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Great article here about how audio theatre, technology, and the real world are beginning to interact in surprising and provocative new configurations. Earbud Theater gets a shout-out, which has some chests bursting around the Earbud Lair, and not for the usual mutant internal parasite reasons, but because of an old-fashioned little internal parasite called pride.
We finished recording a new podplay this week, called Scary Ride. This took two sessions and more recording hours than I think we've ever put into an episode. I'm proud of that, it's a script I'm very excited about and I think the extra-keen focus on the performances is going to shine through in what we're hoping is going to be a very thrilling and emotional piece.
I'm also excited about the team. My longtime friend and frequent creative teammate Christine Weatherup (appearing tonight on CSI: Cyber!), who was the Danna to my Interface in Habitat and also did splendid work as the relationship-cursed Brooke in The Sounds Below, stepped up into the director's chair for this episode; and managed the sessions fantastically. With her guiding the performances and my friend Darren Lodwick managing the SFX, music, and mixing, that's a lot more expertise applied to a story than just me trying to do it all alone.
One of the biggest conflicts in career strategy out here is between the idea that a diverse group of collaborators will collectively make your own work shine brighter, and the unpleasant reality that the more people you rely on, the more projects can get bogged down and lost. I've always likened producing a big project to holding onto an armful of snakes – they're not TRYING to thwart you, but people in this town can just…wriggle away. Too much to do, too many possibilities that need tending.
You need to balance the size of your ambitions with the number of people you can reliably convince to crawl through glass with you to help achieve them. Keeping things small is good, but watch out for that line where you're doing something you know you're not good at just to avoid asking someone else.
I had this script for a short film I intended to make a few years ago. It was designed to work with a crew of almost nobody and a budget of almost nothing. Perfect first short film to direct. The money was there, I believe the crew would have done their jobs – the project really fell down because of a weakness of mine. A silly and incomprehensible one to others; but to me a genuine problem.
Thankfully, I found someone whose strength is my weakness, and here I am now happy to declare that a short film is happening. I think we'll be filming in about a month; and at that point (if the Gods provide enough breathing space for me to finally lock in the upgrade to this website I've been imagining,) you'll see some news and jabber about that.
I should also have some news about the feature film roles I've shot over the past year – the first, Cloudy With a Chance of Sunshine, is now raising funds for post-production and festival submissions, and I should be seeing it on a big screen at the end of this month. My face, on a screen at the Warner Brothers lot. That's a thought I can't quite turn over yet. The second, Reclaiming Friendship Park, has locked picture and has an actual by-Gum poster with my actual by-Gum face and name on it.
It's nice to know that work I've already done is percolating and will get out into the world without any further effort on my part, that filmmakers with the grit to make a microbudget feature are on the case. That a friend like Christine would step up and bring perspective to Scary Ride that's going to make it better. That I have partners around me now that will make future works come to life with me. It feels on balance with that idea.
And it's nice to be able to blog about it all.
I'm at the Airport Marriott right now, waiting to shuttle back over and catch a flight to Chicago. I checked in early and shuttled over here because I prefer this lobby to the airport terminal.
Yesterday I woke up with 120 pages of an unfinished screenplay. I met a friend for breakfast, and then parked myself at the Central Library in front of a big window looking out onto the duck pond. And by noon I had written five pages, typed those transcendent words: "FADE OUT", and had a draft of 125 pages.
However, since the day wasn't over yet, I decided to put off circulating the draft in order to say if I could ratchet that page count back with a comb through the script. This took several horus in and around packing and prepping for the trip, but it was well worth it – and at 9pm I was able to circulate a "finished" first draft of 120 pages to the director and a couple of trusted readers. I like the symmetry of that.
120 is sort of a talismanic number in Hollywood. If your page count is above that people get as nervous as if you start saying "Candyman" into a mirror. It's not as if it's a guarantee your movie will end up bloated or bad at 121, it's just that they start worrying about the worry it will trigger in others until it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. While every reader fancies that THEY will judge something purely on its merits, they always believe that the next reader in the chain wll just look at the page count and the cloud of negativity will doom the content.
I'm sitting in the 13th row of this airplane I'll be boarding, so I obviously give less of a damn about such things; I just wanted to get the story on paper. However, I do want to make money, so I'm glad we're at least at 120. 115 would be even better, since while 120 itself is not outright terrifying, its position at the upper limit of acceptable is at least partially-alarming by proximity. I know all this sounds ridiculously stupid, but so much of the game out here is about confidence.
I am confident we can wrench it down further. Even after my comb-through, first drafts tend to contain redundancies, over-describing, all sorts of things. And I went into a lot of detail with all the action sequences, something that will be less necessary on the page as the action-minded director and I start working them out.
So 115 may be in the future; or even less. But that's a worry for another day, and so much smaller a worry than putting something on a blank page. Once again, that process is finished. I have written another script. And as I prepare to travel, visit loved ones in a loved city, I can move it off the top spot on my writing "To Do" list.
