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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/25/dave-eggers-the-circle-and-why-im-leaving-the-bay-area/thecircle/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9343\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9343\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle.jpg\" alt=\"thecircle\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/thecircle-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can't tell you definitively what brought me to San Francisco seven years ago. I mean, graduate school, but why did I apply to San Francisco State? There was the British guy who lived across the street from me who I had a crush on who said I would love it here. That's the \"it's always about a boy\" answer. I needed to leave Portland and become an adult and SFSU was the only school that didn't require essays in their application and as a 23-year-old I was mainly too drunk to write admissions essays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was also Dave Eggers. I read \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius \u003c/em>when I was 18, in my senior year of high school. I read it again my freshman year of college. It blew my mind and changed my life in a way no other book really ever has. A concrete way. While reading the Bible and all of JD Salinger's non-\u003cem>Catcher in the Rye \u003c/em>work and Kurt Vonnegut (the other things I was really into at age 18) were moving and gave me vague ideas about spirituality, \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work \u003c/em>gave me permission to write the way I wanted to write, the way I had tentatively started writing, which was just: about being myself. I couldn't believe this was actually allowed. That book also gave me an idea that the Bay Area was the place to be, a place where you could be a better version of yourself, a place where standing on the beach and throwing a Frisbee a million miles was possible, a place where tragedy and happiness could coexist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also liked the idea of Dave Eggers’ pirate supply store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in 2006 I got a tattoo of the state of Oregon on my chest so no one would forget where I was from and left Portland, moving out of the apartment I was sharing with my little brother and allowing all the drunk calls from the non-boyfriend guy I was sort of dating to go to voice mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, I became a new person, just like \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work \u003c/em>made me believe was possible. No one knew a single thing about me. I wasn't held back by the expectations of people who'd known me since I was 13 months old, or four or eight or 14. People met me as Lizzy Acker, the adult. I got to be a writer, a friend, a dependable employee. I wasn't the girl who totaled her family car in middle school or the girl who cried in Calculus class or staged an unsuccessful boycott of the Mr. Spartan Pageant or who looked like a boy up until sixth grade or who didn't lose her virginity until she was 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did a lot of amazing things here, had a million adventures. I fell in love, I finished graduate school, I wrote a book, I got my heart broken, I got a good job. I've had a very seriously eventful seven years. But a few months ago, I decided that it was time to go home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same way I can't pin down the thing that brought me here, what is making me leave is elusive and has changed a few times in the last couple months. I mean, as with everything, it's about a boy. But after reading Dave Egger's newest book, \u003cem>The Circle\u003c/em>, I realize that there is more to it than just one boy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read \u003cem>The Circle \u003c/em>like I haven't read a book in a really long time. I read while walking to work, in line at Starbucks, sneakily in the bathroom, hiding it behind my back when I walked out. I was done in about two days. I couldn't believe Dave Eggers had written another book that seemed to be so directly meant for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Circle \u003c/em>is the story of a girl, the Bay Area and social networking. The girl, Mae, starts working at a Google/Facebook monolith and quickly becomes subsumed by its culture and dogma, to the point where she truly believes the only way to be happy is to record every second of her life, is to have no secrets and no privacy. As a counterpoint to the glittery, safe, antiseptic tech wonderland of the Circle, Eggers uses Richardson Bay (never named) and the anarchic anchor-out community just off the shore of Sausalito. Weirdly, I spent all of September and still spend many of my weekends, out on this part of the Bay in a boat for an art project, so I knew it immediately. To me, this has become the Bay that I love, a beautiful place that still contains magic, while I've seen the city of San Francisco go from a place fueled by creativity and struggle, into a super-connected, spiritless town deadened by unquestioning Worship of the App. In \u003cem>The Circle\u003c/em>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> the changes in behavior and intense connectivity have gone farther than they currently are, but not by much. Mae is only a little connected when she starts out at her job at the Circle, with the equivalent of one Facebook page and one Twitter account, but by the end she has millions of followers on the all-inclusive Circle, nine screens, a camera around her neck and two bracelets to give her real-time physical and audience feedback. The only time she isn’t connected is when she goes to the bathroom and even then, only the audio is off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's important to me that Eggers, who is famous for telling absolutely everything about himself in \u003cem>A Heartbreaking Work\u003c/em>, is wrestling with the question of radical honesty online. I write about my life very openly--I like to and it feels right for me to be my own version of honest. However, I don't want to tell you everything. I like to reserve the right to create my own narrative and I make things up sometimes. I change events to make them sound better or worse. And I like to keep some things--secret moments, two-person dance parties, a hand on my knee, mixed tapes--for myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Circle\u003c/em>\u003cem>,\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Dave Eggers is pointing out how quickly we in the Bay, the nexus of the current startup movement which is completely reshaping world culture, are willing to adopt things that make our lives \"easier,\" without thinking of their logical consequences. How in a few years we have gone from defining ourselves by the feedback we get from the people immediately around us, to defining ourselves by the feedback we're getting, the likes and shares and upvotes, from hordes of strangers. He is asking if it is really safe to allow a massive corporation, whose goal is to constantly make more money at a faster rate, to have all our information and mediate all our purchases, communications and media consumption, to mediate our whole lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I'm writing this, my headphones are on and Facebook is making a pinging noise in my ears and immediately I am feeling that hope, desire that someone is acknowledging my existence, sharing something I wrote, liking something I said, saying I look cute in a picture. Later, I will check the analytics on this blog and maybe on a story I wrote somewhere else, earlier this week. I'll probably check Twitter for any mentions of my name. I will be disappointed if there aren't any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know my decision to leave San Francisco and to stop working in social media is the correct one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not a hundred percent sure what I will do when I leave. But at least for a little while, I am going home to Oregon, where I can measure my worth within myself and against the faces and real-life smiles of people I have known for 16, 25, 31 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm going to miss a lot of things here: the water in Sausalito, the sunshine, the seals, The Giant Dipper on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, my friends, my coworkers. But I won't miss the three-screen experience that is my life mostly every day. I won't miss the mediated communication with the people who have eye balls I would like to look into, who have hands I would like to hold. I won't miss the lack of time for reflection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing things is terrifying but in July my very best friend and I got matching tattoos of geometric California bears that he had drawn. I’m going to miss him so much I can barely think about it, but it’s time to leave and find a new place to be a new version of myself before I get lost in a mess of analytics, likes, shares and smiley faces. Of course, I’m giving notice and not leaving until December. I wanted to give you some time to process the whole thing. But after that, if you want, let’s start sending each other letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Not only does Chapman seem very self-involved, her story-line simply doesn't take hold of one or stir empathy or make one curse the gods the way those of her fellow inmates do. But then I met the real Piper Chapman, err, Piper Kerman, the woman who wrote the memoir on which the show is based. Okay, well I didn't really \"meet\" her as much as she was a guest on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> and I was able to listen to her answer questions and tell her real story for an hour and wow, she impresses. So as a way to absolve my judgmental-ness towards Piper Chapman, here are reasons to like the real Piper, Piper Kerman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. She Knows It's Not About Her:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My belief, when I started to write the book, which I did after I came home from prison was that by telling my own story, I would possibly be able to get folks to come and read a prison book who might otherwise not pick one up. 