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SXSW Revisited

14/03/2006
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Well, I’m not sure if I’m actually revisiting it since I’m still here (for another few hours) but here’s the rest of my trip. Met some cool new people and a cool old one too. Not old as in old, just — well, you know what I’m trying to say (right Scot?).

The Blogging While Black massive represented well and it was great meeting everyone:
Baratunde, EJ, George, Lynne, Tiffany, Tony, Jeff, Laina, Denise, J. Brotherlove, and Victor (and anyone I may have forgotten 🙁 )

Music: Band Marino

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SXSW – Welcome to Austin!

13/03/2006
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I’m in Austin, TX for the SXSW Interactive Conference and Film Festival. On the first day, I walked…

Music: Jean-Luc Ponty

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Octavia Butler … peace and rest

26/02/2006
Octavia Butler

Becoming a science fiction author is one of my lifelong dreams and this woman is the main reason why. I first read Wild Seed many years ago and my life was forever changed. To touch another life is the best we can hope for during our stay here.

Rest in Uhuru, Octavia.

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To hold you over…

5/02/2006

I know, I know … I need to post some more videos. Got it. But in the interim read THIS and THIS and THIS. Right now. I’m serious. Reese is on fire.

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Top Ten Trivia Tips About Leslye!

22/01/2006

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Leslye!

  1. Over half of Americans are officially Leslye!
  2. Leslye will always turn right when leaving a cave.
  3. Leslye was invented in China in the eleventh century, but was only used for fireworks, never for weapons!
  4. Fifty-two percent of Americans drink Leslye!
  5. The moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than Leslye, and 400 times smaller!
  6. Peanuts and Leslye are beans.
  7. Leslye can eat up to four kilograms of insects in a single night.
  8. Leslye was originally green, and actually contained cocaine.
  9. All the moons of the Solar System are named after characters from Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Leslye.
  10. Plato believed that the souls of melancholy people would be reincarnated into Leslye.
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2005 – The B-sides

3/01/2006
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As I said farewell to another year I realized there was so much left unsaid… so much footage left unseen… I thought of doing a wrap-up of the year, but instead I will leave you with some of the B-sides – clips that time almost forgot, but now have received another chance for glory.

Music: Matt Taylor

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The Ghost of Christmas Past

22/12/2005

Christmas 2002, from the James family to you!

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New Season!

18/11/2005

Well folks, we’re back from hiatus this week with another season full of brand new “reality” programming here at Phatalspin dot com. Enjoy!

What really goes on behind the stalks of a corn maize?? DMC employees endeavored to solve this mystery recently.

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