February 2010
What's Alan Watching?: Seventeen years ago... →
January 2010
“just like any kid who decides to fuck what his friends are doing and swim...”
– blog « amanda palmer
How (Not) to Make It In Hollywood - the slack... →
Twitter / @fightclubmeta/fight-club →
Been meaning to link to this for a while: a full-tilt twitter re-enactment of Fight Club, using Lists to organize
“Write motherfucker.
What are you waiting for? It’s not going to get any...”
– 750 words
I could have written this. So, follow Sean’s lead, I’ve jumped into giving the 750 Words Project a whirl
by the light of a burning deadline. « Storytellers... →
Elizabeth Bear illustrates why being a writer in America is a shitty proposition
“To all the people watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me...”
– Conan O’Brien’s ‘Tonight Show’ farewell: ‘The hardest thing I have ever had to do’
“Sometimes I outline, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I do both in any given...”
– Best. Writing. Advice. Ever. from E. Bear
Imagine’s “Transmedia Storytelling” Deal –... →
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'Leverage' and the Rise of 'Nerd-Friendly'... →
lizlet:
I don’t write a lot of stuff for the Wrap, but guys, everyone should be watching “Leverage.” It is awesome. And this humble little column is the best way I could think of convincing you to do so.
Age of the geek, baby!
Is David Bowie to blame for the credit crunch? →
“To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by...”
– A Rant About Women « Clay Shirky
“There are lots of forms of what I call incluing, scattering pieces of...”
– Jo Walton - SF reading protocols
Goodbye to All Them by Daniel Nester - The Morning... →
Ralph Bakshi on Surviving in Tough Times Boing... →
“Twitter pretty much laid a stick and a ball in the field and let its users...”
– JeffCroft.com: Ten things that annoy the fuck out of me on Twitter (via tbridge)
Conan O'Brien offered spot on next season's Sons... →
Ari Fleischer's MLB PR Plan: Steroids didn't help... →
“Writing to ‘get it right the first time’ is like driving a car with the...”
– Joan Bolker (via merlin) (via wordstudio)
In other words, Fail Faster
“As a theatre historian, it is baffling to me how willing artists are in this...”
– Theatre Ideas: Outrageous Fortune: Chapter 1: Build a Bridge, Don’t Take Swimming Lessons
“Even those of us exhausted by yet another overlong mawkish gush — let alone one...”
– Why the Na’vi Are Making Me Blue (Essay) - Speakeasy - WSJ
Today in It's Funny Until it Happens to You
wordstudio:
newsweek:
Rachel Sklar’s “Next Year in Media” piece for the Daily Beast is smart and insightful. It’s also, here, a little mean (emphasis ours):
At the end of 2009, Jennifer 8. Lee took a buyout from The New York Times. I wonder if her 9,250 Twitter followers really care. I first saw her name on Gawker, and have read more about her than I have by her. Not that she isn’t a fine...
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Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:
18:48 at The Must for game night. Come on down and challenge @bronwensaurus to a hand of Uno # 22:34 @meganwest until about 15 minutes ago :( # 22:35 @AlistairJeffs sorry ,just saw your tweet. bit.ly/6D8s7n # 22:35 @BeTheBoy Mr. Met has a special reserved table at Lansky Lounge shipped by LoudTwitter
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Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:
14:17 In tribute to every character in the Stieg Larsson novels, we are having sandwiches. Later, I will have coffee too. # 22:50 @meganwest All hail Grand Moff Moffat! shipped by LoudTwitter
Trips & Visits: Royal Tenenbaums Tour « The... →
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Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:
12: 44 I have been dispatched on a pre-Doctor Who beer run to soothe @bronwensaurus and her impending post-regeneration depression # 15:09 FYI, if you want to see @bronwensaurus throw a fit, say the following words in her earshot: "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer" # 15:20 @danhon Geronimo! # 15:24 Watching Doctor Who Confidential. they used a life-sized David Tennant dummy. If they sold those on the BBC website, they'd make a killing # 16:31 @naomialderman it's the
entire premise, plus the network it's on. trying to cheer her up with increased odds of seeing him at Starbucks # 16: 46 @naomialderman prolly not. after all, Life on Mars wasn't an NBC show. # 17:23 @naomialderman we should be so lucky # 23:03 @YuriLowenthal I love that episode because they have the argument "It's doggerel!" It's NOT doggerel!" Nobody says doggerel on TV anymore # 23:17 @YuriLowenthal at your request, I present the new Gaytham For Statham apparel line: bit.ly/7ORBwr # 23:36 @apelad he saw the Union Forever. shipped by LoudTwitter
“I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much,...”
– Theodore Isaac Rubin (via littlemiss) (via howdysailor) (via lyriquediscorde) (via meganwest)
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Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:
10:24 Tyrion, my Macbook Air, was just returned to me with a new logic board. Hopefully, it’ll, y’know, WORK now. # 11:10 @paperlung @maryamurphy “Oh, like I’m really going to eat carbohydrates” # 11:59 @wilw Say the catch phrase, or the Prime Minister dies! # 14:06 @Annaleen The Bush Administration? shipped by LoudTwitter