TodayWatch: It’s San Diego Ticket Day, Get Your Portfolio Seen In Seattle Day, Save St James Library With Alan Moore Day and Get Your Skullkickers Signed In London Day!
JapanWatch: The Japanese are ridding shelves of comics for ebook scans… and companies who will scan your books for you.
“There are more than 30 or 40 scanning companies and huge amount of books are scanned every day, so I can hardly believe all the scanning is legal,” Higuchi said in an interview in Tokyo last month.
Japanese will buy $80.5 million worth of e-books in the fiscal year ending March 31, most of it comics for mobile phones, Ueno said.
JapanWatch2: How the Tokyo Comics Code works in practice;
Page upon page of black and white etchings of wide-eyed, young people of indeterminate age drawn in that larger than life Japanese cartoon style, engaged in every kind of sexual act, legal or otherwise.
“Normal sex doesn’t sell well,” Komiya remarks.
“School sex, tied-up sex, abnormal sex, sells. So this is what they draw.
“Mangaka don’t draw this stuff because they want to expose children to sexual perversity, they draw it for one reason: to make money.”
JapanWatch3: When foreigners go to Japan to make comics.
German Dirk Schwieger is another artist who came up with an original approach to comic-making. While he spent only one year in Japan, in 2006, he grabbed a lot of attention when he turned his 24-part “webcomic” into an interactive project.
In his blog he chronicled a year’s worth of “assignments” he undertook at the request of readers while living in Tokyo. People from around the world would send him tasks to accomplish — anything from “meeting a traditional sword maker” to “looking for a bosozoku biker gang” — and he would write, illustrate and post a new comic each week based on his experience.
ThisIsGreatWatch: Zach Weiner, web cartoonist had an image used, out of context, to justify ant-gay marriage sentiment by an anti-gay marriage sentiment website. But it’s a hotlinked image. So he changed it from this (left) to this (right).
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
News: Exclusive: Superman’s Undisclosed Character Revealed | Latino Review
1: Lois Lane WILL be in the film. 2: The character these lovely actresses have come out for is none other than a Kryptonion villainess who is going by the name of URSA.
‘Cowboys & Aliens’: Jon Favreau’s campaign trail and popcorn primary | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times
“This is our Iowa caucus,” director Jon Favreau said as he climbed into a waiting black SUV with Ron Howard, the two-time Oscar winner who is a producer of Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens,” scheduled to hit theaters July 29. “This is like the primary. Our election night is that opening weekend this summer.”
Editorial: 2011 to Infinity and Beyond — Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin
The comic industry is not in peril, it is in transition. We are learning that to move forward we must first open our arms and minds not only to the new technologies, but to the new way people create, consume, enjoy and share content.
MediaPost Publications NBA Gets Simply Marvel-ous 02/07/2011
The line will include apparel and accessories, with artwork featuring the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America dressed in NBA team colors and logos.
Will the Cloud Be Comic-Con’s Superhero? – NYTimes.com
In an attempt to ensure the servers keep up under extreme traffic, Comic-Con has partnered with Philadelphia-based startup TicketLeap, which moved its platform to Amazon Web Services in August 2010. If all goes well when tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. PST tomorrow, it will be a huge proving point for the TicketLeap platform, and further validation for AWS and cloud computing, in general.
Failing Better – The Dial-a-Marvel Superhero Messages You Never Got to Hear
I’ve been going through my stash of Marvel memos to pick out ones that might be useful to Sean Howe (who definitely needs a Marvel nickname), who’s writing a history of Marvel in the ’70s, and while doing this I came across one of my many suggestions to Stan. I had the bizarre idea that we could start a Dial-a-Superhero service than would allow fans to hear pre-recorded messages from Marvel’s greatest. Check out my note to Stan below
A Not-Brief Reaction To A Video That’s Already Been Taken Down
History tells us that the big comics companies have acted as bad industry partners since their inception. We’re even now coming out of a period where a series of furtive, overlapping agreements between certain industry players and Diamond threw up structural barriers that kept smaller publishers from opportunities they might have used to make a bigger plash in comics’ primary market, a web of arrangement that helped seal into amber a status quo that placed greater value on short-term profits from fees and privileged hierarchies and goosing certain titles than onto long-term profit from partnership and information-sharing and allowing for title development. Comics blew some major opportunities there.
