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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
[Oh, here we go, it's the Citizen of Tomorrow Awards, just posted.]
Now, the problem I had last night was being too ambitious, thinking I could drop by the First Birthday Celebration of The Bay Citizen and then hustle it uphill to the Specfic Whites neighborhood by nine-ish, thinking that this year’s party would be like last year’s, you know, the one they had in the Twitterloin. That one was off the hook.
Anyway, here it is at the stated 8:00 PM starting time. (A dozen people to park your car, but only one to check you into the place.)
(Why, yes, Terra _is_ 200 feet away from a bridge and two miles away from a tunnel – why do you ask?)
And here are your food trucks. (Everything seems to taste better when it’s from a truck, non?)
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I guess things got going later in the evening. But I’ll tell you, if you skipped the first hour of last year’s soiree, which was off the hook, you would have missed a lot.
The good thing is that The Bay Citizen produced, as designed, a lot of good stuff the past year.
Anyway, Bon Anniversaire, The Bay Citizen.
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Now it was a little funny earlier this year when a high level person at Rich King* Casting started quoting sub-minimum wages for extras in that new Contagion movie starring, I don’t know, everybody, you know, these people right here (and let’s throw in Famous Movie Director Steven Soderbergh too – he’s a luminary as well):
But then somebody, no not somebody from the local Film Commish and not any MSM reporters (who don’t seem to be aware of what the minimum wage is in the place where they live and work), but somebody up here in the 415 got word down to Los Angeles County about The Law ‘n stuff.
So fine, the RKC people changed their minds and decided to pay extras “$80″ for up to eight hours (and then they finally did the math and decided that $79.36 would be the wage, cause, you know, después de todos, dinero es dinero.)
But now word comes that RKC thinks it’s OK to pay people up to six weeks** later?
And the extras still haven’t all been paid?
And RKC is ignoring contact attempts from said extras?
Could all this be true?
Well let’s hear from a Real Life Contagion Extra:
“I got in the film as well, but its now mid April, and I have not seen the payment in the 6 weeks that the casting company stated. Got my work receipt right here – would be nice if someone from this casting agency would follow up with my contact attempts.
“It was still a really cool day either way. I got to see an amazing set up of the set @ Candlestick and didn’t mind standing/sitting around all day. That is what background extras do. All of these girls were being very rude that day saying “when are we going to meet the stars”, and “I can’t believe they are making us stand around”, and “come on! I wan’t to be in the movie already!! Shortly after one of the assistants heard those remarks, our group was dismissed for the afternoon. It is like they never listened to what they told us at the casting meeting at Fort Mason, or the information the casting directors told us over the phone when they offered us the part. I did not get an email confirmation after that day, but a personal phone call.
“Would be nice to see my check, but I will give them a bit more time to respond since I bet the other 5,000 are hounding them as well. I mean come on – I am on unemployment – it would be nice to have the $79 bucks right now, but I can wait a bit”
Now, isn’t it ironic, dont’cha think, that a company what has a cavalier attitude about at least one kind of wage and hour rule would drag its feet about making payments? (Well, maybe not, in my experience.)
Anyway, all you non-union extras ought to form a union or something so you can start playing hardball with the Hollywood vanga vanga.
So why don’t you pay all your extras ASAP, Rich King Casting? Like posthaste or something.
Thank you.
Now, speaking of Hollywood, wouldn’t you like to see a list of all the movies that Steven Soderbergh has seen the past twelve months? Sure you would. See it after the jump.
*Forget about Obama’s birth certificate – I want to see the one with “Rich King” printed on it, and oh, Sandy Beach too, I want to see one of those as well – I think Hollywood still has a few guys around with that name.
**I should make a horror film – it’ll be about the horrors of Regular People dealing with Hollywood People. It’ll be called 42 Days Later.
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
I’ll tell you, an SFPD press pass won’t get you into any Super Bowl, let me tell you.
If you want “media credentials,” just laminate your name and the name of your blog, bingo bango, not that I’ve done that.