Of course I'll be writing on my holiday. I'll be eating and sleeping, won't I?
Working on this action script has been an education. For one, I am realizing that you shouldn't fear writing yourself into a ridiculous situation, because you can always write your way out of it with something even more ridiculous – and, in fact, people often pays their money for just such pleasures. On top of that, action sequences are, these days, never left solely to the writer; the director and many, many others will work to build it, so my concern is primarily specifying where the plot is when we enter, and where it will be when we leave, and just making sure the reader stays entertained.
It's also – and I knew this was coming – a hell of a lesson in pacing. As I've written before, modern action scripts turn over story beats at a terrifying rate. And I wanted to see if I could evolve my style to work within those confines. I specifically plotted out my treatment to include a lot of twists and turns and action variety; but it meant a story with more beats than any I had written before.
The last treatment I wrote was for a horror movie – 22 beats intended to fill 95 pages. That script never got drafted, but that's to do with whom I was pitching it to. Still, the story felt solid and each beat would have broken down to about 4.32 pages; a pace I felt very comfortable with.
The treatment for this action script has 45 beats to it. Now, "beats" are a very arbitrary and inexact term of measure. It's sort of like paragraph breaks in writing; it goes more by when you feel a shift in direction, or location, or tone. Still, my aim was a 110-page draft, which would have required averaging 2.44 pages/beat. There's evolving my style and there's outright mutating it.
I'm near the home stretch now, and my latest calculation shows me at 3.02 pages/beat. Now that's pretty great progress in this new direction for my work, but it still sets us up for a first draft of as long as 136 pages, far longer than I would want to turn in to any producer or buyer.
First drafts can always be trimmed – in fact, they pretty much always should be trimmed – and the director I'm working with will, I'm sure, have some good perspective to offer. In addition, I just finished working with producer on probably the most punishingly-extreme redline polish I've ever performed on a script of mine. I thought it was my tightest script, and by the time we were finished, it was 10 pages shorter without losing a bit of story. I would love to turn in a script below 120 pages; and I would love to do it without cheating. That will be a different skillset than what I'm developing now, but I think it can be done.
4.32 pages/beat to 3.02 pages/beat. I wonder how long beats were before Star Wars came along and permanently adreanalized all our movie brains?
I've been exchanging e-mails with an aspiring writer that I don't know. He queried an old e-mail address of mine that is apparently still listed in a few places from my development executive days. I haven't been an exec for about nine years, and the company I worked for has been defunct for about that long, but it can be difficult to run down all the places where these listings still exist, especially since companies out there probably sell each other information which they then "monetize" by selling hope of access to aspiring writers. 200 accurate listings doesn't look as sexy as 1,000 listings.
I think one of the most frustrating mysteries for writers outside the system is: how did the people who "made it" get their material read? Those stories tend not to get told in detail, and I understand why – they tend to be so convoluted, coincidental, and ultimately dependent on "who you know" that none of them seem to have any connection to the writer's ability. And while it is true that a great writer who never talks to anyone might find themselves trumped in earnings by a merely good writer who markets the crap out of themselves, the real flaw, I think, is in seeing "who you know" as some immutable fact, or some bequest of fortune that can't be changed.
If one of the most frustrating arts in writing is how to get read, then one of the secret truths you have to embrace in mastering that art is you can get to know more people. And it can actually be fun.
For the purposes of this entry, I am counting myself as someone who "made it", to the extent that I have sold and optioned material, earned membership in the WGA, and have ongoing interests with some producers and directors and executives out there. Trust me when I say that neither my bank account nor my own ambitions are satisfied that I've "made it", but I know that there are a lot of people out there who would dearly love to just have made it this far.
I was fortunate in that I successfully used a Trojan Horse method – I worked my way into town as a script-reading intern, platformed that into a development executive job, and then, by the time my screenwriting had progressed to the point that I thought I had something of good enough quality to circulate, I was already regularly in conversations with execs and literary agents, some of whom owed me favors. That's how I got read, that's how I got my first agent, and my first agent got me my first sale.
Obviously, not everyone can replicate this approach. There could be a whole book about how you build your network to the point where you material is organically circulating to where you want it. Hell, probably just start with reading Dale Carnegie. But the idea is to stop viewing yourself as Over Here and the people you need to reach as Over There behind some unbreachable stone wall. You spend a lot of ineffectual time with catapults in that metaphor.
What you must remember is that by writing, you are already part of a community: the community of people who Do Things. Just by finishing a script, you beat out 98% of the people who ever mused to themselves "I bet I'd be a good writer". Now, of course, once you've beat out that 98%, you have to beat out the 98% of the survivors who finish one script and then say "well, this is so perfect, I obviously don't need to re-write it, or learn anything else about writing, or even bother starting a second script". There are a LOT of rounds of culling to this game, and the numbers are brutal.
