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June 2008

Terms and Conditions Agreement for Freelancers

The article on writing up a comprehensive Terms and Conditions agreement was just published recently [on FreelanceSwitch.com]. It details the conditions that need to be established before launching into a project with a new client to avoid nasty surprises.

February 2008

No Surprise: Marijuana Isn't Harmless

Marijuana has consistently been shown to pose little if no health threat, has not been found responsible for a rise in the levels of crime or as a gateway to more dangerous narcotics and whose side effects are laughably easy to dismiss as curious and for the most part innocuous.

January 2008

Some Critics Just Don’t Get ‘Cloverfield’

Cloverfield is not a movie made in that traditional vein. It’s concept movie-making. The idea is that a home video is retrieved by the government from the site of a horrific incident and we are in on the screening as voyeurs of that video as though holding the camcorder in our hands.

December 2007

Marking Time By Decades Died in 2000

Love eighties music? Do you reflect on the laissez-faire attitude of the swinging seventies or pine for the golden era of Hollywood movies back in the forties? Seems that marking social and cultural change by referring to a particular decade has come to an end.

Is Photography Dead?

New imaging technology puts photographic integrity in a precarious position as tools like Photoshop allow the average user to manipulate images to the point of bringing into question the authenticity of what is being portrayed. Can we trust what we see in a photo these days? The answer? Of course.

October 2007

Dasani Bottled Water a Bad Product?

A global federation of consumer advocate organizations called Consumers International recently gave out awards for what it deems are the worst consumer products advertised to the public, including … Dasani.

Why the Flack Over the iPod Touch

Anyone paying attention to chatter over the blogosphere will get the distinct impression that there’s a lot of negative buzz surrounding the recent release of Apple’s seemingly most advanced iPod yet. So what’s their problem anyway?

September 2007

Looking Forward to Amy Grant's Mosaic

More than half a life later, I continue to be moved not only by this woman’s music, but by the simple expression of her faith.

Larry Craig Should Resign

He’s guilty. Wait. No, he shouldn’t have said he was guilty. But he won’t resign. Oh, hold on. Okay, he will resign. Nope. Maybe he won’t resign after all.

August 2007

The Lowest Form of Humor

Humor is cast aside as a light subject and isn’t very closely examined by most people. That’s probably because we all believe that we have a pretty good understanding of what humor is.

May 2007

Best Summer Box Office. Ever?

After seeing the motion picture industry suffer for the past half-decade, the summer of 2007 is shaping up to be a huge turnaround. But is this a sea change or just a perfect storm?

January 2007

Hiding Out in Studio 60

When it was announced that Aaron would be writing a new series for NBC called Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip–set in Hollywood behind the scenes of a fictitious live late-night skit show based squarely on the Saturday Night Live model–right away I was curious.

A Better Place

Angela Wilson, the daughter of Chris and Ann Wilson, died suddenly this past Wednesday, January 10. What makes this so much more difficult to accept was that she was so young.

The iPhone Is Here

Get a load of what Apple’s been keeping up its sleeve all this time while we waited impatiently with bated breath.

Happy Two Double Oh Seven

I’d love to stop and take stock of where I’ve been and where I stand today to help me better think about where I’ll be headed tomorrow. But for now, that’s not totally possible. And I suspect it isn’t for most anyone else.