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Hey ICE! Irony alert!

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Dear Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

I don’t know exactly how you got to be the de facto copyright cops for the entertainment industry, but when you start putting out videos like this:

…you might want to make sure you’re not putting foot firmly in mouth. See, downloading illicit movies might cost that boom mike operator her job. But you know what certainly will? Reusing and recutting NYC’s anti-piracy PSA for your own benefit, thus denying a boom mike operator a job.

So…for the record, ICE has cost at least one boom mike operator a job. In the words of the video’s street huckster “you’re what’s wrong with everything.”

Man, I certainly hope ICE licensed that video. Wouldn’t it be ironic if they pirated and plagiarized an anti-piracy PSA?

Frisbee – Term of the Day

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Frisbee – adj – a term used to describe something that is shallow, lacking any intellectual or creative merit, yet which is enjoyed without guilt.

Ex: The Killers’ first album was total frisbee music. Their latest album is just a bad rip-off of Wham! and Tears for Fears.

The term is derived from two sources. The first is a comment on the relative depth of a frisbee, or relative lack thereof. Thus, any work described as “frisbee” is noted as having a lack of depth. The second is the game of Frisbee – it is fun to play every once in a while, but play too often and you run the risk of turning into, well, the people in the video below. Obviously, things described as frisbee are best enjoyed in moderation.