it’s democracy, yo!

The short attention span strikes back! Whipped this up this morning, needs a good caption. Post ‘em if ya got em!

results of annoyance motivation

I completed 4 of 5 tasks. Cleaning, Laundry, some Nickel and Dime pages, posting to the workshop and Medium Rare got pushed off to work on websites. I did in fact have leftover steak for dinner though, so karmically speaking, well no, not karmically speaking. I got bonus Refridgerator cleanup and minor dusting done. When I start whining about my lack of time again, I really need someone to punch me in the gut and remind me about annoyance motivation, it channels well.At dinner I watched K-19 which had been tivo’d for two months and I’d been interrupted in middle of four times. Finally made it through the radiation sickness. You know it was a pretty tragic event, and the men on board, without a doubt were heroes, but I wonder if some other beings might be somewhere looking down and musing about how silly we are for eradiating ourselves, dying horrible deaths because of what equates to nuclear armed locker room rivalry. Human behavior is just dumb. No thoughts on Ford’s Russian- I did however think how justifiably bitter some of the old Russians might be by having American Movie Star Harrison Ford telling this story. It’s not as if they don’t have actors in the former Soviet Union, rather just actors most American audiences haven’t heard of, or wouldn’t take the time to see. Which just supports the attitude that we’re a bunch of self centered asses, which to be perfectly honest doesn’t require all that much support any more.The situation in Sudan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict) is freaking me out. It’s not even that I’m all that informed- that’s kinda somewhat the issue, as it was with Rwanda. Hello, genocide? But the US’s stance on the ICC is just, giving… me… a… headache. Monkey-man and his stupid sanctions and secret club with the Sudanease Government? If he somehow turns this into yet another play for oil I’m really going to have to look into something drastic. It’s the kind of nightmare that people are just oblivious about because it doesn’t pre-empt American Idol. Which is another thing, how the hell do you make a hit show named Idol when conservatism is supposedly sweeping the nation. Idolatry you morans? Monkey-man and his band of raving lunatic monkey cabinet are forcing me to care about the rest of the world more than the Nascar rally that’s going on in Downtown Raleigh tonight. (Yes, what the HELL? A Nascar Rally?) I think that really must be his plan for spreading democracy and freedom- Just fucking abuse the hell out of the rest of the planet until they all rise up against us, and we rise up against ourselves.

fixes and hoors

Got around to fixing the busted gallery, that was bugged after last patch. Things appear hunky-dory now, but haven’t uploaded new images lately so that will go to the mental ‘Things to do when Procastinating List’.Turned out a lot of webpage code this weekend. The flash is getting there, that’s the last component I’m fighting with on the CHF design, but I want to make sure it doesn’t look cheap since it is the first thing. The existing graphic logo hasn’t been helping me there. What’s so odd is I think at some point in the past, although I’ve been doing webpages forever, I decided I didn’t want to do webpages, not really. And yet here I am. Designing 3 different site for people, and getting paid to run a site essentially. HA- fate you’re so funny, with that whole “I’m going to make you as miserable as humanly possible” silliness. Not that I’m all that miserable, but everyone should know by now that the Internets exist for 1)unmitigated bitching and 2)porn. So yeah, get over it.I am such a horrible, horrible procrasto-hoor. Well procrastination to an extent, but my scripts really are getting the redheaded stepchild treatment right now. Let’s compare my desire to write to like, a huge traumatic wound- like an arm amputation. When blood is pooling at my feet, I’m on fire, pages, ideas, outlines, hyper-funess of creating characters and learning them and it’s a huge surge of adrenaline. Then you cauterize that wound- channel the pain into the first 30-45 pages, realize your structure is bollocks, and so you go back, struggle to look at things from a different angle, hit those major skeleton necessities and all around just painfully torture yourself into “I can’t write” and “Let’s watch TV” moments of manic depression. It’s the nerve damage and the gangreen setting in. This is where I am. Stagnant. Frustrated. It sucks, because successful writers don’t do this, I’m pretty sure. I mean to some extent procrastination is the universal trait of writers, but you gotta get past that at SOME point right? So yeah I really need to get past it. I also need to clean my apt and do laundry. There’s got to be a switch in my brain somewhere, that I can like stab, with an ice pick or something and successively accomplish things in a timely matter. And now I’m bitching just a little too much. Unacceptable. These are the things I will accomplish tonight:

Laundry
Dishes and Bathroom Cleaning
2 pages of N&D
2 pages of Medium Rare
and 1 Workshop post & 1 review

That’s maybe a lot, but fuck it I’ve annoyed myself into action.

cinco de what-o?

Boy oh boy, have I been busy. Got a chance to breath here before I leave work, so I’m getting my blog on real quick. Websites galore. The return to flash animation (not for my site). Hitchhikers. We like Hitchhikers right? Yes we do. Excellent adapt with expansion room, really looking forward to more. Cast all around was the bright point. Zaphod, Arthur, Ford; really never thought I could love these characters more and happy to say I now do.House vs. L&O SVU earlier this week. Fred vs. Hugh. It helps that Hugh wasn’t playing a rapist. Fred disconcerts me, and L&O producers manipulate me by making ‘Gabriel’ sympathic in the first hour and then weirding me out with German nannies in the second hour. But Mr. Molina looked good and that’s all that matters in the end. Jessica Lansbury is amazing at 80-what years old? Fantastic.Missed LOST yesterday. Soooo annoyed. I was busy churning out webpage code, dialogue and essentially tracing low-res graphics that I zoned until about 10pm. I still worry for Locke. Locke es mi hombre.Mothers, Births and other eventful -Days coming up. Cheesy horror fest at my place the 13th. Final draft ate four good, fresh brain pages yesterday, another blip on the annoyance radar; but it wasn’t N&D, rather the first TV spec I decided to try my hand out. Sign from god? Que sera…

stuperstition

Well next week is the Nicholl deadline, and this coming Saturday is the Telluride deadline, so a lot of writers are going mad with the superstition I guess. I don’t really have any when it comes to writing, but maybe I should cultivate some. If anyone has some goods superstition suggestions, hey help me out, throw me a comment or an email.

Dusty Baker cracks me up. On why he’s doused Mark Prior’s arm in holy water:

“There’s something to it,” said Baker, who isn’t even Catholic. He added, “I just hope that my sinning doesn’t negate the effectiveness of the water.”
Don’t we all, Dusty, don’t we all?

I’m also making a few new Mambo skins for the site, so if things start looking strange, don’t be alarmed.