bad idea

Blogging when you have nothing of interest to say = bad idea.

Anyone else have a bad idea they would like to share with the class?

good news

So today I want to be as positive as possible, despite the swine flu outbreak in my area.

First off I want to wish EVERYONE who is doing NaNoWritMo good luck. For those of you who don't know November is National Novel Writing Month. People have one month to write a novel, 50k words.
Its something if I didn't have a job, a family or a facebook addiction I might consider. Maybe in my pre Zoey days I might have been able to pull it off, but I don't think its possible any more. Oh no, here I go, getting depressed. STOP.

I have nothing but respect and envy for anyone who is doing this. YAY YOU! I'm talking to you Mo and Alicia.
Oh and Megan who wrote out an ENTIRE BOOK in one day. You guys are rock stars.

So I came across this today in my webtravels.





The year is 1946 and the shattered streets of Hiroshima are eerily silent… Then, turning the corner, an ominous bulk looms into view. Is it a bizarre mutant out for blood? An escaped zoo animal driven mad by radiation poisoning? Nah… it’s just the Kabaya Caramels “Hippo Car”, dispersing sadness by dispensing candy! Imagine being a kid in post-war Hiroshima – an encounter with the Hippo Car just might be the best thing to happen to you all day, perhaps all week. Kabaya still operates Hippo Cars today though they’re sleek, modern and bright red. The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, on the other hand, looks pretty much the same.

Thank you Weburbanist again for helping me rememeber why humanity is awesome.
I'm pretty sure there's a cute short story in there, so if anyone wants to write it, please feel free.

Also I'd like to thank ANYONE who is reading this blog or following it. I've hit double digits which is awesome.

My question to you, would you rather read Snarky stuff or happy stuff or a blend of both. Please comment below.

Thanks everyone

I was going to rant about my crappy few weeks, but really who cares about that? Instead I want to show you something very cool. Because really, isn't that what the internet should be used for, not whining about crap but showcasing amazingly cool things?

Every day I go to http://weburbanist.com/. They showcase cool artist doing amazing things.

Today's post is about photo realism, something I've been very interested in for a long time.






All the picture above are paintings done by Eric Zener, Dru Blair, Alyssa Monk,and Juan Francisco Casas (who does all his work with a ball point pen).

Thanks for reminding me how awesome people can be and why we love art so much.

Go check out the website, everyday they have something cool up.

wordle.net

http://www.wordle.net/

So above is a word cloud for my novel No System At All - Draft 10. What is a word cloud? Well you upload a whole bunch of text to the website wordle.net and poof, it takes the most common words and turns it into art. The larger the word, the more common it is.

Can you tell who's the main characters and what the story is about?


This one is for my other book New York Karma- draft 2



It's a cool website, go check it out.

I am lost for words...

Is it a joke?

According to Alt Press. http://www.altpress.com/news/wentzhair.htm

Get a lock of Pete Wentz's hair with greatest hits album

Tim Karan on 10/13/09 @ 10:39 AM

As a special treat for their fan club, Fall Out Boy have announced a very special package for Overcast Kids who pre-order the upcoming FOB greatest hits album, Believers Never Die. Fans who pre-order through Overcastkids.com can buy a special edition that includes a lock of bassist Pete Wentz's hair. There are three different packages available through the web site:

Basic edition: $19.99 (plus s&h)
- Physical version of the album
- Rubber Overcast Kids/Thnks fr the Mmrs wristband
-One-year fan club membership/renewal

Deluxe edition: $39.99 (plus s&h)
- Physical version of album
- Rubber Overcast Kids / Thnks fr th Mmrs Wristband
- Limited Edition Poster
- Exclusive Overcast Kids / Thnks fr th Mmrs T-Shirt
- Colored 7-inch vinyl w/FOB tracks
- 1 year fan club membership/renewal in Overcast Kids

Premium Edition: $129.99 (plus s&h)
- Physical version of album
- Rubber Overcast Kids / Thnks fr th Mmrs Wristband
- Limited Edition Poster
- Exclusive Overcast Kids / Thnks fr th Mmrs T-Shirt
- Colored 7-inch Vinyl w/FOB tracks
- "Thnks fr th Mmrs" commemorative plaque
- 1 year fan club membership/renewal in Overcast Kids

The first 10 Diamond/Platinum Overcast Kids members to pre-order the premium edition will receive a lifetime membership to the fan club and the first 400 fans to order this version will receive a lock of Pete Wentz's hair cut by Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.