But that's for later. Right now, you're someone who Does Things. That means you need to put yourself around other people who Do Things. You'll find that you love their company – they inspire and encourage you to work, and set a great example by being their own brilliant selves. You want to be better just because they're so damned good. They are a vast improvement over the company of people who Talk About Things.
So writing communities are great, but just being in one is not enough. Critique each other, share wisdom, hold each others' feet to the fire. And in that process, don't just improve yourself, get to know the people who are serious and have direction – they are a very minor subset even within the group of people who Do Things.
Inevitably, you're going to need help – an introduction, a read, a recommendation. The best way to get someone to help you is to help them, and a good writer can definitely help someone. Craigslist is full of listings from aspiring filmmakers looking for short scripts to shoot. Hey, maybe they don't need a script, but they do need crew. There's a director I am now developing a horror movie with – we met when I answered an ad to be his 1st A.D. for a short film. It went to festival, his stock rose, we got along well and he loved my writing. So now when people with money are starting to look at him for feature film work, I'm near the top of his list to bring in if there's a need for a writer.
Build alliances with good people, and you could find yourself at a film festival and someone with money is asking YOU to please send them a script. That's the secret, really – the best way to get someone to read your script is to get them to want to ask you for it.
This film festival example is just one way to go about it – but the trick is to see past this mentality where you're on the outside trying to lob your script in. Trust me – if you wrote something, you're inside already. You just have to learn the landscape.
A Read is a precious currency in Hollywood, and is not spent lightly; there are just too many bad scripts to be foolhardy with your reading time. And a Recommendation is even more dear. And I'm a writer, trust me I know the deep-down desire for the material itself to render all such equations moot. But writing quality is not a fixed value – everyone has different needs, and the creative partners you seek out are going to have different tastes (and if you don't see directors and producers as creative partners then you need to adjust your mentality). Then there's the etiquette that comes with these reads and recommendations – far from a perfect system, but it does keep a great deal of the worst stuff off our desks.
I know very few people get into writing because of an overabundance of social skills, and fewer still pursue it with the thought that growing their social skills is going to be a job requirement. But the latter part is true and – although this is for a different entry – it can even make you a better writer.
Good writing is good writing, but that is not the same as matching the right script to the right opportunity. Not even close. By building your network you can really forge the kind of connections that allow you to do that sort of matchmaking and build enough credibility to start getting those reads and recommendations. Personally, I think it works better than endlessly pursuing the impossible goal of The Perfect Query Letter. As my example proves, a lot of the time the person you're querying might not even be looking anymore.
Today the first official trailer launched for Bread and Butter, the independent film I worked on last year. I think it very solidly captures the quirky voice of the film.
Bread and Butter, starring Christine Weatherup, Bobby Moynihan, Micah Hauptman, Eric Lange, Lauren Lapkus, Sean Wright, Dawn Didawick and Harry Groener. Written/Directed by Liz Manashil
I became involved with Bread and Butter because of Christine Weatherup, the actress who plays the lead role in the film. She's been a close friend and colleague for many years now, dating back to when she acted in a staged reading of a play of mine. She is how I became involved with Squaresville, for which she is producer and co-star and her husband Matt Enlow is creator/writer/director.
I remember having coffee with her when she confided in me how much she wanted this role, and the kindly relentless campaign she was mounting to convince writer/director Liz Manashil that she was the woman for it.
Liz has years of experience in the film festival world, and is one of the hosts of PBS's film review show Just Seen It. Since this film is going to be touring film festivals, where the first question she will be inevitably asked at every single screening will be what her budget was, I will not rob from her the ritual experience of answering that question. Instead, I will just say that it was absolutely insanely low, and that some filmmakers would have been challenged to get this movie made for ten times the money she had.
Once I learned that Christine had won the role, I reached out to Liz on my own just to offer any help that I could to help see this movie brought to life. There's a lot of cross-training in my resume, so I can be thrown into a lot of differnt jobs – and even if it's a job I've never done before, I have learned on-the-fly many times.
We met and she told me that they were having trouble getting a boom operator for the length of the shooting schedule. I volunteered for six out of the sixteen production days, which was quite a workout for my shoulder muscles – the sound recordist told me "do this often enough, and you'll get muscles that only swimmers have". I had boomed previously – never with training and never particularly well, I thought – but here for the first time I picked up some good information that I'll be able to use if called upon again. Given the course of my life and career so far, smart money says I'll be holding a boom mic again.
It was – and I'll be glad for the day when this is less of a surprise – the most female-heavy set I have ever worked on. Female producers, female director, female A.D., cinematographer, production designer, and so on and so on. It was a conscious decision by Liz to enhance what was to her a very personal perspective, and her collaborators did tremendous work in every department while creating the positive atmosphere necessary to survive when there's this much work and this little money.
I made many friends on the set, and had a great time chatting with Micah Hauptman and Saturday Night Live's Bobby Moynihan, who play the two dating prospects in the movie. Bobby had a voice role in Pixar's Monsters University, which was due to be released soon – it was his first big animated feature and he was geeked to the ceiling about the whole process.
