I know a bit early, but seeing as there a pile of new humans coming in from various announcements, and the sooner I can clear all vestiges of John's Bad Day at Whiny Rock off the front page ...
Comics - Business-y Stuff
Zombie Tales: Memento Mori - Complete Story/panels
Zombie Tales: Luther -- by Mark Waid
Funnybook Publishing Pt.1: Old and Busted by Ross Richie
Comics and Geekery
Fandamentalism
The famous "Geek Hierarchy" Chart
Moral Advantage: Gamer
Comics: Year of the Bummer
Comics: Womb Crazy!
Wold Newton Universe
Zombie News/ ZOMBIE TALES
Comics: Sweet Four-Color Vengeance
SPOILERS -- the Interview with God
Zombie Tales #1 - Everybody Digs Zombies!
New Media Writing (Rage against the Studio Machines, Baby):
4th Generation Media
Video Ipod: 4GM Baby Steps
Writing:
Writing Life
Writing: Beginning
Writing: Whose Viewpoint?
Eternity Has Residuals
Writing: Adaptation (Pt.1)
Writing: Adaptation (Pt. 2)
Writing: Adaptation (Pt. 3)
TV: Corner Gas
Writing: Adaptation (Pt.4)
Writing: Software
Writing: Adaptation (Pt. 5)
Writing: Plot and Story
Writing: How Small a World?
Writing: Q&A #1
Writing: Q&A #1 Followup
Writing: You Don't Need Pg. 11
Writing: Agents & Managers
Writing: The Pitch
Writing: The Pilot Pitch - Background
Writing: The Pilot Pitch - Prep
Writing: The Pilot Pitch - The Room
Writing: Screenwriting The Sequence Approach - Book Review
Our attempt at screenwriting academia:
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt.1)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 2)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 3)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 4)
Global Frequency
It's a "Global" Frequency Now
Miranda is ... annoyed
One Last GF Question
GF wow
GF Reviews and E-mails
GF Update #1
The True Geek Conversations(tm)
#3892: Batman vs. Punisher
#651: Catwoman Edition
# 5643: Ju-On, Red State Version
#36679: In Which Bo & Luke Duke Kick a New York Jewish Election Worker to Death
#36679 cont'd: Sophie Mae's Choice
#436: I Love Lucy -- Issue Zero! The Origin Issue!
Politics:
The Latest Rants:
Defense Against Celebrity Marriage Amendment
Lunch Discussions #145: The Crazification Factor
The Rest:
Who's Your Daddy, Broward County?
I Miss Republicans (nominated for a Koufax, spiffy!)
Spongiform Sexuality
Win Kamchatka, Win the World
Oh. Oh, Canada.
Gay Marriage
Activist Judges
Will of the People - (the inter-racial marriage/gay marriage polling stats)
I will Punch Florida in the Goddam Neck
SPOILERS! -- the Interview with God
Swearingen for Senate
You Can Know Jesus ...
Learn to Say Ain't
Senate Quicksand
Learn to Say Ain't - Feedback & Criticism
That Ironic Smell
"Toxic Spiritual Nature" ...
The Groom Grinds a 360!
The President and Intelligent Design
I WISH Hollywood Was That Organized
Hybrids and Hypotheses
Iraq and Roll
Booming Babies Still Want Bidey
57% of Americans are Traitors
I'm All Out of Reasonable
'ellllooooo Clinton!
Somehow We Have Grown Too Small for our Britches
Commander in Chief
Fundraising
Army Emergency Fund - Total
Katrina Relief - Total
The semi-famous LOST: You Uncurious Motherf*ckers
... and, just because it was always my favorite:
Top 10 John Wayne Titles That Could Also Be Porn Titles.
Thanks for visiting. And leave with the assurance that anything you find interesting or amusing -- that was an accident.
Friday, November 25, 2005
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Blue Beetle
Today's Wizard broke it, so there you go. I may be the only guy who's gotten a job by mocking his future bosses into it. Shows you how cool the DC folk are, however.
No spoilers today. Thread is here for reactions and sniping.
No spoilers today. Thread is here for reactions and sniping.
Oh, and you should still be reading ...
Latigo Flint, the greatest gunslinger ever to be born a hundred years too late. Go back through the archives. Read it all. This is a tiny corner of unappreciated comic genius.
Dingo, the serialized novel by Michael Alan Nelson. He's now reached the spot in the book where you realize everything's about to get ... weird.
Dingo, the serialized novel by Michael Alan Nelson. He's now reached the spot in the book where you realize everything's about to get ... weird.
PZ Myers
Good Lord, do I really not have him in my Sidebar? I have wronged you, people. For all the crunchy evolution goodness you could need, with a side helping of a disturbing squid obsession, you must go to Pharyngula.
