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After you write your book, get an agent and get it published, then (if your agent didn't sell it to some big, bullshit publisher with a heavy-duty hype department, in which case you do whatever dumb-ass thing they tell you to do), you have to somehow get someone to read the sucker...and review it. That's close to impossible. The pages with this notification have thousands of media boys and girls listed, one of whom may hype your book. They have to justify their existence somehow, right? G.

July 3, 2023

"On or before July 14, 2023" the host of my website is bagging it for lots of exquisite reasons. So am I. You can see the last 20 years or so here:

https://web.archive.org (stick everyonewhosanyone.com in the box).

They're getting rid of my email address, too. Use this:

gerardjones@proton.me

If you want to read my written stuff, click this:

https://gerardjones.medium.com/lists

If you want to see or listen to my video/audio books, click these or this and look around:

https://vimeo.com/showcase/9864586

https://vimeo.com/showcase/9862816

https://vimeo.com/user41893142

If you want to know how to write, click this:

https://gerardjones.substack.com

Thanks. G.

Gerard Jones
gerardjones@proton.me

Michigan

University of Michigan
Film, Television and Media

https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm

I grew up in Michigan, Royal Oak, Michigan, ten miles north of Detroit. That was how the main roads got their names—by how far north of Detroit they were: Ten Mile Road. Eleven Mile. Twelve Mile. Like that. Starting down by the Detroit River, Woodward Avenue cut across each of the Mile Roads clear out to the lakes we went to in the summer; Orchard Lake, Cass Lake, Walled Lake. That was what you did in Michigan. You swam in lakes in the summer and ice-skated on lakes in the winter. The farther away from Detroit you got, the better the neighborhoods became. I lived a block from Ten Mile myself, not far from the Detroit Zoo.

Royal Oak was famous in the thirties and early forties as the home base of a radio program put on by a guy named Father Coughlin. Father Coughlin was a Catholic Priest whose virulent anti-Communist, anti-Semitic tirades went out over the airwaves to every city in conservative America from the pulpit of the Shrine of the Little Flower. The Shrine of the Little Flower was on the corner of Twelve Mile and Woodward. According to my grandmother, anyone who listened to Father Coughlin ought to have been stood up against a wall and shot. Not long after I was born, the Catholic Church pulled the plug on his radio program. Practically speaking, I don't think my birth had much to do with it, but you couldn't convince my grandmother of that. She thought me getting born was the cat's pajamas.

Ginny Good, Chapter Three, Royal Oak (1942-1960)

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8964693

Michigan State University
Film Studies

https://filmstudies.msu.edu

Grand Valley State University
Film and Video

https://www.gvsu.edu

Oakland University
Film Studies and Production

https://oakland.edu

Eastern Michigan University
Cinema Studies

https://www.emich.edu/cmta

College for Creative Studies
Film and Media

https://www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu

Wayne State University
Film & Media

http://comm.wayne.edu

Interlochen Center for the Arts
Films, Writing and New Media

https://www.interlochen.org

Ohio

Ohio State University
Film Studies

https://film-studies.osu.edu

Oberlin College
Cinema Studies

https://www.oberlin.edu

University of Cincinnati
Film and Digital Media

https://www.artsci.uc.edu

Miami University
Film Studies

https://www.miamioh.edu

Ohio University
Film

https://www.ohio.edu

Kenyon College
Film

https://www.kenyon.edu

Indiana

University of Notre Dame
Film, Television

https://ftt.nd.edu

Depauw University
Film Studies

https://www.depauw.edu

Illinois

University of Chicago
Cinema and Media Studies

https://cms.uchicago.edu

Northwestern University
Radio, Television, Film

https://communication.northwestern.edu

Columbia College Chicago
Cinema and Television Arts

https://www.colum.edu

DePaul University
Cinematic Arts

https://www.cdm.depaul.edu

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Peck School of the Arts

https://uwm.edu/arts

Minnesota

Carleton College
Cinema and Media Studies

https://www.carleton.edu

Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Media Arts

https://www.mcad.edu

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Moving Image Studies

https://cla.umn.edu/mims

Iowa

University of Iowa
Cinematic Arts

https://cinematicarts.uiowa.edu

Missouri

Washington University in St. Louis
Film and Media Studies

https://fms.wustl.edu

University of Missouri
Visual Studies

https://visualstudies.missouri.edu

Webster University
Media Arts

https://www.webster.edu

Kansas City Art Institute
Filmmaking

https://kcai.edu