A couple of months after production wrapped, Liz put out word on Facebook that she was looking for a voice actor to record a couple of lines. By coincidence, I was on-line and I responded immediately, since I have begun pursuing this sort of thing when possible. Less than a half-hour later, I was at her apartment talking into her Mac Laptop.
I still don't know if my voice-over will be included in the final cut, it was an idea she wanted to present in test screenings, but just the fact that it happened is one of my favorite things about L.A., that what started as a cold e-mail I sent to a stranger led to her trusting me to add something creatively to the tone of her film with my voice.
I gripe sometimes here about the free labor economy in L.A., and I probably should do a comprehensive post at some point about the etiquette involved; because I think there are situations where it is excusable. For the record, I am thoroughly okay with having volunteered my services for Bread & Butter. For one – I was the one that reached out, it wasn't an ad posted to a listing service. For another, I was reaching out to support an amazing opportunity for a friend. It's different when strangers are expecting I should be grateful they give me the chance to work for free.
And in the end, I had the opportunity to develop skills that could make me money, and I may end up with a voice acting credit in a feature, which is directly useful to me and my career goals. That's how you get someone to be happy to work for free – make it a real win-win.
Urth Caffe on Melrose is a great place for a salad or a cuppa but a horrible place to approach by car. If you don't live nearby and must look for parking, your best bet is inside an Elvish Bag of Holding. One of the survival skills of any entertainment career is learning where to park for your meetings. I happened to know (since I had just had a meeting here 5 days before), that one of the neighborhood streets allowed for two hours unmetered, and usually had a spot less than 5 minutes' walk; basically ideal for business.
The first producer I worked for works out of his house now, and is making more movies than ever. I have far more business meetings in cafes than offices these days. This could be a consequence of real estate prices, it could also be that so many of us have been cast loose from any semblance of organization, and are floating free in the bloodstream of the city, gathering sometimes but never stopping. The hustle gets harder every year, and we have fewer assets to do it with, but we keep at it.
As I walked up the sidewalk towards the cafe, I saw one of the producers I was scheduled to meet. He was holding down two outdoor tables, and a spaceman was talking to him. Actually a gray and windblown man in a classic 50's-style homemade silver pajamas spacesuit, with a cardboard helmet becrusted with shiny fake jewels. He was fearlessly and relentlessly approaching every customer and passerby, offering to sell them, for only $5 a DVD of the film he had made. This town runs on chutzpah, and while he had the slurry aura and patter of a homeless person who had had a little too much of the useful juice squeezed out of the spongy tissues of his brain, he had apparently made a movie. Which, it must be acknowledged, probably put him ahead of half the denizens of the Urth Caffe.
I got in line for my drink, and soon my director friend arrived. I told him about the accomplished filmmaker on the sidewalk and he replied: "Oh, the spaceman? I've seen him before. Love that guy."
We ordered and joined the producer, and soon we were joined by two other producers and the conversation was off and running. It was a good day, a serious day, with great potential for a movie to emerge from the meeting. It can take patience and effort beyond most people to get to a meeting like this.
It went well – at least, as well as perception can tell. I am almost too-addicted to concrete confirmation these days, because I know how many of these possibilities will inevitably be mirages. If there is a check, a greenlight, a film, you will hear about it, never doubt. Until then – it was a fine conversation with good beverages in a town where you can convene on the patio in January.
At one point the conversation turned to famous comedic actors – this movie, if made, would provide space for a cameo or two by this type of celebrity. L.A. has a unique sense for kismet, because at that moment, Jon Lovitz arrived at the cafe, walking his dog. And it says something about L.A.'s sense of blase entitlement that you might look at an occurrence like that and think "well, sure, kismet, but maybe we could do a little better?"
Naturally, when Lovitz emerged from the cafe, he proceeded up the sidewalk and ran into Will Ferrell at the corner. The two stood and chatted (along with, I think, Anchorman director Adam McKay), for a good ten minutes, right behind the shoulder of one of the producers at our table. About two minutes in, a photographer with an enormous lens appeared across the street – sprouting out of the ground, I think. This was not Will Ferrell and Jon Lovitz in high glamour – they were in track suits and ballcaps, just walking the neighborhood for ordinary reasons. Still, the city has decided such things cannot go unphotographed. Within five minutes, three more photographers had appaered, and I imagined them barreling out of a very small car.
And I was momentarily awed by the fact that these people who had reached the very top of the Hollywood mountain were sharing a sidewalk just a few paces away from that ambitious spaceman, in a neighborhood where nobody, rich or poor, can find a good parking spot.
So, by convoluted means, I am, as of today, the assistant editor on a feature film. I have never done this job before, but am going to learn as I go; I'm working with a friend who has organized the tasks into layers of gradually-increasing sophistication and decreasing-tedium; which means for the next few days it's going to be pretty much all eye-glazingly repetitive. I don't mind that at all; I learn better starting at the ground floor.
