tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.comments2023-10-30T08:08:14.805-04:00The Man VersionChristian Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12440318861442751133noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-69337813406533426402011-01-06T10:02:53.585-05:002011-01-06T10:02:53.585-05:00Are you serious? A fire god??? I am interested.Are you serious? A fire god??? I am interested.Senator Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675006581133641961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-73439417859082734292010-06-24T00:27:48.722-04:002010-06-24T00:27:48.722-04:00that that you're ready for the operation pract...that that you're ready for the operation practice, I hope you're well aware that everything goes as planned it.<br />A few days ago I engaged in an operation right now I'm only <a href="http://www.yourkamagra.com/" title="kamagra" rel="nofollow">kamagra</a> to deal with itUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157276115751561753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-3557787477153117722010-01-19T12:31:31.215-05:002010-01-19T12:31:31.215-05:00I think that's Chinese for "come see our ...I think that's Chinese for "come see our quality porn at meimeisexy.info!"<br /><br /><i>This is not a paid endorsement by The Man Version for suspicious Asian porn sites. Buy American!</i>Christian Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440318861442751133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-138507563257230502009-12-29T18:08:22.765-05:002009-12-29T18:08:22.765-05:00Probably one of the best visual scifi movies I'...Probably one of the best visual scifi movies I've ever seen and I’d have to say with the addition of a 3-D that was not a distraction and IMAX it was a more than impressive experience that I’ll repeat in the coming weeks. And as has been said before there is a lot of Dancing With Wolves in there to which I’d add Fern Gully for the full native plus environment story line. I’ll also give Avitar my vote for having the best cam/alt/woo healing scene. Damn, the whole planet gets involved!!Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11400049707432506506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-13859720537461623982009-12-24T08:32:39.783-05:002009-12-24T08:32:39.783-05:00Your review is pretty close to my feelings exactly...Your review is pretty close to my feelings exactly regarding Abrams' Star Trek film, except that it was completely over the top in its pro-military & pro-violence advocacy.<br /><br />There is no arguing with people who do not care about quality, content, characters, ethics, etc. If they do not care, then facts and reasoning are immaterial.<br /><br />Living here in Patagonia, I have not seen the film yet, however an upcoming trip to Aspen will feature a stop in Denver at the IMAX to check it out.<br /><br />Ever since I saw the preview, I've shared your concerns since it seemed that the entire plot was basically revealed in 10 to 15 seconds worth of dialogue.<br /><br />Thanks for the review!BurntSynapsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03641657321119260817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-34235503885360285542009-12-24T06:58:16.517-05:002009-12-24T06:58:16.517-05:00If Dylan had grabbed an electric guitar and starte...If Dylan had grabbed an electric guitar and started playing covers of songs like "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," it would have annoyed even his most devoted fans. <br /><br />Maybe there were people who wanted to just hear the sound of an electric guitar and didn't care about whether the song was any good. But couldn't they have also heard what they wanted in a GOOD song? <br /><br />Same with Avatar. There are people who just want to see the amazing CGI. But you can put CGI in a good story too, right? Terminator 2, for example, was a good story and had incredible SFX for its time.<br /><br />I do think Avatar is a work of art. It's just flawed.<br /><br />And I would argue that Avatar is an action flick. It has action in it, but it reaches for a love story, a political commentary, and a philosophical treatise. I think Cameron *wanted* it to be accessible to all, but got lost in the visuals.<br /><br />All my opinion, of course. I probably shouldn't take movie crap so seriously :) I just think it's a shame when something like this falls short of its potential.Christian Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440318861442751133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-60919040705223039542009-12-23T23:11:40.772-05:002009-12-23T23:11:40.772-05:00Let me take an opposing view (albeit without havin...Let me take an opposing view (albeit without having seen the movie). <br /><br />First, I remember when Bob Dylan got booed off the stage because he dared to go electric (or to do his thing in a way his fans didn't recognize). He said he was doing it for himself and his fans could follow along or not. JC is doing his thing. You can follow along or not.<br /><br />Second, if you look at what he does as some sort of art, think of the works of Da Vinci. There is no doubt that the "Last Supper" is intended to tell a story. OTOH, the "Mona Lisa" is just some lady sitting for a portrait. Is the one art because it tells a story and the other not because it doesn't? <br /><br />Titanic was a love story. Story, story, story. Avatar is an action flick. Action, action, action. <br /><br />Grab your Eight Dollar popcorn and your Six Dollar soda, sit back and soak it in.Artful Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648424630174405282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-9022000028931105522009-12-23T19:41:23.349-05:002009-12-23T19:41:23.349-05:00Marc, I don't blame you. You find a girl like ...Marc, I don't blame you. You find a girl like that, you grab on and hold tight.