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Russia Today Coverage & backlash

Russia Today has produced there second video on Twin Oaks.

Though i have only been able to watch the first half because of slow internet connection, i am pretty pleased with the piece.  There is no narration, so if there are things i wont like, they will be representations from Oakers of things in the community which i disagree with.

What i do find somewhat surprising is that even though there are only about 8,000 hits to this YouTube post over the last 3 days, there are almost 400 comments on the video.  Having scanned about half of them, this is what i found.

About 1/3 of them were people who were upset with something.  Often this was the notion of communism, or about Russia Today which produced the piece.  [Russia Today is a 24 hour/day non-commercial news station which is financed by the Kremlin].  Most of these comments had very little to do with Twin Oaks, and regularly they were about how industrial communism had destroyed their country or some part of the world.

There were many critics and a number of admirers.  Some people claiming we kick out people who get old (which we certainly dont), others saying we are missing the point of capitalism (which perhaps we are).  Someone was amused by Ezra’s bathrobe.

Even if our viewership is relatively low, we certainly seem to be able to spark some conversation.

Halloween 2011 Photo Essay

Random Character Line up

Queen and baby bee

i was the MC in my '80s bag lady jacket

Willow had a flaming sword

Zadek with different weapon

Hawina read a pirate shanti

Luuk in mysterious bug outfit

Out tofu battles it out for market superiority

Brenda reminds us we invented the flame war

History of our development of the Flame War

Louisa and Benji go native

Weird, sexy and wrong

Southern Exposure Seed Catalog models go on strike for gnomes rights

After the costume parade the band heats up

And there was much dancing

MC chased from stage by quality control

Most of these photos were taken by Ezra.

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