I find a large percent of fiction writing for me is deciding what a character knows (or doesn’t!) Is it funnier/sadder/scarier if they know everything in a situation or nothing at all? Which is most interesting: if they roll a 1 or a 20 on a skill check? Rarely the answer is anything in between.
I got around to watching C.H.U.D. on a quiet afternoon not too long ago.
I couldn’t agree more. After putting aside the punchlines and the preconceptions, what’s left is a surprisingly watchable 70s time capsule and a great Daniel Stern performance!
New prediction. It's a long shot, but I'm going to call it now just in case:
POTUS denies reality during the #SOTU so vehemently that he just vanishes from this plane of existence altogether.
That’s a tough one.
In 1986, pop culture treated computers as either magical or a punchline. By 1996 every computer came bundled with a web browser and web addresses were being advertised on tv. I personally consider that time the birth of what we consider the modern world.
“No, Tintin was the boy’s name. His dog’s name was Snowy,” said your friend who was way smarter than you, evidently.
Meanwhile in the good timeline, whomever is president saw the halftime show and they were like, “Oh shit! The Puerto Rican power grid! We should totally get someone on that ASAP! Gracias señor Bunny!”
That’s what I’ve been hearing. So it’s on my reading list — just not urgent.
I’m curious about Polostan, but that Tom Tomorrow collection seems pretty fun — in a dystopian way.
A federal judge warned Justice Department lawyers that their statements on a slavery exhibit display in Philadelphia were "horrifying."
"You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it. It doesn’t work that way"
A general strike for me means I won’t be laboring for others or purchasing consumer items. We will be also eating leftovers and avoiding streaming shows from any major platforms.
- doing labor for yourself is okay.
- protesting and demonstrating is recommended.
- porch beers are a-okay.
An unfuckable popcorn bucket. I never thought I’d see the day. #filmsky
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Same to you friend!
The Pitt is my new favorite Shakespeare play. #tvsky
I’m a maniac.
#letterboxd #lastfourwatched.
Fair enough. I just think it cannot be overstated how utterly messed up the Davos thing is. (including the presence of self-important footballers. :) )
The Davos Economic Forum is the ultimate circle jerk where billionaires, politicians and celebrities decide the fate of nations and economies. There's a great book about the rise of Facebook where the author spends a chapter or two talking about this wank fest:
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Charlie, meet Dan:
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:D
Me: hums ‘Hey Now!’
Jenny: is that Oasis?
Me: I’m a person of a certain age therefore I have at least three Oasis songs chambered and ready to go at any moment.
Because you can’t spell
‘InfErIorIty ComplEx’
without I-C-E.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Who is the greatest movie character and why is it Charly Baltimore from The Long Kiss Good Night? #filmsky
Imagine being such a badass that universities are banning your work 2300 years later! That’s goals.
#philosophy #booksky #readbannedbooks
In a recent experiment, physicists cooled the organic molecule iodopyridine to almost absolute zero. Even at their chilled state, the molecule was vibrating. This is just one example of how, in the quantum world, motion persists at minimum energy.
Also, product placement in books is incredibly inefficient advertising. Assuming one gets through the first 153 pages to get to the passage about a fizzy Coke and still thinks ‘Yummy, gotta get me one!’ — more likely I would stay home, I’m just getting into this biography of John Stith Pemberton.
“I am in perfect mental health!” Cried the man who randomly capitalizes words and signs his tweets like a letter — even though everyone else stopped doing those things years ago because it makes you look mentally unwell.
The House of Dynamite writing process was most likely a list of dialog lines it would be terrifying to hear an authority figure say. Then it was simply a matter of filming every variation. #filmsky
You’re in for a treat. The new season of Home for Christmas was a welcome surprise when it popped up in our watchlist.
