Talking In Movie Quotes

 
 
 
Many of us say classic lines from movies in everyday conversation, stuff like “You’re gonna need a bigger (boat)”, “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse”, or the vaguely annoying “Stupid is as stupid does.”  
I tend to use movie quotes that not a lot of people know, especially in my business.  Oh, I’ll [...]

Creative Process of Lucas/Spielberg/Kasdan

 
Since The Transcript of George Lucas’ brainstorming sessions with Steven Spielberg and writer Lawrence Kasdan was released online as a .pdf, I’ve been perusing it.  It’s basically these two 1978 wunderkinds are telling Kasdan how they want the story to be, and Kasdan himself shows tremendous grok of their concepts, and even makes many suggestions [...]

I Got No Legs!

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Koumpounophobia

Having just seen the wonderful Coraline, not in 3D thanks to the stupid Jonas Brothers movie taking over the theater’s only 3D machine, I must send this out to any frightened souls who saw it, and suffer now this awful affliction, koumpounophobia: The Fear of Buttons.  I’ll let the writer himself explain.  Take it, Neil…
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Bad Religion

Re-Engineering Fundamentalism is one of the most intriguing things I’ve ever read, particularly for the intelligent discussion that follows on this Boing Boing post by guest blogger Paul Spinrad.  Paul is a special kind of Christian, one who is looking for a new, human, forward-thinking faith to take over the dying throne of Old-Myth style religion.  [...]