Celebrate USA's Character Project with a BC Giveaway!

Have you ever watched someone do their thing, be it a ridiculously unfunny bit of shtick, lambasting an unsuspecting waiter for no good reason, or recite both parts of "Who's on First?" all by themselves. What do you think to yourself when that happens? Don't know? Well, I'll tell you, you think to yourself "gee, he's quite a character." I myself never think the "gee" part, but I certainly imagine you to, it's one of those things that makes you quite a character, the "gee." If you said "golly" you'd just be foolish, but the "gee" I think is swell. Hey, "swell," that's another good one, I like "swell," but I don't really think it fits before "he's quite a character." Maybe if you said "That's swell! I tell ya, he's quite a character," it would work, but then you're adding more than just the "swell" bit, aren't you? Let's leave it at "gee" and move on, shall we?

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So, characters. It's not necessarily bad to be a character, I like characters, I'm one of those people who think to themselves "Characters Welcome." Yes, I thought "Characters Welcome" well before USA ever made that they're slogan, I don't begrudge them using a thought I once had, I'm convinced they didn't steal it from me, and it really seems to work with their general ethos.

Now, I don't know if you knew this, but USA has been expanding this whole "Character" notion, and just recently started the "Character Project." Rather than my explaining the whole thing to you though, I'm going to let one of their wordsmiths do it:

USA Network announces the launch of Character Project, an ongoing artistic initiative to celebrate the extraordinary people, from all walks of life, who make this country unique. Inspired by USA’s iconic “Characters Welcome” brand, and with the support of the not-for-profit photography organization Aperture Foundation, USA assembled a team of 11 world-class photographers to capture the character of America during the summer of 2008. The artists’ work is showcased in the powerful photography book entitled American Character: A Photographic Journey(Chronicle Books), which features a foreword by best-selling author and former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.

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Article Author: Josh Lasser

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