox. As for Fox, their very formation is proof and you can Google all the answers you need very easily, if you are interested. Fox caught in lies has whole web sites and channels dedicated to it, even to endlessly repeated lies, even to repeating lies they've admitted were lies. There are also non-partisan groups that track the media and you can look their findings up too. But as I said, this is taking the discussion further than I intended.
3:56pm
Me: No prob. No flame.
5:22pm
PassAgg: If you do look into the failings of Fox News, I'd be interested in your findings.
Dec. 23
12:09am
Me: Here is something you may be interested in. I decided to check back through the past week to see how many times I referenced Foxnews in a post. In the past 8 days, just this one time. In that same time I also referenced a local foxnews affiliate. That's all. During that same time, the overwhelming majority of links I reference, besides my own website, are ScienceDaily, Politico, Yahoo, BBC, CBS and their affiliates, ABC and their affiliates, NYT, ICanHasCheezburger, and even MSNBC.
I post a link to Foxnews one time in the last 8 days and you jump up and say,
"You a fan of Fox News?"
And when I ask why, you say,
"I find the core of Fox News to be more right wing than apartheid-era state TV was. They have at times been as blatant a propaganda arm. You quote them often. I wanted to know why."
Which, considering I've only linked to them once in 8 days, is wildly inaccurate.
When I call you on it, you do a quick passive-aggressive shuffle and say,
"I was curious and I never intended to start a flame war or put you on the defensive. You have answered my question though, especially if you see MSNBC are more of a propaganda arm than Fox."
Then you go from opinion to exposing your own agenda, and you absolutely DO have one, when you add,
"Fox caught in lies has whole web sites and channels dedicated to it, even to endlessly repeated lies, even to repeating lies they've admitted were lies."
I was going to let you off there, but you had to come back with a task request for me.
"If you do look into the failings of Fox News, I'd be interested in your findings."
12:10am
Me: Since I've only linked to Foxnews one time in 8 days, and have linked to so many other news organizations in far greater number, you are clearly fabricating. Which means you are even doing what you accuse FoxNews of doing.
Foxnews really doesn't grab me. I don't dislike it, I just don't care for it. But there is no question that you have an axe to grind with someone who links to Fox and made an impotent attempt to out me.
When I grew up in the south, there were those kind of people who, if they saw you talking to a black person just one time, would sidle up to you and ask "Hey, are you a Ni**er lover?"
You've made it obvious that you despise FoxNews, and you behave in the same way as the old Southern racists I remember from my childhood.
Since you've exposed your real self to all here, would you care to stop being so shifty about it? Because I don't have time to search websites to justify your accusations - you made the claim, it's up to you to prove it. Nor do I need to investigate Foxnews or anyone else to satisfy YOUR curiosity.
At this point, another Facebook friend weighed in. We'll call this one McLovin. No wait, that might be copyrighted. We'll call this one McLovinit.
11:54am
McLovinit: Didn't see much of an attempt to hit out at you here Feo.
I also think equating someone who doesn't like an avowed right wing news source with racists is a bit strong. One has good intentions - to expose right wing bias, the other bad, to further a racist agenda. Saying 'you behave in the same way' is a bit like saying that anyone who gets a lift in a Mercedes is 'behaving in the same way' as Hitler' or 'I see you're wallking, behaving in the same way as Pol Pot, aren't you?'
I love the idea of MSNBC being left wing. Perhaps they are in US terms and I suppose it's all relative but MSNBC seems middle of the road/liberal to me.
If you're wondering what left wing looks like, it's this.
http://www.londonclasswar.org/index3.php
Class War have lost their edge a bit recently but I don't think you'll see MSNBC running tutorials on 'how to mug a yuppie', or - my favourite, though going back a bit - when Prince Harry was born the paper's front page read 'another fucking royal parasite'. I don't support them but, hey, that's what I call left wing.
