The degree of product placement lately in some shows has been setting my teeth on edge.
Watching an episode of Bones, the characters take a minute to exclaim over their brand name vehicle’s auto-parking function.
Does this really further the story? No.
Does this detract from the story by inserting a blatant advertisement for the product? Yes!
We [...]
She stepped lightly across the floor, gun arm extended, senses inflamed. Jack called “Clear!” from the kitchen, and she nearly jumped.
“Clear!” She announced from the living room.
Jack looked her in the eye, and made a vague motion toward the stairs with his chin. She nodded, and followed him up the stairs. The tension crawled across [...]
Testing posting from the crackberry. Don’t worry folks, my period of neglect is soon coming to a close.
Nothing provokes strong feelings quite like a loss of control. It doesn’t always mean negative feelings, but more often than not…it does. Removing the ability to choose seems to make any situation more depressing and frustrating.
Whether its at work or in any situation, really, having even the smallest detail of choice seems to at least [...]
On Sunday, I went to the local art theatre to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. This was the movie version of the book written by Steig Larsson. Directed by Neils Arden Oplev, the film needfully leaves out quite a lot (the book was a bit long to reduce to two and a half [...]
Recently, John Scalzi wrote a blog post about “punishing the publisher”.
Par of what inspired the conversation, in part, may have been the recent fiasco between MacMillan and Amazon.com. Basically, amazon pulled a bunch of MacMillan books from their list of Kindle format books. The argument was a pricing dispute.
MacMillan basically doesnt want the pricing schedule [...]
It makes sense to me that some European countries still have laws about how late businesses can be open, and how may hours a person can work in a week.
We Americans work ourselves to death.
Stress kills. People have illnesses, heart attacks, sleeping problems… and one might say it’s in pursuit of the almighty dollar, except [...]
Senses and memory tie together in interesting ways.
For some, a simple sight or smell can pull them into places of memory in moments.
Music seems to do it for me every time.
Just a few bars, and I’m remembering something; a moment, a feeling.
Music inspires me like little else. I revel in my senses; I love good [...]
So the site is remodeled and operational again.
Individual writer sites need to be updated with themes, but they’re operational.
I also put a forum back in.