Ah Well, Maybe I’ll Vote for Nader
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
While this makes me laugh, deep down I worry that it’s, you know, funny because it’s true. And by funny I mean scary-as-shit-because-it’s-true.
The Tenth 10 Minute Play
Back in October, I started this ten minute play project and today I’ve finished the tenth play.
Yay me! (Will be doing some rewrites here and there and then attempting to find directors and theaters to stage them, but at least the heavy lifting is done.)
What’s ironic is that this last play has no weird soundscape, no wacky nano-bot disappearances, no bizarre, dreamlike occurrences. This play is simple, bare bones, easy to stage and with a focus on character rather than story or atmosphere. But it was the play I needed to write and so here it is:
SciFi Scanner Links to Your Humble Host
SciFi Scanner is AMC’s science fiction blog (yes, that AMC) and Mr. Clayton Neuman was kind enough to link to my recent post about the movie version of Stardust in the Daily Scan for February 19. SciFi Scanner’s my new best friend and I’m adding them to my blogroll as I type this. (Link) Also, …
My Own Kind of Review
I just finished reading what has got to be one of the most professional “fan-fic” books ever done. Stephen Brust, author of a number of books including “To Reign in Hell: A Novel”, “Jhegaala (Vlad)”, and “Sethra Lavode (The Viscount of Adrilankha)”, has written a Firefly novel and–here’s the ultra-cool part–is giving it away! It’s …
A Sick Display of Media Cynicism & Manipulation
For some reason I find the trend of referring to Obama’s supports as “cultish” highly offensive and disturbing:
A Tuesday night broadcast on ABC News’ Nightline offered an example ofbehavior it implied might be ‘cult-like.’ Show host Terry Moran started out thereport calling Obama’s base “a massive and fervent following.” CorrespondentDavid Wright then referred to the supporters as a “congregation,” and proceededto compare Obama events to Bruce Springsteen concerts, and Obama’s starpower tothat exerted by The Beatles or Hannah Montana. And after showing clips fromObama’s various campaign appearances, he interviewed LA Times columnist JoelStein on how the senator’s followers are like a cult.
And the fact that David Plotz has the temerity to call Obama’s speech making “fascistic,” is, to be honest, nauseating.
Puppets, Economic Analysis & Foucauldian Control (Oh . . . and the Online Porn Monster)
From the mouths of puppets: This was created by a group called monochrom which is an:
art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993.
There looks to be lots of cool stuff at their site and, really, shouldn’t there be more art-technology-philosophy groups? Anyone want to start one with me?
Link (via BoingBoing.net)
Another 10 Minute Play
Which brings us up to 9 of the 10 plays that I am planning on for this project.
Again, I would love to get feedback on any or all of these plays. All of them have room for revisions and some of them may need significant rewriting, so your thoughts would be extremely helpful.
You’ll find all of them listed on the Scripts page.
The Goldilocks of Volume Control on OS X Leopard
I came across this great hint on MacOSXHints.com that I thought I’d share with any of you fellow Leopard users:
When using the volume control function keys on an Apple laptop, there’s a limited amount of control over the volume — each key press moves the volume by one entire unit in the onscreen bezel. However, by pressing Shift and Option along with the volume key you want to use, you can break up each large step in the volume control bezel into four parts, instead of having to use the menu bar item or System Preferences for fine-grained control.
This is especially useful when using headphones on your laptop and the regular volume is either too loud or too quiet.
Stimulate This!
You want a real stimulus package? One that would spark a huge amount of investment, home-ownership, and spending? Sending individuals $600 is not going to stimulate the economy and the idiots in Congress know this, they are simply and cynically pretending that they are doing something for the people. So, you want to really do …
New Play . . . of Sorts
I have, occasionally, really wanted to be a choreographer. Of course, I have no dance training so that kind of keeps me from pursuing that desire. This next contribution to my 10 10 Minute play series is entitled “Text for 2 Dancers” and is precisely that. Not so much a play, “Text” is meant to be the starting point for a movement piece. In some ways I would love to see this staged more than any of the other plays because, as a director, I can envision how the other plays would be performed, but I have no idea what a good choreographer would do with this piece.
So if you are a choreographer or you know any choreographers, please feel free to produce “Text for 2 Dancers.” It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.