- Mark Evanier on screeners:
If I send a screenplay to most of these studios, they’ll return it unread with a stern letter — probably written by the guy who writes the threats in the screeners — that they don’t accept unsolicited material. And then they send me unsolicited material…including copies of their screenplays.
- Do you really want those two front teeth for Christmas? Something tells me “a knuckle ring fitted with four of your molars” is just waiting to turn up on a C.S.I.-type show.
- A further lesson in how not to respond to a bad review.
- Well that’s surprising: Kirkus Reviews and Editor & Publisher are closing. [via]
- And finally, Warren Ellis is right: Slingers looks like very, very intriguing.
Month: December 2009
Something Lost in translation
In my continuing efforts to recycle material you’ve already read (or elected not to read by not following me on Twitter), here are some of the Lost spinoff ideas I posted yesterday. I didn’t originate the thread — and heaven knows I didn’t go as crazy with this as I did with those fake Beatles facts a few months ago — but I enjoyed coming up with these. I am, as always, a sucker for a good (i.e. bad) pun.
All of these require some basic knowledge of the show — and a few, in fact, offer some pretty big spoilers for past seasons. So, even though these have already been posted on Twitter (and re-posted to my Facebook page), enjoy!
Dr. Marvin Candle and his fellow island scientists are thrown back in time to coach the 1920s Brooklyn Dodgers in DHARMA BUMS.
Find mysterious plots, nefarious misdirection, and maybe even love — all aboard NOT PENNY’S LOVEBOAT!
Nigerian guerrilla leader, drug smuggler, priest, and now — family court judge! It’s THE MR. EKO CHAMBER!
By day, he’s a helicopter pilot for hire living the easy life in the Florida Keys. But by night he’s — FRANK LAPIDUS, P.I.
Learn eyeliner tricks and other handy island jungle camouflage on RICHARD ALPERT’S BEAUTY SALON.
Where will lottery winnings take globe-treking millionaire “Hurley” Reyes next? Wherever it is, rest assured, HUGO’S THERE!
Can quantum physics lead a football team to glory? Will this TX town accept its new teacher? Find out on FARADAY NIGHT LIGHTS!
Can a weird string of numbers delivered to his doorstep each morning help Hugo set things right? Find out on HURLEY EDITION.
Explore the many festive uses of dynamite in your home studio with ARZT & CRAFTS.
That’s one way of putting it
Joss Whedon on the state of television today:
No, I think it’s absolutely… I think amazing work is being done right now. While I talk about Rome burning, I like Rome. It looks really pretty right now.
Friday Night Video
‘The Golden Age of Video’ by Ricardo Autobahn
“We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!” Via Cynical-C.
Random 10 12/11
Last week. This week:
- “Long Tall Sally” by the Beatles (orig. Little Richard), guessed by Kim
He saw Aunt Mary comin’ and he ducked back in the alley - “Help Me” by Joan Osborne, guessed by Thud
Put on your nightshirt, baby, hand me my morning gown - “Trust” by Christine Fellows
I fall in your arms when your head is turned - “Little Darling (I Need You” by Marvin Gaye
Only my pillow knows how many tears I’ve cried, baby - “Ulysses” by Franz Ferdinand
Well I sit and hear sentimental footsteps - “Padre Fear” by Poe
It’s midnight and I’m howling for you - “Genius” by Warren Zevon, guessed by Betty
Mata Hari had a house in France - “Dog New Tricks” by Garbage
Take the simple truth and twist it all around - “Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll)” by George Harrison, guessed by Kim
Let it roll for all it’s worth - “Luna” by Fanfarlo
They serve it up in cups from overseas