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apr 19

2005

now, with comments

Today is either huge day in Fimoculous history, or it's a brief moment of crazed myopia. After avoiding it for 4+ years, I've finally added comments. The little link appears at the bottom of the posts -- and it will probably disappear the second I start getting comment spam. Be kind, young netizens. (Oh, and you probably noticed the Google Ads. I'm making about $.08/day on those, so they also might be short-lived.)

I know some of you are having a hard time seeing Wonder Showzen, which MTV2 buries in the after-hours. So I've uploaded a video of the entire first episode. Download it now before my ISP (or Viacom) calls. Yeah, that was short-lived. Server slowed down to a near dead-stop. I'm sure you can find a Torrent out there.

If you watched Arrested Development on Sunday, you heard them close with the line "Next season on Arrested Development...." What'd that mean? This season is over and next season is still iffy. And in a profile of GetArrested.com, NYT says we'll know next month whether FOX renews the show for next year.

The first season of Dynasty came out on DVD today.

PUBLISHING

Scary Ann Coulter on the cover of Time. (UPDATE: Drudge's take and giving bon mots at St. Olaf.)

MUSIC

Dinosaur Jr. tour schedule.

FILM

Out on DVD today: House of Flying Daggers and Primer.

BLOGS

Andrew Krucoff launched a blog mostly about obits (I think): Young Manhatttanite.

LOCAL

How come it took some NYC guy to inform me about The Walker's New Media Initiatives Blog?

20 comments

love the site. can't wait till i have something funny/informative to say! been reading for years (it seems), cried during the olympic hiatus, loving the new updates.

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posted by Chuck Olsen at 2005-04-19 04:54:28

thanks for the showzen. here's drudge's <a href="http://drudgereport.com/flash3act.htm">take on coulter</a>... oh and i think i needed a <a href="http://kaedrin.com/weblog/archive/000900.html">flowchart</a> to understand primer :D cheers!

posted by glory at 2005-04-19 05:42:19

oh and thanks for the sad song below too :D i didn't know you could composite in supercinemascope! next up mike figgis directs in QTVR for panavision :D and fwiw, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a8YlKBoDEl7U&refer=us">target is locking up</a> the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/arts/music/17sann.html">cough syrup</a>... cheers!

posted by glory at 2005-04-19 05:57:30

wonder shozen is outrageously funny, in a "bad kid" sort of way. ahh...belly laugh! I now realize that I need tivo.

posted by forager at 2005-04-19 07:42:26

over/under on comments is 4/26.

posted by gamblinwad at 2005-04-19 09:08:30

Yo. Just wanted to say I'm a fan and look forward to your updates. Keep up the good work.

posted by Pudie at 2005-04-19 09:24:44

Comments-Yes, Google Ads-No. Fimoculous is great.

posted by Grif at 2005-04-19 09:54:30

Yeah, I stumbled upon that NMI blog yesterday, and I too was wondering why the WAC didn't seem to promote that blog before the opening. Woulda been fun to follow the progress/testing of various A/V stuff! Ah well, NMI has always baffled me for various reasons...

posted by Arah at 2005-04-19 10:03:27

Jade Walker has been doing a obit blog long before Krucoff, "Blog of Death". there's a podcast of it as well.

posted by Nichelle at 2005-04-19 10:44:17

I didn't expect any of you to provide actual useful information in these comment thingies. Delish. (Chuck, I've enabled these for our super secret project. Sh.)

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posted by melina at 2005-04-19 12:07:18

As your biggest fan, I feel obligated to comment on this historic thread. I'm l33t like that.

posted by Andy Baio at 2005-04-19 14:25:53

Wow - there's a comment dated on April 18th in an entry dated April 19th. Sweet.

posted by tlinks at 2005-04-19 14:36:57

Hi - Glad you have comments and enabled and hope they're put to good use! I regards to your $0.08/day google adsense income, that low amount may be in part because many people read your blog on an RSS reader, so cannot see the ads. i.e. I noticed about 150 people on Bloglines alone. To generate some income, I don't think anyone would have a huge problem if you made 'sincere' recommendations for items you could earn affiliate money from... i.e. if you read a fantastic book related to one of your posts, put an Amazon aff. link at the bottom of that post. If you genuinely recommend a product, then most people shouldn't have a problem with you doing that efery once in a while. (imo) Regards and good luck (p.s. and you could make your Google adssense ads have the same border color as the background (blue) and test if it increases your CTR). :) -Steve Gill p.p.s. I'm a fairly new subscriber to your blog, so if you're already putting Amazon aff. links in your entries, then just disregard that suggestion. :)

posted by Steve Gill at 2005-04-19 15:06:02

I probably have more Amazon links per post than any blog in the universe. That's an exageration, and so was the Google Adsense income -- in the spirit of transparency, it's actually $.50/day. Put together, Fimoc's income is about $50/month.

posted by Rex at 2005-04-19 15:59:16

Long time reader. Keep up the good work. Peace out.

posted by Molotov at 2005-04-19 16:24:40

Tried to show a colleague your site today but the server was down. So glad you took off that link!

posted by Julie at 2005-04-19 21:57:40

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posted by greg.org at 2005-04-19 22:19:09

After reading that Ann Coulter article from Star Trib I must once again say she is the biggest cunt alive.

posted by Pudie at 2005-04-20 10:23:26

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