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:
Be kind…or rewind (elsewhere).
Keep it above the belt.
Opinions and tastes are not facts.
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
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
NEW + FEATURED
Eye Candies + Dandies #1 = On Substack + On YouTube
Substack = NSFW + Pioneers + Pride + SFW
LINKS
Bluesky + Ko-Fi + Linktree + YouTube
SHOP
Art Prints + Merch + Pride
On Amazon + On Threadless
A timely reminder, my internet provider wants me to renew again, it's a pretty good ISP but I might see as a 'loyal customer' if they will give me an upgraded speed for the same price before I renew. It's like my mobile (cell) service I get unlimited minutes/text/downloads and the cost to the landline provider is included and not billed separately. Now I will post a link to a YT AI guy and we are all screwed if this is his level on AI/deepfake he can produce, you just can't believe anything anymore 🧐
https://youtu.be/TzGAgQDI4VA?si=3tH2o2neFgsJ96y9
Cheers DougT 🇫🇴
Well said Clint. I gave up all three of my streaming sites about 3 months back and haven't missed them in the least, not even once. Just never had time to watch. So, I figured if I really can't resist the urge to see a particular film I can pay for and stream it separately as almost everything can be found somewhere on line without a monthly contribution to the already overpaid and often ill-conceived. Side note, in more than three months I still haven't found it necessary to actually buy one. Again, Thanks for all that you do, a.