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Kerman went on to say, \"That may be a sad comment about the entertainment industry and what it takes to get a really interesting show made. I am really proud of what she's done with the show. I think she's done a really great job within the parameters of our entertainment reality. I do think media justice is really important. I think the question of who gets to make media and who gets to decide what stories are told is incredibly, incredibly important. I don't discount that at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. She Owns Her Sh*%\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerman described seeing her former lover in prison (yes, it's true!) as a \"very, very intense kind of confrontation but that one I am grateful for because it actually allowed me to get to a place where I relinquished all blame that I might have assigned to her. I took full responsibility for myself.\" But perhaps even more revealing that Kerman very much lives with her choices as her own was her answer when asked -- if given the success of her book and her work with prison advocacy, would she deliver drug money and experience her time in prison again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The experience of incarceration is a horrific one,\" said Kerman. \"And regardless of whatever penalty I have paid on a personal level, the impact it had on my family and my loved ones is not something I can ever really sleep at night over.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerman went on to connect her actions to the drug addiction of others: \"In the course of my incarceration and my friendships with many women whose lives had been ravaged by drug addiction and drug abuse, I recognized my own culpability. Any contribution that I made, that my actions made to other people's addiction is something I deeply, deeply regret.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. 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After meeting a gal on OkCupid, she began sending him unsolicited photos of her..ahem...anatomy. He wasn’t necessarily bummed by the visuals, but the immediacy of their arrival, before they’d ever met in person, really weirded him out. According to him, “it actually wasn’t that much of a turn on to get these images. I would have happily met her without the pics.” It sounds like both women could benefit also from Erin Gloria Ryan’s advice in her July Jezebel article “\u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/should-you-send-a-lady-a-dick-pic-a-guide-for-men-885697791\">Should You Send A Lady A Dick Pic? A Guide For Men\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another pal showed me an image his friend received from a guy. The guy had taken the time to photoshop a picture of himself split screen with a picture of Patrick Dempsey. 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Which leads us to the first lesson:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 1. Take trips to L.A. seriously, and be prepared.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8864\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 594px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/07/5-things-i-learned-getting-a-flat-tire-on-the-way-to-the-l-a-podcast-festival/flat/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8864\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-8864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/flat.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Sarah Griffin.\" width=\"594\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/flat.jpg 594w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/flat-400x381.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Sarah Griffin.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I may know what a podcast is, but something I don’t know is whether or not I have a spare tire in my car. Turns out I do have one, but I don’t have a functioning jack to use to put the spare tire on with. Before you embark on a six-or-seven-hour journey, make sure you have AAA, and make sure you know a thing or two about your own car so as to avoid potential embarrassment in case of emergency. Maybe plan on getting in super-early if you need to be somewhere at a certain time. If you don’t have AAA, there’s still good news, in the form of a second lesson:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 2: Those call boxes on the side of the road are legit.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/07/5-things-i-learned-getting-a-flat-tire-on-the-way-to-the-l-a-podcast-festival/flatselfie/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8865\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-8865 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/flatselfie-e1381139899592-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"flatselfie\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once my front left tire started making godawful noises of protest—this was just around when the \u003cem>Night Vale\u003c/em> performance was starting—I managed to pull over right next to an emergency phone, which immediately put me through to a human being, who dispatched a tow truck to take my car to a nearby Wal-Mart Auto Care Center, and a very unimpressed-looking state trooper to follow with my friends. All of this was free, because of the taxes we pay, and you can take advantage of it if you need to. The beleaguered guys at Wal-Mart were backed up with cars to service before closing, and we ended up waiting around for the duration of \u003cem>Night Vale\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Fogelnest Files\u003c/em>. My friend Ceri tweeted at Jake Fogelnest, and Fogelnest gave a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jakefogelnest/status/386651020555599873\">great reply\u003c/a>, but nothing could save us. We were all set to get a new tire, and then I locked the key in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 3: How to break into a car.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The garage guys let us use a device called a slim jim, which is \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Jim_(lock_pick)\">this\u003c/a>. We had about thirty minutes before the mechanics would have to stop taking new customers and leave us stranded in the parking lot. The mechanic didn’t want to risk damaging my car, and Ceri and I were hopeless at jimmying the lock with the slim jim. I looked up locksmiths in the area on my phone and scrambled around inside Wal-Mart trying to find an employee who knew the address of the store. Just as I was about to call a different person to rescue us, this time for a bunch of money, a fellow customer demonstrated to us that you want to slide the slim jim between the window and the door directly under the lock \u003cem>on the passenger’s side\u003c/em>, not the driver’s side, then jiggle the slim jim until you manage to push the lock up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We got to the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, which looks like if \u003cem>The Shining\u003c/em> took place in the future, in time for half of \u003cem>Doug Loves Movies\u003c/em>. The crowd was predominantly white, and more male than female, with a few fedoras and pork-pie hats and a lot of hoodies and cargo shorts and blazer/t-shirt combos. A woman wore a t-shirt that said, “KEEP CALM AND GOTHAM’S RECKONING.” A man wore a t-shirt with the phrase “Han shot first” and the URL for a comedy and film website. As comedian Rich Voss would later put it, “This is the whitest audience I’ve ever seen. This makes a Star Trek convention look hip.” A guy in the lobby took a picture of his friend holding up a sign for “r/Comedy,” the Reddit comedy section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Doug Loves Movies\u003c/em> guests were David Huntsberger, Jimmy Pardo, DC Pierson, and Nick Thune, and the performance was typical of many episodes: guests riffed at length in between turns of a complicated game. When Benson laughs, his head recoils like a baby’s and he closes his eyes and grins, pushing his chin into his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 792px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/07/5-things-i-learned-getting-a-flat-tire-on-the-way-to-the-l-a-podcast-festival/podfest/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8866\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-8866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/podfest.jpg\" alt=\"Photo via Joel Mandelkorn for the Los Angeles Podcast Festival, from their Facebook page.\" width=\"792\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/podfest.jpg 792w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/podfest-400x258.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Joel Mandelkorn for the Los Angeles Podcast Festival, from their Facebook page.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 4. 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A guy on Haight Street asked, ‘Are they giving away free weed in there?’” Baldwin, who is tall, thin, bald, and looks to be in his thirties, said he never thought he would hear his name and Justin Bieber’s in the same sentence until that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weird thing about the Podcast Festival is that it's a celebration of a specific type of technology, rather than of a specific genre—hence \u003cem>Night Vale\u003c/em>’s outsider status at the Fest. Baldwin’s spirits were high, though: “It’s the spirit of wild west technology. It’s really inspiring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fink showed Baldwin a photo he’d taken earlier. “I like everything about that photo except for my face,” Baldwin said. “It looks like I’m pinching a loaf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 5. Podcasting has not changed comedy that much.