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Bryan Cranston cosplayed as himself at ComicCon and wasn’t recognized.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bryan-cranston-heisenberg-mask-2013-7

Then it got weird…

Hugh Jackman did, too, and got criticism.  “Too tall.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/hugh-jackman-wolverine-comic-con-2013-7

Spat between CBS, Time Warner Cable may see New York, LA, and Dallas subscribers losing the network and its subsidiaries (incl. Showtime).

http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/cbs-chief-moonves-time-warner-cable-can-afford-to-pay-us-more-1200566843/

Twitter uses real users for fake tweets to promote new ad platform; gets caught.

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/07/23/twitter-fakes-real-users-tweets-to-promote-ad-platform/

Want to write?  Draw!

http://mathiex.blogspot.com/2013/07/wri-draw-your-story.html

Sketching out characters, settings help keep details straight and in an easy to reference manner.

Conservative MP wants “opt in” for online porn for Canadians, mirroring similar legislation in the UK.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/07/23/mb-joy-smith-anti-porn-bill-winnipeg.html

Joy Smith, Member of Parliament for Kildonan-St. Paul (north part of Winnepeg) hasn’t been following the fall-out from PM Cameron’s idea. It’s not going to fly here.  (Well, it’s not flying in the UK, either.)

Yet another Sharknado article.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/07/absurd-sharknado-triggers-feeding-frenzy-for-schlock-movie-fans.html

For $1 million dollars and a cheese fest of a movie, The Asylum is getting a lot of press.  Sure, only a million people saw it on SyFy, but is there any other movie getting this much attention this summer?  The Atlantic Wire has a graph of the tweets (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/07/sharknado-was-only-thing-worth-talking-about-last-night/67109/); fittingly, it looks like a dorsal fin.  Marketing departments at other studios must be wondering, “WTF?”

Five Writing Exercises That Will Make You More Creative

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-writing-exercises-that-will-make-you-more-creative/

– Steven

Welcome To The Cycle, You’ll See The Bottom Of The Wheel Eventually

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Destrative Crestruction Dept.

Those who worship power and strength inevitably cast evolution and natural forces (like, say, market forces!) as being on their side. They’re never willing to entertain the possibility that one day it might be someone else’s boot on their neck — because if they did, then that would mean they weren’t worthy of calling themselves the baddest mothers in the room anymore.

Serdar was talking about people’s reactions to Detroit’s bankrupcy, and that some realized that the love of “creative destruction” meant the creative destroyers never realized they’d get their turn on the block.

I myself have watched the various pundits jump onto the detroit issues, and most of those brushing it off or laughing about it have that peculiar self-confidence of people who figure that nothing bad ever happens to them or theirs.  In fact, among the various pundits enjoying a laugh, there were no solutions, but plenty of dragging-out-the-same explanations.  They were preaching to the choir, not solving problems, with the confidence nothing would happen to them.

And there were doubtlessly people laughing along at what happened to “those people” in Detroit.  It’s always “those people” – until you become one of them.  Then you wonder why people aren’t there to help you . . .

This is why I think sustainability is an appropriate and unappreciated value.  Sustainability means that you have some surety.  Sustainability means some predictability.

However it’s not popular.  Sustainability means hard work.  Sustainability means that if you “win” you have to make sure the whole game doesn’t fall apart.  Sustainability means not always getting your way.  Sustainability isn’t a chance to do your victory dance about how you’ve won forever and are awesome.

That’s not exactly popular – especially among entitled politicians and pundits.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.