You see, they’re not letting your pass into some venue, they’re letting you in. They like you, they don’t care about some card around your neck. You’ll see. And actually, these things can be a liability, sometimes.*
I suppose an official SFPD pass would make a good souvenir, something to save in your hope chest or something:
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Fret naught, Bloggers. These things don’t really mean all that much…
*And remember that time all the Chinatown newspaper reporters got denied access to that Hillary Clinton campaign event at the Palace Hotel because, get this, they were representatives of the “foreign press” because their SFPD ID’s proved just that? Oh man, what a fustercluck that one was. Good times…
Tags: 2011, bay area, bloggers, california, media, pass, press, San Francisco, SFPD
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
[As best I can figure, the website that Jude Law is promoting on his flyers in Contagion is TruthSerumNow.Com. Someone in LA just registered it just last month, so there you go.]
Now, of course the CDC LIES, of course. But here’s what Hollywood has gotten wrong:
1. First off, doesn’t this fellow Jude Law appear awfully fit and thin for a blogger? That just doesn’t look right.
2. Now, I’ve notified all 14 of my readers to four or five contagion alerts over the years – thank God each alert has been a false alarm but I’ll tell you from experience that Jude’s contagion suit is ALL WRONG!! You can’t just put a belt around your tummy and then call it a day. In fact, this set up would actually increase the chances of a user contracting any possible contagion, so this is just ridiculous. And also, Hollywood, that see-through helmet rig would condense up in a New York minute when actually used in the field, particularly when you’re running from the SFPD, or more likely, the fake SFPD. (They’re really Feds! All of them! Well, most of them would be, during a real contagion.)
Presenting Ridiculous Actor Jude Law on the Streets of San Francisco. (I’m smelling Oscar!)
Oh, wait a second! Aren’t bloggers the ones who generally debunk conspiracy theories (yes, it’s the Gerald Posner, straight outta UC Hastings Law School) and isn’t Hollywood the one what promotes ridiculous conspiracy theories? OMG, YES! We’re through the looking-glass here, people!
[Man, I got this all wrong at the top. Somebody call Rewrite, I gotta go to work.]
Tags: 2011, Alan Krumwiede, bay area, blogger, bloggers, california, com, conspiracy, contagion, gerald posner, jfk, jude, jude law, law, now, oliver stone, San Francisco, serum, theory, trothserumnow, truth, truthserumnow
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Just wanted to note the excellence of these relatively new San Francisco-area local blogs. AFAIK, they weren’t around a couple of years ago, yet they’ve all matured into awesome sites* already.
From West to East:
The Richmond District Blog
Haighteration (Lower Haight)
Tenderblog (The Tenderloin)
The Tens (The Tenderloin)
From Tenderblog, with news from this AM:
Most of the people behind these websites have full-time jobs and/or school schedules, right? (And, AFAIK, they’re far more click-ish, than clique-ish so that’s A Good Thing.)
So, what’s stopping YOU from doing the same in YOUR AREA?
Why is there no “Sunset District Blog” that’s of the caliber of the Richmond District Blog? Where’s a BayView / Hunters Point Blog? Where’s my Marina / Cow Hollow Blog with frequent postings?* (Of course the Mission has Mission Mission, the doyenne of area local blogs, but there’s still lots of unscrutinized territory out there.)
It’s not too late to get going – less than $1 a month for your URL and $3.88 a month for unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage on a server that’s RAIDed-up six ways to Sunday. Or get started at WordPress.com for just nothing per month. Or even the Tumblr (“the easiest way to blog’) – it’s free as well, right?
You have been informed – it’s still totally wide open.
Carpe Diem
Get going.
*I’m sure I’m missing some good efforts from people. Tell me, send me a URL and I’ll take a look at your joint.
Tags: 2010, area, bay area, blog, bloggers, blogging, district, haight, haighteration, hyper, local, local search, lower, micro, richmond, San Francisco, SF, tenderblog, tenderloin, tens, tense, the, the tens
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Here’s the answer first, from Newsweek writer Mickey Kaus:
“Er, (b)… Can I pick (b)?”