On Fox news propaganda, just google that exact phrase for all the info you need. This from the Wiki:
Photocopied memos from Fox News executive John Moody instructed the network's on-air anchors and reporters to use positive language when discussing pro-life viewpoints, the Iraq war, and tax cuts, as well as requesting that the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal be put in context with the other violence in the area.[57] Such memos were reproduced for the film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, which included Moody quotes such as, "The soldiers [seen on FOX in Iraq] in the foreground should be identified as 'sharpshooters,' not 'snipers,' which carries a negative connotation."
Two days after the 2006 election, The Huffington Post reported they had acquired a copy of a leaked internal memo from Mr. Moody that recommended: "... let's be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled Congress." Within hours of the memo's publication, Fox News anchor Martha McCallum, went on-air on the program The Live Desk with reports of Iraqi insurgents cheering the firing of Donald Rumsfeld and the results of the 2006 congressional election.
Do they still use that meaningless phrase 'murder bombers' instead of 'suicide bombers'. V. Orwellian, as above. My favourite was 'tank cam'. War as a video game.
1:54pm
Me: Hey McLovinit,
PassAgg started out with this,
"You a fan of Fox News?"
Added this (the racist angle)
"I find the core of Fox News to be more right wing than apartheid-era state TV was. They have at times been as blatant a propaganda arm."
Falsely accused me of this (which I proved was false)
"You quote them often."
Then, while still in passive aggressive mode, said this,
"You have answered my question though, especially if you see MSNBC are more of a propaganda arm than Fox."
Which specifically implies that, in his mind, I'm a fan of more right-wing than apartheid-era state TV.
Refuses to stand behind anything he says and invites ME to prove his points for him - since obviously he is unable to do so himself.
Now when you come in here and say the following,
"I also think equating someone who doesn't like an avowed right wing news source with racists is a bit strong. One has good intentions - to expose right wing bias, the other bad, to further a racist agenda."
I have to wonder why you think I'M the one furthering a racist agenda when PassAgg accused me - twice - of being, in his unsubstantiated opinion, a fan of "more right wing than apartheid-era state TV".
You really don't see that as accusing me of racism? REALLY?
And to defend my comment and substantiate it, MSNBC is intentionally and willingly trying to foment racism. What's more, they are thirsting to have someone try to assassinate our president. Watch this MSNBC video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKQJ4-N7LI
MSNBC used editing and even info bars to obscure the fact that the well-armed man they were showing, is black. The people watching it on the show and commenting knew that they were purposefully inventing news and intentionally attempting to start a race panic. Then they turn around and call him white. THEN they discuss how "these people" may try and take out our president.
If you have something as inexcusably filthy as that on Fox, by all means, I'd LOVE to see it. PLEASE post it here! Also please explain why it's okay for people to come here and falsely accuse me of doing something that I'm not, falsely accuse me of being a racist, but when I catch them at it and turn it back on them, well, that's just wrong.
3:57pm
McLovinit: I didn't see an accusation of racism, I'm sorry, no. To be honest I didn't even see one implied. I did see an implication that you were right wing. Is right wing the same as racist in the States? That's an honest question, I don't know if the two things are always seen as going together.
Will watch vids tomorrow as I have to go to bed now!
4:04pm
Me: I'll repeat it for you again then. pay attention now.
"You a fan of Fox News?"
"I find the core of Fox News to be more right wing than apartheid-era state TV was. They have at times been as blatant a propaganda arm. You quote them often. I wanted to know why."
"You have answered my question though, especially if you see MSNBC are more of a propaganda arm than Fox."
Seriously McLovinit. If you don't think apartheid was racist, I'd have to know what you Do consider racist. You ARE aware of what apartheid even was, don't you?
Here is the dictionary definition of apartheid if it still isn't getting through.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/apartheid
"Is right wing the same as racist in the States?"
Wow. Apartheid is the same as racist everywhere in the world, McLovinit. Which includes where you live.