MTV Geek Exclusive: A Talk With Wizard World Inc.’s Gareb Shamus » MTV Geek
And when it comes to ex-employees, you’ve got to understand that they’re ex-employees: they’re people who have just lost their jobs. And it’s very unfortunate, but unfortunately you’ve got to take what they say with a grain of salt. You’ve got to understand where it’s coming from. It doesn’t diminish their contribution to what we’ve done, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t appreciate their hard work – but when you look at the landscape of comic books today, a lot of these people wouldn’t even be working in this business if it wasn’t for Wizard giving them their first start.
"I've never made out with him," Lauren Leto told me last week, between puffs of a Parliament Light. The 24-year old brunette, rocking a little black dress and flat boots, was debunking my suspicions that she might be romancing her notoriously cute business partner, Patrick Moberg, the talented artist perhaps best known for making the website NewYorkGirlofMyDreams.com in 2008.
Leto and Moberg recently launched the well-funded start-up BNTER, a site that stores the best conversations between users and their friends. BNTER comes on the heels of Leto's big Internet hit, TextsFromLastNight.com, the website that earned her two book contracts, a TV deal, and, reportedly, lots of money. But back to girl talk: "It's the same with [Texts co-founder] Ben [Bator]," she explained. "I picked such attractive co-founders, people assume we must all be dating. But, no, no, no. We're co-employees! And the thing people don't understand is that when you're, like, writing checks with someone — when money is involved — you become so sexually unattractive to that person." She exhaled. "This is why I can never get married."
Leto was smoking outside an East Village apartment playing host to the Silicon Alley version of a singles mixer — a meet-up for users of HowAboutWe.com, the dating website Brian Schechter co-founded on Valentine's Day in 2010. Users suggest date ideas or contact people whose ideas they like. "How about we go to an underground supper club?" was among the site's most popular date ideas during its first year, so Andy and Ashley — a couple who met on How About We — decided to throw the soiree, and Apt. No. 4, a traveling group of foodie friends, worked the kitchen, supplying lobster bisque and teriyaki char and drinks. Leto was a featured single on How About We this month: She answered every question with a quote from the Kelis song "Bossy"; she said she was at the party to support Schechter and not necessarily to find a man.
Nick Gray, the quick-witted Williamsburg party boy, would have it otherwise, though. "Lauren and I haven't dated yet, but I'm trying," he told us. When Leto offered no reply, Gray joked, "Awkward ..."
How About We's Schechter, meanwhile, admitted that online dating might always carry a stigma: "People say [the stigma's] decreasing, and soon there won't be any," he told us. "But when you go onto an online dating site, in some way you're confessing, 'I don't have what I want,' which is not necessarily an attractive thing. People tend to find someone attractive who has what they want. So I wonder if it's actually a psychological or cultural or almost biological thing: 'I want the one who doesn't need.'" He added: "I do think it will become increasingly normal. It's efficient. And a site that's about having fun and not confessing, necessarily, that you don't have something you want, is more likely to attract people. You're just saying, 'I want to try new restaurants!' Etcetera." Schechter has a girlfriend who he didn't meet over the Internet, but he said he still gets several e-mails a day with the subject line "How about we ...?"
Gray is one fan of the site who hasn't had much success on it yet: "I think my date ideas are intimidating to some people," he told us. "I used to think that I was a real catch, and now I've only had three people who wanted to go on my dates. Some people write, 'How about we get high and eat pizza?' and they get, like, one hundred people interested. And I write, 'Let's go to Rio for New Year's Eve!' Or, 'Let's go to Greece and open a falafel stand!' And people are like, 'Eh. Weirdo.'"
Leto claims she doesn't send many late-night texts of her own anymore because she gets up at six every morning, "so nervous" that something might have happened overnight. Telling us she still "lives poorly," she admitted she recently got an apartment of her own in Brooklyn. "I bought furniture, and I'm an adult," she added. But of dating in New York, Leto lamented: "Everyone wants something from you."
What she wanted from me, at least half-seriously, was less attention. At one point, she pretended to have stolen my tape recorder so that I couldn't report on her any further. And when I asked too many questions, she said: "This is going to seem like navel-gazing for myself. No navel-gazing allowed!" But she's just so good at all this, I informed her, as at least half the men at the party tracked her across the room. On cue, with a seemingly legitimate confusion, she asked, "Good at what?"
