January 2012
17 posts
Yelping with Cormac: Chevy's Fresh Mex →
yelpingwithcormac:
Palo Alto, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The Sheriff stood over a table cleaved cleanly in two. Around him wellheeled young people lay newly dead. What do you have there deputy, he said.
Deputy Stevens leaned over the ruined bar and looked behind it. I got two androids and a iPhone.
The Sheriff crouched down next to the table and looked at a...
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops →
tumbledore:
“A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.
‘This...
December 2011
18 posts
Zielschmerz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.
November 2011
33 posts
Billy Wilder's 10 Screenwriting Tips
naginny-weasley:
The audience is fickle.
Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go.
Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.
Know where you’re going.
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up...
moleskinelovers:
The original DJ Dalai Lama drawing I did two years ago. For more awesome art follow:http://doitwithhart.tumblr.com/
“The drug war is not a failure; rather it works perfectly for its intended...”
– Mike Stroup
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(cwnl)