9:15pm
PassAgg: Wow. You really do leap off the deep end quickly. Comparing me to people calling someone a n-lover after just a few lines exchanged? Pretty excessive anger there. Want to know the real reason I asked, instead of the reasons amidst all of your aggressive overreactions? You recently friended me because we share some friends. Most times, after I friend friends of friends, it becomes clear that we share some interests and have things in common. In your case, I was not so sure. You have 3000 friends and you tout that like a badge of honor. It takes a lot of time and effort to build up that many FB friends. Unless Facebook is your full-time occupation, this also most likely means that you can't follow the conversations of all those folks, and therefore that you are more about talking than listening. I'm okay with that really... if a person has fun/interesting things to say. I follow several folks like that already, and they are fun.
So I gave you a go, knowing this. I like a diversity of opinion in my circle. For me, I'm on FB for keeping in touch with friends and for making new friends, and for fun and interest secondary to that. I just wanted to know if you fit into that. However, I'll admit that Fox News disturbs me, seemingly entrenched in the realms of the same nutjobbery that created apartheid and similar things. It brings up bad memories for me. So yes, I notice when someone quotes them. This was not the first time I noticed you quoting Fox. Timelines? I don't know. I've been very busy of late and am quite sick the last couple of days. Nevertheless, though one Fox quote is noteworthy enough, I did not speak up the first time. This time I had to ask... are you a fan of Fox news? Because, if you're not a FB-friend about friendship, then you need to be the interesting kind... and Fox quotes muddy those waters for me.
Instead I got your unpleasant overreactions. I don't presume that this is all you are, that maybe my phrasing pissed you off, brought out the worst in you, maybe you're just pissed, not the aggressive bully you appear to be. Text is an imperfect medium after all, even though your overreaction suggest that I touched on a sore spot. But maybe I got the answer I was looking for anyway?
11:39pm
Me: "You have 3000 friends and you tout that like a badge of honor."
I mentioned it only one time as a way of thanking the 3000 folks who thought enough of me. One time, and to you that is touting
"to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote; praise extravagantly: a highly touted nightclub. "
"Nevertheless, though one Fox quote is noteworthy enough, I did not speak up the first time."
Only one Fox quote is worthy enough out of hundreds?
Only one Fox quote would be needed, or possibly two, out of hundreds of links in a two week period, to ask me if I was a Fox fan, and implying I was onboard with right of apartheid era TV?
I brought up the 3000 FB friends thing, which apparently irked you, only once.
In the last 8 days I've linked to FoxNews only once (to you, only once is noteworthy - how intolerant is that?), one time out of 8 days and nearly one hundred links, and that clearly irked you as well. So much so that you deluded yourself into thinking I quoted them often.
And after all of this time, you can not or will not back up what you say.
All it took was for me to give thanks to a bunch of folks who friended me here for you to get upset? All it took was to make one link to Fox, which would have been noteworthy enough for you, or maybe even two within perhaps a two week period, and suddenly you see me quoting them often?
And you have the hallucinatory delusion that I'M the one overreacting?
PassAgg, you are a piece of work.
Dec. 24
12:22am
PassAgg: Actually, I never was upset. You're the one overreacting. You're the one who's upset. I'm just a guy who asked a question and got more answers than he counted on.
12:24am
PassAgg: And did you really post hundreds of political links in a two week period?
1:42am
Me: "Actually, I never was upset. You're the one overreacting."
You certainly write like someone who is upset about Foxnews.
And about someone who thanks his FB friends.
"You quote them often."
One time in 8 days. And I'm the one overreacting.
"You have answered my question though, especially if you see MSNBC are more of a propaganda arm than Fox."
That answers your question on if I'm a fan of Fox News, and I'm the one overreacting.
And what does that make me, a supposed fan of Fox News?
"more right wing than apartheid-era state TV was."
And I'm the one overreacting.
"I like a diversity of opinion in my circle."
Apparently not. But that dovetails into your many delusions like this:
"And did you really post hundreds of political links in a two week period?"
Where did I say I've posted "hundreds of political links" in any amount of time?
Keep burying yourself if you like though.