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TodayWatch: It’s San Diego Ticket Day, Get Your Portfolio Seen In Seattle Day, Save St James Library With Alan Moore Day and Get Your Skullkickers Signed In London Day!
JapanWatch: The Japanese are ridding shelves of comics for ebook scans… and companies who will scan your books for you.
“There are more than 30 or 40 scanning companies and huge amount of books are scanned every day, so I can hardly believe all the scanning is legal,” Higuchi said in an interview in Tokyo last month.
Japanese will buy $80.5 million worth of e-books in the fiscal year ending March 31, most of it comics for mobile phones, Ueno said.
JapanWatch2: How the Tokyo Comics Code works in practice;
Page upon page of black and white etchings of wide-eyed, young people of indeterminate age drawn in that larger than life Japanese cartoon style, engaged in every kind of sexual act, legal or otherwise.
“Normal sex doesn’t sell well,” Komiya remarks.
“School sex, tied-up sex, abnormal sex, sells. So this is what they draw.
“Mangaka don’t draw this stuff because they want to expose children to sexual perversity, they draw it for one reason: to make money.”
JapanWatch3: When foreigners go to Japan to make comics.
German Dirk Schwieger is another artist who came up with an original approach to comic-making. While he spent only one year in Japan, in 2006, he grabbed a lot of attention when he turned his 24-part “webcomic” into an interactive project.
In his blog he chronicled a year’s worth of “assignments” he undertook at the request of readers while living in Tokyo. People from around the world would send him tasks to accomplish — anything from “meeting a traditional sword maker” to “looking for a bosozoku biker gang” — and he would write, illustrate and post a new comic each week based on his experience.
ThisIsGreatWatch: Zach Weiner, web cartoonist had an image used, out of context, to justify ant-gay marriage sentiment by an anti-gay marriage sentiment website. But it’s a hotlinked image. So he changed it from this (left) to this (right).
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
News: Exclusive: Superman’s Undisclosed Character Revealed | Latino Review
1: Lois Lane WILL be in the film. 2: The character these lovely actresses have come out for is none other than a Kryptonion villainess who is going by the name of URSA.
‘Cowboys & Aliens’: Jon Favreau’s campaign trail and popcorn primary | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times
“This is our Iowa caucus,” director Jon Favreau said as he climbed into a waiting black SUV with Ron Howard, the two-time Oscar winner who is a producer of Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens,” scheduled to hit theaters July 29. “This is like the primary. Our election night is that opening weekend this summer.”
Editorial: 2011 to Infinity and Beyond — Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin
The comic industry is not in peril, it is in transition. We are learning that to move forward we must first open our arms and minds not only to the new technologies, but to the new way people create, consume, enjoy and share content.
MediaPost Publications NBA Gets Simply Marvel-ous 02/07/2011
The line will include apparel and accessories, with artwork featuring the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America dressed in NBA team colors and logos.
Will the Cloud Be Comic-Con’s Superhero? – NYTimes.com
In an attempt to ensure the servers keep up under extreme traffic, Comic-Con has partnered with Philadelphia-based startup TicketLeap, which moved its platform to Amazon Web Services in August 2010. If all goes well when tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. PST tomorrow, it will be a huge proving point for the TicketLeap platform, and further validation for AWS and cloud computing, in general.
Failing Better – The Dial-a-Marvel Superhero Messages You Never Got to Hear
I’ve been going through my stash of Marvel memos to pick out ones that might be useful to Sean Howe (who definitely needs a Marvel nickname), who’s writing a history of Marvel in the ’70s, and while doing this I came across one of my many suggestions to Stan. I had the bizarre idea that we could start a Dial-a-Superhero service than would allow fans to hear pre-recorded messages from Marvel’s greatest. Check out my note to Stan below
A Not-Brief Reaction To A Video That’s Already Been Taken Down
History tells us that the big comics companies have acted as bad industry partners since their inception. We’re even now coming out of a period where a series of furtive, overlapping agreements between certain industry players and Diamond threw up structural barriers that kept smaller publishers from opportunities they might have used to make a bigger plash in comics’ primary market, a web of arrangement that helped seal into amber a status quo that placed greater value on short-term profits from fees and privileged hierarchies and goosing certain titles than onto long-term profit from partnership and information-sharing and allowing for title development. Comics blew some major opportunities there.