In truth, I did take that one Avid class about six years ago, and even though this editor is using Adobe Premiere Pro, which I have never used, software is software and these first tasks really just boil down to organizing and labeling things according to the editor's preference. So today's "training" took all of ten minutes and now I've got my work for the next few days; and once I've finished that, he'll train me on the next step.
I love chances to learn; I love them more when I can get paid for them, which is pretty damn rare. And every dollar I can make working on something creative is a dollar I don't have to make by other means; which I love even more.
Because I was a math junkie long before I even thought about writing, I tend to apply all sorts of horribly-nerdy mathematical/organizational principles to my writing. I keep a spreadsheet list of basically everything I would like to write – screenplays, short stories, novels, stage plays of any length; and one thing that has mutated far beyond a screenplay and which I might have to re-conceive as some kind of limited series for TV/web.
Even when I have drafted something, that doesn't always remove it from the list; since, after all, major re-writes are just a part of the trade. The list can be daunting – these days, if I get a new idea that's too good to dismiss, my first reaction actually tends to be irritation; since it means a shuffling around of priorities. There are worse problems to have, I know. And I know that the glut of them means there are some I will simply never get to. One hopes that some subconscious Lodestar assures that the worst ones are the ones that go unrealized; but how well can we ever really know that?
The top of the list right now has been unchanging for a couple of months – the novel, followed by a couple of screenplay re-writes. One of the re-writes was scheduled to be finished on April 1st for reasons that I won't jinx by describing here. I wrapped up an early version of that re-write on March 15th and sent it out to a couple members of the team, in the hopes that they could read it in a week or so and bounce it back in case anything further needed to be done before the bigwigs read it on the first. This is a relatively common scenario for a re-write out here, in that it can actually break into components along the way.
To a shock so great I hardly know how to process it; not only did they find that the March 15th draft answered all their concerns, they felt so good about it that they started spreading it out further before they had even shared this good news to me. It's the best possible scenario for this project, and a massive load off my mind. What it also means is that one of the biggest, most time-consuming titles parked at the top of that list gets to disappear completely for the forseeable future. I won't have to work on this script again unless the team has broadened and re-configured in a way that means we're closer to making the movie. At that point, I would be in a pretty good mood for re-writing, I guess.
I sometimes overlook sharing shareable information on the public blog when the private version of the announcement is couched in an overall private blog post. Just the way my brain works.
Anyway, it deserves announcing that I finished the first draft of my new spec screenplay a week ago; as I shared it is a horror script, which is a first for my portfolio and something I enjoyed the hell out of crafting. My first goal had been a lean 90-95 pages; as I got into the "mayhem" half of the script and started plotting out gags and kills, I revised my goal to "let's just squeeze under 100". Instead it's 101 pages. I can get that down with time; and it's still one of the leanest scripts I've written since I started actually knowing what I was doing.
It's out to the inner circle right now, and once I've collected feedback from them, I'll make some tweaks and then share it with a strategic few more. In Hollywood it's always been true – It Takes a Village – and I'll need some friendly Villagers in my posse to get this thing rolling.
If it sounds like I'm risking some exposure of what will be barely more than a first draft – that's what I'm doing. But I have faith in the outline and the premise and the energy of the script. One of the reasons I spend so long on the brainstorming/outlining phase is because I am lazy in the long term – I want to write absolutely as few drafts as possible, so I try and lick the fundamentals before I ever open up Celtx (the screenwriting software I use for reasons of it being free).
As for the next project – well, I'm going to spend some time on a prose commission, as well as try and draft the final piece for the short story collection I want to publish. I have two very personal, rule-breaking screenplays that I have been tinkering with for years and years and years; during windows like this they tend to get a few more pages added to them; although it would be nice to actually finish one or both of them before I die.
I'll owe re-writes on two other screenplays before April, both of them requested by people on the respective teams for those projects. It feels good to have a lot of work out there with allies who actively want to bring it to life. I basically say it every year, but there's a real chance of making something great this year. I feel like I'm doing my part towards that goal, anyway.
I didn't celebrate much, unless you count ordering a birthday cake milkshake at The Counter. In a way, spending a week away from a deadline – even a self-driven one – is a kind of vacation unto itself. But honestly, I should at least buy a nice drink. I'm meeting someone for drinks tonight. I'll make sure and do that.
I've reached 80 pages on the screenplay, and have another writing session to look forward to in a couple of hours. And my chances of bringing this first draft in under 100 pages as I so want to do are…decent? Not guaranteed, but possible; and there are some built-in indulgences that will probably get sacrificed along the way.
On New Year's Day I had 37 pages, so this has been a stupefying pace for me, and I think I'm starting to feel the fatigue. While writing at lunch today I felt like the stage directions lacked the manic punch I had been enjoying so much about this script. And I worry that I'm out-writing my sense of the coherence and rhythm of the story.
