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<a href="http://sfist.com/2009/03/12/local_trekkie_upset_about_scale_of.php">Our old trekkie pal Zennie Abraham</a> is back on <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?entry_id=47447">his City Brights blog</a> questioning the display currently in the windows at the Calvin Klein store in the Westfield Centre. A reader wrote in to say s/he thought it provoked images of African-American lynchings, given the ropes and, we suppose, the fact that these are literally black mannequins. We would argue it looks a lot more like circus/gymnastics imagery to us, given the trapeze and all, but sure, someone could make an argument that the bodies randomly slung by two ropes are questionable. Anyway, it's hardly a question for national concern, but Zennie has put up a poll and he's asking you to vote. We've embedded the poll here, so, for Zennie's sake, please let him know what you think.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Old Friend Zennie Has Some Advice for Twitter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Remember our old <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/03/12/local_trekkie_upset_about_scale_of.php">old pal Zennie</a>? He of the <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/05/09/our_old_friend_zennie_finally_gets.php"...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2009/08/04/our_old_friend_zennie_has_some_advi/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c24274244ad066cdcf4512a</guid><category><![CDATA[misc]]></category><category><![CDATA[martha_stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category><category><![CDATA[zennie]]></category><category><![CDATA[zennie_abraham]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Barmann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:00:08 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/03/StarTrekSFguy-thumb-640xauto-70164.jpg" medium="image"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://img.sfist.com/assets_c/2009/03/StarTrekSFguy-thumb-640xauto-70164.jpg" alt="Our Old Friend Zennie Has Some Advice for Twitter"><p>Remember our old <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/03/12/local_trekkie_upset_about_scale_of.php">old pal Zennie</a>? He of the <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/05/09/our_old_friend_zennie_finally_gets.php"> controversy</a> and <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/04/08/a_video_post_in_which_our_old_frien.php">Giants game meanderings</a>? Some of you may know him as a SFGate City Brights blogger (a title shared by <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/08/03/getty_brothers_update.php">those eloquent Getty brothers</a>), and today on his e-soapbox he has figured out how Twitter can finally monetize their ridiculously relentless traffic. His answer: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?entry_id=44851">partner with YouTube</a>, which apparently in one step will generate some percentage revenue fee for the traffic sent to YouTube videos, and will help twitterers to "jazz up" their profiles and tweets, like they do with photos. Certainly we'd rather have an instructional video from <a href="http://twitter.com/MarthaStewart">@Martha Stewart</a> when she twitters a recipe for currant/raspberry crisp, rather than just <a href="http://twitpic.com/cnc0f">a lousy photo</a>, but we're not sure this would translate to too many dollar bills.</p><i>Star Trek</i>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Old Trekkie Friend Zennie Finally Gets To See <i>Star Trek</i>, Questions the Film's Diversity Quotient]]></title><description><![CDATA[You may recall Zennie from his <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/03/12/local_trekkie_upset_about_scale_of.php">complaints about the "outsized" proportions of the futuristic San Francisco</a> shown in the...]]></description><link>https://sfist.com/2009/05/09/our_old_friend_zennie_finally_gets/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5c242ca944ad066cdcf7193d</guid><category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category><category><![CDATA[movie theater]]></category><category><![CDATA[star trek]]></category><category><![CDATA[zennie]]></category><category><![CDATA[zennie_abraham]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jay Barmann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 13:45:56 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_aEsu6Klx3o&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1">
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<p>You may recall Zennie from his <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/03/12/local_trekkie_upset_about_scale_of.php">complaints about the "outsized" proportions of the futuristic San Francisco</a> shown in the trailer for J.J. Abrams' new <em>Star Trek</em> film.  Well, the movie's out, and <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail?blogid=95&amp;entry_id=39803">Zennie's got his tickets</a>! (See link for a tangent about his high school bike club in the 70s.)  In the video posted here, in re: the new <em>Star Trek</em>, Zennie asks the question, Where are all the black people?</p>

<p>RELATED: <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/03/16/william_shatner_responds_to_sf_trek.php"> William Shatner 'Responds' to SF Trekkie</a>, <a href="http://sfist.com/2009/04/08/a_video_post_in_which_our_old_frien.php">A Video Post In Which Our Old Friend Zennie Goes to the Giants' Opening Day</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>