Risa
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Hey man, I am open for business and ready to rumble. I am an official Ether Beta tester, so you can now talk my ear off, or get my verbal input, or get me to read to you, for twenty bucks an hour.
My additional twist: I’d like to write up people’s […]
ahh, lil risa’s blog, so quiet and demure, naive even. mostly because i see fit to abandon you periodically…
Things have been going ok over at Open. We’re staggering our way toward a functioning editorial collective I think, and the best bit about that will be the potentially explosive possibility of writing with others.
I […]
hhmmmm. grumble. so, i’m stoked to have a writing job, and there are millions of other jobs out there that i’m glad i’m not doing, but i still feel grumbly about it all today. I called my first five businesses to profile this morning, and everyone was too busy to talk- which is fine, i […]
more...(especially the idol, the rockstar, and the dance competitions, but also oprah and dr.phil)
1. people gradually get used to being on camera, and you get to watch it happen. what really seems to happen is that people on tv figure out who they are in relation to the people present and in relation to that […]
When we started Open blogs were barely becoming cool. People still laugh at the word sometimes, and then ask shyly what a blog is.
And it seemed as though there was a great deal of writing on the web about napster, the kazaa network, friendster, or blogs, or even email, or instant messaging; lots of writing […]
(for “how to talk to teenage boys” i put myself in the position of a teenage girl and thought of what i wished i’d known, or what i slowly figured out. this one, i’ve realized, is trickier. I never was a teenage boy. But I’ve known some teenage girls in my time, and I can […]
more...or anyone, really
1. try and understand what they’re saying, even if you keep thinking they’re just stupid or insane.
2. try and get their jokes- try out their perspective on what’s funny.
3. remember that, like teenage girls, they are still largely a loose accumulation of how the world’s been marketed towards them, by corporations and by […]