Lately I am hearing some other professional screenwriters discuss the concept of "the vomit draft" – where the point is you just get the first draft over with as absolutely quickly as possible; without heed to logic or cleanliness or grammar or anything. Since it's such a torturous behemoth of a task getting it on paper to begin with; the thought is to just purge until it's done, baby.
I admit there's a compelling argument there, and I am certainly adoping a version of that approach – albeit probably slower than most people would consider a truly vomitous pace. And this could just be momentary fatigue, but it may be that this burst that has fueled me for the last two-three weeks might not be enough to get me across the finish line with quality work. Can I force my way there? I am mighty close, and the final pages of a script tend to come most quickly with me. It has been far too long since I got to celebrate a finished feature screenplay – the first draft of my most recent script is dated at the end of May, 2011; and I've been mostly consumed by prose and re-writes since. Although goodness knows, for the last few new scripts I have barely even let myself celebrate.
That might be a nice course to reverse. I have good, incredibly supportive people in my life who know what an accomplishment it is to finish a script. They would want to celebrate with me, even if it's just going out for a simple toast. Maybe I ought to do that – finish this damn script, and then invite people to celebrate it with me.
After that – well, there are those two personal screenplays that have been so long in the works – both are maybe 60-70% drafted. In my dream world, I would actually get first drafts of both done this year, and thus be closer to the standard I used to hold myself to when it came to screenwriting pace. Do I have that much vomit in me? I guess we'll see.


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Flycatches for flying insects; gleans insects from vegetation. Plucks fruit while perched, or may hover briefly to snatch fruit. Swallows entire fruit.
Populations stable or increasing.
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For tea lovers attending the World Tea Expo in Long Beach May 6-8, ITCC (International Tea Cuppers Club) will host their 6th Annual Cup Warming event. This year, the tea tasting social will be conducted on the main events stage on Friday, May 8, from 1:00 – 2:00. Continue reading


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HUNTER ARMY AIRFIELD, Ga. - In some cultures rain is an auspicious sign of good things to come. As the rain fell Jan. 25 on Hunter Army Airfield, a new battalion commander saw another meaning for what the rain signified.
"We fight in all weather - rain or shine - so being here and having this change of command ceremony despite the rain is a sign that we are here to do what our nation asks us to do in any situation," said Lt. Col. Cory Sena, the incoming commander for 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade.
The ceremony also was a time to say farewell to outgoing commander Lt. Col. Michael Musiol who led the battalion while deployed last year to Afghanistan. While in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Musiol led the battalion to fly more than 29,400 hours in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and conducted more than 3,500 missions in Paktya, Paktika and Khowst provinces.
For Lt. Col. Musiol the rain was seen not only as a sign of good things to come for him as he moves on to one of the Senior Service Colleges but also he said for the battalion.
"If rain is a good sign, it may be a good sign for the task force and maybe they can spend a few years at home before having to go fight again," said Lt. Col. Musiol.


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The Baker Hills neighborhood is situated in western Atlanta, within Fulton County. This mostly residential neighborhood is bounded by Bakers Ferry Road Southwest on the south, Bakers Ferry Road Southwest and Woodstock Drive Southwest on the east, Adamsville Drive Southwest and Princeton Place Southwest on the north, and Whitworth Drive Southwest, Kittrell Drive Southwest, and Candlelight Lane Southwest on the west. Interstate 20/State Highway 402 runs west-to-east just north of the neighborhood, and Interstate 285 runs perpendicular just over a mile to the east. Baker Hills is in the 30331 zip code area. Among many neighboring communities are Wisteria Gardens, Wilson Mill Meadows, and Boulder Park.
The nearby interstates are clearly a benefit of living in Baker Hills, providing residents with easy access to the rest of the city. The Fulton County Airport – Brown Field is also situated nearby, directly north of the neighborhood on the other side of I-20.
Open spaces for outdoor recreation are plentiful near Baker Hills. One close option is Wilson Mill Park. Situated roughly a half-mile to the southeast of the neighborhood, this small community park hosts multiple playing fields, two tennis courts, basketball courts, and playground equipment. On rainy days, Baker Hills residents head southeast along Martin Luther King Junior Drive Southwest, toward the Cascade Family Skating Center and the Adamsville Recreation Center. The former is an indoor roller skating center, perfect for birthday parties and family fun. The latter offers an Olympic-sized swimming pool, kiddie pools, basketball and other sports programs, and dance and karate lessons.
For local shopping, Baker Hills residents are close to Collier Heights Plaza Shopping Center and Westridge Shopping Center. The nearby interstates and highways offer a variety of shopping, dining, and entertainment options. They also provide easy access to downtown Atlanta, roughly 20 minutes away by car and offering plenty to see and do.
