Various items, things, and stuff
Over at Cinematical, I wrote a piece called “Happy 25th Birthday, PG-13 Rating!” that you might find interesting. At Film.com, we have another edition of Eric’s Ten-Year Itch, this time examining “Deep Blue Sea,” a shark movie that I still find entertaining a decade later.
Next, take a gander at the right-hand column of this here website and you’ll see two recent changes. One is that I’ve added my Twitter feed so you can see what sort of fascinating observations I make in 140 characters or less, without actually having to use Twitter. I feel like the only legitimate uses of Twitter are 1) sharing amusing links and 2) cracking one-liners, and I’d hate for you non-Twitterers to miss out. As an alternative, you can just ignore it.
The other change is the ad for Dish Network, the one that seems to suggest you can only use that particular satellite TV service if you are Mormon and/or if you intend to watch the LDS General Conference in October. Rest assured, this is not the case! People of all religious inclinations, or of no religious inclination at all, are welcome to use Dish Network. That ad was chosen by the people who choose such things because they knew I had a lot of Mormon readers, and what’s the use in having Mormon readers if you can’t sell things to them? (Of course, most of my Mormon readers live in Utah, where you don’t need satellite, or even cable, to watch General Conference, but shush.)
Anyway, I get a commission if you sign up for Dish Network by calling that phone number, so you should sign up for Dish Network by calling that phone number.
Speaking of commissions, may I remind you of my Amazon affiliate program? Simply put, when you intend to do some shopping at Amazon, you should come to EricDSnider.com first and click “Shop at Amazon.com” under the “Buy Stuff” tab at the top of the page. That will result in my getting a commission on anything you buy in that session. (It works the same way if you click an Amazon link on any of the movie reviews, regardless of what you actually end up buying.) If you have Amazon bookmarked, you can make all of this happen automatically by replacing your bookmark with this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F&tag=thelandoferic&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
Finally, a member of the U.S. Coast Guard named Brandon DeVore is training for a 100-mile charity bike ride to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. When he isn’t on a ship or riding a bike, he wastes time reading EricDSnider.com, so he asked if I’d help spread the word about his need for donations. He has a goal of $2,000 and has raised $375 so far. If you can spare a few bucks for a worthy cause, visit his site and donate.
