Mike Bawden

I'm a marketing guy with a serious history fetish. You'll find my branding blog at and personal blog at

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@HumanityChad It's the Giant Dog Slalom. Well done. :D

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@JeffreyGoldberg As an aside, if there's ever a way to go out and have an old fashioned with this guy and @jaketapper, I'll buy.

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I don't post much anymore. And I generally try to stay away from politics. But if there's an episode of @washingtonweek worth watching, it's this deep dive into America's shadow president ... https://t.co/kwNJIbBXV3

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Kudos to @JeffreyGoldberg and the team at this show for this episode. Thank you.

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Best of luck to @realfuturedude Jeffrey Morris on his new documentary, The Eagle Has Landed. You can back it on @Kickstarter like me! https://t.co/CePrjYbNc1

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Taking “the clothes make the man” to the next level …

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Darth Vader's armor holds many secrets that were never expanded on in the Star Wars movies, but that have been revealed in tie-ins over the years. https://t.co/Vt5mXhmhfd

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They should have named that movie: STAR WARS GREATEST HITS and just owned the fact it was a cover-band version of a 70s classic.

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@utescootin THE FORCE AWAKENS is absolutely nonsensical.

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@BurnettRM #StarTrekish

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Bummer ... 😢

[Variety @Variety]

Tony Bennett, Master Pop Vocalist, Dies at 96 https://t.co/fICQxS1ZlB

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@chrishemsworth I think you've found the MCU's Silver Surfer to take on The New Avengers when the time comes. Just sayin'.

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Watch: New Videos Take You Inside ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3 Visual Effects

#StarTrekPicard
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When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

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@BurnettRM This makes me wonder if an Avengers/Winnie The Pooh crossover event film would work. C’mon Disney, get on that, would ya’?

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@Serena Let’s talk sometime. I was on a call yesterday with 20 people who could use your wisdom.

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@JohnBerman You'd probably be safer if you were surrounded by Vibranium ... although you might not smell so good. I understand it doesn't "breath."

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Could it be???? Yes! Just what the @PGSCommunity has been asking for ... only more of it!

#StandByForNews

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@evans2544 @lana_yuen @YouTube JUNE 1st...The IMAGINATION CONNOISSEURS Show...

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@MartinoSulmoni @BurnettRM @HeelvBabyface @GeorgeMolho @tomjrjackson @PuertoGeekan @tm0rk 👏👏👏👏👏👏 ... that's as close as I can come to a standing ovation over Twitter. Well done, @MartinoSulmoni !

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This is INCREDIBLE.

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#GreatCeasarsGhost

[Bill Hunt @BillHuntBits]

I am VERY disappointed to report that @WBHomeEnt has completely screwed the pooch on their #Bluray release of MAX FLEISCHER’S SUPERMAN.

First, the remastering has removed way too much grain and fine image detail. And you can tell, because the new SPEEDING TOWARD TOMORROW featurette reveals the raw footage prior to remastering and there’s plenty of fine detail, organic grain, and crisp line work visible there. But it’s all been cleaned away in the actual shorts. And sadly, that’s not the only problem.

The shorts have also been overcompressed. This disc is a BD-50, so there should be PLENTY of room to include the shorts at a proper data rate of 25-30 mbps to ensure the highest quality, and instead they’ve been compressed to a paltry 15-16 mbps!

My unfortunate recommendation is for people to cancel their pre-orders immediately and demand that this release be redone with proper remastering and compression. Because as it is, the image quality here is appalling. @thedigitalbits

[Robert Meyer Burnett, Viceroy of Verisimilitude @RMBee]

Deeply humbled. Many, many thanks to all of our viewers, my members, supporters, and fellow content creators I’m so lucky to have as part of the channel. Ever forward friends!