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003cem>Doug Loves Movies\u003c/em>, a series of comedians involved in podcasting performed. I had never heard of the first few, but they all killed with the crowd I’ve described above by doing jokes about Mike Tyson and anal bleaching, for instance. Baron Vaughan joked about being scared of other black people. Kumail Nanjiani redeemed the previous comics by telling weirdly touching stories about his parents and going to the zoo—stories with lots of comic beats in them, but lots of pathos as well. Marc Maron, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/15/marc-maron-shows-me-how-its-done-at-the-palace-of-fine-arts/\">a comedian I admire a great deal\u003c/a>, did a set which created a similar tone—he told a great story about interviewing eccentric comedy legends Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. Dana Gould performed last, and told rape jokes and jokes about Muslim terrorists going to Hell for 9/11. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/07/5-things-i-learned-getting-a-flat-tire-on-the-way-to-the-l-a-podcast-festival/flatselfie/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8865\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-8865 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/flatselfie-e1381139899592-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"flatselfie\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once my front left tire started making godawful noises of protest—this was just around when the \u003cem>Night Vale\u003c/em> performance was starting—I managed to pull over right next to an emergency phone, which immediately put me through to a human being, who dispatched a tow truck to take my car to a nearby Wal-Mart Auto Care Center, and a very unimpressed-looking state trooper to follow with my friends. All of this was free, because of the taxes we pay, and you can take advantage of it if you need to. The beleaguered guys at Wal-Mart were backed up with cars to service before closing, and we ended up waiting around for the duration of \u003cem>Night Vale\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Fogelnest Files\u003c/em>. My friend Ceri tweeted at Jake Fogelnest, and Fogelnest gave a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jakefogelnest/status/386651020555599873\">great reply\u003c/a>, but nothing could save us. We were all set to get a new tire, and then I locked the key in the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 3: How to break into a car.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The garage guys let us use a device called a slim jim, which is \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Jim_(lock_pick)\">this\u003c/a>. We had about thirty minutes before the mechanics would have to stop taking new customers and leave us stranded in the parking lot. The mechanic didn’t want to risk damaging my car, and Ceri and I were hopeless at jimmying the lock with the slim jim. I looked up locksmiths in the area on my phone and scrambled around inside Wal-Mart trying to find an employee who knew the address of the store. Just as I was about to call a different person to rescue us, this time for a bunch of money, a fellow customer demonstrated to us that you want to slide the slim jim between the window and the door directly under the lock \u003cem>on the passenger’s side\u003c/em>, not the driver’s side, then jiggle the slim jim until you manage to push the lock up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We got to the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, which looks like if \u003cem>The Shining\u003c/em> took place in the future, in time for half of \u003cem>Doug Loves Movies\u003c/em>. The crowd was predominantly white, and more male than female, with a few fedoras and pork-pie hats and a lot of hoodies and cargo shorts and blazer/t-shirt combos. A woman wore a t-shirt that said, “KEEP CALM AND GOTHAM’S RECKONING.” A man wore a t-shirt with the phrase “Han shot first” and the URL for a comedy and film website. As comedian Rich Voss would later put it, “This is the whitest audience I’ve ever seen. This makes a Star Trek convention look hip.” A guy in the lobby took a picture of his friend holding up a sign for “r/Comedy,” the Reddit comedy section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>Doug Loves Movies\u003c/em> guests were David Huntsberger, Jimmy Pardo, DC Pierson, and Nick Thune, and the performance was typical of many episodes: guests riffed at length in between turns of a complicated game. When Benson laughs, his head recoils like a baby’s and he closes his eyes and grins, pushing his chin into his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_8866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 792px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/10/07/5-things-i-learned-getting-a-flat-tire-on-the-way-to-the-l-a-podcast-festival/podfest/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8866\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-8866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/podfest.jpg\" alt=\"Photo via Joel Mandelkorn for the Los Angeles Podcast Festival, from their Facebook page.\" width=\"792\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/podfest.jpg 792w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/10/podfest-400x258.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Joel Mandelkorn for the Los Angeles Podcast Festival, from their Facebook page.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 4. 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A guy on Haight Street asked, ‘Are they giving away free weed in there?’” Baldwin, who is tall, thin, bald, and looks to be in his thirties, said he never thought he would hear his name and Justin Bieber’s in the same sentence until that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weird thing about the Podcast Festival is that it's a celebration of a specific type of technology, rather than of a specific genre—hence \u003cem>Night Vale\u003c/em>’s outsider status at the Fest. Baldwin’s spirits were high, though: “It’s the spirit of wild west technology. It’s really inspiring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fink showed Baldwin a photo he’d taken earlier. “I like everything about that photo except for my face,” Baldwin said. “It looks like I’m pinching a loaf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lesson 5. Podcasting has not changed comedy that much.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After \u003cem>Doug Loves Movies\u003c/em>, a series of comedians involved in podcasting performed. I had never heard of the first few, but they all killed with the crowd I’ve described above by doing jokes about Mike Tyson and anal bleaching, for instance. Baron Vaughan joked about being scared of other black people. Kumail Nanjiani redeemed the previous comics by telling weirdly touching stories about his parents and going to the zoo—stories with lots of comic beats in them, but lots of pathos as well. Marc Maron, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/04/15/marc-maron-shows-me-how-its-done-at-the-palace-of-fine-arts/\">a comedian I admire a great deal\u003c/a>, did a set which created a similar tone—he told a great story about interviewing eccentric comedy legends Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. Dana Gould performed last, and told rape jokes and jokes about Muslim terrorists going to Hell for 9/11. 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Will the colleague think I am ignoring them or I don't care that they said thank you? Recently, I stopped freaking out and started responding: \":)\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the smiley face works in the situation that an email chain is going on too long for any reason and needs to be stopped. At work, 🙂 means \"The End\" (please see exceptions to this rule about four paragraphs down).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stick with the classics.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning about work email: Outlook changes the simple 🙂 into a symbol that people outside of Outlook see as a \"J.\" This gets confusing (one co-worker told me he thought I was just really bad at typing for months before he figured out what was going on) so it's best to just undo and make it a straight up colon and closed parenthesis. The same can be said for basically all \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji\" target=\"_blank\">Emojis\u003c/a> on the phones of people who don't get Emojis. 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Someday we will all implicitly understand the meaning of baby frog face, side eye and ice cream cone, but for now \u003ca href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/disruptions-texting-your-feelings-symbol-by-symbol/?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">those things can mean roughly anything\u003c/a> and before you know it, someone will be breaking up with you because of your weird skin condition and you will think they are just asking if you want to eat pizza for dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/23/the-smiley-face-dilemma-use-and-abusin-the-worlds-most-popular-emoticon/emoji-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7756\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-7756 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emoji1.jpg\" alt=\"emoji\" width=\"427\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emoji1.jpg 427w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emoji1-400x78.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are you asking me to move out or to go surfing in Hawaii? 