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paulmdavis

I heard the jury's still out on science.

About Me

Blog Bloggy Blog:
ELSEWHERE: social network | music | writing I've been paid for | flickr | del.icio.us

My Interests

politics, media issues, the viability of marketing the creative arts and journalism in an age when people expect those things to be free

I'd like to meet:

Whoever created this:

Music:

I don't like most of it

Movies:

the big lebowski, mars attacks, barton fink, mission impossible 2, blade runner, fog of war

Television:

new battlestar galactica
frontline
history channel
six feet under
the office(UK)
fawlty towers
lost
curb your enthusiasm
carnivale
x-files
twin peaks
COPS

Books:

ALL TIME: one hundred years of solitude, cloud atlas, master and margarita, collected jorge luis borges LATELY: kafka on the shore, greatest american science writing, extremely loud and incredibly fast, everything is illuminated, the corrections, culture of fear, bush at war, reefer madness, nation of rebels, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay I ALSO LIKE MAGAZINES seed, national geographic, the economist, wired, and of course PUNK PLANET

Heroes:


My Blog

THE VICE GRIP TIGHTENS FOR INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS

We are living in a time in which all the methods of distributing independent periodicals are falling apart before our very eyes. The very viability of independent print publishing--with its in-depth, ...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:20:00 PST

MY REAL BLOG

All the text that's not fit to be compensated for: paulmdavis.blogspot.comUnfinished ideas, unsupported rants, and dense missives about media, culture, and Snoop Dogg....
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:47:00 PST

SHOWS IN CHICAGO & SANTA CRUZ THIS WEEK!

Hello One and All,It may currently be 1 degree Fahrenheit here in scenic Chicago, IL., but there are a few stray glimmers of hope. By THIS TUESDAY (Feb 6) evening the temperature will have risen to a...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:05:00 PST

SOMETIMES I MISS HOME...

...but now I have the Santa Cruz Sentinel's Multimedia page to give me a taste of what's going on out there. And the verdict from their 1 minute 26 second daily news video blog? NOTHING is going on th...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:55:00 PST

TOP 10'S OF 2007

Two of my Top Ten's of 2006 are in the new issue of Punk Planet, as well as bitter/humorous/brutal observations by others related to the Punk Planet braintrust, including the always bitter/humorous/br...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:42:00 PST

TWO QUESTIONS

1. Couldn't this company better spend their marketing budget than by advertising on a site largely used by 15 year olds?2. Is a Myspace-type site for folks 50 and older a) a heartening thing to see b)...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:14:00 PST

c'mon people

You know this site is aesthetically and politically suspect. You know you could find a better online community, one that has discussions about music, art, politics, DIY culture, queer culture, zines a...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

Stick it to Rupert and join me at PP 2.0!

My friends and associates over at Punk Planet have been working their asses off (well, specifically pub. Dan's ass off) learning how to design a full-featured, web 2.0-ey site that allows social netwo...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:41:00 PST

Last night In Coffee

It's been said a million times, a million ways...But tonight is my last night in coffee.Come Monday I will be a fully paid employee of Bloodshot Records Ltd., with a W-2  and a paycheck and every...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:31:00 PST

DON'T LET THE TELECOM INDUSTRY BUY YOUR FREEDOM!

Ever wondered why media outlets like Free Radio Santa Cruz are regularly raided by the FCC? The history of new media formats in America is a long one during innew technology that is lauded to be the t...
Posted by "PAUL L0L" on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:32:00 PST