Friendly Reminders

When Others Get Disrespectful...Clint Can/Will Get Medieval

With so many new subscribers in the last month—thank you!—a few too many unkind comments lately, I think it’s time for a friendly reminder of how we do comments here at Collide Press:

1. Be kind…or rewind (elsewhere).

2. Keep it above the belt.

3. Opinions and tastes are not facts.

4. Celebrate differences—don’t debate them.

I’m all about Showing Love + Shutting Down BS.
Wrote a post about it. Wanna read it? Here ya go.

We’re all grown-ass adults, so let’s act like it. Cool? Cool.

I suggest rude dudes and no-you-don’t-know-it-alls to stfu and learn some manners. I’m nice…until I’m not. Don’t fuck around and don’t find out. Please and thank you.

ON DOLLARS + COMMON SENSE

Now that little piece of housekeeping is done, I’d also like to recommend you review your bills. All of them. And push back on the ones that keep creeping up, charging more without giving you more. We have to be our own advocates, right?

Yesterday, after almost a decade, I canceled my Internet service…after discovering the company was charging me more than double for less than half of what I found another provider was offering.

Business is business…and some businesses don’t deserve our money.

In my case, it was Spectrum. Bye, Spectrum.
May the cord-cutting trend continue. Couldn’t happen to a worse industry IMO.

Also, how many streaming services does one person—me—need? Bye, Netflix.

Keep it kind and let’s unwind!
Clint 🌈✌️

ON THIS DAY = MARCH 4

BIRTHDAYS

• 1678 = Antonio Vivaldi = Italian violinist and composer

• 1760 = William Payne = English painter

• 1877 = Garrett Morgan = American inventor

• 1913 = John Garfield = American actor and singer

• 1914 = Ward Kimball = American animator, producer, and screenwriter

• 1932 = Ed Roth = American illustrator

• 1932 = Frank Wells = American businessman

• 1936 = Aribert Reimann = German composer 🌈

• 1938 = Paula Prentiss = American actor

• 1939 = Robert Shaye = American film producer

• 1941 = Adrian Lyne = English filmmaker

• 1944 = Bobby Womack = American singer-songwriter

• 1947 = David Franzoni = American screenwriter and film producer

• 1948 = James Ellroy = American writer

• 1952 = Svend Robinson = Canadian former politician 🌈

• 1953 = Emilio Estefan = Cuban-American musician and producer

• 1954 = Catherine O'Hara = Canadian-American actor and comedian

• 1961 = Steven Weber = American actor and comedian

• 1965 = Paul W. S. Anderson = English filmmaker

• 1967 = Sam Taylor-Johnson = English filmmaker and photographer

• 1969 = Chaz Bono = American writer, musician, and actor 🌈

• 1973 = Linus of Hollywood = American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1986 = Mike Krieger = Brazilian-American Instagram co-founder

• 1988 = Josh Bowman = English actor

• 1993 = Bobbi Kristina Brown = American singer and actor

• 1999 = Brooklyn Beckham = English model and socialite

EVENTS

• 1628 = The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.

• 1789 = In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.

• 1837 = The city of Chicago is incorporated.

• 1865 = U.S. politician Andrew Johnson made his drunk vice-presidential inaugural address in Washington, D.C.

• 1882 = Britain's first electric trams run in east London.

• 1922 = First vampire film Nosferatu, an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, premieres at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Germany.

• 1933 = Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States, pledges to pull the US out of the Depression, and states in his inaugural address "that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He is the last president to be inaugurated on March 4.

• 1933 = One of the largest LGBT clubs of hundreds in Berlin is shut down nine days after a “Public Morality” directive that gay bars and clubs be closed.

• 1950 = Walt Disney’s Cinderella is released in theaters.

• 1966 = In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now."

• 1985 = The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.

• 1998 = In Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The SCOTUS rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• Fat Tuesday

• National Grammar Day

• National Hug a G.I. Day

• National Sons Day

PORTRAIT + QUOTE OF THE DAY

About his youth and working for Walt Disney:
"We thought we were always going to be 21 years old. We thought we would always be putting goldfish in the bottled drinking water, balancing cups of water on the light fixtures, changing the labels on cans of sauerkraut juice. We were 21 years old, Walt was 30, leading the pack. Working there was more fun than any job I could ever imagine."
Ward Kimball

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• YouTube = Playlists + Streams + Videos

LINKS
Bluesky + Ko-Fi + Linktree + YouTube

SHOP
Art Prints + Merch + Pride
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