MTV Geek Exclusive: A Talk With Wizard World Inc.’s Gareb Shamus » MTV Geek
And when it comes to ex-employees, you’ve got to understand that they’re ex-employees: they’re people who have just lost their jobs. And it’s very unfortunate, but unfortunately you’ve got to take what they say with a grain of salt. You’ve got to understand where it’s coming from. It doesn’t diminish their contribution to what we’ve done, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t appreciate their hard work – but when you look at the landscape of comic books today, a lot of these people wouldn’t even be working in this business if it wasn’t for Wizard giving them their first start.
"I've never made out with him," Lauren Leto told me last week, between puffs of a Parliament Light. The 24-year old brunette, rocking a little black dress and flat boots, was debunking my suspicions that she might be romancing her notoriously cute business partner, Patrick Moberg, the talented artist perhaps best known for making the website NewYorkGirlofMyDreams.com in 2008.
Leto and Moberg recently launched the well-funded start-up BNTER, a site that stores the best conversations between users and their friends. BNTER comes on the heels of Leto's big Internet hit, TextsFromLastNight.com, the website that earned her two book contracts, a TV deal, and, reportedly, lots of money. But back to girl talk: "It's the same with [Texts co-founder] Ben [Bator]," she explained. "I picked such attractive co-founders, people assume we must all be dating. But, no, no, no. We're co-employees! And the thing people don't understand is that when you're, like, writing checks with someone — when money is involved — you become so sexually unattractive to that person." She exhaled. "This is why I can never get married."
Leto was smoking outside an East Village apartment playing host to the Silicon Alley version of a singles mixer — a meet-up for users of HowAboutWe.com, the dating website Brian Schechter co-founded on Valentine's Day in 2010. Users suggest date ideas or contact people whose ideas they like. "How about we go to an underground supper club?" was among the site's most popular date ideas during its first year, so Andy and Ashley — a couple who met on How About We — decided to throw the soiree, and Apt. No. 4, a traveling group of foodie friends, worked the kitchen, supplying lobster bisque and teriyaki char and drinks. Leto was a featured single on How About We this month: She answered every question with a quote from the Kelis song "Bossy"; she said she was at the party to support Schechter and not necessarily to find a man.
Nick Gray, the quick-witted Williamsburg party boy, would have it otherwise, though. "Lauren and I haven't dated yet, but I'm trying," he told us. When Leto offered no reply, Gray joked, "Awkward ..."
How About We's Schechter, meanwhile, admitted that online dating might always carry a stigma: "People say [the stigma's] decreasing, and soon there won't be any," he told us. "But when you go onto an online dating site, in some way you're confessing, 'I don't have what I want,' which is not necessarily an attractive thing. People tend to find someone attractive who has what they want. So I wonder if it's actually a psychological or cultural or almost biological thing: 'I want the one who doesn't need.'" He added: "I do think it will become increasingly normal. It's efficient. And a site that's about having fun and not confessing, necessarily, that you don't have something you want, is more likely to attract people. You're just saying, 'I want to try new restaurants!' Etcetera." Schechter has a girlfriend who he didn't meet over the Internet, but he said he still gets several e-mails a day with the subject line "How about we ...?"
Gray is one fan of the site who hasn't had much success on it yet: "I think my date ideas are intimidating to some people," he told us. "I used to think that I was a real catch, and now I've only had three people who wanted to go on my dates. Some people write, 'How about we get high and eat pizza?' and they get, like, one hundred people interested. And I write, 'Let's go to Rio for New Year's Eve!' Or, 'Let's go to Greece and open a falafel stand!' And people are like, 'Eh. Weirdo.'"
Leto claims she doesn't send many late-night texts of her own anymore because she gets up at six every morning, "so nervous" that something might have happened overnight. Telling us she still "lives poorly," she admitted she recently got an apartment of her own in Brooklyn. "I bought furniture, and I'm an adult," she added. But of dating in New York, Leto lamented: "Everyone wants something from you."
