by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 28, 2014 | Filmmaking, Politics, Satire
The informative video that I wrote and hosted as a member of the Convention of States Project Alabama a year ago has finally received criticism that I anticipated at the beginning. Specifically, I am referring to criticism of the brief political cartoon segment that...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 14, 2014 | Comedy, Dramatizing History, Filmmaking, Satire, World Views
Strange things arise from idiosyncrasies displayed on the internet. The latest is a term for the raw manly man rebound against the metrosexual prototype – “lumbersexual,” a term that unfortunately sounds like something unnatural happening with trees....
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 12, 2014 | Filmmaking, Politics, Satire
New media journalists know the editorial struggle of what counts as investigative reporting vs. what counts as conspiracy theorizing. Here is an example of it in the upcoming Romans XIII series.
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 15, 2013 | Filmmaking, Satire, World Views
Are you ready for this? Investigative blogger Virtus Coolidge thinks little of the flash drive given to him by new media mogul Andrew Romans until Romans’ sudden death. Virtus discovers he has inherited a mysterious list that intertwines the fate of his friends and...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 26, 2012 | Comedy, Journal, Literary Projects, Politics, Satire, World Views
“All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” ~Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776) This past summer I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2012 | Politics, Satire, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
If you want to send a message to Washington, you must speak in its language. Washington only comprehends the electorate’s desires based upon the margin of victory between the winning candidate and the losing candidate from the opposing major party. If Obama...