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The underwater light climate of billabongs of the Alligator Rivers Region, NT
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Walker TD, Kirk JTO & Tyler PA
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The distribution of photosynthetically-active radiation (PAR) underwater has been investigated for a number of Alligator Rivers billabongs, together with the physical, chemical and biological conditions of the waters which determine this underwater light climate. Of the three parameters most likely to affect light conditions, namely dissolved organic colour (gilvin), turbidity and chlorophyll, turbidity was shown to be the dominant influence. Gilvin concentrations were always low and only seldom did chlorophyll modify the spectral properties of the underwater PAR. The presence of finely-divided sediments, turbidity, so characteristic of many of the billabongs, specifies a blue and green-deficient spectrum and a shallow euphotic zone. Laboratory studies indicate that turbidity exerts its influence through absorption rather than scattering. The greater the turbidity, the greater the limitation of PAR to a narrow band of red wavelengths. The resulting spectrum resembles closely that of non-turbid but highly humic waters in other parts of the world. In the clearest billabongs there is a transmission peak in the yellow, as in oligotrophic lakes and in the ocean.
In most billabongs, turbidity increases markedly through the Dry with consequent contraction of both the spectral bandpass of PAR and the euphotic depth. Other billabongs show capricious fluctuations in optical conditions. Nourlangie is unique in that its clarity improves as the Dry progresses. For most of the billabongs the Wet is a time of fluctuating water clarity, with the euphotic depth reaching an annual maximum at the Dry/Wet interchange.
There was high correlation between Secchi depth and the euphotic depth determined from PAR measurements. There was no re1ationship between Secchi depth and chlorophyll concentrations and the Secchi depth cannot be used as an indicator of trophic conditions as it often is elsewhere in the world. Nonetheless, with its close correlation with euphotic depth and with its simplicity and ease of operation, it becomes an excellent routine monitoring tool if used with care.


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Brotherhood Says Salafi Backing for Rival Boosts Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood's presidential hopeful said the endorsement of his chief Islamist rival by Egypt's largest Salafi bloc is good for the country's democratic efforts.
Mohamed Mursi, the head of the Brotherhood's political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, said al-Nour's backing of Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh "enriches the democratic process and shows that society is not divided on the basis of who's Islamist and who's non-Islamist," according to an e-mailed statement today from the FJP, which holds the largest bloc of seats in parliament's lower house.
Islamist groups have been divided over which candidate to support in the presidential elections that begin on May 23. Aboul-Fotouh is seen as one of the strong contenders in the race that includes 12 others, including the former secretary general of the Arab League, Amre Moussa, and Ahmed Shafik, who briefly served as ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.
Al-Nour said in a statement on its website that Aboul-Fotouh won the backing of 75 percent of its leadership. The move came days after Mursi won the backing of another Salafi movement. Salafis follow an austere interpretation of Islam.
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Enjoy the pictures and the recipes of our Cooking Demonstration, last week at Chabad Atlanta https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.896280337090500.1073741872.213383695380171&type=1 Our Cooking Demonstration in Atlanta was so much fun! So nice meeting all the wonderful people! As always at my cooking demonstration, we served a complete dinner! I told you: My Cooking Demonstration is always Dinner...
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Quick Fresh Tuna, Spinach and Corn Ragout. Salmon Variation
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Photo via Meirpliskin Hot and Sour Soup is almost as easy to make as its first cousin, Miso Soup. This is where you watch those umami Asian seasonings do their magic in no time. Hot and sour soup has only the added initial step where you coat the chicken and stir-fry...
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Sign of the times….. Enjoy the Pictures of all the dishes! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.890040087714525.1073741870.213383695380171&type=3&uploaded=1 Yesterday's Thanksgiving Menu was a real triumph. Haha, don't go by the picture above, taken from a prescient cartoon in the New Yorker Magazine just a few short years ago. As always before the preparation of a major meal, I...
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Bravo to Cara Reed for the recent publication of her book, Decadent Gluten Free Vegan Baking. I would feel much better starting with the kinks in the book, and get them out of the way, so we can move on to the good stuff. – Cara's blog, Fork and Beans, is lovely....
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Enjoy the pictures of all the dishes We all have no end of Shabbos recipes to show off, but when you have lots of kids coming for Shabbos, the question narrows down to, what Shabbos recipes are the most children-friendly? Of course, no need to make all Shabbos recipes suitable...
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A new dessert star was born this week as a result of extensive tinkering with variations on cheesecake: Vegan Cheesecake. Forgive me for feeling so smug, but I am mighty proud of my Vegan Cheesecake with Peanut butter Filling and Chocolate Topping: You will see why when you taste it. ...
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Couture's son wins second pro fight
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2/19/11 4:10 PM by jjj2121
Pops is the exception and not the rule, I don't think Randy's longevity is the kind of thing that is passed from generation to generation.
2/19/11 4:05 PM by un3rgr0und
If he has his father's good genetics than 28 years old is young, if he keeps improving he could easily be fighting at 40 just like pops. I hope he makes it to the big show one day, it would be really cool to have another Couture ripping thought the UFC.
2/19/11 3:55 PM by stlnl2
Tapped to what?
