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« July 2003 | HOME | September 2003 » August 2003 "Fair & Balanced" in the Blogosphere Brian Flemming's Weblog sends out kisses and sodomizations (optional) to the following lovely blogfolks who recently linked to Fair Use Press or BFW: dwhudson at GreenCine Daily, which is the companion blog for GreenCine, the DVD service that is a... August 29, 2003 Why bad things had to happen to Bill O'Reilly I'm realizing now I probably should have featured the link to Fair Use Press's synopsis written for the press kit more prominently earlier, as it contains the best explanation of and justification for the play. Natalie Davis realized this and... August 27, 2003 Your Fair & Balanced update Blogs: Atrios linked Fair Use Press this morning. Hits through the roof, naturally. (There is a nice comments thread there, too.) Boing Boing jumped in around 2 p.m. The roof officially blew off Fair Use Press at that point. God... August 27, 2003 Fair Use Press publishes Fair & Balanced by Brian Flemming The news: Remember that short scene called "Fair & Balanced" I posted a while back? It got me thinking. I ended up scrapping it and writing something far more profane. As I wrote, it turned into a one-act play for... August 26, 2003 The announcement Will be here on my blog tonight. The rest of the world will find out tomorrow. And after that, nothing will ever be the same.... August 26, 2003 Coming soon Earth-shattering revelation delayed.... August 25, 2003 Still busy Still swamped with finishing up an old project for a pal and launching an earth-shattering new one that came up out of nowhere. (Not to mention that Nothing So Strange is about to play fests in Germany, Leeds and, um,... August 21, 2003 Busy Working on something fair, balanced and top secret.... August 19, 2003 You know you want it Help Al stay on top.... August 19, 2003 "Fair & Balanced": a play in one act This entry has been removed. It was an early sketch of a scene that became something much, much more. Specifically: This book. You can read many pages (20 or more, I think) from the book at that link, unless Fair... August 15, 2003 View from my window August 14, 2003 Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger [UPDATE: I've determined that a Recall Arnold movement is likely not a good idea. I explain why here.] Looks like recallarnold.com and recall-arnold.com and variations are already taken. There is also an online petition to Totally Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hmm...... August 14, 2003 Permanent recall I think someone with, say, $1.7M should announce--at a press conference with stacks of cash and clipboards with "petitions" on them as props--"If Arnold wins, I will finance a recall instantly." Then maybe someone else would counter, "If Bustamante wins,... August 13, 2003 Fair and balanced, my ass Siva Vaidhyanathan, one of the top minds in intellectual-property law, talks to Eric Alterman about Fox's lawsuit against Al Franken for using the term "fair and balanced" in the subtitle of his book: Eric, U.S. trademark law is so kooky... August 13, 2003 "U.S. English": Yet another Schwarzenegger racist connection "In this society, will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile? Can homo contraceptives compete with horno progenitivo if our borders aren't controlled? ... Perhaps this is the first instance... August 13, 2003 March 2001 Premiere magazine story on Arnold Schwarzenegger Reprinted here without permission. Arnold the Barbarian By John Connolly Once, he was a box office terminator. But now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has lost some of his muscle in Hollywood, stories of his boorish behavior can no longer be routinely... August 13, 2003 What God wants I suppose it's a good thing that most evangelical Christian nutcases don't really have the cruelty of their convictions when it comes to gays. Sayeth Leviticus 20:13: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman,... August 12, 2003 L.A. skyline, 7:08 pm August 11, 2003 Arrogant Schwarzenegger, Episode 2 Accountability? What's that? From the L.A. Times: A Times reporter was ejected from the building by county officials 40 minutes before Schwarzenegger's arrival, and was not permitted back in for three hours after his departure. Pressed for an explanation, county... August 10, 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger nude photo Hey, visitor from a search engine! This is my cheap attempt to trawl for your