Some movies you go see for the ending. Others you go to for the spectacle. Others because it’s hot in Arizona, and the theater is air conditioned.
Go see Cast Away, the new Hanks/Zemeckis movie, for the middle. See it to see an actor at work. Acting students should see this movie, because the core of the movie is a textbook lesson in acting for the camera. (more…)
by Patrick Connors
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Surrey, here’s the Website of the Woking Martian.
Woking, you may recall, got pretty trashed in the original War of the Worlds. H. G. Wells lived there and wrote about what he knew…
by Patrick Connors
Have Trouble with Einstein? Here’s the Theory of Relativity in words of four letters or less. There might be a quiz.
The pointer came from Have Browser, Will Travel
by Pat Connors
So there I was, bored and surfing, when bopping from site to site to site, I wound up on the Harlan Ellison Web site.
Which is, I hasten to add, not maintained by Harlan Ellison, but by a fan, and is a damn good site.
There’s a section on that site called “Rants”, which is also not maintained by Harlan Ellison, or as far as I know, even contributed to by Ellison. So I go read it - I mean, what the hell, this guy is volunteering to run a Web site to help Harlan Ellison’s career along just a little bit more, he deserves to rant. It is, after all, his nickel. There on the Rant page is this guest rant that should be required reading for all new writers - or even anybody thinking of becoming a writer.
Go read it.
From McSweeney’s
I havn’t completely grokked McSweeney’s yet, but I am impressed. Give it a try.
I work at a nuclear power plant because I wanted to learn software quality control.
It’s been two years on this project and quality control is just now beginning to be implemented.
Maybe I should have gone to work with NASA’s on-board Shuttle group instead. They’ve got it right!
- From Fast Company issue 6
by Pat Connors
“Finally DARTH MAUL shows up for a prolonged fight sequence. Darth wears black boots, a black cloak, a black shirt, has a red lightsaber, wears red and black face paint, and has horns. He is EVIL.”
Warning: Although this is a satire, it contains spoilers for the movie.
by Patrick Connors
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