Screencoding Sites:

These links have been added to the sitebar. Wanna procrastinate? They are your ticke to puttingoffheaven™.

The 'I'm a writer, of course my site's named after me!' group:

John August

Tim Minear

Fun Joel

Andy Diggle - well, ok he writes comics but one of them was optioned, so he kinda counts.



The 'whacky fun name' group:

I find your lack of faith disturbing

Alligators in a helicopter - see note below.

Velocripators on the Space Shuttle





The 'If I'm honest maybe I'll earn karma' group:

Things they won't tell you in film school - like... please don't use caps, Julie.

I can't really film, but I can write sometimes.

Chained To The Keyboard

The Blank Page

I Want To Write

We've been brainwashed into swallowing hook-line-and-sinker the spurious beer-commercial dictum that "enjoyment" is the yardstick by which we should measure the worthiness of any endeavor -- that anything worth doing must also by definition be "fun." Our standards of what we expect from ourselves have eroded. We've been MTV-ed and Nintendo-ed into oblivion, narcotized into junkiedom by the Home Shopping Network. Our icons are no longer the achievers of this world -- the Einsteins, the Schweitzers, the Lindberghs...

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Life doesn't come with a "fun warranty." We aren't issued E-tickets when we're born. Life is what we make of it, and the saddest loss is not to explore your potential within the short time you're given.

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f this is beginning to resemble an inspirational sermon, there's a reason. Having now done a fair number of talks at colleges and universities, I've begun to realize that the one thing they don't teach in film school is how to believe in yourself.

-- Frank Darabont on making the Shawshank Redemption

Yet another example of the silencing of dissent

Let me emphasise that again. The Arts Department queried the gallery on whether the display was government funded. It wasn't. The pictures have stayed up.

-- Treason and Art, via Weatherall's Law

Worrying stuff in light of the new sedition and treason laws.

Why not just have the Ministry of the Arts (blah blah etc) issue what shall be considered 'State Formalism'?

What would have been interesting, of course, would've been what 'they' would have done if the display WAS government funded.