Tonight's Yahoo! Popular Searches

Apparently only twelve-year-old boys surf the web.

The Room

There's bad art and there's trash. No one is debating that fact. I've seen plenty of crappy movies, Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus comes to mind, Batman and Robin also rank pretty high up there.

I like crappy movies, I like ripping them apart and shredding it until its a barley unrecognizable form. It makes me feel superior.

Yes, true, none of my writing has been published. I've got nothing I can point to and say, "Hey, I'm artistic success." But my inner geek who feels inferior in most social situations likes to mock those who I feel are beneath me.

Yes, I'm a bitch.

But once in a while, something comes along and it's so bad, its good. But not good. It's sort of like having your mind and eyes raped. You feel violated for watching it, and yet, grateful that you just witnessed the worst thing you will ever see, and everything else in the world can only be an improvement.

I'm talking about The Citizen Kane of bad movies, The Room.

It's should be a red flag when the main character, writer, director, and producer are all the same person. Tommy Wiseau.

Who is Tommy Wiseau? No one knows. Somehow he raised six million dollars to tell his "story". Rumors about him are littered across the Internet. Some say he made his money counterfeiting jeans, which I didn't know was a real thing, I thought The Simpsons made it up.

Anyway the "plot" of the room is, Johnny loves Lisa and they're a month away from their wedding when Lisa realizes she doesn't love Johnny (BTW did you notice how similar the Johnny is to Tommy? Maybe's its just a coincidence). Lisa starts sleeping with Johnny's best friend, Mark. We know that Mark is Johnny's best friend because it's in the dialogue 6 different times. There's a throw away line about the fact that Lisa's mother is dying of cancer. Some creepy teenager who is Johnny's "adopted" son who gets mixed up with drugs, complete with a whole, "Where's my money?" scene with a drug dealer. Most likely a real drug dealer trying to make his big break in Hollywood.

There's three different scenes where the characters play football. One scene they are in tuxedos.
I lost count of how many horrible sex scenes there were. But clearly Tommy Wiseau thinks that candles and rose petals makes everything more romantic and therefore a reflection of the character's true feelings or some crap. Tommy Wiseau make sex boring. Way to go, dude.

By the end everyone betrays Johnny.

Not only is the acting beyond awful, the dialogue sounded like it was written by a 1st grader and camera work done by a blind man, but the music was horrible and it was shot in front of a green screen.

Example of dialogue:
Lisa: Do you want me to order a pizza?
Johnny: Whatever, I don't care.
Lisa: I already ordered a pizza.
Johnny: You think about everything, ha ha ha.

Sometimes when crappy things are made, I wonder, "why didn't someone try to stop it?"

Someone did. The staff quit TWICE during the filming. One actor quit and was replaced by another actor like no one would notice. Everyone noticed.

After the movie there's an interview with Tommy Wiseau. It's more entertaining then the movie itself. Tommy Wiseua really believes it's a good movie, and every scene is in there for a reason, and if you didn't understand it, you need to watch it a second time because YOU didn't get the deep messages the movie was discussing.

There's nothing more insulting then when an artist gets pissed off at the audience because the audience is too stupid to understand the "art".

No, dude, it's not me, it you.

A part of me thinks this whole adventure is wonderful. It beautiful testament to how people hold onto a dream and don't let go.
John Green says, (and I'm paraphrasing) "we create to give a gift to the world and hope that someone will like it."

Sometimes that gift is an ugly wool sweater with sheep and cats on it, covered in shit and piss.

Here's the thing, it's a cult hit! Midnight showing are sold out. Kristen Bell, Patton Oswalt, Paul Rudd and David Cross all love it. So yeah. I guess the joke is on me.

Thank Tommy Wiseua for the ugly sweater, it was a life altering experiance.

Do yourself a favor and read the review of the movie from other fans.