Monthly Archives: March 2015

Elevator Pitch – Premium Channel “RePlay”

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PitchGet this: Reboots, remakes, and adaptations are all the rage, so why not create a premium channel dedicated to them?

How would that work? It would take an aspect of what other networks already do, and specialize in it.

Working title: RePlay

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Archaic Definition of the Week – Nigmenog

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ADOTWNIGMENOG. A very silly fellow.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (unabridged) compiled originally by Captain Grose

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The novel won’t stay buried, and neither will its inventor

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Frankenstein-Its-AliveEveryone loves the zombie novel. No, I don’t mean a novel about zombies. I mean the novel itself as an artform, which walks on undeterred by  premature declarations of its demise.

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Snippet of Dialogue – Loading a Clip

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DAVID: “So, wait. When you say ‘loading a clip’ do you mean loading bullets into the clip or loading the clip into the gun?”

MATT: “Either one.”

DAVID: “That seems like the kind of things you’d want to have two completely different ways of saying.”

MATT: [grumpy look]

DAVID: [hands palm out, eyes closed] “I’m just saying, as a writer.”

MATT: “I’m not caring, as a shooter.”

Pirates, fandom, and the statistically inevitable opportunity for grievance politics

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IMG_0671.JPGI’ve been struggling for days about how to comment, if at all, on the Walking Dead/Black Sails homophobia scandals.

If any.

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Archaic Definition of the Week – Thick-Coming

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ADOTWthick-coming (adj.) coming in crowds, frequently appearing Mac V.iii.38 [Doctor to Macbeth, of Lady Macbeth] she is troubled with thick-coming fancies / that keep her from her rest

Shakespeare’s Words : A Glossary & Language Companion by David Crystal and Ben Crystal

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