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Fastball! for all of 2006
Thursday
Oct 12, 2006
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Strange Horizons: Stories We've Seen Too Often — Martin
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While the Science Fiction Cliché’s list I posted was snarky, I found this one quite funny. Funny because they’ve read so many of these damn stories that the patterns emerge…
Monday
Oct 02, 2006
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The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches — Martin
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I for one welcome our new cliche overlords. Um, I mean: we need to watch for these. (via Coudal)
Monday
Oct 02, 2006
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Macworld: Review: Montage 1.0 — Martin
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A review of software I beta-tested, and felt the same as the reviewer — not good. Nice guy, the developer, and I like some of his other products. I hope he re-aligns this and tries again.
Monday
Sep 18, 2006
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The Artful Writer: Half-Baked Theory #1: Event Compression — kza
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Really interesting idea about the difference between pacing and compression in a screenplay.
Monday
Sep 11, 2006
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Fake Name Generator — Martin
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Make fake names for your characters with lots of other info. Shockah and I have a different method, maybe we’ll spill the beans someday.
Saturday
Jul 08, 2006
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Slashdot | Deleted Screenplay Fails To Make Money — Martin
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It’s not every day the story of a screenplay gets slashdotted. This happens to be one of them.
Friday
Jul 07, 2006
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The Feast - Updates — Martin
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10 Worst jobs to have in the action film universe.
Tuesday
Jun 27, 2006
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Spitball Krew — Martin
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From the not-our-Spitball department, straight outta Ohio.
Monday
Jun 26, 2006
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Tom Bendek — Martin
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For those of you who have ever wanted to destroy your work after writing it. (via Boing Boing)
Monday
Jun 05, 2006
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The Architecture of Fight Club — kza
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Find the Sequence Method arcane? See if you can wrap your head around this. (I can’t.)
Monday
Jun 05, 2006
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I find your lack of faith disturbing — kza
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One of the funniest and best-written blogs about working as a screenwriter on the net.
Monday
May 29, 2006
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ScreenGrab — kza
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Filmmaker Bilge Ebiri edits this film blog, one of the funniest (and snarkiest) I’ve ever read. Much, much better than Cinematical.
Tuesday
May 16, 2006
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Creative Department Douchebag — kza
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“Sup dickbags? The name’s Trev. I’m 27, totally super fucking hip, and am a copy-writer at a global ad agency in NYC”
Thursday
May 11, 2006
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Momus, critic — Martin
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Momus on Art School Confidential (via wdik)
Tuesday
May 09, 2006
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The Do-It-Yourself Giallo Generator — kza
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There’s always room for giallo.
Monday
Mar 27, 2006
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Snakes on a Blog — kza
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Snakes! On a motherfucking blog!
Thursday
Mar 16, 2006
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Thank You For Smoking - Trailer — kza
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A funny trailer for what looks like a good movie, and the last bit with Rob Lowe and Aaron Eckhart made me think of this blog.
Thursday
Mar 16, 2006
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CSPD Comics — kza
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This look interesting — a look at copyright and fair use in relation to documentary film, expressed as a comic book.
Monday
Feb 20, 2006
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DevilDucky - The Simpsomaker — Martin
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I see your 5 card Nancy, and raise you the Simpsomaker.
Sunday
Feb 19, 2006
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Five-Card Nancy — kza
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I’ll see your abstract silent Garfield and raise you 5-Card Nancy.
Friday
Feb 17, 2006
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Truth and Beauty Bombs :: View topic - Garfield — Martin
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I see your Garfield randomizer, and raise you abstract silent Garfield.
Thursday
Feb 16, 2006
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Philip K. Dick is Missing — kza
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Is this connected to the missing Flexcar across the street, I wonder?
Wednesday
Feb 15, 2006
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Listology: Board Games: Own/Want — kza
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I’ve been going through a board game renaissance lately. Here’s what I’ve got and what I want.
Wednesday
Feb 15, 2006
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Ticket to Ride — kza
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Like candy-colored crack.
Tuesday
Feb 14, 2006
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New Scientist Breaking News - Robot moved by a slime mould's fears — Martin
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The most AWESOME science news ever. I, for one, etc. etc.
