Monthly Archives: April 2010

Apr
19

The Edits Shall Continue Until Morale Improves…

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Thanks to some company this weekend, I managed to wiggle out another chunk of editing. This particular scene has been taking me a bit longer than I thought it would, but I was able to finally get over the hump on Saturday. One of those things where my brain understands the concept just fine, but getting the words down and making it work correctly is a bit of a bear. In the end I had to just stop trying to make it perfect and get the bones down. For me, this means a lot of stilted dialog and crappy dialog tags: “Blah blah blah blah,” I muttered snarkily, doing something that’s probably going to get cut next pass.“Blah blah, blah blah blah blah,” he pointed out, making smexy eyes at me.“But blah blah! How else am I going to be able to Comshock with the Groosalugg?”  My mouth pursed as I made an astute observation while… Read more
Apr
18

Early Morning WTFkery

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I found myself looking through old ads the other night – those sexist ones from the 50s? Yeah, I thought they were pretty amusing at first, but as I delved a little further, I found plenty more and then it started to piss me off. So, I figured I’d post a few of them here. (That and I spent most of yesterday completely offline for various reasons, the main one being massive amounts of editing. Probably going to be much the same time today.) 1) Hmmm. Yeah. Blow it in her face dude. 2) You *have* to click on the picture link here and read the fine print. It’s fucking unbelievable. 3) Yeah, we’re pretty useful all right. Let me just get back in that kitchen and make you some pie. 4) Okay. I don’t even know what this is supposed to be selling. (But there were many ads showing… Read more
Apr
16

That Time of Year

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I’ve attempted to rewrite this blog post several times today and it’s just not working. There’s nothing particularly pithy about grief, honestly – or the way people deal with it. Or don’t deal with it, sometimes. I keep mine shuttered very deeply most of the time. But it’s here now, poking at the surface. And it will be for the next few weeks. It’s just how I work, I guess.… Read more
Apr
15

Honest Scrap Award

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I picked up another blog award the other day, courtesy of Danielle. 🙂 And here are the acceptance rules: 1. Brag about the award. And so I have. 🙂 2. Include the name of the blogger who gave you the award and link back to that blogger. 3. Choose a selection of blogs that you find brilliant in honest content. 4. Show their names and links and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with this award. 5. List at least ten honest things about yourself. ___________ So with that in mind, here’s 10 honest (and kinda random and rambling) things about me. 1) I never went to any of my high school proms. Of course, no one asked me either, and I was too chickenshit to go alone. I seem to remember just going for a walk on the beach that weekend instead. And I bought a parakeet, too. 2)… Read more
Apr
14

Walk Without Rhythm and It Won’t Attract the Worm.

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I had a different post idea today, but several hours at the new Physical Therapist’s sorta derailed that. So here’s Christopher Walken in the Best. Video. Evar.… Read more