Click on a color. In fact, click on several.
I created a new tag for this one.
This is beautiful
StandardClick on a color. In fact, click on several.
I created a new tag for this one.
Order of the Stick makes me laugh and cringe.
For them what don’t know, OOTS is a funny webcomic in which the stick figure characters live in a D&D universe–which sounds dreadful, but isn’t.
Steve saves Diana
StandardI watched the new Wonder Woman animated movie.
At one point, Steve Rogers Trevor saves her life after fighting alongside her.
Nothing else needs to be said, I suspect.
(Okay, I can’t resist–I wish the show had done something with the way an army of Amazons landed on U.S. soil to “liberate” us.)
Things I have to do before I leave
StandardTuesday, I leave for So Cal at 4:44 am, and I have a lot to prepare. Here’s a checklist of things I’ll need to bring:
- Books to read, preferably ones put out by my publisher.
Clothes that fit and don’t look terrible. (My wife spent part of this morning sewing buttons back onto shirts–I don’t deserve her)
Thank you gift for the friend who is putting me up.
The rough cut DVD of the low-budget film I helped produce.
kiddie gifts for our former roommate with a new baby.
My old laptop bag, which isn’t comfortable but is much more appropriate for crowds than my dumb backpack
Checkbook for splitting expenses.
A list of items I need to research in L.A.
My sense of humor and adventure.
A towel.
A camera
Notebooks and pens
I plan to update this list as I think of more things.
That doesn’t sound like much, but jeez.
I eat
StandardTonight, I’ll be meeting my family (wife, son, visiting sister-in-law) for dinner at my favorite restaurant. It’s provincial French, and very simple. Not too fancy, but delicious food.
I wish they’d put the Normandy Chicken back on the menu, though.
Should I mention that I had completely forgotten about it, and that my wife had to call me to remind me? No, better not.
This. Is. Awesome.
StandardTurn fast food take out into beautiful food!
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Eeep!
StandardThis is me, spamming your feeds and lists…
One of my supervisors at my day job offered me a chance to do a reading. Here at work.
Here.
At work.
I… erm… thanked her and declined. I’d just as soon do a pole dance.
Changing the (pop) culture
StandardA Hollywood producer writes–undercover of anonymity–about sexism in her industry. It’s interesting stuff, but here’s one of the many money quotes:
I heard a male agent once say that if the heroine of a script didn’t face higher stakes, he couldn’t see how someone would emotionally invest in her. OK, so the character is never chased to the edge of a cliff or anything, but plenty of successful movies exist with mediocre stakes.
Was anyone ever truly emotionally invested in whether Owen Wilson got it together in “Wedding Crashers”? It could be argued that the stakes of our movie were at least as high as learning to act like a grown man when you are one, so what gives?
Women in Film — We’re Not There Yet (Don’t bother with the comments.)
Transitions are for the weak!
StandardChat rooms: are they relics of a bygone age or are they still kicky fun?
Hee!
StandardThis morning, the Senate Health Committee passed its bill on a straight-party line vote. I hear it’s a pretty good plan, although I’d be surprised if it was as strong as the plan the House just passed.
The White House is calling it a bipartisan bill–not because Republicans voted for it. They didn’t. They’re calling it “bipartisan” because it contains Republican ideas. That matters, because they’re signalling to possible GOP moderates that they are not going to water down the final bill to win a few Repub votes.
Yay! Finally, some hopeful news.
And for bonus grins, ultra-conservative Republican senator Tom Coburn added an amendment to the bill requiring Congress to get their health care from the public plan. Rather than kill the amendment, Sens. Edward Kennedy (who voted by proxy) and Chris Dodd, both Democrats, called their bluff and voted for it.
Now, it seems pretty unlikely that the amendment would survive all the way to the final version of the law, but Kennedy likes the public plan, and really, why shouldn’t our elected leaders have a personal stake in public programs?