Sunday
Jan 29, 2006
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Majestic Bay — kza
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The best movie theater in Seattle, bar none.
Sunday
Jan 29, 2006
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Cineblog — Martin
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Greg knows his movies, his music, his books, and is also quite the handyman — check out that pinball table!
Sunday
Jan 29, 2006
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maryagnes » bits from brighton and ballard and beyond — kza
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Mary Agnes Krell is awesome.
Thursday
Jan 26, 2006
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The Eagle_Fire Garfield Randomizer — kza
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Tired of what Jim Davis (or his assistants) gives ya? Let an algorithm do the entertaining for you!
Thursday
Jan 26, 2006
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Reflections:The Days of Perky Vivienne — Martin
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About our PKDickian world.
Wednesday
Jan 25, 2006
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Mighty O - vegan, organic donuts — kza
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Vegan donuts? Sounds awful, doesn’t it? Well, in the case of Mighty O, you’d be dead wrong. These are incredibly moist and delicious, and compared to most donuts, relatively healthy (no trans fat!) They’re also absolutely gorgeous — the pictures on the website aint lyin. Cool off-the-wall flavors as well: French Toast, Mocha, and Chocolate Peppermint, to name a few.
Saturday
Jan 21, 2006
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Whale lifted onto barge — Martin
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I find this whole Whale-On-Thames thing fascinating and strange—one of those odd stories that would be a perfect metaphor or base of a fantastical story. Now replete with tragic ending.
Saturday
Jan 21, 2006
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The Stranger - Slog — Martin
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The Slog is one of our favorite blogs, run by the Stranger, one of my favorite papers, edited by Dan Savage, one of my favorite Americans. Here, Brenden Kiley has this great quote: “If an art form is more predictable than a mechanical bull, it’s in bad trouble.”
Tuesday
Jan 17, 2006
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Spitball - Balls out Rock & Roll — Martin
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A totally different Spitball than ours, but heck—spread the love.
Tuesday
Jan 17, 2006
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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick — Martin
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Fascinating comic on P.K.D.’s religious visions, drawn by R. Crumb and originally published in Weirdo. (via Boing Boing)
Friday
Jan 13, 2006
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Sony Pictures - Marie Antoinette trailer — Martin
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Fucking brilliant marrying New Order’s Age of Consent with these images. I hope the film is a quarter as good as this preview suggests.
Monday
Jan 09, 2006
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Listology.com: Kent's 2006 Film Log — kza
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This is my film log for 2006, hosted on Jim Biancolo’s Listology site. Listology is a free site for people to set up lists of movies, books, TV shows, etc. It’s a great site.
Monday
Jan 09, 2006
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))<>(( — Martin
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Did you see Me and You and Everyone We Know? Have iTunes? Check out this playlist. It’s actually a good mix…
Sunday
Jan 08, 2006
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NASA to Return Comet Samples to Earth -- Yahoo! News — Martin
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Quick! Write three different one-sentence story synopsis that start with this event.
Thursday
Jan 05, 2006
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Neave.com -- PHP script that displays the last 30 photos uploaded to Live Journal — Martin
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I love this page for inspiration. It’s a random collection of images — strange, unpredictable, some hilarious, some inept, some dirty. It’s like a peek into the collective unconscious. Be sure to reload often.
Tuesday
Jan 03, 2006
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Logical Fallacies - The Adam Smith Institute — Martin
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I have always found logical fallacies fascinating — and incredibly useful when constructing characters. Make two (or more) characters argue, and give them both a different logical fallacy to follow. The argument practically writes itself!
Monday
Jan 02, 2006
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Syriana screenplay online, in entirety, for your reading pleasure — Martin
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‘nuff said.
Sunday
Jan 01, 2006
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The Mystery of Dinner for One - How an obscure British skit has become Germany's most popular New Year's tradition — Martin
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How does a mildly funny obscure BBC skit become incredibly popular in Germany without being known in Britain or America? Interesting story in Slate, with a link to the piece in question on Google Video. The same procedure as every year, James…
