Much Tumbling About of Brains

Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:02:05 -0800

15:58 @aab_123 i do? # 18:00 Waiting to pick up pizza from Two Boots. Feel like I’m in a time warp. # 21:58 RT @bronwensaurus: Looking forward to tonight’s Bored to Death. I hope it’s the one where Sam Malone inevitably gets it on with Lilith. # 21:59 RT @bonniegrrl: “Joan is awesome. She’s the Artoo-Detoo of the Mad Men universe.” (RT @clubjade @Glark @taraariano) shipped by LoudTwitter

Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:02:08 -0800

16:17 Highly recommended: RT @boogah: Need some @WordPress help? I'm throwing my hat into the ring as a hired gun. boogah.org/v # 16:23 @danimations hey Dan! i was actually retweeting for my friend @boogah - he's a Wordpress Jedi: boogah.org/v # 20:54 i am wowing @bronwensaurus with my 1999-esque HTML skillage # 22:35 RT @bronwensaurus: @taraplatt Pretty sure we're watching you on Gilmore Girls right now. # 00:16 RT @bronwensaurus: Happy S
unday! One week from today is Nerdpocalypse: New Doctor Who & the first episode of AMC's The Prisoner. shipped by LoudTwitter

Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 -0800

#: 09:58 RT @bronwensaurus: We're obsessed w/candle budgets. Candles are crazy expensive, yet all tv characters' homes have 8000 candles in them.
#: 10:28 @hondanhon tealights are one thing - i'm talking about the "I'm going home to drink wine and be soulfully sad" scene. or the...
#: 10:31 @hondanhon "surprise, you're home and it's romantic" scene, where the house is lit with $700 worth of candles. Retail is expensive.
#: 11:26 @hondanhon are you getting it in HD? we were stuck with the Canadian SD-only feed. Sexy Astronauts are even Sexier in HD
#: 12:13 @hondanhon pay attention to Zoe's apartment. It was also Starbuck's on Caprica. Nice staircase. Especially when lined with candles
#: 13:46 Still trying to kick Devil Cold '09. Hoping some Tan Tan Men will help.
#: 15:31 @MeandOrson amen to that. Best. Movie. Evar.
#: 15:32 @bruces i think your twitter art may have broken Tweetie
#: 16:29 damn if .tv domain names aren't hella expensive to register. what's the story with that? anybody got advice on how to get 'em cheaply?
#: 19:07 @spytap watching 2nd half of Kingdom of Heaven. It's good, but not grabbing me. But you know who's awesome? Eva Green. Vesper Lynd, FTW
#: 21:09 RT @rudy: Dune: "Bunch of desert nomads get really high on worm poop and totally pwn the Navy Seals from outer space." bit.ly/2rmEf3
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Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" ---> NOGOODFORME.COM

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:09:41 -0800

Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" ---> NOGOODFORME.COM:

(via io9)

"There’s something else that people say: They talk about how money doesn’t guarantee..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29:03 -0800

“There’s something else that people say: They talk about how money doesn’t guarantee wins. And they point out that other teams (the Mets, the Cubs, the Astros, etc.) spend a lot of money and don’t win. I think this actually makes for an interesting argument if you want to talk about the inequities of baseball… big markets, small markets, all that.
But the Yankees are a whole different argument. They are their own argument. The Yankees are not a big-market team. They DWARF big-market teams. They are quantitatively different from every other team in baseball and every other team in American sports. They don’t just spend more money than every other team. They spend A LOT more money than every other team. The Boston Red Sox spend $50 million more than the Kansas City Royals? Who cares? The Yankees spend $80 million more than the Boston Red Sox.”

- The best team money could buy - Joe Posnanski - SI.com

The Disintermediation Era | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:05:25 -0800

The Disintermediation Era | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon

Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:02:01 -0800

13:38 @markjeffrey Gordon’s Alive!?!?!? # 13:50 @dearsarah in same boat # 16:06 trying a meditation class at Against The Stream tonight. Or as I imagine it, the Sons of Awareness Meditation Club, HelMel Original (SAMCHO) # 16:09 @BeTheBoy The Mets no longer retain the services of Doug Sisk # 16:16 RT @DalekGary: TODAY I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE TO USE MY DEATH RAY. I GOT TO SAY IT WAS A GOOD DAY. # 19:11 Riverbottom Nightmare Band!!!! RT @hensoncompany: Casting announced 4 this year’s theatrical run of EMMET OTTER bit.ly/30riHR # 19:15 @xenijardin @hensoncompany why is my tweetstream suddenly alive with Jug Band news? shipped by LoudTwitter

What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt) - Space Invaders...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:56:07 -0800

What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt) - Space Invaders - Gizmodo

Yesterday's tweets for today's fishwrap:

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:01:54 -0800

10:49 @noirbettie @slackmistress Cthulhu Baklava - so good you'll go insane # 10:58 home sick. trying to muster enough energy to go to AFI Digifest this afternoon. 50/50 at this point # 11:50 you know what would help combat this cold? Daikokuya. # 12:58 RT @bronwyn: I totally need a kitten today. There should be a kitten rental service for days like this. # 14:29 @deadlightsgirl re SPOILER: as @bronwensaurus said, "Everybody Joss likes is on Team Lizard&qu
ot; # 14:31 whilst tasty, Daikokuya didn't magically make cold vanish. on @spytap's recommendation, settling in with director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven # 14:37 @spytap dude, you're right. EVERYBODY is in this movie. First two minutes give us Michael Sheen, Liam Neeson and Philip Glenister! # 14:57 @Spytap yeah, David Thewlis is in it too. he's awesome # 15:02 @Spytap I see what you mean. Liam Neeson: "I once fought 2 days with an arrow through my testicle&
quot; that's one heck of a crusade # 17:02 @eecue she gave Jax a blanket in the cemetery in the S1 finale. And Gemma gave her money in an earlier episode # 18:04 @JSto @spytap that scene has the added benefit of featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as the sheriff, otherwise known as Jaime Lannister. # 19:29 in order to provide the Phillies with some extra oomph to get back into this game, @bronwensaurus has changed into her Wonder Woman shirt # 19:30 @bronwensaurus
has also offered assistance to the Phils by asking "would it help if I got out and pushed?" # 20:26 @Spytap stopped at the entr'acte. hard to follow, although that's prolly cause i'm sick. but seekrit Ed Norton, FTW! shipped by LoudTwitter