What she wanted from me, at least half-seriously, was less attention. At one point, she pretended to have stolen my tape recorder so that I couldn't report on her any further. And when I asked too many questions, she said: "This is going to seem like navel-gazing for myself. No navel-gazing allowed!" But she's just so good at all this, I informed her, as at least half the men at the party tracked her across the room. On cue, with a seemingly legitimate confusion, she asked, "Good at what?"
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Pitchfork: LCD Soundsystem Announce Farewell NYC Show
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Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya; front page photo by Leigh Ann Hines LCD Soundsystem have announced that they will play their ...
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Here's all the fashion news that's fit to print! Enjoy!
'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' star Tura Satana has died | <b>News</b> <b>...</b>
Actress Tura Satana died yesterday in Reno, Nev., according to the New York Times. Satana appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, including Billy Wilder ...
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TodayWatch: It’s San Diego Ticket Day, Get Your Portfolio Seen In Seattle Day, Save St James Library With Alan Moore Day and Get Your Skullkickers Signed In London Day!
JapanWatch: The Japanese are ridding shelves of comics for ebook scans… and companies who will scan your books for you.
“There are more than 30 or 40 scanning companies and huge amount of books are scanned every day, so I can hardly believe all the scanning is legal,” Higuchi said in an interview in Tokyo last month.
Japanese will buy $80.5 million worth of e-books in the fiscal year ending March 31, most of it comics for mobile phones, Ueno said.
JapanWatch2: How the Tokyo Comics Code works in practice;
Page upon page of black and white etchings of wide-eyed, young people of indeterminate age drawn in that larger than life Japanese cartoon style, engaged in every kind of sexual act, legal or otherwise.
“Normal sex doesn’t sell well,” Komiya remarks.
“School sex, tied-up sex, abnormal sex, sells. So this is what they draw.
“Mangaka don’t draw this stuff because they want to expose children to sexual perversity, they draw it for one reason: to make money.”
JapanWatch3: When foreigners go to Japan to make comics.
German Dirk Schwieger is another artist who came up with an original approach to comic-making. While he spent only one year in Japan, in 2006, he grabbed a lot of attention when he turned his 24-part “webcomic” into an interactive project.
In his blog he chronicled a year’s worth of “assignments” he undertook at the request of readers while living in Tokyo. People from around the world would send him tasks to accomplish — anything from “meeting a traditional sword maker” to “looking for a bosozoku biker gang” — and he would write, illustrate and post a new comic each week based on his experience.
ThisIsGreatWatch: Zach Weiner, web cartoonist had an image used, out of context, to justify ant-gay marriage sentiment by an anti-gay marriage sentiment website. But it’s a hotlinked image. So he changed it from this (left) to this (right).
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
News: Exclusive: Superman’s Undisclosed Character Revealed | Latino Review
1: Lois Lane WILL be in the film. 2: The character these lovely actresses have come out for is none other than a Kryptonion villainess who is going by the name of URSA.
‘Cowboys & Aliens’: Jon Favreau’s campaign trail and popcorn primary | Hero Complex – Los Angeles Times
“This is our Iowa caucus,” director Jon Favreau said as he climbed into a waiting black SUV with Ron Howard, the two-time Oscar winner who is a producer of Favreau’s “Cowboys & Aliens,” scheduled to hit theaters July 29. “This is like the primary. Our election night is that opening weekend this summer.”
Editorial: 2011 to Infinity and Beyond — Graphic.ly CEO Micah Baldwin
The comic industry is not in peril, it is in transition. We are learning that to move forward we must first open our arms and minds not only to the new technologies, but to the new way people create, consume, enjoy and share content.
MediaPost Publications NBA Gets Simply Marvel-ous 02/07/2011
The line will include apparel and accessories, with artwork featuring the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man and Captain America dressed in NBA team colors and logos.
Will the Cloud Be Comic-Con’s Superhero? – NYTimes.com
In an attempt to ensure the servers keep up under extreme traffic, Comic-Con has partnered with Philadelphia-based startup TicketLeap, which moved its platform to Amazon Web Services in August 2010. If all goes well when tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. PST tomorrow, it will be a huge proving point for the TicketLeap platform, and further validation for AWS and cloud computing, in general.
