Interstate 69 just south of my parents’ house in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Photo by Everett White.
Zach Klein is a true renaissance man.
This year my grandfather learned how to play the guitar. He’s 70.
this church depresses me
I like this family.
“ Natahan Gotsch is a pompous ass. Keywords: incredulous. pompous, beyond belief, ego, exaggerated…
the panelist who walked out of my remarks preceding a panel discussion I was moderating on blogs in Fort Wayne. I’ve never been walked out on before — it was pretty exciting, except no one knew he was walking out (he opened his cell phone like he was taking a call, then quietly exited) until he wrote the above on his blog.
“ Oh my god, my kids are gonna be the shit.
sixth-grade teacher Rachel King
“ In 2005, Men’s Health performed a study and selected Fort Wayne as the “Dumbest City in America”. While most of the article was written tongue in check, it sparked me enough to find out a little more about this city where we reside.
from a magazine-like real estate guide aimed at selling out-of-towners on moving to Fort Wayne. This is the opening paragraph of an article that sets out to prove residents aren’t as dumb as they look.
On the air
Wednesday morning at 7:15 a.m. I’m going to be interviewed on a local radio station about an event/panel discussion I’m putting on this week regarding how new media affects politics. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be absolutely fascinating, so you’re going to want to go to the station’s website and listen live.Looks like I was wrong (see previous post on The Simpsons)
From friend Brian…
From: My Buddy Who Does Synchronication Licensing for SonyATV
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:49 AM
To: bk
Subject: Re: Simpsons
20th Century Fox handles the production on “The Simpsons,” and they don’t just use songs w/o permission…They usually get quotes for several different uses (i.e., if they’re going to use it on TV only, or in “all media,” for a limited time or in perpetuity). They’ve got a finance guy tracking production and then, once the show airs and they know the song has made the final edit (and that the broadcast didn’t get interrupted for some national emergency), he (in Fox’s case, a guy named [redacted]) will send out letters to all the publishers/labels with songs in the show letting them know that the song did air and telling them which of the quotes Fox is accepting (the letter almost always comes with a check and a cue sheet).
My guess is that since the song is an integral part of the scene and likely couldn’t be swapped out for something cheaper prior to the show going to DVD (like they could with some random background music), they’ll take the “all media-worldwide-perp” quote and send her a check in the next couple of months.
