| Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 |
photognome
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2:51a |
Legos + Star Wars = Awesome...
My nephew Sean is a huge fan of both Legos and Star Wars. My brother, being the awesome dad that he is, made Sean a workstation to work on his Legos complete with a custom computer monitor framed in Legos!   ( MORE ) |
| Monday, December 28th, 2009 |
kobold
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3:42p |
Hey, Christians?
Is there a contest to win Randy back to Jesus? If so, I really hope the prize is awesome. This shit is getting old. |
kobold
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2:09a |
I love this song. It incorporates some of the best quotes from Sagan, including: "We on earth marvel, and rightfully so, at the daily return of our single sun. But from a planet orbitting a star in a distant globular cluster, a still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise - a morning filled with 400 billion suns; the rising of the Milky Way." |
| Sunday, December 27th, 2009 |
kobold
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1:22p |
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photognome
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11:22a |
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sketchington
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10:27a |
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kobold
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3:23a |
The Ustream Q&A is done for this week - thanks to everyone who showed up! |
kobold
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1:00a |
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| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
photognome
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7:55p |
A Very Venture Bros Christmas...
 For the past few years, the fine folks at Astrobase Go (Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer) have been providing Quick Stop Entertainment with exclusive holiday singles. This year is no different. However, there are still some of you out there that haven’t heard all of the tracks from previous years. So let’s rectify that. Below, you’ll find all of our exclusive VENTURE BROS. holiday tunes, leading up to the big debut of this year’s insta-classic. Click Here For Venture Bros Holiday Musical Goodness!!! |
photognome
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7:29p |
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photognome
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12:58p |
Ho, Ho, Holy Wow! ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_colombian got me an X-Box 360, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Kevin Smith's latest book for Christmas! Thank you, you sneaky bastard!!!  Current Mood:  shockedCurrent Music: Shane MacGowan - Christmas Lullabye |
sketchington
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12:06p |
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photognome
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12:05p |
An unexpected gift...
Dear Shitty Weather : Thank you for preventing scargrrl from traveling to Florida last night, thus allowing her to spend Christmas Eve with us here. :-)  |
brother_kevin
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1:35a |
I'm beginning to hate L5R players
Two Phoenix cards have been nerfed. This does not bother me. The changes make one particular deck, which was WAY overpowered, a non-issue. Other players on the Phoenix boards are just bitching and moaning to no end, however. I'm sick and tired of hearing players complain about how bad their clan is because their good deck loses to some match up. Particularly Phoenix players complaining about how we have a bad match up. Complaining and complaining because their clan doesn't have a perfect deck that just beats everything. I have such a splitting headache right now. |
| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
kobold
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10:13p |
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pekkle
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8:08p |
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warren_ellis
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7:08p |
Not A Creature Was Stirring, Not Even A Mouse. Because I Ate It.
And, with the house cleared and shit wrapped and an unwise number of wine bottles emptied, I’m out. See you on the other side of little Winterval. Have a good break. Try not to stab anybody important.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
photognome
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6:34p |
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photognome
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12:06p |
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darkshadow316
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5:10a |
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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
warren_ellis
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6:44p |
About My Power
Musician/writer Christine Hart felt it necessary to preserve this Twitter exchange from earlier in the year:
I have just been informed via the power of Twitter that I’m on io9’s 2009 Science Fiction Power List, alongside, um, Lady Gaga. Actually, it’s kind of an interesting list — and an interesting, if peculiar, concept. Doubtless, by the time you read it, the comments section will have filled with snark. But the article itself is worth a read (not least because it includes Lady Gaga. I think even Bill Gibson was talking about that last video).
I’ve just been informed that Bleeding Cool will be broadcasting all through Xmas Day.
Me? I will doubtless still be ruminating on the fact that five minutes ago I was selecting children’s books for my daughter, and that apparently with the passage of no time whatsoever I am now wrapping a MOCK THE WEEK: UNCUT DVD for her. Not sure how she went from Maurice Sendak to Frankie Boyle yelling "cunt" overnight, but suddenly she’s 14 and arguing with me over rap/rock, guitarists and what the best track on the Florence & The Machine album was. It’s brilliant, frankly.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
photognome
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1:31p |
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frolicon
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2:20a |
photo locale question.
Not exactly a frolicon question, but I figure members here would know the answer. I am going to be doing a shoot with a friend at DragonCon next year, and I am trying to find places in or near Atlanta where I could shoot some nudes in outdoor locations. Woodsy areas would probably be better. While I lived in Atlanta for a year attending Tech, I never got out much, so I don't really know where good sites would be. |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
arma_padawan
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6:16p |
new year's
what is the general consensus? last year, the secret room warehouse party was sorely under-attended. at least nemesisxiii was spinning then. |
warren_ellis
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4:34p |
Midwinterish
This is me with local musician Carolina Fasalo of The Voronas. Caz dumped a load of old photos on to her Facebook account and turned this up. Last summer, I think?
I was reading this interview with David Simon the other day — he gives good interviews, see if you can find the one he did with THE BELIEVER magazine sometime — and something he said stuck with me a little bit. As it often does in Simon interviews, as he’s good with a bon mot or two. I’ve hacked some connective tissue out to present it as a complete thought:
There would be a series of planning sessions. First, at the beginning of every season, we did a sort of retreat with the main writers, the guys who were going to be on staff the whole year. We’d discuss what we were trying to say… we weren’t cynical about having been given ten, 12, 13 hours — whatever we had for any season from HBO. All of that was an incredible gift.
So goddamn it, you better have something to say. That sounds really simple, but it’s actually a conversation that I don’t think happens on a lot of serialized drama. Certainly not on American television. I think that a lot of people believe that our job as TV writers is to get the show up as a franchise and get as many viewers, as many eyeballs, as we can, and keep them.
What we were asking was, “What should we spend 12 hours of television saying?”
Which, yes, should sound blatantly obvious. But it’s easy, when working in fast and deadline-intensive serial formats, to forget that bit: to trust to the process of pulp writing and the form’s innate effect of whatever you’re really interested in leaking out into the work regardless. It’s easy to forget what you turned up for.
It’s also an interesting process note. A good 95% of longform serials, I’d guess, turn up not knowing what they want to talk about. Sometimes they don’t discover what they showed up to talk about until the third or fourth season. And I don’t mean so much the working out of what’s now called "show mythology," the actual overarcing storyline — and we can all name shows that suddenly realised they’d payed out all the rope they had and they didn’t know where the plot went next. I mean the serials where they finally open their mouths and nothing comes out. They made the show because they were allowed to make the show.
In other news, Karl Urban has apparently been signed to RED. This brings the cast up to something like the eight thousand most popular actors in the world.
Tonight I am mostly clearing the house. Not enough strength left in me for proper writing. I’d actually really like to be digging into the outline I wrote for the GRAVEL film, and fixing all the stuff in it that looks broken. I’m delivering it at the end of the second week in January, so there’s plenty of time, and it’s actually in reasonably good shape overall. But the thing about distance from a thing — and this is actually not bad advice for any new writer — is that it gives you essential and often surprising perspective once you’ve been away from it for a few days. Walking away from something for a few days or a week is sometimes the best possible thing you can do for a piece. Again, not something we always have time for in the deadline game.
I’d also like to be working on the animated series I have in development, but, like I said. Burned way the fuck out. So I’m going to content myself with clearing the house, catching up on my RSS feeds, scheming about getting a new phone out of Vodafone, and making a few notes on loose ideas. Proper writing can wait a couple of weeks, now.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
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