This. The major label game involves signing a contract that gives the artist a lot of money that they eventually have to pay back through touring - not record sales, not merchandise sales - touring. The contract usually stipulates that everyone gets paid before the artist does.
One reason why the Metallica v Napster…

Simply put: “What if we made a kaiju movie with a zombie twist?”

Offending Twitter is like shooting fish in a barrel; you get a lot of mutilated fish and a useless barrel.

Sort of a non-sequitor, but the image of those boats reminded me of an art installation I saw by African artist Romuald Hazoume. He documents the illegal gasoline trade in Benin, among other things. I met him once in Maine at a somewhat infamous arts summer camp that I worked at for one summer.

Just want to point out that, in the 1980s, when the first Macintosh was introduced, you could buy a carrying case for it, it had a handle in the top (for one-hand carry), and the “fat” version had 512k (k!) of RAM.

Oh great. I just bought this game last week.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Third best thing was Baron Davis sweeping the Mavs 2006.

Ack. Ack, ack ackack ack ACK ACK ACK.

It’s not exclusive to NYC; in California, LA has NoHo (SoCal), Bay Area has SoMa (NorCal). Some further north actually consider SF area SoCal, it gets conservative up there.

“Look how they did it - Lester, Hammel, Zobrist, Russell, ... I mean, like, we were right on the same doorstep, right? RIght??”

Wow - salaries and wages only accounts for 1.1 million dollars, at UC Berkeley? A *lot* of people work here. That’s not very much.

While Wahoo is an artifact of a more racist era, I like to think that after years and years of association with the major league team, it has transcended its meaning from bigoted background and ony refers to the team in Cleveland. A few editorial tweaks, maybe it could fixed?

Now I want to know which of the above schools pledge allegiance to the Bible, teach Creationism/abstinence as sex education, and prefer their teachers/student-body to be packing heat.

“...given who they are...”

I shoulda bought the Bad Brains series. Loved those.

.... in the hallway?

I dunno how ‘family man’ or ‘never came out gay’ he is, but the first name that popped in my head was Kevin Spacey.

Kids are surprised they can’t play video games professionally for lots of money, eh?

4. Using the original insult as the comeback: “Let’s see YOU make it to the big leagues.” - Pham.