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Raisin Gang: Daniel Kurland

Posted on June 20th, 2025 – Comments Off

Another two weeks down and still nothing. To make matters worse, I know that the next focus of my exposé was active as little as a couple of hours ago (as of this post).

I’m talking about Daniel Kurland:

His penchant for impersonation and deranged thinking led him to be involved at all levels in the Gang hierarchy:

But even among his peers Daniel is exceptional due to his antisocial and inhumane tendencies:

As demonstrated early in his career, Daniel fancies himself to be a bit of a pop culture aficionado:

Using his position as a writer for Den of Geek, Vulture, Bloody Disgusting, CBR, and ScreenRant, Daniel has managed to spread his nauseating ideology beyond the confines of the Gang. He’s even gone so far as to promote his activities on his own website, via podcasts, as a Rotten Tomatoes critic, and presumably targeting children via graphic novels.

In short, the guy’s a real piece of work. To think that he’s been operating for over a decade and a half (to the best of my knowledge), is frankly unfathomable. He’s lucky he’s moved to New York where I can’t get at him.

To any Raisin Gang members reading this, a message: the list of names is dwindling, along with your opportunities to contact me!

Filed under: B Sides, Patrick Bay, Videos

Morning announcements

Posted on May 6th, 2010 – Comments Off

Have you noticed any changes around here lately, dear reader? I’ve slowly been sneaking stuff onto the site…that TwitPic flip book at the top of the front page, TCLand (current to August 2009, but now there’s Caribana :( ), TCL by Month, the Tumblr site for picture junkies (occasionally with exclusive stuff), various shuffles, re/moves, and additions.

And I’ve added paid advertising. For realsies this time. It’s high time I try to do this thing fulltime because, if I may be honest, a year and a half in I love this blogging thing more than my first day. I entirely agree with most ad networks’ policies that I shouldn’t be asking you to click on any ads. It’s crass, a justifiable reason to get booted off the ad network, and you being the intelligent person you are make the sole and conscious decision to interact with any advertising that appears on this site. I wouldn’t insult you like that.

In order to be entirely transparent about my reasoning behind this effort, you should understand that any revenue that TCL generates goes directly toward helping me pay rent, eat, pay for hosting fees, and all that other stuff that requires money.

Generally speaking, revenue on sites and blogs is generated through the sale of ads, many of which pay when they’re occasionally clicked on. In effect, a a simple click on an ad ends up, via various channels, supporting the site on which it appears. In a very indirect way, the site that loads when a viewer clicks is providing financial assistance to the site carrying the ad. I like to think of this as the credits at the end of a PBS program. Hope you find this information useful.

So yes, I’m selling ad space and I’m getting something together where folks can actually invest in the blog — the idea is for these investments to accrue in value over time (if you believe TCL will accrue value over time, that is), and I’m going to try to get prices down to as low as a buck a pop — $1 – so it might be affordable for you too. I’ll explain how it works later, hopefully it’ll make so much sense that it’ll make your head explode.

But wait, there’s more!