11:57am
PassAgg: Nope. I write like someone who puts way too much effort into civil conversations with very unpleasant people.
12:32pm
Me: Right. That must be it. Well, I'll have to accept you as you are then. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Here's hoping all of our future conversations will be better.
Dec. 28
10:07am
PassAgg: Even in a "nice" final word you had to have needle. Well, since we both know you'll rarely be reading anyone else's posts, it's not about you accepting me, it's about me accepting you. But why would I? This stream revealed that you avoid the tough questions, overreact to criticism of Fox News as if it is criticism of yourself (which is revealing) and that you are aggressive, uninformed and not pleasant. The search is really for any reason to stay FB friends you, and I see none. Since this conversation is done, so are we. Good luck to you. Un-friend time. Enjoy the last word without me.
END
Neither PassAgg or McLovinit are the real Facebook names of either person and, as far as I know, no one uses those names at this moment (granted there are over a billion people online and I don't have the time to search through all of them either!). Certainly no one among my various network friends. Please take it as given that McLovinit and PassAgg are fictional names I invented for real people, who may not even use their real names online. I use the fake names because this Blago isn't an attempt to flame someone or carry on a ridiculous Internet war, but only to amuse and serve as an example of the kinds of folks we all meet online.
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December 29, 2009 - Tuesday
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Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Life
Yeah, I'm signed up here, over at Facebook, and even Twitter. Of the three, Twitter will probably be the first up against the wall when another cool Networking site comes along.
Like MySpace, at FaceBook you Friend people and they Friend you. I base my potential acceptance and invites on two things: Do they share my interests and, failing that, do they share a significant number of my already established friendbase?
If it's the latter, I invite them. Of course, just like here, sometimes folks will de-friend you because of something you said, did, or wotnot. And too, just like MySpace, some folks will change their FaceBook name or get a different account. Facebook doesn't know the difference. The FaceBook code matches you to someone who shares X number of your friends and Suggest that you friend them. Sure, what the hell? So I invited the FaceBook suggestion person to be my FaceBook friend.
We'll call the following person GranolaCruncher as that doesn't seem to violate the registered trademark of any company I can find online.
Instead of getting a friend acceptance I got a personal message. Like MySpace, personal messages are private.
GranolaCruncher: Feo, why are you asking me to be your friend?
Me: because we share X number of friends so I thought it might be cool.
The next day.
GranolaCruncher: Feo! I used to call myself (okay, we need another fake name now. Let's use this one) PrettyPissed! And I defriended you!
Me: Really? Huh! I have so many faceBook Friends I didn't even know you were gone.
A day passes.
GranolaCruncher: Do you know *WHY* I defriended you?
Me: Nope.
and that was the end of the message conversation, for nearly a month, then in October.
GranolaCruncher: Feo, this is PrettyPissy. Do you remember the conversation we were having?
Me: Nope.
GranolaCruncher: You asked me to be your FaceBook friend.
Me: Oh, welcome aboard then! :)
GranolaCruncher: I'm NOT GOING TO BE YOUR FACEBOOK FRIEND! I defrinded you!
Me: Okay.
About two days pass.
GranolaCruncher: feo, do you even know why I defriended you?
Me: Nope. what did you tell me at the time?
GranolaCruncher: I didn't tell you anything, I just defriended you.
Me: Then how could I know why?
A few weeks pass. GranolaCruncher sends me a personal message.
GranolaCruncher: Feo. This is GranolaCruncher. When I was PrettyPissed, You implied that I was racist, that's why I defriended you!
Me: Okay, so are we Facebook friends now or not?
About four days pass.
GranolaCruncher: Feo, listen very carefully. I don't know why this is so difficult for you to understand. You implied I was a racist, so I defriended you. I don't want to be friends with someone who thinks I'm a RACIST!!!
Me: Okay. Have a nice life then.
About a week passes. Now it is December. During that time, I went back through my posts until I found the last conversation PrettyPissed and I had. For the record, I didn't imply they were a racist, I said they were a bigot. I get another personal message.