And here’s the question:
So, “B” it is.
Keep trying, LAT!
Tags: 2010, awards, bay area, bloggers, california, Entertainment, jounalists, los angeles, San Francisco, times
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
[Whoops, spoke too soon - turns out that the SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle's Katie Baker was en la casa. The conspiracy of silence broken.]
Despite all the obituaries written earlier this year, The Bay Citizen celebrated its launch yesterday at the Great American Music Hall. Some TBC editors on the scene were fretting about getting a new batch of “stately idiom” finished up for the following morning, but a good time was had by all.
They literally rolled out the red carpet in the Tenderloin last night:
Who was there? Everybody. (Everybody excepting some of the hAtERz in local media who feel any new investment should go to existing concerns, you know, the ones that employ the hAtERz themselves. The hAtERz that showed somehow even managed to generate, with noticeable effort, Mona Lisa smile/smirks for the camera.) The place was packed from the get-go, baby. Check out the Party Pix from E.B.Boyd showing who all was there.
Standing room only:
Bay Citizen CEO Lisa Frazier (pronounced fraze-yah) started things off by inviting Founder Warren Hellman to play a song.
Lois Beckett snapped the chorus and here are the full lyrics to the sing-a-long tune Hardly Strictly News. Note the A-A-B-B rhyming scheme. Also note:
“We met with Lisa Frazier who pronounced ‘for now it will be free’/
A multi-layered news hub is the only way to be.”
What, “for now?” Uh oh:
Click to expand. It’s quite legible at 1200 pixels.
Anyway, F. Warren appeared to be somewhat irked by the constant chatter of the assembled throng. Oh well.
Here’s the mise-en-scene from up on the catwalk:
A big thank you to all the founding investors, founding members, patrons, and corporate sponsors. Notably, Dede Wilsey’s name isn’t on this list, so perhaps she just recently kicked in her seven figure donation? (Or let’s call it a $500,000 donation with Uncle Sucker kicking another half mil., mas o menos. That’s the thing with non-profit journalism – the federal govmint lowers your taxes by about 50 cents for every dollar you donate, assuming you pay a lot of taxes in the first place. This is the Unfair Advantage that the Chronicle people complain about. Speaking of which, nothing yet about TBC from the SFC – check for yourself.)
Everybody’s a star:
$5 tote bags just like Trader Joe’s and the KQED, plus loads of free bumper stickers:
The lives of the party:
Anyway, had to bail early to get down to Massive Attack at the Warfield while Arcadio was playing the TBC party. The booze was flowing and the place was still packed when I left, anyway.
Bon Courage, Bay Citizen!
All the deets, after the jump
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Here’s the lastest about the much-talked-about media joint The Bay Citizen.
Matt Baume gives fresh details of everthing a potential freelancer could want to know at this point;
CEO Lisa Frazier today extends a final invitation to get on board before launch. See below; und
Kevin Montgomery gives us a sneak peek* on what the site might look like.
That’s the wind-up, and here’s The Pitch:
Dear LADIESMAN217:
The Bay Citizen’s launch is just two days away, and we can’t wait! Some exciting things have happened over the last few weeks:
We now have fourteen journalists in our newsroom, including twelve full-time journalists and two paid summer interns from the UC Berkeley Journalism School;
Our reporters are busy producing stories on topics including the environment and land use, health and science, education, arts and culture, and more;
We’ve started hosting partner meetings to explore collaborations with local independent media organizations, bloggers, and writers;
We recently moved into our new office at 126 Post Street in San Francisco
Become part of Bay Area history
You still have time. Until midnight on Wednesday, you can become a Founder of The Bay Citizen by donating $50 or more. As a Founder, your name will be permanently listed on our website and you’ll also receive two tickets to our launch party this Wednesday evening at the Great American Music Hall, where you’ll get the chance to meet hundreds of other founding members.
Become a Founder now!
And, don’t forget to check out www.baycitizen.org on Wednesday morning when it goes live.