And there's always the Talk.Origins website, on the odd chance your waiter is one of the recently unemployed school board members from Dover, PA and you get drawn in to unpleasant small talk.
And there's always the Talk.Origins website, on the odd chance your waiter is one of the recently unemployed school board members from Dover, PA and you get drawn in to unpleasant small talk.
Writing: TV Jargon Preservation Index
Thanks to a Metafilter question, renewed interest, so here's a link to all 4 pages. After my rewrite's done, I will take another run at updating and expanding this.
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt.1)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 2)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 3)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 4)
Technically, this is mostly sitcom writing-room jargon. We'll shade it out when we do the Wikipedia entry. (And I'm not kidding)
And a nice find, backtracking a link:
TV Tropes Wiki
Oh, and on the assumption a few of my writer friends are mucking about here -- feel free to update in Comments. I missed some big ones, as I've been out of the room for a few years and like all jargon it falls away as soon as one stops using it. Chris Downey said "Jack story" the other night over beers, and I banged my head on the bar for forgetting that one.
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt.1)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 2)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 3)
TV Jargon Preservation (Pt. 4)
Technically, this is mostly sitcom writing-room jargon. We'll shade it out when we do the Wikipedia entry. (And I'm not kidding)
And a nice find, backtracking a link:
TV Tropes Wiki
Oh, and on the assumption a few of my writer friends are mucking about here -- feel free to update in Comments. I missed some big ones, as I've been out of the room for a few years and like all jargon it falls away as soon as one stops using it. Chris Downey said "Jack story" the other night over beers, and I banged my head on the bar for forgetting that one.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
From the Depths of the Rewrite ...
... random thoughts:
-- No, I have not been doing a lot of political blogging lately. The Vice-President is openly in favor of torture, the President seems to have a problem with operating cutting edge Bronze-Age door technology, and the Iraqi government we installed and are protecting without our troops have declared that whacking US troops is not terrorism in their book-- the insurgency version of the famous moment from Beanstalk Bunny: "He's Jack!" My feeble swipes at satire seem unworthy.
That said, reports that Cheney has encased himself in armor and built a series of identical Cheney-bots now seem completely plausible.
-- the "denim" department of even the swankiest department store: kind of porny.
-- Watching the final episode of Rome on the couch in my garage with a good buddy, then watching Tivo'd Veronica Mars while eating Rocky Road, a kitten on my lap ... not gay, but certainly gay-ish. I see now where the line is.
-- Margaret Cho's latest, Assassin, is not quite as sharp as her remarkable troika of I'm the One That You Want/Notorious C.H.O./Revolution. I'd pick up that box set in a heartbeat, but maybe let Assassin slide until cable. Her stage and mimicry skills are still impressive, but there are fair number of jokes in here which are more applause lines/unexplored setups than executed material. The audience feels a little sluggish, too. *
That said, it's always nice to see someone so empowered in their sexuality. The only person I can think of who trumps Margaret Cho is Amanda Marcotte over at Pandagon. Marcotte is so sexually empowered, I walked out of my office yesterday to find her vagina had stolen my parking space.
* (Bonus trivia: My own sitcom pilot shot on Margaret's sitcom's stage immediately after it had been cancelled. Her bookstore became my Irish bar. Hollywood is indeed high school ...)
-- No, I have not been doing a lot of political blogging lately. The Vice-President is openly in favor of torture, the President seems to have a problem with operating cutting edge Bronze-Age door technology, and the Iraqi government we installed and are protecting without our troops have declared that whacking US troops is not terrorism in their book-- the insurgency version of the famous moment from Beanstalk Bunny: "He's Jack!" My feeble swipes at satire seem unworthy.
That said, reports that Cheney has encased himself in armor and built a series of identical Cheney-bots now seem completely plausible.
-- the "denim" department of even the swankiest department store: kind of porny.
-- Watching the final episode of Rome on the couch in my garage with a good buddy, then watching Tivo'd Veronica Mars while eating Rocky Road, a kitten on my lap ... not gay, but certainly gay-ish. I see now where the line is.
-- Margaret Cho's latest, Assassin, is not quite as sharp as her remarkable troika of I'm the One That You Want/Notorious C.H.O./Revolution. I'd pick up that box set in a heartbeat, but maybe let Assassin slide until cable. Her stage and mimicry skills are still impressive, but there are fair number of jokes in here which are more applause lines/unexplored setups than executed material. The audience feels a little sluggish, too. *
That said, it's always nice to see someone so empowered in their sexuality. The only person I can think of who trumps Margaret Cho is Amanda Marcotte over at Pandagon. Marcotte is so sexually empowered, I walked out of my office yesterday to find her vagina had stolen my parking space.
* (Bonus trivia: My own sitcom pilot shot on Margaret's sitcom's stage immediately after it had been cancelled. Her bookstore became my Irish bar. Hollywood is indeed high school ...)
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