While the aspiring Apatows and Reitmans of the world have YouTube, and the blogosphere is often used as platform for self proclaimed "celebrity experts" to comment on everything from Lindsay's latest DUI to Mischa's cellulite, there is no place in the vast forest of the internet for the fledgling fiction writer to tell their version of Once Upon a Time.
We were never afraid of pushing the envelope with edgy films on disability, such as The Red Chapel, about a self proclaimed "spastic" who travels to North Korea to expose the regime's treatment of people with disabilities, but still, ReelAbilities at its nature was guided as a family friendly festival and prides itself on its inclusivity by making films available to all, even the blind.
It actually is at the minute; however you have to go through a process of registration, accepting terms of non-disclosure (huh!) and basically self proclaiming yourself to be a worthy person to have sight of the draft report.
You still hear conga and salsa on the radio and in nightclubs, but the Miami sound these days is darker and less seductive than it used to be: from Trina, the self proclaimed "Queen of Miami" to Pitbull, Flo Rida and Rick Ross, whose video for his five-times-platinum megahit Hustlin' swept from South Beach to the gritty blocks of Liberty City.
Worse than that, some of these self proclaimed "pro-lifers" went on to suggest that it was a shame that the Bishop's own mother had not finished him off before birth.
The truths proclaimed to be self-evident in the United States Declaration of Independence have to do with the essential nature of persons, not the conditions or times in which they live.
A self proclaimed "male feminist ally" turned out to actually be a sleeze?
"I think it's time that we start making examples out of terrorists both self proclaimed and those who actually decide to act!
Interactive harassment seems to have been the normative behavior in the Dolphins community, and it is likely that Jonathan Martin allowed himself to be a self proclaimed "pushover, a people pleaser" in order gain acceptance by the group.
John Kasich, a self proclaimed nice Christian guy, has got to be asking himself what in heaven's name he could have done to deserve the wrath of his Heavenly Father.