2/19/11 3:29 PM by Slapsymaxi
It should have been more impressive and quicker.It really looked like Higgins tapped in the first round...Max
2/19/11 3:10 PM by jjj2121
I think Kim Couture fighting and sucking at it hasn't helped him any. He's not an elite prospect, but he's not a tomato can either.
2/19/11 2:14 PM by liquidrob
he showed improvement, wouldnt call him 'legit', just coming a long slowly, hopefully he will fight again soon, that staph infection delayed him a bit
2/19/11 1:49 PM by Gnarly219
What MahoneySucks said. The guy is as humble as they come and is making the most of his opportunities. So Strikeforce picked him up for the marquee name, he still came out and performed well, and it was on a Challengers card. He's said ideally he wants to fight every three months to get more experience, let's see what happens, but I expect he'll continue getting better and facing better opponents. It was a good win.
2/19/11 1:03 PM by Poindexter
It was a good fight last night. Ryan showed a pretty good range of skills.
2/19/11 11:52 AM by zFugitive
Labeling him as a "prospect" is a bit much this early on. But you gotta admit their is a huge advantage for a guy to have a father like Randy Couture. It's not just the name, it's the training, the mentoring, the experience he is able to get BECAUSE of who his dad is.
2/19/11 11:36 AM by jjj2121
Roger Gracie and Ryan Couture should never be mentioned together. Roger Gracie is a prospect based on his world championship grappling ability and the fact that his body is well suited to MMA. The only reason anyone cares about Ryan Couture is because of who his father is. Ryan is not a terrible fighter, but he's not a big prospect either. He's being put on main cards against made to order opposition to get him wins.


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Wel I got the camera.It's a beauty.And has the Carl Zeiss Jena lens.Damn.I put a film in it and I am off to test it.I will post pictures of it tonight so you guys can tel me what you think about it.It's like morning Christmas for me, right now!
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I own a 2004 Cadillac Deville and at 45 mph I being to experience a vibration in the wheel, I feel it in the steering wheel and in the gas pedal. The problem gets worst as speed increases and I notice that other cars move away or back off away from me. I have changed my tire rods, rotors, my air shocks, and recently within 1 year replaced my tires. I have taken it to the dealership and they continue to tell me that everything is tight, but I still experience the same problem
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The company employs 20 people at 5459 11th St., up from 15 at the start of the year. It would like to add five more over the next year.
Sales Manager Mike Thomason said that even though there are available workers — the area's jobless rate in October was above 10 percent, marking the 47th straight month of double-digit local unemployment rates — the company won't hire until January or February.
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The gains this year at Thomason mirror what has happened to the Rock River Valley job market as a whole. In January the Illinois Department of Employment Security estimated there were 145,059 people were working in Boone and Winnebago counties. In October, the number grew to 150,395. Manufacturing employment grew during that period from 29,900 to 31,700.
Most gains came in the first half of the year. Hiring has since slowed.
"The long-term trend of our business is good and we expect to grow, but we want to see if there is going to be a down-turn at the start of the year," said Thomason.
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County officials say they will reach a decision next month about two applications which, if approved, could clear the way for a planned unit development in northern Accomack County.
Developers propose to build over a 20-year period a new mixed-use community near Wattsville called Town Center at Wallops Island Spaceport.
At a public hearing attended by about 60 people, 19 spoke. ...


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Published on August 29th, 2013 | by NSB Observer0
End of Summer Poem
By Marley Scott
Back in school as I sit at my desk,
I blink my eyes and it feels like I just left
For summer break – woop woop!
No worries, sun rays, late nights, good waves.
Sleepovers with all my chicks,
Surf camps then banana splits, all right!
All summer long we're pumping some jams,
Had a ripping time at Shark City Surf Camp.
"Paddle, paddle, little grom," I heard a million times.
Drop in late, bottom turn, fly down the line.
Pull into a barrel and I made it out every time.
Every time I think about it I scream and shout.
Summer, summer – it was so grand
Hanging out with all my fam.
Back in school, but that's all okay.
The only difference is I can't stay up late!
* Marley is a competitive surfer and our Right Coast Wahine. Read more about her here.
Photo provided by Cattleya Video Photography and Shark City Surf Camp


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Maureen Connolly
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The introduction of electronic medical records has been a mixed blessing. As with most significant advances, it solves some problems while introducing new ones.
The benefits include:
? Electronic prescribing to pharmacies, thus eliminating the age-old problem of having to decipher physicians' handwriting and avoiding dispensing errors. ...


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Rangers Photos
Kicking Astros: Seven memorable Rangers wins in the series with Houston
Photo: Dave Einsel/AP
May 20, 2007: Rangers 14, Astros 1 - Ramon Vazquez had one of Texas' season-high six home runs and drove in a career-high five runs, and Mark Teixeira and Victor Diaz both hit a pair of homers. Vazquez had been called up three days earlier.
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