April 2009
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doihaveswineflu.org →
The best website I have ever seen.
— Much better this way
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“I like when people use the word patently.”
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Is anyone interested in a mentorship position?
Room8 and I have worked our way through the first two seasons of Friday Night Lights, a show that up until now I have ignored because I couldn’t bother to feign interest in a high school football team in south Texas.
Boy was I wrong. While not as intense, I have to say that Friday Night Lights is up there with The Wire in terms of production values. Amazing writing, amazing directing,...
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There was a single blue line of crayon drawn...
I just got notes from a friend on The Pirate Princess that were something good.
Last night I was able to feel highly productive working on my current script, not just polishing but also feeling I dare say inspired toward creating a better story (see previous entry).
My friend’s notes were exactly what I like in the creative process. Namely, a contribution that sets your mind spinning into...
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“You know you’re doing well writing when you have no idea how long ago the...”
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nebraskagasm:
Save Your Love For Me - Nancy...
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The Day So Far...
Things I’ve liked: Reading about my friend Spence’s sugarneck.
Things I’ve hated: Spence referring to me as “man-boy.”
I’ll get him yet. Although it probably won’t be in a body hair competition. Or music, television, theater, basketball, books or any other sort of competition I can think of. To be honest, most of our interactions have been him...
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Everything's Beachy
The Beach: A Picture of Images of The Beach
For some reason, birds in California are ridiculous big. These seagulls seemed friendly, but soon became ravenous, tearing a little girl to pieces in an effort to get her french fries.
Room8: Part One
Room8: Part Two
Mistaken for a rogue bear, Room8 was attacked by a frenzied mob of beachgoers, still upset over the seagull incident.
This is...
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Something so much more
I don’t know if I should be pleased as punch or debbie downer over the groundswell of comments suddenly remarking on my naked body. It’s either I’m incredibly sexy or my pictures are more interesting than all the words.
By the way, I’d be buffer if I worked out.
The California sun is cascading down my face, because it’s really hot here. And it’s strange,...
Stop looking at me, Swan!
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The only place you've known
Room8 and I enjoyed a nice day at the beach today, which was exceptionally tiring, in part because we spent an equal amount of time stuck in the car as we did at the beach.
But today was an incredible day. The first really “warm” day in months. I know, California carries the myth of endless nice weather, but I’ve been wearing pants every day till today. So we go and sit on...
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Miles per Minute ratio is 8 in this post
I’ve been alone at work all week as my boss is on vacation. This means that of the 24 hours of my day, I’ve got about 23.8 of them to myself. The 0.2 is possibly interactions with Room8 depending on if he is or isn’t working.
8 of those hours are spent sitting in this chair, which makes me go slightly crazy and I tear across the internet like a sugar-rushed 10 year old in a...
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I've joined the Twitter underground
twitter.com/monsterbeard. Follow me before it gets interesting.
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A day
To do lists would feel a lot better if you made them after the fact. Today:
See Evangeline Lilly in the car next to me. Check.
Go to work. Check
See absolutely everything on the internet. Check
Blog about half those things in a 4 hour period. Check
Clean up dog vomit. Check
Work on script. Check
Consider joining Twitter. Check
There’s more, but let’s leave it at that. ...
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Note to self
Don’t save a new draft of your screenplay in a different place and then be unable to find it, all the while editing your new draft and thinking “haven’t I done this before?”
Deja vu. It’s not just for hackers anymore.
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Was Limp Bizkit Really That Bad? (Short answer,... →
“It’s overly generous to argue that Durst is in on the joke, exactly; when he threatens to wield a chainsaw against trash-talkers on “Break Stuff,” or names a song “Break Stuff” in the first place, he probably doesn’t intend to exaggerate white-male angst till it becomes satire.”
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Dear Subway...
nebraskagasm:
Dear Subway,
As someone who spent close to a year working for you when I was 16, here are some thoughts that I know you would be interested to hear.
Stop making employes say hello when someone enters. I understand the motivation behind the act, but speaking as someone who used to do it, it turns into a lifeless Pavlovian response to the door chime. Speaking also as a...
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Dorks, An Example
Bob: "fully operational:" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29964926/
Me: FEAR WILL KEEP THE OTHER WORLDS IN LINE! FEAR OF THIS BATTLESTATION!
Me: Sorry, I meant systems. The other systems in line.
“It’s sad. Several generations of college students learned their grammar from the...”
– Geoffrey K. Pullum in 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice, an attack on Elements of Style
(via thedailywhat:piquant)
(via kaytee)
Bob, I need your expertise. Please everyone feel free to chime in as well.
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In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
- Ezra Pound
“PF: This isn’t Jeopardy, dogtalker. You don’t have to answer in the form of a...”
– Paul Ford interviews Steve Burns from Blue’s Clues (via cantoni)
Wow, Ftrain. It has been a time.
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A solace of ripe plums
I had my interview today. At an agency, with a Senior Vice President. Important, right?
Right. Trust me when I say the man found little “likable” (or any other synonym thereof) about me. Without going into details, he felt that I was not able to fulfill the duties of the post, which involved plenty of multi-tasking, being nice to people on the phone, dealing with other assistants,...
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Now you google "how to tie a double windsor"
I have an interview. Tomorrow. At an agency. For a job. Wish me luck.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“Yet now, when he heard that she was there, he suddenly felt such joy, and at the...”
– Anna Karenina just brought a smile to my lips.
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To be among those in the know
The intimate details of my life, as requested:
Community is defined thusly:
a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists
Community is the reason people stay together. Companionship, a group of like-minded individuals helping each other...
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Reasons I love The Decemberists
“I’m made of the bones of the branches, the boughs, and the brow-beating light
While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy high
And my fingers extend to the leaves and the eaves and the bright,
Brightest shine, it’s my shine”
- The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing, The Hazards of Love
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Tell me what to do
Ladies and gentlemen, in the interest of serving the public good, I am turning to you, to discover what is needed to improve and strengthen the Monsterbeard™ blog and Monsterbeard™ brand in general.
Take the time to feel important, reveal yourself in the comments, and make me feel good about myself as well!
Get This - Survey Results - GlowDay.com
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“What kind of world is it where any Iowan CAN get married but Californians...”
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So, Bob sent me this interview with Bill Hader...
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Monsters Vs. Aliens Reviewed
Monsters Vs. Aliens, the new film from director Rob Letterman, is a piercing and gritty look at the world of border crossing and illegal immigration, in the same vein as such intense films as Traffic and Crash.
Taking an untraditional approach, the title suggests a disgust with both sides of the issue, but the film accurately, and often unsettlingly, balances this dangerous world of intrigue. ...
