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May 12, 2009
American Apparel vs. Woody Allen’s Sex Life
American Apparel, the nation’s largest remaining clothing manufacturer, infamous for ads like this and this and this used Woody Allen’s photo on one of their billboards without his consent.
Allen is suing for $10 million.
American Apparel gave him the “Oh no you didn’t” finger wag and their lawyer Stuart Slotnick (what a great name for a lawyer, if I injured my back or was involved in a motorcycle accident, I’d call him!) countered with document requests and subpoenas digging into Allen’s person
May 11, 2009
Attack of the Magic Seeds
Sometimes I wonder if we are sheltered from really, really bad news or if there is just so much bad news that we can’t consume it all. And then I see the weekly Lindsay Lohan update (OMG! she spent the night at her ex’s) and I know it’s the former.
The other day @sonnyjohl pointed me toward a story in the UK’s Daily Mail about 125,000 Indian farmers whose suicides were being blamed on genetically modified crops.
Here’s a brief story of one farmer:
Shankara, like millions of other Indian farmers
May 10, 2009
Chinese Heirs as phoney as Milly Vanilli
In the comment thread of this recent post, long time WAIW follower Kent pointed us toward this BBC News piece, “China Database to Track Children.”
It’s good to see that something is being done to help reunite kidnapped children with their parents.
A few passages of interest:
Correspondents say the children of migrant workers are usually targeted. They are traded for a few hundred dollars and few are ever found.
As if life for migrant workers isn’t tough enough.
And…
In a society that favours male hei
May 9, 2009
Obama Masks: Made in china
I exchanged a few emails with a reader that works at a costume shop. I asked her where most of the costumes are made. She told me that they have a lot of vintage costumes and make many of them themselves. Of course, the ready-made costumes mostly come from China. Part of her response:
It was fun during the election to tell people that we didn’t know when we would get Obama masks back in stock because they were working on them in China and they had yet to ship. Some people got really mad, but t
May 6, 2009
Book bloggers
I had a speaking engagement today. It went awesome. I overheard several compliments:
“He’s like Matthew McConaghey, but not so flaky.”
“Best speaker we’ve had.”
In the words of @garyvee, “I crushed it.”
In other news…
One of these days I intend to getting around to writing about book bloggers and independent reviewers. Unfortunately, today isn’t that day. Until then, here is one of the most in depth reviews of WAIW? that I’ve seen.
May 4, 2009
It’s Monday. Dance.
Harper and I like to dance to this song. This is one of the coolest renditions you’ll ever hear. I think I’ll go order the Playing for Change CD now.
May 2, 2009
Happy eighth anniversary WorldHum!
Online or in print, WorldHum has some of the best travel writing around. Of course, I am little biased. They highlight my piece Adventure Dad as one of their eight favorite family travel stories.
May 1, 2009
People with skills do cool things; this is one of them…
Here’s a sneak peak of a promo video that JD Schuyler of Cantalopue TV is producing:
It’s nice when people with skills support your work. I can’t wait to see the finished product.
Today I’m at Rule29 for a photo/video shoot. It should be fun, but I just learned that there might be makeup involved. I grew a big zit for the occasion. I hope it smiles.
April 29, 2009
WAIW at IUPUI
Tomorrow I’m doing a signing on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis at the University Barnes & Noble. It’s from 11-1.
Be there.
Where clothes.
Know where they were made.
Here’s a campus map if you need one.
April 28, 2009
How much will you give me for my son?
Just the other day I wrote about how travel makes the news more relevant: “If I have gained anything from my travels it’s not a well-traveled savviness, envied by others, but an increased caring.”
That being the case, when I read this story in the NY Times by on Chinese boys being bought, stolen, and sold, I couldn’t help but think of Dewan and Zhu Chun’s son Li Xin.
The crazy thing about this story is a man who bought a son didn’t think there was anything wrong with paying money for another hum