GranolaCruncher: Feo, why would you want to be friends with someone you think is a racist? Why would you want to be friends with a person like that?
Me: I checked back through my posts and found our last conversation. I didn't IMPLY you were a racist, I CALLED you a bigot.
Two days pass.
GranolaCruncher: If that's what you think I am, why do you want to be friends with me?
Me: I feel I was justified in calling you that.
GranolaCruncher: Answer The Question! Quit trying to dodge! what is wrong with you that you would want to be friends with a bigot?
Me: You can still like someone even if they are a bigot. Afterall, I like you.
Three days later, I'm in the Christmas spirit and having an FB conversation with another bigot (it happens every few months). By this time I decided to copy and paste the offending Facebook conversation of Pretty Pissed so I could keep my memory fresh for any further contact with GranolaCruncher. As it turns out, said former friend must have deleted their PrettyPissed account, as their name and posts disappeared from the old conversation, leaving me posting arguments with air. The day before Christmas Eve I get this,
GranolaCruncher: FUCK YOU FEO! YOU FUCKED UP MY HALLOWEEN, MY THANKSGIVING, AND NOW MY CHRISTMAS! DON'T WRITE OR ANYTHING ELSE TO ME EVER AGAIN! NEVER! NEVER EVER! I'LL NEVER BE YOUR FACEBOOK FRIEND!
Me: You know, if you feel that strong about it, you could always block me.
This conversation started back in September. It is now December 28.
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December 21, 2009 - Monday
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Current mood:  aggravated
Category: Web, HTML, Tech
Thinking about getting a webhost provider and starting your own business? Or perhaps you are unhappy with your current host and are looking for another?
Avoid Aplus.net. Seriously. Like the plague.
For me, since about October 1, Aplus service has been riddled with incompetence. The upgrade featured 2 weeks of the company unable to understand file transfer protocol, stats that were all over the board every single time you refreshed your browser, and new email interface that was probably a marvel before AOL was born.
Today is December 20, 2009. This is the chat conversation I just finished with Aplus. Understand that I've been on the phone or in chat with aplus over the SAME ISSUE since October. Right? Okay.
You are now chatting with Paul V.
Please state your Question:
Eddie: It's now 16 days since the last time Aplus was unable to count stats. It started on October 1. Will this problem ever be fixed?
Paul V.: Hello, thank you for contacting Technical Support. Please wait one moment while I retrieve your account information.
Paul V.: please provide me with the ticket number
Eddie: Where do I find that in my control panel? You guys seem to have stopped responding to emails or sending them out.
Paul V.: please provide me with your domain name and the registration number
Eddie: feoamante.com
Eddie: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Paul V.: I have login to your control panel with no issues
Eddie: Which wasn't my problem.
Paul V.: please specify yur issue with more details
Eddie: My problem is not with my control panel my exact issue is: It's now 16 days since the last time Aplus was unable to count stats. It started on October 1. Will this problem ever be fixed?
Eddie: You asked for a trouble ticket. I put on in well over a week ago. Now I can't find it in my control panel anymore. Do you know where it might reside?
Paul V.: please provide me with the login information you use to view your statistics
Eddie: Username: XXXXXXXXXXXX
password: XXXXXXXXXX
Paul V.: thank you, I have found the ticket - XXXXXXXXXX
Eddie: Oh, look at that. The stats read different depending on whether you are using IE or Firefox, but both are all over the place and change when you refresh the browser!
Paul V.: I shall add the provided information to the ticket
Paul V.: I have added
Eddie: The stats have been blown since October 1, so I'm guessing that they can never be retrieved at Aplus' current Compuserve 1995 level of technology.
Paul V.: our specialists will restore all the possible stats and provide you the solution
Eddie: In theory. We're talking about a problem that reaches back to October 1.
Eddie: Remind me again, the date on my trouble ticket?