hits. Thank you for being yet another person strangely interested in seeing this man naked. Yeah, yeah, I know. You're just doing "research" for a... August 09, 2003 Poll at Film Threat There is a poll at Film Threat rating the various CA gubernatorial candidates (including yours truly). Last I checked, I was nearly in last place. Help me out on this? Even though I'm out of the race, it would be... August 08, 2003 Arrogant Schwarzenegger Yikes! Arnold's performance on the Today show was so clueless it even made me feel bad for him. I think people are about to discover exactly what a movie star is like as a person--and it's not what they think.... August 08, 2003 Creative Commons features "Nothing So Strange" Wow. Just a few weeks after free-culture hero Lawrence Lessig linked to this weblog, the Lessig-chaired Creative Commons names "Nothing So Strange" as its Featured Content of the Week: Featured Content of the Week: Nothing So Strange Movie This week's... August 08, 2003 12 days that shook the state Bustamante's in, I'm out. Thanks for all the support from Brian Flemming's Weblog and Blogcritics regulars. It was an amazing 12 days. GOV. CANDIDATE BRIAN FLEMMING WITHDRAWS FROM RACE LOS ANGELES, August 7, 2003 -- Democrat Brian Flemming announced today... August 07, 2003 More Flemming for Governor coverage The news is pouring in. First, E! Online writes about the Flemming for Governor campaign: The coauthor of the off-Broadway hit Bat Boy: The Musical said Tuesday he has "an extremely simple platform": If elected, he won't serve. Instead, the... August 06, 2003 Brian Flemming on NPR's "All Things Considered" tonight Just did an interview with NPR's "All Things Considered," and I gave the interviewer, producer Quinn O'Toole, plenty of things to consider. Quinn said the segment may be on tonight. The show will be available at this page after 4:30... August 06, 2003 Mercury News Today the San Jose Mercury News prints a roundup of three recall stories: Columnist Arianna Huffington to enter race; State Sen. Tom McClintock files final papers; and Brian Flemming is running to resign. Guess which story they chose to top... August 06, 2003 Flemming for Governor reaches milestone Coverage in the L.A. Times, San Jose Mercury news (tomorrow) and E! Online (tomorrow) is all well and good. But something truly big happened today for Flemming for Governor at 6:57 p.m. We got mentioned at Eschaton by Atrios, who... August 05, 2003 The Camejo conundrum Assuming that my campaign's simple platform stands a reasonable chance of attracting abandoned Democratic voters, and I think it does, there's still an open question: Would I be a spoiler? Green Party candidate Peter Miguel Camejo was the first major... August 05, 2003 "The Cinematic Vagrant Who Would Be Governor" With a headline like that, you gotta read the interview (with me, of course) by the writer and critic Eric Campos in Film Threat. Nothing So Strange, Bat Boy, Free Cinema, Flemming for Governor--it's all in there. And I only... August 05, 2003 "You Don't Bring a Feather to a Gunfight" Posted a first draft of my stump speech at flemmingforgovernor.org. My thinking is this: I'm going after the anger vote. If no major Democrat enters the race, there will be nobody for the anti-recall voters to choose on the second... August 04, 2003 Be prepared I have prepared my letter of resignation, so I can quickly perform the one action I will take as California governor. Click on this thumbnail image to see the letter:... August 02, 2003 Flemming campaign soars Finally the campaign breaks in the state's paper of record. Allison Hoffman in the Los Angeles Times' lead recall story today mentions the Brian Flemming for Governor campaign quite prominently, distinguishing me from less serious candidates and summarizing my entire... August 01, 2003 More coverage of Flemming for Governor Joining the previously mentioned Long Beach Press-Telegram and KFI-AM 640 and Film Threat, another bible of indie film today covers the Brian Flemming candidacy. indieWIRE: FLEMMING FOR GOVERNOR! L.A.-based writer and director Brian Flemming, director of "Nothing So Strange" and... August 01, 2003 "Porn King Larry Flynt Eyeing California Governor R He has name recognition but a ridiculous platform: Flynt -- a registered Democrat and free speech advocate -- says he'll solve California's budget crisis by expanding slot machine gambling. His holdings include several casinos.... August 01, 2003

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