Once upon a time an excitable friend sent me an email forward. “Toxic rat radioactive urine on Coca Cola cans killing people!” He was worried about my health. I drink a lot of Coca Cola. He meant well. He was not happy with me when I said, “You know, rat urine is not toxic […]
I am always seeing these crazy story boards posted online by writers. They are very ordered and very detailed and very complex and to me look like time outlines for a NASA space mission or a chores list put up for a military camp. Here is one of those crazy story boards: Here is […]
I took a dance class once where the admission form asked you to list past physical injuries. I told the instructor it would be a lot less time consuming to list what hadn’t been injured. Or, you know, just use a highlighter? I don’t want to challenge Fate here, anytime it even might […]
I stopped over on ScriptChat tonight. It’s a Twitter thing, everyone hits one website [the ScriptChat website] and then chats it up and the site automatically adds a hashtag, #scriptchat to the conversation. Which all plays out on Twitter like Twitter comments. [If you are not on Twitter, that will all be […]
Something happened sometime somewhere in some galaxy really close to home. News stopped being about news. News started being about the “Personality” reporting the news. I do not know when this happened. I just know it did. And that something about this is not right. I find myself saying […]
Once in a while — I make the mistake of listening to the radio. Radio stations in Austin are pretty bad in general. [Listen, Austin radio stations if you do not know this, I am sorry to deliver bad news but it is just so.] But I thought tonight I would listen to some […]
Congratulations — Keep pouring in for being a finalist in Script Pimp. There is a Max Adams who is a finalist in the Script Pimp competition too. The thing is. That is not me. In fact couldn’t be me. Because — Script Pimp is an amateur screenwriting competition. To even think I could be […]