Month: October 2017
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What’s The Opposite Of Gary Oldman?
I mention this every Friday, but I do a podcast called setisoppO, in which we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. This week, we tackle Gary Oldman, toenails, and the Crab Nebula. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo056.mp3 You may remember an earlier post in which we explore all of the chocolate bars in…
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The Daily Life Of A Writer
Sometimes, a writer must procrastinate. And the modern world provides too many distractions from work. So I took it upon myself to combine the need to write, with the need to arse about on Facebook. This is the story of that decision.
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The Seinfeld Kevin Smith Shared Universe
I was watching Mallrats last night. It’s been a long while since I saw it, and it’s actually rather better than I remembered. One thing jumped out at me though, and it was the mention of Pendant Publishing in this scene. Pendant Publishing? That’s the company that Elaine Benes works for in Seinfeld. I wonder…
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Writing Can Make You Feel Better
If I go a day without writing, I feel bad. I’m grumpy, non-communicative, and somewhat lethargic. The way some writers talk, you’d be forgiven for thinking that writing is the bane of their lives, and it probably is. It’s like exercise. The event itself might be a struggle, but the sense of having done it…
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David Letterman’s Airplane! Screen Test
If he’d got the part, I wonder how late night television would have looked without him.
