mike rock

hi. thanks for stopping. you are kind for having a look.

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Hello Los Angeles. Join me Friday @nerdistschool when I’ll chat with the delightful Michaela Dietz “Amethyst” on @stevenuniverse and the inimitable Ari Stidham @aristidham-blog Sylvester Dodd from @cbs‘s Scorpion. It will be fun.

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Los Angeles! Friday's After School Special very casual chat show guest #1 is @kilgariffkaren 9pm @nerdistschool 7518 W Sunset 90046 next door to @meltdowncomics Be there!

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This weekend @improtheatre A 30 hour show marathon fundraiser! Streaming on FB Live! Please consider making a tax deductible contribution: Sponsor me & I'll thank you from the stage! Here are the shows I'll be in: Link for full schedule & donation in comments

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L.A. Friday 9pm at #NerdistSchool After School Special live, on-stage chat show: Jackie Geary (13 Reasons Why, The Goldbergs, White House Down) Mary Birdsong (Scream Queens, Lady Dynamite, The Decendants, Reno 911) & filmmaker Tom Huang (Unusual Targets, Why Am I Doing This, NFL Network)

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Cop acting out some name-revenge fantasy, giving out parking tickets on St. Patrick's Day.

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New show at Impro in Los Feliz. Saturdays at 7:30 through April 29 Join us!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impro-theatre-main-co-play-unscripted-tickets-31946047488

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Los Angeles: This Friday March 3, join us for a very casual chat show with Suzanne Weber, Dwayne Colbert and Ptolemy Slocum. It will answer your questions.* (*not guaranteed) [flier by @kellynugee !]

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FRIDAY 9pm in Hollywood. A very casual chat show where you'll meet cool, creative people from comedy, tv, film, music and crime. (at The Nerdist School)

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"Season's Graffitings!" --Jack

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Hey L.A. - Join us!

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http://itsmikerock.tumblr.com/post/10092899108/random-thoughts-ten-years-on 

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File under: “How you do it.” Rep Emanuel Cleaver D-MO

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Careful there, Bill. Listen to Harold.

[mattgourley]

STAY TUNED vol. 1

ATTENTION CLASSIC TV ENTHUSIASTS.

IN APPRECIATION: of the lost art of television theme song writing, James Bladon and I have set forth on a pet project that might involve you.

WE’VE WRITTEN AND RECORDED: the opening songs to six television shows that never existed. In fact, these shows never existed from the late-sixties to the early-nineties and hopefully encompass what we believe to be the best of what prime-time network TV had to offer.

BUT WAIT: we’d like you, if you’re so inclined, to shoot the opening title sequence. Why? For fun. Some are sit-coms, some are action spectaculars, some are domestic comedies, and some are seaborne, globe-spanning adventures. We’ll try and feature all or as many as possible right here in these blog pages as well as all of the other shareable spots. There’s no money involved. For us. For you. Just the love of the game.

WE’LL POST: the details for shooting the title sequences after all of the songs have been released later this week. In the meantime, please check back here tomorrow and the next day for a couple of newly-programmed, prime-time television theme songs.

AND NOW: we present you with the first two days of this week’s programming. Press play on the playlist above and have a look at their almost actual TV Guide listings below.

BADGER AND THE BELLE: a yankee beer-runner (Badger) meets a southern bootlegger (Belle) to team up - in business and in romance - in thwarting the no-good, booze baron of Clark County, Reverend Deacon Daniels.

OUTSIDE LOOKIN’ IN: Alan and Lydia Carmichael are just another couple with the same struggles as everyone else - work, a mortgage, car payments, and total blindness.

FEATURING: the lovely vocals of Robyn Roth

STAY TUNED TOMORROW: for the next two installments and in the meantime, please share this with the ones you love.

© 2015 Bladon/Gourley. All rights GD reserved. Words and music by Bladon/Gourley.

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This is so good - it is just so good.

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20 months old and she opens her program, then realizes she needs to go open Wi-Fi. I’m afraid of the future. Holy sh…

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Jamie Kaler presents your future boss.

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Madeline Kahn 1967

[johnrossbowie]

Hello.

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Yow! 

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What's important to you?

What's important to you?

Since 1948, in U.S. Presidential elections, around 60% of eligible voters show up to vote. For midterms, only around 40% bother to vote.

Forty percent.

What would happen to your business if only 40% of your employees showed up? Or more to the point, if you suddenly had only 40% of your customers? (But you know, 100% still filled out comment cards complaining about how you run things.)

Would you be cool with only 40% of your kid's teachers showing up to teach? Hm, not likely! After all, you "pay their salary, dammit!" <-- (I was quoting hypothetical you there.)

What if only 40% of the workers your contractor promised you showed up to put in that new kitchen? You'd be steamed, I'll bet. Would you even pay them in full!?

How about if only 40% of the surgical team showed up to operate on your loved one? Oooh, too heavy? Sorry. Um...

Okay, what if only 40% of your favorite team showed up to play? "Bummer, most of the players are just busy with other stuff today." Would you be cool with that?

Or if 40% of your favorite band bothered to come to play the concert you're in line to see? Or if only 40% of the cast of your favorite tv show did the show? "Attention subscribers: The Lannisters won't be in any more episodes. Thanks for understanding." - HBO

Look, I could try to come up with more examples but I'll let you do that for yourself.

It's civics. You're a citizen. You live here. You are part of a community. "Communities" really: Your local community, a national community, a global community. You should care enough to know at least a little something about the ideas/policies/background of the people representing you. They speak for you. You should care to know if you feel you're being accurately represented. At least at election time.

Maybe do a little reading about the people who want to represent you; from your school board to your police department to the governor, state senators and all the way up to your U.S. Congress-persons. It doesn't take hours and hours. The vast majority of people seeking office have websites with positions clearly posted. And a simple search will turn up both their backers and detractors. 

You're going to be paying the salaries of ones who get elected whether you like them or not. Why not take the opportunity to get in on the job interview and speak your mind about who you'd like to hire?