NYC Leche Screening MONDAY JULY 23RD

[Shannon Manning]

Please come!

****MONDAY, JULY 23RD****
LECHE MAGICA 9PM!!!!

An evening of video shorts inspired by the word: BLIMP.

No Idea Bar 30 E. 20th St (BTW Broadway & Park Ave.)
FREE! 9PM

*LECHE MAGICA* is an magic elastic association of writers, comedians, filmmakers, improvisers, producers, musicians, and animators working independently and collectively to free their talents from the sway of advertising dollars and dedicate themselves to the illumination of truth and the corruption of youth. Ya basta!

*Leche Magica* features the work of:

* Sean Conroy
* Armando Diaz
* Kevin Doyle
* Jon Goldblatt
* Rob Huebel
* Terry Jinn
* Shannon Manning
* Phil Shane
* Christine Walters
* and *special guest stars*

[belanger]

Sham alert!!!! It turns out it is not really FREE. If you wish to watch the show you have to buy drinks and food.

This is a marketing scheme to get you to spend money at
the No idea Bar.

Please do not get involved with such things.

You will be sad, and you will make your friends sad.

[TerryJ]

Actually...it is free.

No Idea Bar doesn't serve food, by the way.

They do have some nice beers on tap, though...which do cost some money. But you don't have to buy any sort of beverage to watch.

There'll be some entertaining short films in the back room! Some funny...some sad. But it won't make you or your friends sad in a bad way.

So...come on by!

-Terry

[Shannon Manning]

Lest everyone think I am crazy or mean....

I issued a warning about another casting notice, warning that it was a Multi-Level Marketing scheme (which is a "legal" version of a pyramid.) They have since taken down their documenation which showed it to be so (make thousands of dollars by suckering in a whole pyramid of users!) Maybe they are rethinking their biz plan :)

He was also nice enough to remove most of his juvenile emails, except the one above, but since I heard back from a lot of people wondering what I meant by this, I will take this chance to..um..educate!

Like I said, a multilevel marketing scheme is simply "legal" pyramid schemes...just like in every spam email you get.

The law only requires that some sort of product is sold, in most schemes it's a marketing handbook (xerox pages), or instructions on how to steal more email addresses so you can spam more, etc. In this case it's the right to go play a game.

In all cases, the more people you get to sign up the more money you get, not in a direct fashion, but in a pyramid fashion, supposedly reaping revenues long after you stopped "working".

You've seen the spam emails. That's a pyramid scheme with some product changing hands to make it legitimate (and legal for postal system.) Pyramid schemes function due to greed and ignorance and which encourages slimy behavior by slimy means by slimy people.

As opposed to a system like amazon, which rewards you for referrals but does not have the pyramid trickle down. Or getting a bonus, once, for signing up a new customer. That's cool too.

Companies with billions and heavy-hitting celebs like icast and pop.com couldn't make any money and folded. Your friendly neighborhood corporate cash manager suggests you be very careful when dealing with promises of riches from the Internet. We all know the only place to make money is on the TV!

He did make me realize how horribly exploitative I have become. No more beers for those who appear in my movies. Instead you will get points on the back end!

But the back end of zero is um.....Can I buy you a beer? Monday! And kisses for all!

Shannon Manning
shannon@littlecommie.com

[belanger]

You are not mean or Crazy you are a manipulator attempting to use another's project for your own personal grandstanding.

I am from pc187.com, the production company you falsely accuse of being a pyramid scheme. My guess is you can't read or you have some hidden personal agenda (Probably both).

If I follow your logic then, if you are a Big company like Amazon,it is OK to pay sales commissions or bonuses, as long as you call them referrals. But, if a small production company does it, and they are not in the media venue you prefer, or one that you have some personal unknown axe to grind with, then they are a MLM.

From what I can tell, you pratice ALAIP promotions (As Long As I Profit). I recently had the privilege of sailing with a member of the NRA. One of his rules is that all tie lines (rope used to tie a boat to the dock) should be removed from the boat's exterior and stowed below deck, once under way. He said quote "If there are no lines on the boat that can fall in, then there are no lines that can jam up the propeller." I asked him if this applies to guns as well, as in: "no guns in the house, no one can get shot by a gun". He said that is different and set out to rationalize what makes it different. Just like you, he practised ALAIP.

By the way, if you actually took the time to read our website, you would realize that we aren't now or never have been a MLM scheme. But I guess that did not fit your personnal agenda. It is true, that we had sales commission tables up on our web site. We removed them. They were supposed to be only available to our sales team. It was a mistake made by our Web guy (would this mistake make Amazon a MLM?)

I am personally amazed and actually horrified, that based on your seeing some of our sales commission tables, you have drawn the conclussion that we are an MLM and are running around posting messages to that end.

Did you audition for one of our parts and get turned down? I appologize if you did and we did not hire you. If you resubmit your resume, I promise it will get fair evaluation.

Ken

P.S. I see you have now turned to giving away free beers. Is this to: buy influence with others? Or, is it to prime-the-pump so to speak: get them a little buzzed so they order more beer? Or, to get them to forget about how your are attempting to manipulate them? Or, any or all of the above?

:eek:

[Phil]

LECHE MAGICA (tm) is indeed a multi-level marketing scheme. The number of layers in the scheme would boggle even Stephen Hawking. The thoughts in your head began in one of several hundred LECHE MAGICA (tm) committee rooms. The words that come out of your mouth are instantly recycled for use by others by dedicated LECHE MAGICA (tm) nano-droids who live in colloidal suspension in the air. The air you breathe is composed of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and LECHE MAGICA (tm) data bits.

Come to the screening on Monday night and say with the others, "We Are LECHE MAGICA."

Philip A. Shane
Director of Marketing
LECHE MAGICA Universal Bondage Corporation

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