Your house is so dirty your mama has to wear combat boots! Ahh, brings back my high school days.

Here at the CyberFrequenices headquarters -- we were sure the smackdown was coming to a multimedia project called The Entryway, about a couple of white chicks who move into a house of Latino immigrants to learn Spanish.

Now always start with the positive, right? So the good news is it's a great idea and super cool looking site...but...instead of getting to know the family, they totally "otherize" them.

They chastise the family for not learning English, seeming to equate it to a year junior abroad in Spain.

It's like duuude...they left the country and people they love behind to make ends meet, not to sit in the Barcelona sun conjugating verbs. I taught ESL for years and it was so friggin hard for folks to make it to class because they worked two and three jobs -- and when they did come they were bone tired.

But to our shock, the smackdown didn't come. And in fact LAist wrote a gushing blog, the public radio types weren't far behind, the Knight Foundation's promoting them, and they got a shout out from LA Observed.

When the smackdown did finally come it wasn't from the white blogosphere but blogger Daniel Hernandez. Lots of angry folks commented on his blog, including Ask a Mexican’s Gustavo Arellano.

Now I’ve actually met The Entryway ladies and I gotta say they’re really nice women – just totally clueless about matters of race.

But leaving aside race for a minute, I have some real issues with their approach journalistically.

Essentially the family featured in The Entryway are opening up their home and private lives to The Entryway ladies, and The Entryway ladies are turning around and VERY publicly dissing them.

In this entry they talk about how they thought they had finally found a clean Latino home (the implication being most aren’t), but then to their horror there were, gasp, cockroaches.

Now to me this borders on petty gossip -- it's not Perez Hilton telling all about Britney Spears, in which case fair game. But it's just a little small family they're supposed to be "getting to know", and maybe developing an affinity for. Now I've never even me them but my first thought was -- how’s the little girl in the family going to feel when the whole world reads about her family's cockroach moment without putting it into any kind of context?

We had a show where we talked to blogger Shannyn Moore, who made allegations about Sarah Palin. Now I’m not a huge Palin fan and I certainly wouldn’t call her powerless! But we still went to Palin for comment.

If you're gonna dog someone out that you’re covering -- other than the president or Bill Gates -- then journalistically you should have the balls to tell them to their face and include their response. It’s only ethical, it's only fair.

In fact I gotta go and send The Entryway ladies my blog right now so I'm not being a hypocrite!

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On CyberFrequencies' latest podcast, we spoke to author Diana Grove. She wrote Dot.Conned, which is about conning the Internet con men. In one chapter, Grove gets an email from a pretty young girl named "Earl," who offers her inheritance. Grove takes on the character of "Prophet Opus" (see photo above!) and sends email pleading with Earl for money.

Here's a dramatic reading by John Rabe and Karen Fritsche.



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If you look at this movie from TED Talks -- minute 11:10 -- you'll see that the kids don't know how to identify common veggies like tomatoes and potatoes:



Queena Kim -- yes the the co-producer of CyberFrequencies Queena Kim -- refuses to believe it's true...that's right, she thinks Jamie Oliver is risking his career to put up a fake.

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Turns out the revolution will be televised -- on YouTube!

Though Arianna Huffington has been on a Move Your Money mission, and there's a website called Move Your Money, we here at CyberFrequencies wanted to remind you of the original move you money honey who started a debtor's revolt revolution on YouTube -- Ann Minch of the Debtor's Revolt.

Listen to our podcast and hear what she has to say.

Also featured on the podcast where internet comedians Rhett and Link's bailout video.



And of course let's not forget Peter Finch's evergreen performance and the Debtor's Revolter's rallying cry -- I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE ANYMOOOORE!

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Here's a video from the winning project -- LA River Rubout -- in our UCLA multimedia class -- picked by a panel of judges...read more to find out who the judges were.

To make this video...these badass ladies, Jessica Perez and Rachel Sulprizio, drove their cars down in the river before the rainwater had drained out:

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Lola of the famed kid band iOla! stopped by the CyberFrequencies studio to sing a spoken-word-meets-Joni Mitchell rendition of Hotel California.



Hear more of iOla! by listening to this week's show (we didn't podcast it b/c it was a re-jiggered repeat)   Read More...

That's right -- a beer float! Gotta say it tastes pretty good (Queena was driving so I know!)

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Well Tiger's in the news again today and I just happen to have a video explaining to Cindy Crawford why she should have used Tiger Woods' nanny instead of the one who tried to export cash for pics of Cindy's all kids tied up in a game of cops n robbers:


But you know, I have a random video for every occasion -- for example here are some robbery tips for the digital age:
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We've been getting emails from y'all asking "Why aren't you producing more podcasts?" "What happened!" And as of yesterday, why aren't the "subscribe" buttons working?

The short answer: We're in freeware hell!   Read More...

Our Podcast this week features Ray Bradbury's musical “Wisdom 2116,” which he wrote for an old couple he’d befriended as a young man. It’s taken Bradbury more than 50-years to see the musical performed on stage. “Wisdom 2116” is a robotic love story about the beauty of growing old as humans.

We caught up with the legendary science fiction and fantasy writer at his home in Los Angeles where he talks about everything from Bo Derek to his writing process. Here's a video of some of the outtakes. You've heard of Sh** My Dad Says? Well here's sh** Ray Bradbury says.




Watch clips of the play:



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