Fashion Shoot At The Holocaust Memorial

An image from the controversial shoot.

Someone did a fashion shoot in the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. Of course, scandal followed, the magazine pulled it from their website, the airline distributing the magazine pulled the magazine, everybody apologized, etc.

The shoot makes a lot of sense. The memorial in Berlin is a huge tourist destination, especially for American Jews (of which I am one), who like to tell each other that they went there. American Jews are also very fond of telling each other that they went to the Holocaust memorial in any city that has one, such as Jerusalem or Washington, D.C.

Going to Holocaust memorials, and talking about going to Holocaust memorials, carries with it a cultural currency. It’s a cool thing to do. It implies sophistication, education, and a progressive attitude. This is especially true of the memorial in Berlin, the existence of which implies that the world is not the same place it was just a few decades previous. If you are an American Jew, (or even an American non-Jew with Jewish friends), then you can’t travel to Berlin and not go to the Holocaust memorial. No doubt it’s a great place to run into Jewish friends, just like Chinese restaurants and movie theaters are in the Midwest on Christmas day.
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screenwriting omg a/s/l

Note: Some formatting has been simplified for legibility, but all text below was copied and pasted verbatim. All typos that appear here also appeared in the original context.

new york craigslist > manhattan > gigs > writing gigs
Project Screen Writers Wanted! (Midtown)
Date: 2009-11-25, 3:24PM EST
Reply to: xxxx@gmail.com

STREET LINK COMMUNICATIONS
Experienced Screen Writers Wanted!
Development of original projects for movies & video series.
Including drama, comedy, and action projects.
Email resume for more info.

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Work History: Web Production Manager

This post is part II of a series in which I talk about my professional experience. See also Part I, where I talk about being the publisher of an interactive literary magazine.

My last full-time gig was as Strategic Program Manager at Federated Media. In a nutshell, FM is a business broker for the most successful blogs in the English language; blogs like BoingBoing and Mashable. If you are a big corporation, and you want to get involved in this crazy social media thing that all the kids are talking about, then FM is the company to help you.

As an SPM, I was in charge of planning, executing, analyzing, and optimizing social media marketing campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »

Work History: Web Publisher

This is the first in a series of posts wherein I will talk about my work experience and goals, for the benefit of potential employers.

Question: What do you want to do?

Short Answer: I want to be a professional online magazine publisher.

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Chase, Overdrafts, And The Evil Of Small Checking Accounts

Today I was woken up by a phone call from a guy who wanted to know if I would do a “check by phone” to pay the $10 that is overdue on my Chase credit card.

This guy, who was obviously reading from a script in India, didn’t balk when I refused to confirm my checking account information, because I was half-asleep. After all, he had it right in front of him; my checking account is with Chase, the same bank to whom I owed the $10. He read the account number off to me and assured me that it was correct.

The total amount of the transaction was $49, which is to say, the $10 that I owed, plus a $39 late fee.  So, I was charged $39 for being late to give Chase permission to move money from one Chase account to another. Read the rest of this entry »