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In real life, sometimes this gets them into big trouble with the ladies. Like \"oh no that girl is crying and all I wanted was for her to park the car correctly without killing us and how did this happen oh my god I don't want her to be crying!\"-type trouble. In real life, when one of these gender miscommunications happens, a guy can apologize and give you a hug, because honestly, he hates it when you start crying (\"you\" equals me in this scientific study). Over text, boys cannot see your face. They cannot see if you are crying. They don't have the heavily attuned telepathic reflexes of those of us raised as women, who have to judge how other people are feeling at every turn, in millions of contexts, based on the tiniest clues. To combat this fear, that somewhere a girl is sobbing as soon as she reads their texts, nice boys like to use the smiley face. And that's okay. It's kind of cute actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 98px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/23/the-smiley-face-dilemma-use-and-abusin-the-worlds-most-popular-emoticon/smiley5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7754\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7754 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5.png\" alt=\"smiley5\" width=\"98\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5.png 98w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">🙂\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>However, there are many, many occasions when a smiley face is not appropriate.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As my unimpeachable evidence suggests, smiley faces have a time and a place. They are disarming and they can be used to represent a smiley feeling behind the surface meaning of whatever words you send over the internet tubes or whatever magic gets your texts sent to your friends. But, like any form of communication, they can be misused, and they are, frequently. Here is an incomplete list of the times when you are NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES to use a smiley emoticon. Also, please note, you are not allowed to use a 😉 (winky face), a 🙁 (frowny face) or a :/ (ambivalent face) in these situations either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Death of any kind. Even a dog. Even a cat. Even a hamster.\u003cbr>\n2. Reporting STDs.\u003cbr>\n3. Any possibility that you will be breaking up with the recipient of the smiley within the next 12 hours.\u003cbr>\n4. Quitting your job.\u003cbr>\n5. Cancer.\u003cbr>\n6. In response to any of the following: a long phone call, a tearful IRL interaction, an email longer than two paragraphs or which contains anything remotely emotional, an actual letter, a job offer, a wedding invitation, an interview request.\u003cbr>\n7. Friend's divorce.\u003cbr>\n8. Announcement of pregnancy: anyone's, including yours. Wanted or unwanted.\u003cbr>\n9. In a work context that is not one stated above AND/OR is with someone who you have not met IRL or you know is anti-smiley or two levels or more of boss above you.\u003cbr>\n10. During a fight.\u003cbr>\n11. When admitting to destroying someone's property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/23/the-smiley-face-dilemma-use-and-abusin-the-worlds-most-popular-emoticon/photo-10/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7786\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7786\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/photo.png\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"459\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/photo.png 459w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/photo-400x177.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry/not sorry for ruining your favorite item of clothing!\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's a good rule that when actual face-time is needed, a smiley will not suffice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/23/the-smiley-face-dilemma-use-and-abusin-the-worlds-most-popular-emoticon/emo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7760\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7760\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emo.jpg\" alt=\"emo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emo.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emo-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Lizzy Acker\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To be honest, I've never been one for smiley faces. I've always felt I am just like one year too old for them. At my brother's high school graduation I listened to a popular teacher give his whole speech on the scourge of emoticons and I thought, \"really, this is a thing that happens?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My brother is 13 months younger than me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway, I resisted the lure of the emoticon for a long time. I'm a writer, allegedly, so why couldn't I just use words to express my feelings? Or if a facial expression was required, why not just find the person I had an expression for and smile or frown at them? But like any trend in language that English majors decry--the preposition at the end of the sentence, saying \"me and Steve\" instead of \"Steve and I\"--the pull of the smiley was hard to resist. More and more of my communication started being in short written sentences: chats, texts, emails. I started being friends with AND RESPECTING several heavy smiley users. And because I am the kind of person who frequently does the exact thing she said she would never do, I decided to throw myself into the world of expression through colons and parenthesis and see what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After much intense, personal research on the subject of the most popular of all the emoticons, I have come up with the following findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contrary to popular belief, it's okay to use smiley faces in work emails. SOMETIMES.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strangely enough, work was my gateway drug into emoticons. Here is the problem at work that the smiley has solved for me: that moment when someone has sent me an email thanking me for something I have done for them and I can't decide if I should respond or just leave it because there really isn't anything left to say but if I just leave it, will that be misconstrued as rude? Will the colleague think I am ignoring them or I don't care that they said thank you? Recently, I stopped freaking out and started responding: \":)\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the smiley face works in the situation that an email chain is going on too long for any reason and needs to be stopped. At work, 🙂 means \"The End\" (please see exceptions to this rule about four paragraphs down).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stick with the classics.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A warning about work email: Outlook changes the simple 🙂 into a symbol that people outside of Outlook see as a \"J.\" This gets confusing (one co-worker told me he thought I was just really bad at typing for months before he figured out what was going on) so it's best to just undo and make it a straight up colon and closed parenthesis. The same can be said for basically all \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji\" target=\"_blank\">Emojis\u003c/a> on the phones of people who don't get Emojis. They look like alien bugs in swimsuits. My experience is it is best to save Emojis for silliness and Instagram comments. Someday we will all implicitly understand the meaning of baby frog face, side eye and ice cream cone, but for now \u003ca href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/disruptions-texting-your-feelings-symbol-by-symbol/?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">those things can mean roughly anything\u003c/a> and before you know it, someone will be breaking up with you because of your weird skin condition and you will think they are just asking if you want to eat pizza for dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 427px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/23/the-smiley-face-dilemma-use-and-abusin-the-worlds-most-popular-emoticon/emoji-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7756\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-7756 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emoji1.jpg\" alt=\"emoji\" width=\"427\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emoji1.jpg 427w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/emoji1-400x78.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are you asking me to move out or to go surfing in Hawaii? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Boys like to use smileys as much or more than girls.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though some people might think \"teen girl\" when they think smiley face, in my experience it is actually boys, actually MEN (I'm trying to refer to my male peers as \"men\" now that I am in my thirties), who rely on the smiley in text. As one friend told me: \"I'm worried I'm going to sound like an ass without a smiley face.\" This idea seems to be the real driving force behind the use of the smiley in short, text-based communications and I am developing a theory about this: men and women \u003ca href=\"http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/10-ways-men-women-comminucate-differently.htm\" target=\"_blank\">communicate way differently\u003c/a>, and in real life (IRL, if you're a kid), men are, either through socialization or whatever, taught to be more direct than women are. In real life, sometimes this gets them into big trouble with the ladies. Like \"oh no that girl is crying and all I wanted was for her to park the car correctly without killing us and how did this happen oh my god I don't want her to be crying!