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trevor — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:54:55 +0000

I am now posting potentially catchphrase-able, culturally mandatory, fraught with substance, implication-laden, thesaurus-using, enormously influential, little tweet things every weekday. Follow me.

It Begins Again

trevor — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:41:46 +0000

The wonderfactory will return next month with all new comics. The Oppressed Optimist will resume soon after that.

Thanks

trevor — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:31:21 +0000

I am surprised and delighted to see that people are still reading these comics and leaving comments, a year after I stopped writing them.

I might think about starting up again.

Wonderfactory Store

trevor — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:16:45 +0000

The Wonderfactory store is now up and running!

Check out some hot t-shirts now!

Oppressed Optimist

trevor — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:59:28 +0000

The Oppressed Optimist is back! Now at OppressedOptimist.com

pacific

trevor — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:22:18 +0000

all publishing times now in PST.

the oppressed optimist

trevor — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:50:56 +0000

no more oppressed optimist for a little while as it transitions to its own website.

musics

trevor — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:45:47 +0000

what i’m listening to:

The Go! Team – Proof of Youth

Kanye West – Graduation

Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam

Caribou – Andorra

M.I.A. – Kala

People are smart??!!

trevor — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:33:03 +0000

According to their new-ish marketing scheme, Ditech believes that “people are smart.” Or rather, Ditech believes that saying “people are smart,” in their advertisements will cause people to get loans from their company.

Hmm.

There are two things wrong with this marketing scheme:

1. People are not smart.

2. People don’t even want to be told, “people are smart.” No one thinks that people are smart. That would be stupid. What people do like to hear is, “you are smart.” Everyone thinks that they are smart, but no one is stupid enough to think that everyone is smart. Even the really, really, not smart people.

In other words:

This scheme would only really work if Ditech was wrong, and people were really so stupid that they thought, “people are smart.”

commentary: public libraries are destroying the film industry

trevor — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:59:10 +0000

The public library system is destroying the film and book industries. Don’t believe me? Consider this.

I want to see a new DVD release. I could go to Blockbuster and pay my good honest American dollars to rent the movie, thus paying my dues to the creators of the film and rendering the cycle of capitalism complete.

But no! There is another option–one that allows you to get this movie for free using the power of the internet! How can one resist such a temptation? Am I talking about illegal filesharing? No! I’m talking about the public library system.

If I want to see a new film, I simply log on to the internet, select the movie I would like to see, and click on it. Then, I pick it up from the public library 2 blocks from my house. All without paying the movie studios or their hard-working employees a dime!

You might say, “but Trevor, the libraries pay for their copy originally!” Balderdash! So do illegal filesharers who rip a DVD in the first place. The library system is no different.

It’s not just movies either. The public library system in this county alone has hundreds of copies of the new Harry Potter book. Each copy is undoubtedly read by dozens of people. That comes out to thousands and thousands of copies of the book that consumers don’t have to buy! Poor, poor Mrs. Rowling.

Now you skeptics will say, it’s legal to get movies from the library, and it’s not from the internet. But what if it was the other way around. What if the library offered downloads of new films, and there was an illegal underground network of DVD sharing instead? This DVD-sharing network is robbing the movie studios legal or not.

The bottom line is, public libraries are destroying the film and book industries and we must stop them at all costs!