With thanks,
Lisa Frazier, CEO
P.S. Our long-term sustainability depends on support from community members like you. Thank you for supporting The Bay Citizen.
See you there!
*I had a similar experience over the weekend when I decided to visit my giant Toyota sitting in the shop getting fixed. Even though the place was closed I was able to walk right in and take it for a quick test drive – now they told me last week my car would be ready this coming Wednesday but I wanted a sneak peek. Fuck man, the brakes sounded like shit! All screeching metalicky and whatnot. I called them up today and it turns out that they’re saying the new pads are coming in Tuesday. I don’t know, man, maybe they’ll get it done proper, but that’s a lot of work they still have to do…
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Read today’s announcement after the jump but first learn all about the new $25 Bay Citizen Partner Program for bloggers right here. Not satisfied with that? Well, then join the club.
The blogger meeting you weren’t personally invited to last week via scented, hand-delivered letter. Actually, you don’t need to go to tonight’s alternate meeting either if you don’t want. But you can still get in the game.
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So, here’s the thing: If you don’t want to make a deal with The Bay Citizen, then don’t make a deal with The Bay Citizen, in’nt?
Seems pretty simple.
Also it seems that some reporters could report more better. For instance, “….rumors that reporters were being paid huge salaries are untrue.” Um, how do you know that? In fact, there were out-of-hand rumors about what reporters would get paid. And, in fact, there was a lot of disappointment around town when people found out that:
The salaries for reporters aren’t going to be all that high; und
It matters not because lots of people didn’t get hired anyway, owing to the competitive environment
Oh well. (In addition, the office is just regular, nothing fancy or nothing, right?)
So, with Mother Hellman’s contractions coming faster and faster, things are the way you’d expect for our soon-to-be-bouncing baby Bay Citizen, with:
Jealousy-fueled* ankle-biting from below;
Jealousy-fueled* back-biting from the side; and
Silence from above, pretty much**
Anyway, the latest TBC sonogram, after the jump.
*Envy-fueled, more precisely, but you know…
**Could it be that the replacement for the old San Francisco Chronicle will be the current leaner and meaner San Francisco Chronicle? Yep, it could be. Certainly.
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Seems that a few precincts in San Francisco supported Proposition 8, so some bloggers have been going around town with Equality California to canvass those areas in particular. Tomorrow’s focus is in Visitacion Valley. (If you’re not a blogger already, it takes like five minutes to get started.)
Deets below and right here:
Meet all your favorite internet friends in real life and contribute to a great cause!”
As Visi Valley looks on a clear day:
via ceedub
The deets:
You’re invited to join local bloggers for a marriage equality canvass on Saturday, February 13th, from 10am-2:30pm with Equality California.
This is a great opportunity to turn just a few hours of easy work into a huge contribution to the fight for equality. Plus it’s a great excuse to meet and mingle with a crowd of awesome online writers, and learn about some of the work being done to restore marriage equality!
What’s a canvass, you ask? We pick neighborhoods that voted majority Yes on 8 to go door to door and talk to people about marriage equality. We start out with a really thorough training and chance to practice, so you’ll learn how to have non-confrontational but productive conversations that will change people’s minds about marriage equality. You’ll go out in teams of two to knock doors for a couple hours, and then we’ll meet up at the end to talk about how it went.
Please come a few minutes early so that we can start on time. After we canvass, we’ll debrief and wrap up by 2:30pm. Bloggers are invited to stick around longer for a special debrief and chance to network with other bloggers.
And of course, your readers and friends are invited to come too — please feel free to post the details on your blog beforehand. The more the merrier!
And you can follow along on Twitter with hashtag #eqwalk.
Just RSVP and let us know if you can make it. We’ll send you the details on when and where to meet. Hope to see you there!
Tags: 8, blogger, bloggers, california, canvass, cora, court, eight, equality california, Gay, GLBT, homosexual, leland, LGBT, lgbtq, marriage, martket, playground, porposition, prop, queer, rights, San Francisco, SF, street, Visitacion Valley
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