\"-type trouble. In real life, when one of these gender miscommunications happens, a guy can apologize and give you a hug, because honestly, he hates it when you start crying (\"you\" equals me in this scientific study). Over text, boys cannot see your face. They cannot see if you are crying. They don't have the heavily attuned telepathic reflexes of those of us raised as women, who have to judge how other people are feeling at every turn, in millions of contexts, based on the tiniest clues. To combat this fear, that somewhere a girl is sobbing as soon as she reads their texts, nice boys like to use the smiley face. And that's okay. It's kind of cute actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 98px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/23/the-smiley-face-dilemma-use-and-abusin-the-worlds-most-popular-emoticon/smiley5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7754\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7754 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5.png\" alt=\"smiley5\" width=\"98\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5.png 98w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/smiley5-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">🙂\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>However, there are many, many occasions when a smiley face is not appropriate.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As my unimpeachable evidence suggests, smiley faces have a time and a place. They are disarming and they can be used to represent a smiley feeling behind the surface meaning of whatever words you send over the internet tubes or whatever magic gets your texts sent to your friends. But, like any form of communication, they can be misused, and they are, frequently. Here is an incomplete list of the times when you are NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES to use a smiley emoticon. Also, please note, you are not allowed to use a 😉 (winky face), a 🙁 (frowny face) or a :/ (ambivalent face) in these situations either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Death of any kind. Even a dog. Even a cat. Even a hamster.\u003cbr>\n2. Reporting STDs.\u003cbr>\n3. Any possibility that you will be breaking up with the recipient of the smiley within the next 12 hours.\u003cbr>\n4. Quitting your job.\u003cbr>\n5. Cancer.\u003cbr>\n6. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/21/once-in-a-lifetime-new-made-for-tv-camp-classics/anna/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7719\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7719\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/anna.jpg\" alt=\"From Lifetime's "Anna Nicole." Photo: Lifetime Television\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/anna.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/anna-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Lifetime's \"Anna Nicole.\" Photo: Lifetime Television\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dear Lifetime, Television for Women (and Gay Men): we're back on speaking terms. I can finally forgive you for nixing \u003cem>Designing Women\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Golden Girls\u003c/em> from your regular lineup (although I will never forget that you inflicted reruns of \u003cem>Reba\u003c/em> on the unsuspecting public). No, sorry, I never got into \u003cem>Dance Moms\u003c/em>; I grew up in kiddie theater and have seen too many productions of \u003cem>Gypsy\u003c/em> to get any enjoyment out of that show. In this last year you have revived one of the most truly American art forms and with it, you've revived my affection for your channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallelujah, the made-for-television movie has been reborn!\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Rphbj8yq9iU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>I'll admit, it didn't look promising at first. La Lohan's \u003cem>Liz and Dick\u003c/em> was beyond disappointing (\"\u003ca href=\"http://nobodyputsbabyinahorner.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tumblr_me4a4pkx1w1qazkdco1_500.gif\">I'm bored! I'm so bored!\u003c/a>\" Lohan as Liz screams midway through the film, mirroring the audience at home) and the \u003cem>Steel Magnolias\u003c/em> remake (or as I like to call it, \u003cem>Tyler Perry's House of Magnolias\u003c/em>, not because of the all African American cast but because of the churchy tone and lack of coherent direction) sent me running back to the original to cleanse the aftertaste of Queen Latifah from my palate. Those films are nothing more than the labor pains that preceded the birth of your two genre homage masterpieces of 2013: your telefilm biopics of those two media sensations we all secretly love. Anna Nicole Smith and Jodi Arias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If ever there were women destined for the made-for-television-movie treatment, it's these two. One is a bombshell tabloid queen that's received more air time for her troubled romances and over-the-top antics than anyone since Marilyn Monroe. The other is Anna Nicole Smith. But seriously, stalker, codependent and convicted boyfriend murderess Arias has the kind of story that recalls the early '90s glory days of the genre when \u003cem>A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story\u003c/em> and dueling \u003cem>Amy Fisher: Long Island Lolita\u003c/em> movies populated the airwaves as freely as reality shows do now. It even has a worthy subtitle (a must for a mftv classic) \u003cem>Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret\u003c/em>. It's a subtitle the exploitative (but still commercial TV friendly) sex scenes, melodrama and eventual shower murder more than live up to. This movie was \u003cem>my\u003c/em> \"dirty little secret\" from the minute it aired and it can be yours too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Xhj4Du7bOU0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003cem>Anna Nicole\u003c/em> (directed by \u003cem>I Shot Andy Warhol\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>and \u003cem>American Psycho\u003c/em> auteur Mary Harron with all the mirth of a high-born bohemian slumming it across the tracks for a night) goes as avant-garde as the format will allow. Instead of just depicting the rise and fall of America's favorite gerontophiliac Playmate, we get a glimpse inside the short life of Anna Nicole Smith, a.k.a. Vicki Lynn Hogan, and the constant Norma Jean/Marilyn struggle of duality at play. But remember, this is still Lifetime so it's extremely literal. Young Vicki Lynn knows she's born to be something greater than a flat-chested chicken fry girl when the buxom future ghost of Anna Nicole Smith materializes to her in the trailer park mirror (a \u003cem>future ghost\u003c/em>, get it? I've asked a Dickens scholar to get back to me on the specifics of that one). And the fame tortured Anna Nicole knows she's lost herself when a young Vicki Lynn appears to her in the lush gilded mirrors of Hollywood shaking her head in dismay. The day Lifetime decided to start embracing the cliches of the genre and their own network is the day a thousand drinking games were born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Xwyoy-obNfg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It looks like the fun is just beginning. The channel has just announced that this October we can look forward to Gina Gershon in \u003cem>House of Versace\u003c/em>, a film that mixes high class credentials (it's based on a best selling book by \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> writer Deborah Ball) with all the spectacle we love about Lifetime (it's the story of the \u003cem>Versace\u003c/em> family, after all). Gershon promises to be an inspired choice for the film's lead role, Donatella Versace (we hope there's a \u003cem>Game Change\u003c/em> moment where Gina/Donatella watches Maya Rudolph as her SNL alter ego a la Julianne Moore/Sarah Palin watching Tina Fey). And who isn't looking forward to Raquel Welsh as Versace matriarch Aunt Lucia? Crystal Connors and Myra Breckinridge together in one film: the gods of camp have smiled upon us all. Just in time for Halloween!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As if that wasn't enough, the channel has also announced their upcoming remake of the V.C. Andrews incest classic \u003cem>Flowers in the Attic,\u003c/em> which everyone and their brother will secretly watch (sorry, had to got here) just to see how far into the \"ick\" territory Lifetime will go. We'd watch this remake no matter who was in it, but the fact that \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em> juvenile lead Kiernan Shipka will be starring as ballerina turned brother-lover Cathy Dollanger has us setting our DVR a year in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please, Lifetime: don't lose your nerve now that you're on a roll. Isn't there a Nancy Grace movie or a Courtney Love/Madonna remake of \u003cem>Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?\u003c/em> you need to be busily at work on? If you make that happen, I'll even forgive the Bristol Palin reality show.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I can finally forgive you for nixing \u003cem>Designing Women\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Golden Girls\u003c/em> from your regular lineup (although I will never forget that you inflicted reruns of \u003cem>Reba\u003c/em> on the unsuspecting public). No, sorry, I never got into \u003cem>Dance Moms\u003c/em>; I grew up in kiddie theater and have seen too many productions of \u003cem>Gypsy\u003c/em> to get any enjoyment out of that show. In this last year you have revived one of the most truly American art forms and with it, you've revived my affection for your channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hallelujah, the made-for-television movie has been reborn!\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Rphbj8yq9iU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>I'll admit, it didn't look promising at first. La Lohan's \u003cem>Liz and Dick\u003c/em> was beyond disappointing (\"\u003ca href=\"http://nobodyputsbabyinahorner.