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Sarah Palin®
So it turns out that Saint Sarah Palin, Profit of the Republican party, has trademarked her name. (h/t to TPM for the story.) Now some people of a less than clever nature have thought that this is an attempt by Sarah Palin® (gods that’s fun to type) is hoping to use the ® as a method of shutting down her critics. This is utterly wrong. You can trademark your name until you reach George Lucas levels of absurd  legalisms (after all his company did try to trademark Nazi) and your opponents can still use your name and print all the horrid stories about you that they want. A trademarks will not stop that, nor will it stop satire and other forms of political attack. Further more I fully believe that Sarah Palin®  knows all this and people who think this is her motive grossly underestimate her.
No, I think she has very good cause and reason to file for this trademark. Sarah Palin® is about celebrity and making money, she must move to protect her most valuable asset, he name and image. To protect any potential line of products, speeches or seminars she must trademark or risk getting ripped off by copy-cats and other intellectual property thieves. This is a smart and savvy business plan.
What this indicates to me though is she is not going to run for president. (As I have theorized at this blog before.) Those, like Andrew Sullivan, who quaked with fear at a Sarah Palin® candidacy were trembling at shadows. This woman is in her happy spot and I fully expect her to stay there for as long as it lasts. I suspect that will be until 2012 when it becomes clear that she is not running and interest in her wanes. She will not have a long politically oriented entertainment career like Rush Limbaugh. Hers will be brief and bright.
Again no blogging
My fingers have hardly recovered, so until tomorrow, ‘Love, Luck, and Lollipops.’
No blogging tonight
Sorry my dear friends but a flare up in my arthritis is going to prevent any belonging by your not so humble host tonight. (I do hope my ENbrel is not popping out.)
Despotism and the Tea Party
Just a quick observation. There are those — and I am not saying all or even a majority — within the Tea Party movement that like to call the initiatives of the Obama ‘socialism’ or a move towards tyranny. This sort of hyperbole is pointless. However, as I watch the Arabic world erupt with people longing to overthrow the despots who have ruled over them. (Often in very socialist-like setting) I can’t help be feel that these people who like to hurl Nazi themed insults and comparisons are acting like spoiled teenagers. They live in a system free enough for them to whine that they are not free.
(edited for clarity)
Solution Found
So less than a day after diagnosing the problem with chapter 2 of Love and Loyalty (it was not character driven and did not reveal anything about the character) I have mapped out a solution to the problem. It will entail rewriting nearly all of chapter 2, but I think I was have a much stronger chapter and novel for the work.
Another Epiphany
This is why being a member of the Mysterious Galaxy Writers Group is worth it. Not only do I meet great and interesting characters — not just the fictional ones either — and hear some great pieces of writing, but the feedback from fellow writers open up vista in my mind to where I have been blind.
I can see clearly fault in the plotting and form of chapter 2 that have nothing to do with the prose style. Now, to figure out a way to fix them.
Sunday Night Movie: The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension
So it looks like I will get to my Sunday Night Movie feature after all! Anyway after a spate of fairly serious and heavy films I was in the mood this sunday for fare that was lighter and just fun to watch. It had been a piece of time since I last pulled out my DVD of The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension so between time and mood this was the perfect film for me.
Buckaroo Banzai is a film that has a very idiosyncratic response in people who see it. Either people fall in love with this stranger quirky movie and quote it for years, or they scratch their heads and wonder how anyone could like something so utterly stupid. There seems to be almost no middle-ground reaction.
This film is at heart a pulp adventure, much along the lines of say a Doc Savage story, if you are familiar with those books. The titular character, Buckaroo Banzai is at once, a physicist, a surgeon, and a rock star. On all these fields he is perhaps the best. He has surrounded himself with a talented team of characters at the Banzai Institute. They combat evil, improve mankind lot in the world, and play concerts to adoring fans. If this is all too over the top for your, then this movie is not for you. It has the feel not only of a pulp adventure, but also of someone role playing game writ large and with credible actors playing the parts. Continue reading
Sunday Night Movie may be delayed
I have serious editing and writing to do tonight on Love and Loyalty so I may not get to my Sunday Night Movie feature until tomorrow.
A quote that cheered me up
“Books aren’t written. They’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.” Michael Crichton.