you fail!



Couldn’t quite manage the bloggage when schedule got a little tight, plus my ‘little bit sick’ turned into lotta big sick before old Xmas. But all is well now.
I’m 27. That is some crazy madness. Indeed.
Holidays wise, no disasters. Still got all my fingers and toes and a fridge full of left overs. I’m currently in Greenville for the New Year’s fest at Cory’s house. In fact shirking off my duties to get the update in. Script-wise I am also slack. But I need a total new ending and my brain is worthless. Anyone got an action/heist/chase explosive finale laying around? I’ll trade you some witty banter and two montage scenes? I’ll even throw in my most excellent blood-spittle scene descriptions!
All the best to all the worst (that is, of you that read my blog) and New Years, etc, etc.

Now off to commence celebratory activities.

*sniffles*



Ein bischen krank jetzt. Das passt mir nicht in den Kram.

So anyway, I’m drinking Tea and OJ alternately trying to irradiate the sore throat with pain! Tonight I switch to Gin. Gin makes a man mean!
Today I came to work and there were presents on my desk. Which is great, presents are great. But I’m broke, and I didn’t get any presents for anyone here. Now I feel bad. Do I get presents and put them in the mail boxes for after everyone returns? Or do I just play it straight through and hope my Scroogeness gets overshadowed by my inability to meet the dress-code? I don’t dislike the people here, but I’m stiffing some of my family even. Dollar Tree? Cheap = bad. Woe is me. Advise me oh Christmas Spirits!

my hearing is bad, but…



Well last night I was disappointed to find my regular Sunday evening programming interrupted by the President. Mostly because it was a new Family Guy, but to be honest most of the President’s speeches end up being more incredible and hilarious than anything on broadcast TV. I was still annoyed though. So I watch for part of it when the whole gist of the thing became clear as another backpeddling effort. In fact all these announcements and blame acceptances and all this crap that’s been coming from the White House lately just reeks as some sort of salvage operation. It doesn’t feel sincere, because it’s taken so long for them to come out and say it, and at this point I don’t want to hear it. Especially if you’re going to qualify every single concession- “Well, I was wrong. But at the time I was really sure I was right, and even though I was wrong, I still think we’re still in the right, cuz we’re Merika, and by me even admitting I was wrong, see, now I’m even MORE right!”

Which brings me to my other point. Merika? MERIKA?! I was really sure I misheard that part, only to find the Intarwebs abuzz with it this morning. Dude. I understand if you failed speech and articulation in college, I understand that accents and pronunciation differ from state to state, and I even understand that he probably wanted to get through that damn speech as fast as possible, but if you cannot pronounce ‘America’ perhaps you could just say ‘the United States’. I am stupifed.

perpetual state of ketchup



Fell behind on the blog, which wasn’t surprising, work got busy, out of town on friday, helping move saturday, not enough hours in the day type of thing. I’m always half a step out of pace with any given thing. Deadlines, bills, etc get the half step back, and things like appointments, movies, I’m always half a step ahead. I hate being physically late to stuff. Weird contradiction, that. On the whole it’d certainly be better being on time or ahead of time for everything, but I’ve yet to manage that. If anyone knows the secret, please share.
It’s been threatening to snow here on and off, and I’m fine with that as long as I’m not on I-40 when it happens. Earlier this year, like Feb or March we had a bit of surprise snow, and people lost their fricking minds! I was on the highway for 11 hours trying to get home! Just as soon not do that again.
N&D will be going out for the big read here shortly, which of course means I think it totally bites the big one. Technically speaking it’s probably more than the 90% the meter over there shows, because there’s just some bridging scenes left here and there, no more than 10 pages. Why it doesn’t move though is I’m not really writing those scenes, I’m editing the previous stuff. Delay tactics. Rereading some of the stuff it strikes me as if I just couldn’t think of a good, original exciting way to write a scene so I just wrote it, boring and hackney’d and cliche, and figured I’d go back and fix it later. Except the whole script is like this now, and ‘fixing’ it isn’t going to be quick, or painless. Thus if you’re one of the people who agreed to do a whole read-through, feel free to point this out when you get to a section that’s unbearably bad. Red-ink. I think I’ll physically attach a red ink pen to the scripts when I hand them out. One of the hardest things when I’m asking for crit, is getting across the point that I want readers to be evil. I mean, okay maybe I’m masochistic, but I really almost want every other line to have a question beside it. Why does Max smoke cigars? Why is this set in Chicago? Why is the sky blue? Because this is what I have a hard time doing when I read my own crap. The justification may never make it into the story, but I want to have it onhand. I’m not going to go in and add a monologue about why the sky is blue, but I know if I keep asking the whole way through it’ll keep me on my toes enough to spot the really horrendous mistakes. That’s my theory at least. I need Snape to crit my script. I can feel the emotional scars growing now. So if anyone else wants the opportunity to berate and insult me, let me know and I’ll get you a copy when it goes out.
That’s it for today. Going to German Church service this afternoon. Need to brush up on my conversation skills.

daaaamn…



Well. I’m a genius. I totally just erased all my comments FROM ALL TIME. They may still be in the dbase, but stupid stupid me was too eager to get this spam thing fixed to bother with backing them up.

So if you posted a comment in the last year or so, feel free to go back and repost it.
And I still haven’t gotten this spamfix working.

ETA: Well I got some sort of comments feature worked out, but old posts are still gone. Will continue to work on it.