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/tumblr_me4a4pkx1w1qazkdco1_500.gif\">I'm bored! I'm so bored!\u003c/a>\" Lohan as Liz screams midway through the film, mirroring the audience at home) and the \u003cem>Steel Magnolias\u003c/em> remake (or as I like to call it, \u003cem>Tyler Perry's House of Magnolias\u003c/em>, not because of the all African American cast but because of the churchy tone and lack of coherent direction) sent me running back to the original to cleanse the aftertaste of Queen Latifah from my palate. Those films are nothing more than the labor pains that preceded the birth of your two genre homage masterpieces of 2013: your telefilm biopics of those two media sensations we all secretly love. Anna Nicole Smith and Jodi Arias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If ever there were women destined for the made-for-television-movie treatment, it's these two. One is a bombshell tabloid queen that's received more air time for her troubled romances and over-the-top antics than anyone since Marilyn Monroe. The other is Anna Nicole Smith. But seriously, stalker, codependent and convicted boyfriend murderess Arias has the kind of story that recalls the early '90s glory days of the genre when \u003cem>A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story\u003c/em> and dueling \u003cem>Amy Fisher: Long Island Lolita\u003c/em> movies populated the airwaves as freely as reality shows do now. It even has a worthy subtitle (a must for a mftv classic) \u003cem>Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret\u003c/em>. It's a subtitle the exploitative (but still commercial TV friendly) sex scenes, melodrama and eventual shower murder more than live up to. This movie was \u003cem>my\u003c/em> \"dirty little secret\" from the minute it aired and it can be yours too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Xhj4Du7bOU0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>By contrast, \u003cem>Anna Nicole\u003c/em> (directed by \u003cem>I Shot Andy Warhol\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003c/em>and \u003cem>American Psycho\u003c/em> auteur Mary Harron with all the mirth of a high-born bohemian slumming it across the tracks for a night) goes as avant-garde as the format will allow. Instead of just depicting the rise and fall of America's favorite gerontophiliac Playmate, we get a glimpse inside the short life of Anna Nicole Smith, a.k.a. Vicki Lynn Hogan, and the constant Norma Jean/Marilyn struggle of duality at play. But remember, this is still Lifetime so it's extremely literal. Young Vicki Lynn knows she's born to be something greater than a flat-chested chicken fry girl when the buxom future ghost of Anna Nicole Smith materializes to her in the trailer park mirror (a \u003cem>future ghost\u003c/em>, get it? I've asked a Dickens scholar to get back to me on the specifics of that one). And the fame tortured Anna Nicole knows she's lost herself when a young Vicki Lynn appears to her in the lush gilded mirrors of Hollywood shaking her head in dismay. The day Lifetime decided to start embracing the cliches of the genre and their own network is the day a thousand drinking games were born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Xwyoy-obNfg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It looks like the fun is just beginning. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/16/the-smiths-and-charlie-brown-a-match-made-in-miserable-heaven/peanuts/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7577\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7577\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/peanuts.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: This Charming Charlie\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/peanuts.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/peanuts-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://thischarmingcharlie.tumblr.com/\">This Charming Charlie\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Certain things just go together. Nutella and banana. Ryan Gosling and feminism. Morrissey and Charlie Brown? You better believe it. \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurenloprete.com/\">Lauren LoPrete\u003c/a>, an Oakland designer (and full disclosure: a friend of mine), shot to internet fame this week with her brilliant blog, \u003ca href=\"http://thischarmingcharlie.tumblr.com/\">This Charming Charlie\u003c/a>, which pairs Smiths lyrics with \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em> characters. I caught up with Lauren to talk about her inspiration for the blog, how it feels to be tweeted by Aziz Ansari and Snoopy, and which instant internet celebrity she enjoys most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: Pairing The Smiths with Charlie Brown is one of those so genius, yet so simple ideas, like \u003ca href=\"http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljyfmnQ55r1qe3vpqo1_500.jpg\">Post-Its\u003c/a> and sporks. How did the idea come to you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren LoPrete:\u003c/strong> I have been looking at a lot of old punk posters lately and I came across this great old Smiths gig poster with Charlie Brown on it asking, \"why? why? why? why?\" It stuck in my head and during a Smiths listening binge, it just came together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7573\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/16/the-smiths-and-charlie-brown-a-match-made-in-miserable-heaven/snoopy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7573\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/snoopy-292x300.png\" alt=\"Photo: This Charming Charlie\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://thischarmingcharlie.tumblr.com/\">This Charming Charlie\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This Charming Charlie has been featured on \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/08/14/the_smiths_lyrics_as_peanuts_cartoons_new_tumblr_this_charming_charlie_brings.html\">Slate\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/peanuts-strike-again-morrissey-is-charlie-brown-in-amusing-tumblr-20130815\">Rolling Stone\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/charlie-brown-the-smiths\">Esquire\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://gawker.com/combining-peanuts-strips-with-the-smiths-lyrics-works-l-1141856911\">Gawker\u003c/a>, and everywhere else in the past few days. What’s the weirdest bit of internet fame you’ve experienced since this blew up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a huge blogger/designer crush on Anna Dorfman from \u003ca href=\"http://www.doorsixteen.com/2013/08/15/12025/\" target=\"_blank\">Door Sixteen\u003c/a>. She was one of the \"first responders\" on Twitter and it made my day when she emailed me saying the Tumblr made her smile. Aziz Ansari tweeting about the Tumblr made me feel all kinds of strange, nervous emotions. Snoopy giving me a \"beagle hug\" via Twitter made me feel pretty smitten too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell us a little about your obsession with both The Smiths and \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em>. What drew you to them initially?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time I ever heard The Smiths, I was a middle schooler at YMCA sleep-away camp. My counselor had \"How Soon is Now\" on a mix tape. I ended up taking home the tape at the end of summer and wore that thing out. The words of Charles Schulz and Morrissey share such universal feelings of despair and malaise and, since middle school, those feelings have stuck with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Time to pick favorites! What Smiths song and which Peanuts character most resonate with you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would say \"There's A Light That Never Goes Out\" is my end all favorite Smiths song. It was the song on repeat during a very dark period of my life after my mom's death. I'm still deeply attached to those lyrics. I think they are beautiful. But I'm always finding new favorites as well, most recently: \"Rusholme Ruffians\" and \"Reel Around the Fountain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think Charlie and I share a very similar sentiment, weighed down by dread while still having a strange, pathetic sense of optimism. I was Lucy last year for Halloween. I had a lot of reservations about being such a bossy-pants. I don't think I'm like her at all, but I still love her for who she is. I also love Snoopy -- he reminds me of my own dog, Harry. All the lines I have Snoopy thinking about, I picture Harry thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7574\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/16/the-smiths-and-charlie-brown-a-match-made-in-miserable-heaven/lucy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7574\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-7574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/lucy-300x256.png\" alt=\"Photo: This Charming Charlie\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://thischarmingcharlie.tumblr.com/\">This Charming Charlie\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Which instant internet celebrity (other than yourself) do you enjoy the most?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hah! Well, I love \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/SwampMusic12?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">CoonRippy\u003c/a> (free REBEKAH!) and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+baby+and+french+bulldog&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=35INUr3lH6majALL2oDYAw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1190&bih=747&sei=4pINUpHWDOKbiAKLl4CgBQ\" target=\"_blank\">little Japanese boy and his best friend, the French bulldog\u003c/a>. I also love \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GohpyK5Y3g\" target=\"_blank\">the boy who reshot Beyonce's Countdown video wearing a blue snuggie\u003c/a> -- I am envious of his fearlessness. Those are just a few...