You've made an important first step by making the profile page an ad for the show "Father Hood".
Kudos to your endeavours.
 
 

If you want to support the arts consider bidding on this:

http://...com/csu86b
 
 

Hmm
 

Hi,

Great move. I suggest checking out stuartgoldmanstories.com See what you think.

If it intrests you, email back to bstinziano@gmail.net

SLG

 

Dear Kevin Chen,

you truly are a crusader and you should feel good about yourself. if you don't feel good about yourself (or if such feelings "come-and-go", even after such a generous contribution of wealth to underfunded enterprises) consider the hypothetical situation that Tao Lin is actually a show on the PBS channel and the possibilities of this hypothetical situation in facilitating your mental processes that would lead to "feeling good about yourself" in a possibly more permanent (or at least longer-lasting) way.

the process of feeling good about one's self from having donated (or not donated) to PBS is a complex matter. many of the thought processes about achieving this positive mental state are subconcious and affected by an array of factors and influences, some abstract, some not, (others may argue that they are all abstract). i will attempt to elucidate such hypothetical factors of the hypothetical situation that you have just donated 8,000 to Tao Lin, a (hypothetical) TV show on PBS. [help in understanding parts of this hypothetical situation will be listed underneath this "Main Body" of the letter in the style of footnotes, denoted by small numbers that are placed in a high-position-relative-to-the-main-text's-grounded-position, placed next to both Phrases Needing Clarification and Phrases That Can Be Better Understood if You Read The Footnote Dedicated To It.]
 
Now, onto "how to feel good about oneself with PBS": If Tao Lin MySpace was a show on PBS, this is what would happen at the end of each episode when the sponsors are thanked individually, after the ending credits have ended. this is an opportunity to think about the question "how good should I feel about myself right now?":

1. You would no longer be included in the domain of "Viewers Like You"². You would be getting your own acknowledgment and feel good about yourself because of that. Unlike those within the domain of "Viewers Like You", you would be thanked first (perhaps even before other organizations who may have donated lesser amounts, and maybe even "The Corporation for Public Broadcasting").
But rest assured, you would definitely be placed before "Viewers Like You", which is always the last thing the guy says before a sequence of commercials begin to play and viewers, in a slightly puzzled subconscious way, will dwell on whether they deserved that Thank You from the narrator guy.¹ You would have no doubt that he is thanking you because he will have clearly said your name!⁰

2. Perhaps the PBS narrator guy will mention that you work for JP Morgan, and you will get a promotion, which is guaranteed to make you feel good, right?

Best wishes,
Yours truly.






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0. To "feel good about yourself", perhaps you can imagine the PBS narrator-man (whose voice is in the style of the epitome and standard in appropriate and legitimate voiceover-styles^=$) receiving a phone call from the director of PBS's video productions stating that a "generous and prolific person has just donated enough money for PBS to create an entire video slide to be included in the number of slides at the end of most of our shows, and we need you to come into the studio immediately to record the voice-over that we will use to announce Kevin's contribution." Imagine how exciting it would be to hear the Man himself say your name with his distinctively official-sounding voice.

1. Some viewers may suspect that this "Thank You" to "Viewers Like You" is PBS's attempt to ask for donations by giving a premature Thank You, a device commonly used in courteous notes by bill collectors in letters that are actually bills (i.e., "thank you for giving this business matter your prompt attention. Please disregard this notice if you have already sent payment!) This is with the intention of creating a sense of desire for action within the viewer (like giving money).^=D=X

2. At the end of most PBS shows, PBS acknowledges a number of sponsors, including "Viewers Like You."



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=D. Other viewers may conclude that the narrator is not in fact thanking them, but viewers like them who have already donated money. Other viewers may first contemplate the first paradox, followed by the latter, and deduce that the narrator's "Viewers Like You" statement of Thank You is deliberately ambiguous so as to:
            1. Thank actual donors.
            2. Make people think about whether they deserved that thank you (however subconsciously they do this) and
            3. Lead the have-not-yet-donated audiences to build a desire to eventually donate (a desire greatly varying in strength from person to person, possibly depending heavily on the amount of times a person has heard the man say those words [this statement has no support from any published research and can be ignored -- repeatedly using a Phrase to the point where it is anticipated at the end of most PBS show may or may not influence the level of desire that may or may not conjure within the psyches of those within the domain of "Viewers Like You".)

=X. Other factors in audience's individual lives that may influence their unique level of desire to donate are:
           1. How good they feel about themselves.
           2. Their qualitative (and often subconscious) assessment of the potential effectiveness of Donating to PBS in assuaging the level of "how good they feel about themselves" by predicting "how good they will feel about themselves after donating.
           3. How skilled they are at not thinking about whether they are building self-love, self-esteem or self-image, the first being the only attribute that is not narcissistic, with "narcissism" carrying such negative connotations and a topic of much respected intellectual work about consumer culture, it's something to not think about and leave it in the subconscious realms of "reality."^{I would add a footnote on the concept of "reality", but to add a footnote to the footnotes of the footnotes would be a bit excessive. I recommend WikiPedia should you wish to explore the concept of "reality" further.}

=$. Voice over narrations are not all the same. We may not realize it, but our perception of a video or film is greatly affected by the way it's narrated. It can influence our perception of its validity/legitimacy, its tone and mood, its intended purpose/audience, etc,.) For example, Don LaFontaine, the man who narrated about 5,000 Hollywood movies has a distinctive voice now recognized as the "Movie Trailer" voice. There is some dissonance in the psyches of movie-trailer-viewers who watch a Hollywood movie trailer narrated in a style much different from clear, American dialect, deep authoritative voice whose inflections and intonations subscribe to a distinctively respected style the collective memory of narrator-voices-style of the American public.