Failing Better – The Dial-a-Marvel Superhero Messages You Never Got to Hear
I’ve been going through my stash of Marvel memos to pick out ones that might be useful to Sean Howe (who definitely needs a Marvel nickname), who’s writing a history of Marvel in the ’70s, and while doing this I came across one of my many suggestions to Stan. I had the bizarre idea that we could start a Dial-a-Superhero service than would allow fans to hear pre-recorded messages from Marvel’s greatest. Check out my note to Stan below
A Not-Brief Reaction To A Video That’s Already Been Taken Down
History tells us that the big comics companies have acted as bad industry partners since their inception. We’re even now coming out of a period where a series of furtive, overlapping agreements between certain industry players and Diamond threw up structural barriers that kept smaller publishers from opportunities they might have used to make a bigger plash in comics’ primary market, a web of arrangement that helped seal into amber a status quo that placed greater value on short-term profits from fees and privileged hierarchies and goosing certain titles than onto long-term profit from partnership and information-sharing and allowing for title development. Comics blew some major opportunities there.
MTV Geek Exclusive: A Talk With Wizard World Inc.’s Gareb Shamus » MTV Geek
And when it comes to ex-employees, you’ve got to understand that they’re ex-employees: they’re people who have just lost their jobs. And it’s very unfortunate, but unfortunately you’ve got to take what they say with a grain of salt. You’ve got to understand where it’s coming from. It doesn’t diminish their contribution to what we’ve done, it doesn’t mean that I didn’t appreciate their hard work – but when you look at the landscape of comic books today, a lot of these people wouldn’t even be working in this business if it wasn’t for Wizard giving them their first start.
"I've never made out with him," Lauren Leto told me last week, between puffs of a Parliament Light. The 24-year old brunette, rocking a little black dress and flat boots, was debunking my suspicions that she might be romancing her notoriously cute business partner, Patrick Moberg, the talented artist perhaps best known for making the website NewYorkGirlofMyDreams.com in 2008.
Leto and Moberg recently launched the well-funded start-up BNTER, a site that stores the best conversations between users and their friends. BNTER comes on the heels of Leto's big Internet hit, TextsFromLastNight.com, the website that earned her two book contracts, a TV deal, and, reportedly, lots of money. But back to girl talk: "It's the same with [Texts co-founder] Ben [Bator]," she explained. "I picked such attractive co-founders, people assume we must all be dating. But, no, no, no. We're co-employees! And the thing people don't understand is that when you're, like, writing checks with someone — when money is involved — you become so sexually unattractive to that person." She exhaled. "This is why I can never get married."
Leto was smoking outside an East Village apartment playing host to the Silicon Alley version of a singles mixer — a meet-up for users of HowAboutWe.com, the dating website Brian Schechter co-founded on Valentine's Day in 2010. Users suggest date ideas or contact people whose ideas they like. "How about we go to an underground supper club?" was among the site's most popular date ideas during its first year, so Andy and Ashley — a couple who met on How About We — decided to throw the soiree, and Apt. No. 4, a traveling group of foodie friends, worked the kitchen, supplying lobster bisque and teriyaki char and drinks. Leto was a featured single on How About We this month: She answered every question with a quote from the Kelis song "Bossy"; she said she was at the party to support Schechter and not necessarily to find a man.
Nick Gray, the quick-witted Williamsburg party boy, would have it otherwise, though. "Lauren and I haven't dated yet, but I'm trying," he told us. When Leto offered no reply, Gray joked, "Awkward ..."
How About We's Schechter, meanwhile, admitted that online dating might always carry a stigma: "People say [the stigma's] decreasing, and soon there won't be any," he told us. "But when you go onto an online dating site, in some way you're confessing, 'I don't have what I want,' which is not necessarily an attractive thing. People tend to find someone attractive who has what they want. So I wonder if it's actually a psychological or cultural or almost biological thing: 'I want the one who doesn't need.'" He added: "I do think it will become increasingly normal. It's efficient. And a site that's about having fun and not confessing, necessarily, that you don't have something you want, is more likely to attract people. You're just saying, 'I want to try new restaurants!' Etcetera." Schechter has a girlfriend who he didn't meet over the Internet, but he said he still gets several e-mails a day with the subject line "How about we ...?"