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do you spend your time professionally when you’re not making the dreams of Smiths and \u003cem>Peanuts\u003c/em> fans come true?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spend my days on staff at California College of the Arts as a Graphic and Web Designer. It's really a dream job for me right now; there are few things more satisfying than getting young people excited about making art. I love being part of a community that fosters creativity, free thinking and innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I'm not there, I'm running a \u003ca href=\"http://www.logladyrecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\">record label\u003c/a> out of a loft in Oakland with my boyfriend, Jason. 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I wasn’t trying to be obnoxious; it was just that, as soon as I spied a familiar title, I couldn’t help spouting opinions, fun facts, or whatever else came into my little head. Shockingly, most people just want to pick out their own books without a running commentary, thank you very much, and I realized I needed another outlet to talk about the things I read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">I was initially vehemently opposed to joining any book clubs; in my mind such an act would be analogous to purchasing jeans with a stretchy waistband, or taking up scrapbooking (i.e. really lame -- sorry, scrapbookers). It took me a while to realize that book clubs don’t have to be lame. If I created my own book club, I could outlaw \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em> or \u003cem>50 Shades of Gray\u003c/em> or any tome with the phrases “heaving bosom” or “throbbing member.” If done right, a book club could actually function as it is supposed to: a space for great people to have interesting conversations about the things they read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">And so, Emperor Norton’s Literary Society was born. (If you don’t know who Emperor Norton was, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton\">read up on him here\u003c/a>. He’s awesome). And so far, I think it’s been going pretty well. A couple of caveats: the club has only been around for a couple of months, and our last meeting has been delayed due to members (normal, non-throbbing) not reading the book in time. So we’re not perfect. But I think I’ve started to get the hang of what makes a good book club, and I thought I’d share my tips with you fine people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">1) \u003cstrong>Narrow your focus.\u003c/strong> You don’t have to have a theme (although we do -- we only read things that have some pertinence to the Bay Area). You might choose a genre, or even just what kind of books you will exclude (see above reference to \u003cem>Twilight\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">2) \u003cstrong>Choose members carefully.\u003c/strong> You don’t want snarky know-it-alls (like myself...I mean...wait...), nor do you want people who will show up every week and say “ummm, I read the first 17 pages...”. You definitely do want people who are enthusiastic about the idea of a book club because, if it starts to feel like homework, you can be sure that nobody will be reading the assigned pages. 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For our first book, we read \u003cem>Cannery Row\u003c/em>, so we had beer milkshakes (actually delicious, I promise), a sad-looking but great tasting ‘Happy Birthday Doc’ cake, and drank out of our interpretation of a ‘winin’ jug’ -- all of which feature in the book. Booze will always help people shrug off anxiety about public speaking. Plus, everyone likes to eat and drink things, and having a tangible element of the book helps make you feel more connected to the text. English professors take note: serve some clam chowder with \u003cem>Moby Dick\u003c/em>; mint juleps with \u003cem>The Great Gatsby\u003c/em>. Just you wait and see what impact those delectables have on attendance!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">5) \u003cstrong>Always contextualize the reading.\u003c/strong> I realize this sounds a little like your AP English syllabus, but it’s essential. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Spoiler alert: This piece contains spoilers about the movie \u003cem>Catfish \u003c/em>and also \u003cem>Catfish: The TV Show\u003c/em>. Read at your own risk!\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7393\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/06/hooked-on-catfish-the-addictive-lure-of-the-internet-romance-hoax/catfishlogo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7393\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/catfishlogo-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Image via MTV.com\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via MTV.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early days of the internet, when AOL start-up CDs arrived in the mail with regularity, we were all too aware of the dangers of online strangers. Even in those old AOL chat room when someone asked, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=a%2Fs%2Fl\" target=\"_blank\">A/S/L\u003c/a>?,\" one could never truly trust the results. But as time marched on and people loosened up, we all began routinely engaging with strangers. By now I think it's safe to say that it's not even a little bit weird to meet people online and then have them in your reality. We all love the internet, and we use to not just to read the news and watch YouTube, but to find true love. For some, that means braving the muddy waters of OkCupid or eHarmony, for others it means joining an online gaming community or message board or whatever. It seems like we're all alone, behind our computers, reaching out for attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Nev Schulman was the subject of the documentary, \u003cem>Catfish\u003c/em>. The film followed Nev as he uncovered the sad, ugly truth behind his online love, Megan, who turns out to be Angela, a middle-aged wife and mother in rural Michigan living a tough life. It's gut-wrenching to watch as Nev confronts Angela to get answers on why she lied, gut-wrenching and absolutely fascinating. After the docudrama was released, Nev allegedly began receiving emails from other kids in his predicament, all asking him to help them discover the truth about their online romances. MTV saw dollar signs and \u003cem>Catfish: The TV Show \u003c/em>was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Catfish_film.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"444\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theatrical release poster for Catfish. Image via Wikipedia.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I caught a commercial for \u003cem>Catfish: The TV Show\u003c/em> sometime before Thanksgiving in 2012 and was immediately obsessed. Captivated by the motivation of the \"catfishes,\" I consumed every episode of the first season with zeal. Each episode revealed another incredible (or ridiculous) circumstance where someone had fallen in love online but were really being scammed by a liar. The most unique example of this is the guy in the south who thought the woman he was talking to was trans-- he revealed to his friend that he was cool with it and planned to continue a relationship with her and when she turned out to be a woman he was stunned and forced to face his sexuality head on. It was a real nail biter. It was also really, well, uncomfortable. It's hard to imagine there are so many unique cases of intense, romantic relationships where the people have never met or seen each other in real life. It's harder still to watch someone's heart break on television when they realize they've been had. The reasons people gave for catfishing varied. Unfortunately, many of them had to do with physical appearance, specifically weight issues, or people just \u003cem>wanting\u003c/em> to mess with someone. Sometimes people catfished their own friend, just because they were too shy or scared to be honest about their feelings. All the while, host Nev Schulman and his filmmaker friend Max Joseph are standing by, dishing out Dr. Drew-style advice with hipster-chic intonation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7394\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 281px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/06/hooked-on-catfish-the-addictive-lure-of-the-internet-romance-hoax/therapy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7394\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/therapy.jpeg\" alt=\"Nev dishes out advice. Image via MTV.com\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nev dishes out advice. Image via MTV.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It freaked me out. It was like watching a weird dating show but it was also like couples therapy. I could not look away. When \u003ca href=\"http://deadspin.com/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-an-5976517\" target=\"_blank\">the Manti Te'o faux girlfriend scandal hit the news\u003c/a>, I felt vindicated. \"See?!\" I told my friends. \"This does really happen!\" I was flabbergasted, though that may be because I'm lazy. I mean, two cell phones (and two cell phone bills), multiple Facebook profiles and personas, infinite status updates, juggling text messages, and those long, long nightly phone calls? That seems exhausting. Anywho, the show challenged audiences with some serious questions, both moral and practical. Is it smart to trust those you meet online? Is it okay to lie to someone you met online? And are there any exceptions in either case?