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Everything wrong with indie film industry in a single classified

Craiglist community has recently started cracking and flagging down low/no pay freelance film gigs – this is why.

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Online stores are ruining shopping

When I moved to LA six months ago I was excited to furnish and equip my new heaven. I set out on my shopping sprees, browsing the much-needed goods, but leaving empty-handed and disappointed. All because of that niggling thought in the back of my head… “I can get it cheaper online.”

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The Unquenchable Internet

Don’t feed the Internet

Sometimes I feel we got tricked, duped, with that internet and all. Back in the day, we were promised the information super-highway, connecting people from distant lands in a matter of seconds, and all the grotesque and obscure pornography you could ever yearn for. But the more I read the internet, the more it seems a ruse, a clever mechanism that feeds on us. On our anger.

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Grayhound Bum

Three reasons why Greyhound sucks

A few years ago, I had the opportunity made the horrible mistake of taking a greyhound bus from California to Arizona. Greyhound™, being a kind monopoly that they are, made sure the provided service is as horrendous as possible and all the costumers are treated like sheep. And you know it’s bad when the fact the trip takes some 13 hours in a cramped seat on a bus is actually one of the better parts.

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Why I no longer donate blood

Most of your typical community service experiences follow a similar pattern of interesting, yet demanding work, filled with many new challenges, revelations and a profound feelings of self-fulfillment and satisfaction. My community service experience, however, was quite… different.

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