The latest installment touches on two things that are very important to me 1. your creative lifespan may be longer than that of a contractor but it isn’t infinite. Protect it. 2. If you go to court, you already lost. A court “win” is like winning an expired case of cheese.
Unless you’re part of some kind of class action suit, there is rarely such thing as a symbolic win in a civil case. And that’s the kind of case you are generally bringing in these matters.
It sucks so hard but number one is the baseline. Your future earnings are far more resilient than your past earnings. You know why? Your future earnings reflect what you learned from your past earnings. If given a choice, I always choose to protect my future earnings
I love this whole @phontigallo series and continue my campaign to get him to join the academy 😂
Having said that, i am not pretending I’m all Charismatic Chopra over here, because I will burn it all to the ground over my future earnings. Bring cases, bring dem thangs, bring dem goons, bring everything lol 🤷🏾‍♀️

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28 Oct
I feel like bragging about my class discussion a bit. We were talking about how and why information communities ask questions and judge new information. Really relevant, right? #vax #etc
Well, I started class with a "current events" item, which I try to do almost every week. This week it was close to home (which is more true than I would like these days). UNC is cutting $5 million dollars from its library budget. wunc.org/education/2021…
I may know more than the typical professor about higher education funding and structural changes in higher ed finance. You will also want to look for a new book from @CharlieEatonPhD on financialization of higher ed press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/auth…
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25 Oct
For those new to the Hallmark Christmas Movie Universe (HCMU, as it were), don’t fall for the early start. They dump all the duds early in the season with a few exceptions to tease you. It’s starts getting good next week.
One notable HCMU event:

Christmas in Harmony has to be the first time the romantic leads are two dark-skinned Black actors

You will also notice Luke James, which is way out of the HCMU comfort zone. You also get Loretta Devine and Michelle Williams. Totally out of HCMU league
Another HCMU tidbit: a generous schedule of all Black holiday content from
@ReadInColour
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24 Oct
I know I’m repeating myself, BUT I LOVE YOU BLACK NASHVILLE
This is my Uber driver. He wasn’t sure about where he was dropping me SO HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR & WALKED THE BLOCK UNTIL HE FOUND THE HOUSE. Once he found it, I released him with many thanks. “I will wait until you are inside”, he says. I’ve had marriages with less care.
This man has googled me, watched all the YouTube content, brought me pig feet and would, I believe, kill you over me.
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17 Oct
While @phontigallo is talking about the rap game, this is true of any creative endeavor. If you do not have leverage, then any fiduciary is just there to explain the big words to you.
@phontigallo I get the question about needing an agent a lot. And I always ask, "well, do you need the publishing contract?" if you need it to, you know, keep your job then you will really don't have a ton of leverage. What we really need is a Zoom type package for contracts in his mid-tier
Also, hiring an entertainment lawyer and securing certain types of representation is a pact. You are promising to work enough to keep those folks fed. Is that consistent with your goals?
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15 Oct
I have been astonished to learn first-hand how willing - sometimes excited - some women are by the whole idea of being kidnapped.
Mind you, I have only ever had white women believe this and espouse it with great passion. Meanwhile, non-white women seem to be abducted a lot but I don’t hear black women passing along urban legends about it. The occasional “be safe” meme, sure.
I told one coworker that if “Mexican gangs” were grabbing blonde white women wholesale from the Hop-in, it would probably be on the news. She wasn’t amused.
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14 Oct
One thing about being Black online is that every interest group eventually becomes a dating website. The gig is figuring out where the group is on the cycle.
It’s something like: interest group forms — glow up —- mod wars — the reclamation — the image gallery — the “who pays” debates — mod wars II — reverse migration — brunch meetups — dating website. I need to write this down.
I think it’s because the Black church and chocolate cities are struggling. And also because of photo filters.
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