Dramatic Prairie Dog (Biography)

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Chuck’s notoriety quickly expanded beyond an Internet based mode of consumption and was featured in a number of films in genres ranging from spy to western. These films were bundled together and sold to exhibition sites in block booking contracts. In fact, his starring role in StarWars XII: The Burrow Wars was greeted by fans with such enthusiasm that it was distributed as a blockbuster. Unfortunately, showing the Burrow Wars outside of a standardized block booked fashion meant that many megaplexes were showing multiple films staring Chuck the Prairie Dog simultaneously, to the detriment of overall revenue.

[edit] Venture Capitalist

This created a number of financial problems for Chuck the Prairie Dog. Chuck had invested heavily into PawsOnline, a Silicon Valley startup focusing on social networking based synthetic worlds for pets. Chuck, whose interests were generally limited to prairie activities, reportedly hoped that by helping launch the system, he might find other prairie dogs in the large and alienating Los Angeles area.

However, while PawsOnline purchased extra hardware in order to scale with anticipated demand, financial expects agreed that PawsOnline would never reach that tipping point. Some claim that it was the lack of pet agency that was directly responsible for the poor demand and the company’s demise. Others blame the lawsuits.

Pet owners objected to attempts by PawsOnline to create a virtual community that would provide a site of refuge for pets from their owners. Owners sued PawsOnline over their definition of pet profiles as intellectual property, and demanded that the system be converted into a publicly accessible open source project. The plaintiffs hoped that through a standardized architecture PawsOnline might become an interoperable system that could provide data to a number of different applications.

This lawsuit lead to one of the most notable copyright court battles in recent history, outshining even United States v. Paramount Studios and the infamous Paramount Decree that restructured the distribution of film in 1948. In a surprise and controversial move, Judge Phillip Punxsutawney ruled for the immediate enforcement of network neutrality but expanded the definition to include user and system information. This ruling had far-reaching and unintended consequences that would eventually be referred to as the “Tyranny of the Commons.” Major Internet based applications were forced to either forfeit control of their data, publishing and licensing their information as part of the public domain, or shut down operations all together. PawsOnline did not last long.

Chuck was featured in the iSheep ad campaign.

[edit]Miscellaneous Careers

A bankrupt venture capitalist, with his celebrity legacy in ruins, Chuck was not even able to connect with his virtual prairie pals via the now defunct PawsOnline. With money running out, he turned to other forms of income. Chuck picked up work in TV ads and was featured in the iPhone and iSheep campaigns. Trying to expand his opportunities, Chuck relocated to New York City and began modeling and acting in avant guard silent film. None of these projects, however, were able to return Chuck to his former stardom. 

Chuck first began experimenting with neo-classical dialogue while acting in silent films in New York.

Noted Pornographer

Due to a failing career, Chuck turned to substance abuse and ended up spending six year in rehab. After rehab, and at the advise of Hairy the Weasel (a noted pornographer of the lower East side of Manhattan), Chuck began directing cinema for mature prairie animals.

In his shots, Chuck rejected standard attempt at pornographic realism. Forgoing the obligatory concealed artifice, he embraced an overt usage of the camera and utilized a new mode of production based on the improvisational narrative contributions of his actors. While not the celebrity he had intended recapture, the American Pornographers Association recognized Chuck in 2007 for his contributions to pornographic dialogue. A teary eyed Chuck gave his thanks to the community, accompanied by a montage of his best work.

[edit] See also

• List of Internet phenomena
• Meme - A unit of cultural information that propagates from one mind to another as a theoretical unit of cultural evolution and diffusion.

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