Welcome! Let me introduce you to my blog (sounds like a creepy pickup line)

Welcome to my blog! Now, an introduction to what Tony’s Take; A Mediabreak Production is all about.

First, a little about myself. My name is Tony Nunes, I am a filmmaker out of southern New England and self proclaimed pop-culture whore. Here are four facts that will help you gauge the kind of person I am, and the kind of blog this will be. My idols are Jim Henson and Steven Spielberg. My favorite quotes are “I dream for a living” said by Spielberg, and “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,” a lyric from a Bob Dylan song. I am an avid listener to NPR. And most importantly, I am a loving husband and father.

What is this blog about? This is a fun blog about all things media. I love movies and television, dork culture like comics and videogames, and silly things like puppets. I am interested in serious things like politics, African studies and media studies. This blog will cover it all.

What made me want to start this blog? Good question. The truth is, I know a handful of people who think we live in a society where news and information has been replaced by this subjective world of blogger's, and knowledge has become the great hypocrisy, a notion replaced by judgment and opinion. Well…shit yes it has, and I want to know other peoples opinions. I want people to know my opinion. How interesting would the world be without all these opinions? Granted, news should never be confused with opinion as the case has been on certain quote-on-quote news-programs that promote left or right rhetoric rather than providing cold facts to shape the people’s opinions. But blog's are designed to be taken as nothing more than ideas, personal opinions on things that matter to the blogger, and hopefully their readers. The “Mediabreak” part of my blog’s title is homage to the faux newscasts from the film Robocop, a statement that this is nothing more than my subjective thought process. I took a class on Media and Society in college and had to keep a daily blog, a series of rants on all things media. I loved this project, and found myself missing it as of late. So here I am, starting up my own blog and putting myself out there for anyone to read. Will anyone besides my wife read it? Doesn’t matter, nothings more therapeutic than a good rant now and then

Enjoy!