January 2012
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I Am Reminded Why I Like Austin By Another Los...
So the other night —
My friend Vivi is in Austin and we hit the town. Which really means we just walk a few blocks to Sixth Street and have some beers at a local sports bar. This guy bums a cigarette from me at the outside bar. He moved to Austin from Los Angeles. He used to date an actress. He hates Los Angeles. I say how ironic, he has parked himself to probably the only two industry...
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Nearsighted Friend At Bar To Me: The bartender is the best looking guy I see in here.
Me to Nearsighted Friend At Bar: The bartender is the only guy you can see in here.
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The Logline; Or, Contortions of the Modern... →
So I am talking to my students about pitching. And I’m talking about pulling information for a short one liner describing story. And someone gets stuck.
In every pitch, the short pitch, the medium pitch, the long pitch, the phone pitch, the lunch pitch, the elevator pitch, the wow nice to see you in line at the store pitch – in every pitch – you have to be able to drop the premise...
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Why was MegaUpload really shut down? →
In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ) I present to you… MegaBox. MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity...
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30 Ways The World Used To Be Cooler →
16. Lions rode shotgun
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Conversations With The Scale & Pecan Pie
Me [looking at bathroom scale]: I wonder why I am not losing weight?
Me [looking at kitchen counter]: I miss the pecan pie.
My Self Conscious: Perhaps there is a connection. What did it take to polish that pie off, a day?
Me: Back, back minion of Satan! Back to the recesses you crawled from!
My Self Conscious: No problemo, cottage cheese thighs.
Me: Ahhh!
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What You Need To Know About ACTA →
ACTA in a Nutshell –
What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will ...
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david hieatt – category “resource” →
David Mamet - Read, Reap.
“TO THE WRITERS OF THE UNIT
GREETINGS.
AS WE LEARN HOW TO WRITE THIS SHOW, A RECURRING PROBLEM BECOMES CLEAR.
THE PROBLEM IS THIS: TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DRAMA AND NON-DRAMA. LET ME BREAK-IT-DOWN-NOW.
EVERYONE IN CREATION IS SCREAMING AT US TO MAKE THE SHOW CLEAR. WE ARE TASKED WITH, IT SEEMS, CRAMMING A SHITLOAD OF INFORMATION INTO A LITTLE BIT OF TIME.
OUR...
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The AFW Blog →
I spent this weekend working my tail off sprucing the blog. For a long time, I had theme commitment issues. The theme had bugs, the designer had quit working on it and wasn’t going to be doing any updates or fixes. I live in mild fear someday Wordpress is going to update to a version that blows the whole them up. I kept thinking, I might have to change that theme.
But I love the...
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