Gray is one fan of the site who hasn't had much success on it yet: "I think my date ideas are intimidating to some people," he told us. "I used to think that I was a real catch, and now I've only had three people who wanted to go on my dates. Some people write, 'How about we get high and eat pizza?' and they get, like, one hundred people interested. And I write, 'Let's go to Rio for New Year's Eve!' Or, 'Let's go to Greece and open a falafel stand!' And people are like, 'Eh. Weirdo.'"
Leto claims she doesn't send many late-night texts of her own anymore because she gets up at six every morning, "so nervous" that something might have happened overnight. Telling us she still "lives poorly," she admitted she recently got an apartment of her own in Brooklyn. "I bought furniture, and I'm an adult," she added. But of dating in New York, Leto lamented: "Everyone wants something from you."
What she wanted from me, at least half-seriously, was less attention. At one point, she pretended to have stolen my tape recorder so that I couldn't report on her any further. And when I asked too many questions, she said: "This is going to seem like navel-gazing for myself. No navel-gazing allowed!" But she's just so good at all this, I informed her, as at least half the men at the party tracked her across the room. On cue, with a seemingly legitimate confusion, she asked, "Good at what?"
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Photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya; front page photo by Leigh Ann Hines LCD Soundsystem have announced that they will play their ...
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Let's face it: one of the biggest reasons why people find making money online so appealing is this idea that they're getting "free money"-- in other words, money earned that is all theirs to keep, without being subjected to any fees or taxes that might take a portion out of it.
What's the reality behind this idea of "free" money? Is it true that every penny you make online is all yours for the taking? Absolutely not. You've probably heard the saying, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." Not only is it true, it's especially true when it comes to internet revenue. I don't know what tax laws are internationally, but in the United States, if you make over $600 in income annually you must report it. Not only that, but if you make enough money to owe taxes, then you must pay it-- not only just federal but local and state taxes as well.
I can practically hear those wheels turning around in your head as you contemplate whether or not there's a way you can avoid this unpleasant reality. You're probably thinking that perhaps when tax time comes rolling around you can just keep quiet about your earnings. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
You can of course say absolutely nothing come April 15; however, that doesn't mean that the IRS can't know of your internet income. Whenever you earn any money through a company-- whether it be in the form of microstock royalties, affiliate earnings, or anything else-- it will fill out and send to you a tax form known as a 1099-MISC, usually around January or February. What is the 1099-MISC? It's a tax form similar to a W-2 form, except it's a record of earnings paid out to people who aren't salaried employees of a company. The form is more than just a printout of how much revenue you earned any given year; much like a W-2 form, you're supposed to file it with the IRS come April 15 when you report your income.
I know what you're thinking: that totally sucks, so maybe there's a way you can wriggle out of not getting this form filled out and sent to you. That's certainly possible, since in order to create the 1099-MISC form in the first place, the company you're earning money from would need certain tax-related information from you, such as your social security number. So one sneaky thing you could do is give incomplete information when you're asked to submit it. You could even refuse to give your social security number.
Just a warning-- if you plan to do this, you're going to face a lot of resistance. You see, because 1099-MISC is also for the benefit of the company when it files its taxes, most companies will be adamant about having one completed for you regardless of whether you choose to report to Uncle Sam or not. In fact, some will even withhold payment of your current earnings or block you from earning more money until you've given them the information needed to create one. So try as you might, you're not going to have an easy time of making your internet earnings "disappear" into thin air. A paper trail will always exist of your internet revenue regardless of your willingness (or lack thereof) to report it.
This is one of the most important issues you should be aware of before getting into internet money making. Don't think that just because you're earning money on the web, it doesn't count as income or means you're exempt from paying taxes. You're just as responsible for reporting income as anyone else-- if not more-- because the IRS considers your earnings as business income. So a word of advice-- if you ever start getting a steady stream of internet income, don't start spending it wildly with the expectation that it's all yours to keep. Be mindful of the fact that a portion of every check you get will have to be forked over to Uncle Sam at some point. It's important to prepare yourself, because nothing will be more frustrating than realizing that you have to pay taxes on money you no longer have, since you'd spent it all.
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Actress Tura Satana died yesterday in Reno, Nev., according to the New York Times. Satana appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, including Billy Wilder ...
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