http://www.susannaspeier.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:37:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Waiting for Tsunami" The message was posted on my Siberian-Angelino friend Sasha's Facebook wall. My Exurbian-Malibu cousin, Jennifer's, posted Tsunami watch updates on her Facebook wall, as well. My anti-social-media dad left me a concerned voicemail warning yesterday. Uncertain, due to my transient existence, which coast I would ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/politics/waiting-for-tsunami-politiku/ Mr. & Mrs. Fitch on Twitter Went to see Mr. & Mrs. Fitch with my friend, J. Hotham the other night. While, it was impossible not to love the tender yet jaded but still lovingly crafted characters, I was constantly distracted by playwright, Douglas Carter Beane's limited understanding of ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/scriptwriting/what-mr-mrs-fitch-do-and-do-not-get-about-social-media/ Happy Birthday Dad Dad does not share his daughter's enthusiasm for social media. In fact, if anything, its something he goes out of his way to avoid... ...this kinda stuff. Imagine my surprise when my brother reported my Stepmother --in response to his new found obsession with the iPad-- had come up ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/family/the-art-of-embarrassing-my-dad-on-his-birthday/ From Susannaspeier.com Saint Valentine St. Valentine's Day --the day originally established to commemorate a priest who defied Claudius II to perform marriage ceremonies against the explicit orders of the tyrannical Emperor's ruling that young men remain unmarried in order to maintain a strong army --is political in origin. From Susannaspeier.com Sex and Politics The connections ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/politics/valentines-day-politiku/ A friend said this to me over noodles just off St. Marks Place. It was just after bellydance class. Were discussing a behemoth monstrosity of a badly run Hollywood studio.  A studio that fancies its employees to be family and yet is out-of-touch with their needs.  It is a ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/uncategorized/the-hollywood-studio-that-is-kinda-like-the-chinese-government/ As New York's Social Media Week nears its end, transparency emerges as the consistent thematic refrain.  I am therefore soliciting a Transparency Politiku from all New York Social Media Week attendees.  Here is the question:  How does social media make you transparent? From Social Media Week Photo of @mameres and me ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/blogging/transparency-politiku/ Sun CEO Tweets His Resignation, Haiku StylePosted using ShareThis http://www.susannaspeier.com/uncategorized/sun-ceo-tweets-his-resignation-haiku-style/ From Daniel and Jamie's Am concerned Kee-hap's transition from Daniel and Jamie's West Hollywood paradise to NY's Arctic front when we head to NY tomorrow. And it's more than just weather I'm concerned about.  Kee-hap a great traveler and makes friends wherever she goes so it's not the social aspect ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/family/cat-on-a-plane/ Nick Roberts just responded to yesterday's Exurbia post saying how impressed he is with Max, Hannah, and Lily's grasp of Exurbia and then challenged them with the following questions: How sustainable is it? What happens after the end of oil? and... What if the internet doesn't work? From Exurbia Max: I don't ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/family/sustaining-exurbia/ From Exurbia I asked my cousins Hannah (age 10), Lily (age 7) and Max (age 12) to blog with me about Malibu, Exurbia.  We started by taking turns typing Exurbia blurbs: From Exurbia Lily's Exurbia Blurb - Exurbia is some where out of the city, it is some where were we live, it ... http://www.susannaspeier.com/family/malibu-exurbia/