Paul V.: please be advised that we will perform all the possible actions to assist you
Paul V.: the date is 2009-12-12
Eddie: 8 days since the most recent trouble ticket = zero solution so far. Gotcha. Okay then, enjoy the holidays. At least you have a job there, which is better than being unemployed, though not as bad as trying to run a business using aplus.
Paul V.: Goodbye and thank you for using aplus.net
Moral of this tale?
Buyer Beware the incompetence of Aplus. Whatever other problems they have, and they are plenty, they are right on the spot when it comes to billing. Apparently they use a far better software for billing their customers than what they trust to provide for their customers.
Oh, and their 99.99% Uptime guarantee? It's crap. They don't honor it. Or perhaps I misread the uptime guarantee and "Uptime" doesn't include people actually being able to SEE my website or my being able to UPLOAD to my website or see how many people are even USING my website. Perhaps the uptime guarantee means that when you call support, SOMEBODY will be awake and "Up" in the building.
I'm looking for another, better provider and I'm looking RE-EAL carefully!
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December 12, 2009 - Saturday
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November 30, 2009 - Monday
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dadPWhEhVk
A new virus, dubbed Emmerichoid, is spreading to young film makers across the globe!
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November 27, 2009 - Friday
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Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
The 36th Annual Loscon begins today and part of that includes the Tabloid Witch Film Festival being held in the Dallas Room of the LAX Marriot.
On Saturday, Nov. 28, the feature film part of the festival runs all day with the short film festival beginning at 8:30pm. The short film line-up will feature the Official Selection Los Angeles premiere of E.C.McMullen Jr.'s, LAST CALL, starring Terry M. West (BLOOD FOR THE MUSE, THE BLOOD SHED), Dean Newbury, Jimmy Diggs (Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Deep Space Nine), and Christina Grenard. Actors Terry M. West and Dean Newbury are slated to show up, as well as LAST CALL producer, Kelly Parks, Editor, Vernon E. Mortensen, and Writer, Producer, and Director, E.C.McMullen Jr. aka Feo Amante! I will also be on the Q&A panel after the show.
Among the Official Selection feature films being shown are Hanelle Culpepper's WITHIN. Director Hannelle will be there with expected guests, Mia Ford and Brent Sexton.
William Malone's PARASOMNIA. Director Malone's expected guests will be actors Sean Young (BLADE RUNNER) and Patrick Kilpatrick (TOXIC AVENGER, MINORITY REPORT). RED VELVET will show with expected guests, Co-Writer and Producer, Joe Moe, Producers Sean Fernald, and Justin McConnell. The film festival portion of the Loscon begins at 6:00pm tonight.
The Loscon36 features as their Author Guests of Honor, Horror Thriller writer Tananareve Due (MY SOUL TO KEEP, THE GOOD HOUSE, THE LIVING BLOOD, BLOOD COLONY) and Science Fiction and Fantasy writer, Stephen Barnes (FIREDANCE, GREAT SKY WOMAN, SHADOW VALLEY). Due and Barnes are also frequent collaborators.
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November 3, 2009 - Tuesday
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Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
SATURDAY - Halloween: designed the Microwave Horn for the "Alteration scene" for UNIVERSAL DEAD.You may not know what they are, but you've seen them. And you wouldn't want to stand in front of one. Especially a powerful one. But if you did...http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=microwave+horn&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=30613e8da7af550SUNDAY - Dia de Los Muertos: We had our meeting with some of the crew for UNIVERSAL DEAD, and ran around town buying makeup SFX stuff at ridiculously cheap prices. Various stores that stocked up for Halloween are just dumping their products and there are bargains to be had.Monday: For UNIVERSAL DEAD, we hit a place called Murphy Junk outside of San Diego in El Cajon. Murphy Junk has all kinds of insanely great new tech as well as old tech. Some of this stuff is really old. So old in fact, that you can almost hear the theramin music just looking at it.MurphyJunk.comThen, just up the street from Murphy Junk, we hit California Electronic for a bunch of raw electronic materials that you just can't find at Radio Shack anymore. California Electronic had it all!619-588-5599I'm about to go out and start fabricating props now. Later!
