Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. OK, busy for the last couple months, I’ve neglected following the trades and blogs as much as I normally do. Still, I cannot believe I missed this. Only thanks to Michael Patrick Sulivan did I discover it. Speaking of three-named people who are middle-named Patrick, this wonderosity I’m describing stars [...]
I’m not one to get worked up over the semantics of language. I have a friend whose pet peeve is people saying, “ATM machine.” After all, he points out, the ‘M’ already stands for ‘machine.’ You’re effectively calling it an Automatic Teller Machine Machine. (It doesn’t help that people use PIN numbers to access their [...]
George Carlin, 1937-2008
On the TV show Futurama, the main character Fry often eats a product called “Bachelor Chow.” One assumes this is a play on Dog Chow. While this is, of course, a joke, and one somewhat pejorative of the bachelor lifestyle, I can’t help see the allure. A housemate and I have commented many times that [...]
So a group of friends and I go last night to the premiere of the new M. Knight Shyamalan movie, The Happening. In my mind, each of his movies has been successively less worthy than the last, but I figured he hit rock bottom with Lady in the Water, so how bad could it be, [...]
I’ve posted the short I recently directed up at Funny or Die. You love ScreenwriterGuy, right? Right? If so, show your love with a vote of “Funny.” Vote as often as you like. More “Funny” equals more love. Thank you! (P.S. Not quite safe for work. PG-13 due to discussion of graphic sex acts. Woohooo!) [...]
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