The Copywriter’s Handbook, by Robert Bly. As noted, I write just about everything at my job, from intranet news to forum Q&A to magazine blurbs to policy documents to press releases. And this book shows you how to write, well, just about everything. So it’s a good fit. I love the versatility of this little […]
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OMG THAT WAS THE WORST MOVIE EVER IT WAS EVEN WORSE THAN THE SCORPION KING AND HALF THE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE HAD NO IDEA WHY ME AND STEPH AND THE OLD MAN WERE LAUGHING AND LAUGHING AND LAUGHING OMG THAT WAS FUCKING HORRIBLE FULL STOP OMG HAHA HAAHHA A AHAHAHA IM SO GLAD WE
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Some nights you need to be useful and read and write and be all self-empowering and stuff. And some nights you just need to spend a couple hours plyaingUT2K4 blowing the shit out of stuff. That was deeply satisfying.
So, sometime back, Susan blogged about the BBC series, Robin Hood. And I checked out some fan clips on You Tube. And then the episodes were available on Netflix and I’d finished Rome, so really, why not…? Tonight, I watched the first disk of Robin Hood. Oh my! The Old Man, drawn by the inexplicable
Then… squeeeeeeeeeee! This is why I love fans. And mashups. And fanfic. HBO had better fucking make the series look even half this cool. For serious.
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Disappointing for those of us who really like the good (or at least the “better”) folks to live, but a thrilling, bloody, suspenseful, incredibly well-acted and wonderfully scripted little movie. It’s a darker, grittier, smarter version of Unforgiven. Also: blood and guns and assasins and drug deals gone wrong! Great performances all around; smart, tough,
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Perfect. Absolutely fucking perfect. At least they realized, the second time around, to keep their time in Egypt short. Whoever the fuck cast that chick as Cleopatra should have been fired. She’s the weakest part of the show. Dump her for somebody who’s actually interesting, and it would have been a perfect show. But really,
150 pages into Undertow, they were still having tea and discussing plot. There’s nothing inherently WRONG with having tea and discussing plot, but you know, you do it enough times, for enough pages, and it gets really dull. Also, I had a tough time connecting with any of these characters. The assassin is dull and
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Another good reason to watch Rome. Cause I found Nyx: OK, so she needs to be taller, darker and put on ten more pounds of muscle, but watch her take on the guys in Rome (in every way), and oh yeah – that’s Nyx. I love it when that happens. But why aren’t they writing