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the circumstances varied, the end of each episode of Season One had something in common: the catfish acknowledged what they had done and expressed remorse for hurting the other person so deeply. In most cases the apology wasn't enough to save the romance or even form a friendship but the gesture was comforting and appropriate. It worried me how easy it had been for these people to trick the innocent. It was so exploitative and unkind, but I secretly enjoyed the brief journey into the mind of a bully (or a coward, whatever). I also appreciated the fact that this was happening far away from me, in places like Mississippi and Maryland, not in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season Two began a few months back and of course I tuned in. I had hoped that it would get even more crazy the second time around but unfortunately, Season One's popularity seems to have poisoned the well a little. In Season Two, each time Nev and Max call the catfish, the person on the other end of the phone is well aware of the show and who they are. From go, Season Two felt less authentic, that is until last week's episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7395\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 264px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/06/hooked-on-catfish-the-addictive-lure-of-the-internet-romance-hoax/nevmax/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7395\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7395\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/nevmax.jpeg\" alt=\"Nev and Max doing some research. Image via MTV.com\" width=\"264\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nev and Max doing some research. Image via MTV.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week Nev and Max met a really sweet girl from Iowa named Jennifer. She'd been bullied throughout her adolescence (likely because she was more interesting than her classmates) and used online gaming communities and message boards to find friends all over the world. The internet has served her well so far, so it did seem odd to her that her online friend Skylar, a computer tech student at SF State, refused to video chat with her. Jen starts college at the end of the summer and has really been coming into her own lately. As part of that, she wants to know who she is talking to before she allows her feelings to get too invested romantically. Skylar and Jen talk almost every day and their texts read like a cheesy modern romance novel. She does not come off as naive or stupid, just a nice kid looking for a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7397\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 274px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/06/hooked-on-catfish-the-addictive-lure-of-the-internet-romance-hoax/jenhears/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7397\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7397 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/jenhears.jpeg\" alt=\"Jen getting the news that Skylar is phony. Image via MTV.com\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jen getting the news that Skylar is phony. Image via MTV.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It takes Nev and Max 10 minutes to discover that Skylar is not who he says he is. They call him on the phone and though he initially resists, Skylar agrees to meet Jen in San Francisco saying he \u003cem>really\u003c/em> wants to meet her in person. It's not shocking that Skylar turns out to be Bryan, an SF State student whose major I didn't catch. It is shocking that Bryan is not the least bit apologetic for the hoax. In fact, he told Max that he had been giving Jen a gift by leading her on and making her feel appreciated. There wasn't much left to say after that. For the first time in my \u003cem>Catfish\u003c/em> viewing history, the catfish-er admitted to having absolutely no emotional or romantic feelings for the catfishee. It was just entertainment for him. 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It's harder still to watch someone's heart break on television when they realize they've been had. The reasons people gave for catfishing varied. Unfortunately, many of them had to do with physical appearance, specifically weight issues, or people just \u003cem>wanting\u003c/em> to mess with someone. Sometimes people catfished their own friend, just because they were too shy or scared to be honest about their feelings. All the while, host Nev Schulman and his filmmaker friend Max Joseph are standing by, dishing out Dr. Drew-style advice with hipster-chic intonation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7394\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 281px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/06/hooked-on-catfish-the-addictive-lure-of-the-internet-romance-hoax/therapy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7394\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-7394\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/therapy.jpeg\" alt=\"Nev dishes out advice. 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She'd been bullied throughout her adolescence (likely because she was more interesting than her classmates) and used online gaming communities and message boards to find friends all over the world. The internet has served her well so far, so it did seem odd to her that her online friend Skylar, a computer tech student at SF State, refused to video chat with her. Jen starts college at the end of the summer and has really been coming into her own lately. As part of that, she wants to know who she is talking to before she allows her feelings to get too invested romantically. Skylar and Jen talk almost every day and their texts read like a cheesy modern romance novel. 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And now we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7257\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/08/05/googling-former-flames-a-detective-story/photo-1-5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7257\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-7257 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/photo-1.png\" alt=\"photo (1)\" width=\"280\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/photo-1.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/08/photo-1-400x600.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former flame seems different at a distance.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tier 1: They’re easy to find with minimal clues.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is usually because they do something relatively high profile like star in TV commercials or make really cool music videos. They’re in semi-famous rock bands. Their esoteric lectures can be found on YouTube videos. Or they’re NYC curators who bring up a highly satisfying image search of them attending many an art party wearing a tie tucked into their sweater. They live in Mexico, Ohio, Los Angeles and London. They occasionally have traditional occupations, but it's more likely they work in digital innovation, whatever that is. They’re hipsters with homes fashionable and curated enough to appear in lifestyle blogs and subsequent lifestyle blog books that sell at Urban Outfitters. They have personal websites where they’ve misspelled something and have questionable grammar or incomprehensible artist statements. They model in NYLON. 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They already earned a PhD and are teaching somewhere, living a life that seems comfortable. They pilot airplanes, or write plays. Some are divorced, which is terribly grown-up. Their favorite song last year was our favorite song last year. That seems sort of nice. Their Instagram feed indicates a more stable lifestyle than when we knew them. Often the photo of them standing happily somewhere with a small child who looks like them is strange in some discomfiting way because we mostly remember the time they threw us on the ground outside of the dorms and kissed us. Even though they've published some stories all that comes up other than those is an image of them in a wooded grove posing seductively with a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tier 3: They're impossible to find.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have common names and/or no social media presence. Searches for their name bring up men on boats who died in the 1800s. They moved to Alaska and have only been known to communicate through the postal service. They have a drinking problem and are a bit older which might explain the lack of online life. They build furniture. It must be something about the tangible qualities of this pursuit, but they're nowhere. There are rumors about them for years, spread through mutual friends. They had some kind of manic episode. They went in search of treasure. They fell off the grid. They went to jail. They moved to the desert to build a recording studio. Some of them turn up from time to time and can never quite compete with the inherent power in the mysterious years they were absent. 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It's interesting that, despite geography or time or the simple fact that it would be too painful or boring or unnecessary to talk to the person again face to face, we never really lose someone. Instead they echo in a sort of way, not just through memory but through layers of wire and screen and the words we type to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same way we sometimes wish we could Google, \"What did I dream last night?\" or, \"Where did I put my book?\" we actually can Google, \"Name of Ex-Flame,\" and more often than not, there they are. Gardening. Singing. Traveling. Being interviewed. Tweeting. Looking happy. Starring in a documentary. Attending a picnic. Embracing a beautiful woman wearing feathers in her hair. Existing in time and space, one way or another. Probably a lot like they once were and a little bit different too in some important, unknowable ways. Just like we are.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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