Call me paranoid, but I am pretty certain that my cadre of help that I employ around the house are starting to work together and not just to clean my bathtub. I am growing more and more suspicious that they are writing a book detailing their awful experiences incurred by working for me. I don’t [...]
Posts Tagged ‘race’
The Hundreds of Ethnic Minority Groups Make It Really Hard to Be Politically Correct With Your Racism
July 5th, 2011
maxlance1 In the 1970s there were three television channels: CBS, NBC and ABC. If you had a show on the air, take an average episode of M*A*S*H for example, you would pull in a bare minimum of twenty million viewers. There weren’t a lot of choices and nobody cared. People didn’t pine for a thousand channels [...]
The Pacific Miniseries Harkens Back to the Good Old Days of Racism
April 15th, 2010
maxlance1 When our country is currently shackled by two wars being fought against a shadowy enemy, it’s nice to have a miniseries that takes us back to the classic days of being allowed to be obligatorily racist against specific groups of people. The Pacific, HBO’s ten-part miniseries about the Japanese theater of World War Two, harkens [...]
Muslim Audiences Look Like They’re Mocking Movie Versions of Muslim Audiences
June 4th, 2009
maxlance1 Why is it that whenever the Muslim World gathers for a speech, conference or convention they all manage to fit the exact stereotype depicted in the opening fight sequence of every David Zucker movie? It’s almost as if they watched the introduction of Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun or An American Carroll right before [...]
Other Possible "First" Supreme Court Nominees That Would Have Pissed Off Conservatives More
June 2nd, 2009
maxlance1 First Grand Martial of the Gay Pride Parade First Taliban First ten-year-old First kitten First High Times Magazine French Edition Editor First Sanjay Gupta First aborted fetus.
Africa is the Clippers of Continents
April 30th, 2009
maxlance1 More aid is being sent to Africa, more U2 songs are being written and more kids are being whisked away by Pitt-Jolie Ltd., yet the continent still can’t get on stable footing. It’s made me wonder if Africa – the entire Continent – is the Los Angeles Clippers of land masses. Year after year, Africa [...]
Slave Labor Bureaucracy
April 22nd, 2009
maxlance1 Being back in school I thought it would be a productive use of my time to find an internship. Found a great one, but had to deal with a massive load of paperwork to get the unpaid internship in motion. I feel like there is way too much bureaucratic work that goes in to being [...]

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Max Lance is a writer, producer and performer. He was nominated for a Student Emmy, Humanitas Fellowship and was a finalist for the Page Screenplay Award. He writes features, TV and syndicates his blog while hosting the travel show The Trip Next Door and working at Chernin Entertainment. A New York City native, Max graduated the USC film school and now lives in Los Angeles.