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October 31, 2009 - Saturday
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Current mood: accomplished
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
UNIVERSAL DEAD
DB Sweeney (HEAR NO EVIL, SPAWN), Gary Graham (ROBOT JOX, ALIEN NATION [TV], NECRONOMICON) and sci-fi Horror Thriller fan favorite Doug Jones (DOOM, HELLBOY [all], PAN'S LABYRINTH, QUARANTINE) have joined the cast of UNIVERSAL DEAD, a new web series from San Diego based Unconventional Films. The series also stars four former US Navy SEALs (including Cade Courtley, host of Spike TV’s hit show Surviving Disaster) and the lovely Valerie Perez (star of the online hit “Paula Peril”). Universal Dead takes place five years after a zombie apocalypse in a world that’s just barely hanging on. A group of Navy SEALs escort a doctor from the Center for Disease Control on a mission to investigate a possible cure for the zombie plague.
“The idea of using real Navy SEALs in this series came to us during the writing process,” says Unconventional Films co-owner and series producer, Neil Trusso, who is also a former Navy SEAL. “Why not get the real deal and make the action even more authentic?” The web series was created by Unconventional Films co-owners Vernon Mortensen, a former US Navy SWCC and feoamante alumni, Kelly Parks, the world’s only Ex-CIA/Rocket Scientist/Stand-up Comic/Screenwriter.
E.C.McMullen Jr. (PRIMITIVE RECALL), creator of feoamante.com, is onboard as Art Director and SFX Supervisor.
Unconventional Films has 10 web series in development and is the “new media” arm of indie production / distribution company, Rogue Arts. Rogue Art’s latest feature film, Chamaco, a Mexican boxing drama starring Martin Sheen, Michael Madsen and Kirk Harris, hits theaters soon.
Once the pilot episodes of Universal Dead are completed, Unconventional Films will screen them for all interested distributors.
Keep up with all of the info at feoamante.com, starting Nov. 7, 2009!
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October 17, 2009 - Saturday
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri1b8j8gG5A
Fun Bob Basso doing his one man play as Thomas Paine. Basso uses Paine's words from over 200 years ago and applies them to the modern world, proving them ever relevant. In this one, Paine as the fiery orator.
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October 15, 2009 - Thursday
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http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54830/Science on the silver screen :The Scientist [10th July 2008]
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Festooned with jiggling eyeballs, threatening skeletons, and impaled floating heads, Feo Amante's horror thriller website seems an unlikely place to catch up on science.
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October 14, 2009 - Wednesday
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http://www.feoamante.com/Stories/Reviews/DEF/Dark_...DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED book review
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David Whitman reviews Del Howison and Jeff Gelb's anthology, DARK DELICACIES III: HAUNTED, featuring stories by Simon Clark, Heather Graham, Richard Christian Matheson, Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, Kevin J. Anderson, and Axelle Carolyn
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October 14, 2009 - Wednesday
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http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/MNO/Nobody_Loves_A...NOBODY LOVES ALICE movie review
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This micro-budget Horror Thriller indie movie by Roger Scheck, is slowly gaining momentum.
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October 14, 2009 - Wednesday
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http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/DEF/DragMe_toHell....DRAG ME TO HELL movie review
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Sam Raimi jumped back to directing Horror Thrillers over the summer, and now the DVD is here for Halloween. But is it worth it?
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October 14, 2009 - Wednesday
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http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/PQR/PA.htmlPARANORMAL ACTIVITY movie review
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E.C.McMullen Jr. reviews PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, written and directed by Oren Peli. Starring Katie Featherston, Micha Sloat, and Mark Fredrichs
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October 14, 2009 - Wednesday
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http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/STU/trickr_treat.h...TRICK 'R TREAT movie review
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Terrence Kelsey reviews Michael Dougherty's TRICK 'R TREAT starring Leslie Bibb, Tahmoh Penikett, Anna Paquin, and Brian Cox
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