"I’m often struck by how writers confuse form and formula. Or how writers can take a form and turn it..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:35:40 -0800

“

I’m often struck by how writers confuse form and formula. Or how writers can take a form and turn it into formula (the Hero’s Journey comes to mind). To me, there’s a distinct difference between the two, although it’s difficult to put it into words: like art that I like, I just know it when I see it.

Maybe it’s this: form is a simplicity of line and structure.

Form offers a set of limitations that encourages innovation and releases creativity. Everything from master haikus, which are limited to an entirety of 17 syllables, to films like The Terminator or Star Wars, where the writer/directors needed to create a convincing science-fiction story while working around the problems of budget and limited special effects.

(Contrast the power of a movie like Star Wars to one of its recent sequels, when Lucas had the world at his disposal.)

Form is about, well, form. Structure.

Formula is a contrived and convoluted set of rules.

Form ‘feels’ beautiful; formula does not. Formula suppresses creativity and kills off originality and individual expression.

If form is about structure, formula is about content. Formula is what happens when you don’t understand the meaning of that structure and try to break it down into easy bite-size pieces, a set of instructions you can package and sell.

”

- FORM VS FORMULA: the question every writer needs to ask, and why « Tribal Writer: Notes from a Novelist’s Life in LA

(via matociquala)

The Best Zombie Story of the Year - Boing Boing

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:07:04 -0800

The Best Zombie Story of the Year - Boing Boing

wordstudio: The Stoakes-Wibley Natural Index of Supernatural...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:34:41 -0800

wordstudio:

The Stoakes-Wibley Natural Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns, by David Maliki of Wondermark

Not only is the quality of the output high, but so is the diversity of style and genre. This has to be connected to the break-up of the old US network cartel. In the last decade the four major US broadcasters have had stiff competition from free and pay-per-view cable channels, turning US television into a seller’s rather than a buyer’s market. The creative people have more control and the commissioning process is more open.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:34:06 -0800

Not only is the quality of the output high, but so is the diversity of style and genre. This has to be connected to the break-up of the old US network cartel. In the last decade the four major US broadcasters have had stiff competition from free and pay-per-view cable channels, turning US television into a seller’s rather than a buyer’s market. The creative people have more control and the commissioning process is more open.:

wordstudio:

“Why Britain Can’t Do The Wire” at Prospectmagazine.co.uk

As someone who watches a lot of British TV, this is a bit of a bitter pill. But I guess everything looks better from a distance. The irony is that the article holds up The Wire as a model to follow, when in fact it is a deeply subversive deconstruction of what most of American TV is like. And also not much of a “success” in traditional terms.

Joss Whedon writes a brilliantly funny bid for the Terminator rights.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:39:52 -0800

Joss Whedon writes a brilliantly funny bid for the Terminator rights.:

spytap:

An Open Letter to the Terminator Owners. From a Very Important Hollywood Mogul

Dear Sirs/Ma’ams,

I am Joss Whedon, the mastermind behind Titan A.E., Parenthood (not the movie) (or the new series) (or the one where ‘hood’ was capitalized ‘cause it was a pun), and myriad other legendary tales. I have heard through the ‘grapevine’ that the Terminator franchise is for sale, and I am prepared to make a pre-emptive bid RIGHT NOW to wrap this dealio up. This is not a joke, this is not a scam, this is not available on TV. I will write a check TODAY for $10,000, and viola! Terminator off your hands.

No, you didn’t miscount. That’s four — FOUR! — zeroes after that one. That’s to show you I mean business. And I mean show business. Nikki Finke says the Terminator concept is played. Well, here’s what I have to say to Nikki Finke: you are a fine journalist and please don’t ever notice me. The Terminator story is as formative and important in our culture — and my pretend play — as any I can think of. It’s far from over. And before you Terminator-Owners (I have trouble remembering names) rush to cash that sweet cheque, let me give you a taste of what I could do with that franchise:

Via

The rise of an ancient terror « TFE: Mass Twitter Fiction Events

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:53:12 -0800

The rise of an ancient terror « TFE: Mass Twitter Fiction Events:

A recap of #cthalloween madness

Blog: Josh Lewis » Tomorrow! Twitter + Cthulhu =...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:37:19 -0700

Blog: Josh Lewis » Tomorrow! Twitter + Cthulhu = Cthalloween

someecards.com

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:12:22 -0700

someecards.com

"There are no rules; only techniques that do or do not work in any given circumstance."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:34:47 -0700

“There are no rules; only techniques that do or do not work in any given circumstance.”

- throw another bear in the canoe - across the icy world with polar bears it’s mostly uphill

Is it a gov’t-run ARG? Arnold Schwarzenegger’s coded...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:58:57 -0700

Is it a gov’t-run ARG?

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s coded F-bomb in veto - Boing Boing

Adios, Vacilar? « GameChangers

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:17:44 -0700

Adios, Vacilar? « GameChangers