{"id":3954,"date":"2010-06-08T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2010-06-08T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T19:31:54","slug":"tuesday-various-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3954","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I don&#8217;t imagine this is going to end well &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2010\/06\/flashforward-fans-plan-to.php\">FlashForward fans plan to fall over and act unconscious<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/on_the_air\/2010\/06\/flashforward-fans-plan-a-mass-blackout-in-front-of-abc-offices.html\">Variety<\/a>, fans of the show will assemble in front of ABC network and affilate offices in New York, L.A., Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta on June 10 and for 2 minutes and 17 seconds are going to pretend to be passed out\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust like the 2-minute-17-second blackouts on <em>FlashForward<\/em>.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Am I the only one who thinks &#8220;celebrate originality&#8221; is maybe a weird tagline to an ad that basically just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/the-official-sneaker-of-the-mos-eisley-cantina\">repurposes the <em>Star Wars<\/em> cantina scene<\/a>?<\/font><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure I agree with everything Christopher Miller suggests on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabolicalplots.com\/?p=1367\">how to write a rejection slip<\/a>, but I am amused by his contention that &#8220;rejection slips are the most widely and attentively read short literary genre.&#8221; [<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font>]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\"><\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=9489\">Warren Ellis<\/a> suggests asking these important questions when writing:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">1) What does that character WANT?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">2) What does that character need to do to GET what they want?<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">3) What are they prepared to DO to get what they want?<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And finally, a fascinating profile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/05\/10\/100510fa_fact_bruck?currentPage=all\">of Haim Saban<\/a>, still perhaps best known as the man who (curse him) brought us <em>Mighty Morphin Power Rangers<\/em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]:<\/font><br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">At twenty, while he was serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, Saban made his entry into show business. He told the owner of a swimming pool where a band played that he was a member of a far better band. Saban didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really play an instrument, and he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know a band. But he found one, and took the businessman to a club to hear it, claiming that he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t playing because he had hurt his arm. He named a price that was double what he had learned the band was making, and then approached the band members with his offer and his condition: let him join. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFor double the money, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll figure the whole thing out.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u009d He eventually learned to play the bass guitar a little, but occasionally during the first few months he performed with both his speaker and his microphone turned off.<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t imagine this is going to end well &#8212; FlashForward fans plan to fall over and act unconscious: According to Variety, fans of the show will assemble in front of ABC network and affilate offices in New York, L.A., Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta on June 10 and for 2 minutes and 17 seconds are &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3954\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[40,112,109,11,148,17,10,39,12],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-business","tag-letters","tag-publishing","tag-star-wars","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}