In the same vein as Strong Bad Emails, here’s “Ask a Ninja”: It’s also a nice demonstration of how expressive you can be with only half a face. Phooey on those who deride masked superhero, space alien, or other makeup-heavy…
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Re-Prioritizing
Question: What do Jane Espenson and I have in common? Answer: We both forgot about the application deadline for the Disney Writing Fellowship. Okay, so I didn’t actually forget. My write-a-screenplay-over-Memorial-Day-weekend plan didn’t quite work out, due in part to…
An infinite number of monkeys?
I’ve read this twice– no, three times now– and I keep thinking it’s got to be a joke. From Microsoft’s job listings for MSN Search: Hand crafted resultsWhen all else fails, and the ranking algorithms do not pass the confidence…
Movie Reviews: X3, Over the Hedge, Cars
It’s been a while since I blathered on about movies. Here’s a braindump: Possibly the best thing about X-Men: The Last Stand was that D and I went with Loren and Suzie, good friends whom we hadn’t seen in a…
Palms Down
Rant of the day: In the context of The Game, PDAs are nothing but trouble. I have never played a Game which used PDAs in which there wasn’t some sort of technical failure which required Game Control to reset, reboot,…
You’ll Go Blind
Hasbro is advertising a new Super Soaker toy called the “Oozinator,” which, in addition to water, expels “globs of gooey bio-ooze.” Their words. If you can’t figure out what’s wrong with this picture, treasure your innocence. Jeffrey Rowland politely labels…
Chain of Links
From my Google Personalized Home Page (get your own at http://www.google.com/ig)… To Kung Fu Monkey: Electoral College 2… To Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results… To Images of the social and economic world… To Worldmapper. And…
Post-Film Discussion #1123: The Da Vinci Code
(upon exiting the theatre)CKL: So, what did you think of the movie?D: I have two words for it: National. Treasure.CKL: Hmm. Or perhaps “Inter-National Treasure”!D: Perhaps. I have two more words: Bull. Shit. Referring, of course, to the egregious historical…
On Writing: Film vs. TV
Thinking some more about the Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program, I browsed over to screenwriter John Rogers’ blog, Kung Fu Monkey, and re-read his post on Writing: Plot and Story. Therein he articulates what I’d been trying to say before,…
Captioned Photos of the Week
Misty wears the cheese. The cheese does not wear her. (What do you mean, you don’t get it?)