As a youth going into high school I made little Super-8 movies and was an amateur photographer. I learned how to process and print B&W film in High School and was for a time the School Photographer. My love though was Movies. I merged my love of film making with my otherwise dorky love of shooting off Model Rocketry. One may have perceived that Rocketry was my first love from the films I made of my launches. They'd be wrong. I thing the Rockets were my way of supplying content for my films.
I went on to go to San Francisco State University because they had one of the best Film Studies program at an amazing cost for full time college credits. Unbeknownst to me I almost had Academy Award winner Annette Bening in one school project if she heard me asking her or more likely pretending that she didn't hear me. She was doing some Shakespeare thing for a school production. Honestly I do not remember which but I think it wasn't about a king.
Years later here I am. I am exploring my first ever Blog. Like I've said before, I am not a fan of Blogs. That is not entirely true. I have been a long time user of Twitter and have made a decent following for myself. As of this post I have 1720 Followers and that is mostly, if not close to entirely done honestly. No fake, phony fraudulent apps to artificially pump up my follow count. I have 2 followers who I know of didn't follow me out of the goodness in their hearts. That is not saying their hearts are not good, just not knowingly toward me. One follower is the Actor Joshua Malina who made it known he'd follow people if they'd donate to a specific charity. I did. Then he did. I have no shame in that. I am a fan of the Actor who somehow manages to be at least a guest in almost every television show I regularly watch. He has been a regular in 2 of my top ten television shows of all time. So, Yeah, I like it that when I see his Twitter Bio Page it has an icon with the words "Follows You" on it.
The other follow is the 'Most Interesting Man in the World' guy. Why? Because his Bio said he'd follow back, which he did. I respect those who follow through.
As time gone by, I had followed many who work in the film industry. I like to keep a toe dipped in that pool just for the sake of talk that is not just political. I prefer my political tweets to be about politics and my arts oriented tweets to be about Art. Film was an Art at one time if you didn't know. As it evolved into a marketing tool my interest has waned. The last movie I went to was 42. I usually have to be on vacation in San Francisco to see movies that interest me since around here on the Jersey shore most movie houses play the Blockbuster Du Jour.
When a review in the New York Times described the current blockbuster as "Less Idiotic than Feared", I knew I didn't need to keep up with show times. I occasional scour a Red Box for titles worth seeing and I bring home a movie. This too is becoming rare. They keep sending me discount codes thinking that its that extra quarter per rental keeping me away. No. It is the content, not of their character but of their Boxes. I don't usually ask about the content of the film makers character. I am not like some of these conservatives who demand their filmmaker have no personal philosophy. I just don't care. I didn't care that a producer for '24' was an extreme right wing supporter. I watched it, like another fan of the show, Edward M. Kennedy did, for the drama and the questions it raised.
I would follow Aaron Sorkin if he had a twitter feed. I've enjoyed every television project he ever worked on and two of them make my personal Top 10 all-time television shows. I follow James Morrison because he's honest, blunt without being rude, and he turned me on to Neti Pots. I used to follow Dana Brunetti, a managing producer for Trigger Street. Now I block him. If you were to ask me about him, I'd tell you he is an ASS. I would speak it and you would know ass was in capital letters merely by the way I say it. Yet this ASS has worked with and produced scripts by Aaron Sorkin. What is one to do? Nothing really.
Here is what happened. The events all in cyber space occurred roughly after George Zimmerman officially got away with Murder.
ASS posted a simple, platitude of a tweet stating "Democrats are too far Left and Republicans are too far Right". To the average viewer this is some kind of nugget filled with wisdom. To another person who actually has a clue to the current political debacle we live in today, it is at best insipid simplification and at worst an attempt to kiss some ass; small letter asses. Another person could easily take the logic apart. The Far Right Wing is occupied in the GOP by extremist Tea Party members who appear to be on a daily war with Women's Reproductive Rights, Minority Voting Rights, and want to vilify any person who came to this country illegally. If they could only time travel they could be one of the many who came to america in the 19th Century and managed to own thousands of acres of prime farmland simply by squatting on the land.
I digress. I am one of the people who found it simple, and easy, to respond to this False equivalency. No, Democrats on the left are nowhere as equivalent to these extremists on the right. So I respond to him, saying as such. Now you must remember, this guy the ASS in capital letters is not just a Producer, but is also the producer to the heavily charged political thriller Netflix series "House of Cards". A person in that position is in no position to play political dilettante. He wants, or should want a little credibility in the field one would think. No, that isn't what he was into. So, instead of realizing, or at least showing courage to admitting he over simplified, he accused me of being hysterical. I again point out the over simplification and another Tweet appears from another person praising me for defeating his argument quickly and efficiently. I thanked this third party. What follows is What makes him such an ASS with capital letters.
What does he do? Does he again find the opportunity to admit his post was an over simplication? No. We're talking about a guy who admittedly trolls EBAY for Star Wars action figures. We're talking about the guy who buzzes his employees with toy remote controlled Helicopters. We're talking about the guy who refers to the #JusticeForTrayvon march as a #Thugnado and takes a picture a man in an Elmo Costume there proclaiming Now it's getting serious. What does he do? He tries to label me as some internet Troll. Seriously!
An internet troll. When you cannot respond and lack the character to admit to being wrong. Lack the character to admit maybe I should have taken the point I made seriously, by a little bit at least. No, that much character he lacks. This is a man child, and no one around to give him a pat on the back of the head because he is the Master of his domain. I told him so. Then I not just unfollowed him, I blocked him.
I told him on Trigger Street Labs, where I was a member for 11 years. I deleted my account.
I told him on Facebook, then blocked him. Dana Brunetti, you are an ASS.
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