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Thanks dude
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hahahaha *promote

Your video, Actors Speak Intelligently About their Trailers, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This achievement has earned you your "Pop Star" Level 2 Badge!

Cheers for the promote!
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Oh god I cannot wait to hear what the heck is coming next. Always had a morbid curiosity for everything coming down the QD pipeline ever since Omikron inexplicably captured my teenage mind and soul. *promote

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Happy anniversary! Today marks year number 3 since you first became a Sifter and the community is better for having you. Thanks for your contributions!

I didn't take it as excoriation -- and indeed I was one who did not "fully appreciate the context and position". I'm always up for "fixing" things. I like the title better now -- I wasn't all that fond of the original myself.

I went with "black/comedian/cultural critic" and put Thurston's name in the description. Since I didn't know who he was, I wanted to be sure that others do now.



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BB, thanks for the thoughtful reply (and again, for the awesome post). I didn't mean to excoriate for not knowing who this dude is or anything, I just think that "young black man" can be a little disorienting for people who might not fully appreciate the context and position from which Thurston is speaking to us today. I would never want provide a title for someone's video, but since you asked me, I might just suggest replacing "young black man" with "Baratunde Thurston..." or "Black Comedian/Cultural Critic..." or something like that. But I don't EXPECT you to change it--I was just voicing my (slight) dissent. But in any case, *quality dialogue and vid. Thanks again, BB!

>> ^bareboards2:

Sorry, I had never heard of him. That title came from my anger at my racist uncle who just told me two days ago that the only "good" black people (he didn't use those words) were older. Didn't use the word "uppity" but he might as well have.
Tell me what I should change it to. I am not attached to this title at all.

>> ^griefer_queafer:
Yuck on the title. This "young black man" is a fairly renowned cultural critic and comedian, and his speaking "eloquently" is not all that surprising. Anyway, upvote for the video itself. Thanks for the content (but not necessarily the heading), BB.

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He's awesome - I'll take the compliment!

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you look a bit like Eddie Izzard in this pic, Dag

Happy anniversary! Today marks year number 2 since you first became a Sifter and the community is better for having you. Thanks for your contributions!

Well said, and thanks for the promote!

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as suicide narratives go, this is one of the more subtle and funny ones. appreciate its wry honesty. too many films "dealing" with this topic drift into facile bleakness or over the top humor. instead of the dead, this is a testament to what was left behind, which is in reality all that one can do in the end. *doublepromote

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Hehe, no, I didn't end up going to NY after all... Too bad. Didn't have time.

Started school again, so I'm up to my neck in homework and finals right now, which accounts for my low siftage
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Wait... how the HECK did I miss your message about the New York sift-up 5 months ago???!!! Did you have fun?

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