<br /><br />Too many innocent guys out there are victimized by their girlfriends/partners/spouses. You never know ahead of time if they have a tradition of, say, spending Super Bowl Sunday watching "Beaches" over and over, crying until they dehydrate.<br /><br />I'm glad you avoided it.Christian Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440318861442751133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-51342014875661594072009-12-23T12:58:47.091-05:002009-12-23T12:58:47.091-05:00>"I've met people of all ages, genders...>"I've met people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds that loved Aliens"<br /><br />Yep, count me in on that. And Terminator 2 as well.<br /><br />When I told my wife I was renting Terminator 2 and that she was going to love it, she gave me the skunk eye.<br /><br />Two and a half hours later she's walking around the house going "Ka-chunk BLAM! Ka-chunk BLAM!"<br /><br />Gawd I love her.Marc A. Crileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12056366828578886383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-28976065405507814092009-12-02T21:56:36.801-05:002009-12-02T21:56:36.801-05:00To paraphrase the drummer from Spinal Tap, "a...To paraphrase the drummer from Spinal Tap, "as long as there are wealth and harems, I can do without the prestige."Christian Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440318861442751133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-67480188670311923852009-12-02T15:02:09.141-05:002009-12-02T15:02:09.141-05:00"Do successful authors get wealth, prestige, ..."Do successful authors get wealth, prestige, and a harem?"<br /><br />I sure hope so, Nicole. I'm counting on it. Heck, I'll take two out of three... ONE out of three...<br /><br />Maybe just a firm handshake from someone respectable next year at SkepTrack...Rob T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10672568899233971238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-1719700087216995222009-12-02T14:39:51.109-05:002009-12-02T14:39:51.109-05:00Congrats! I'm sure you can borrow words from m...Congrats! I'm sure you can borrow words from my unfinished project and have... ocelots in spaaaaace!<br /><br />Maybe I'll have a successful NaNoWriMo when I'm not in grad school :-P<br /><br />Do successful authors get wealth, prestige, and a harem?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-24478639510880076972009-12-02T09:40:01.325-05:002009-12-02T09:40:01.325-05:00Yeah, that doesn't sound too bad. One spring ...Yeah, that doesn't sound too bad. One spring break in college I wrote four pages every night for two weeks*, after which I had a 64-page sci-fi story.<br /><br />I remember most days that I would be looking forward to the night when I would pop on some tunes and just write for an hour or two.<br /><br />* - Yeah, we had two weeks for spring break and all I did was go home and write! My true nerd colors are showing!Rob T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10672568899233971238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-87131826458056940692009-12-02T05:53:34.048-05:002009-12-02T05:53:34.048-05:00Rob -
You should definitely do it. It was a lot m...Rob -<br /><br />You should definitely do it. It was a lot more fun than I thought.<br /><br />As for time per day, that's tough to estimate. I got to 20k in the first 10 days, but then I didn't get to 30k until right before Thanksgiving -- it's not like 2012 and New Moon were going to watch themselves, you know -- then found myself in a mad scramble the last weekend. I think Sunday I was at the computer for more than six hours.<br /><br />You have to average just under 1700 words per day, which is pretty easy. Maybe two pages of text in Microsoft Word with normal settings? If you can carve out 60-90 minutes per day on average, I think you're in good shape.Christian Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440318861442751133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-63814376407387905322009-12-01T09:30:18.103-05:002009-12-01T09:30:18.103-05:00Congrats! I failed at NaNoWriMo, but maybe I'...Congrats! I failed at NaNoWriMo, but maybe I'll try the script writing one in April.Tim LeGowerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221964200301574406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-78411557095401784382009-12-01T09:25:34.010-05:002009-12-01T09:25:34.010-05:00Congrats! I heard about NaNoWriMo about November ...Congrats! I heard about NaNoWriMo about November 7th, so I had a convenient excuse not to participate (lol)...<br /><br />But having written short stories before, and a few stage plays, I really should do this next year. If I might ask -- how much time per day (on average) did you have to allot?Rob T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10672568899233971238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-19253850975371472292009-11-30T21:20:42.546-05:002009-11-30T21:20:42.546-05:00Well, how was it?Well, how was it?Artful Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648424630174405282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-49803678189703036692009-11-24T13:13:39.782-05:002009-11-24T13:13:39.782-05:00I am quite trusting for a skeptic and for a New Yo...I am quite trusting for a skeptic and for a New Yorker... but I also knew 2012 would be the comedy hit of the year! <br /><br />And yes, there was an audible WTF?!?! from our row at the superneutrinos part. <br /><br />So is your brain officially mush yet after New Moon?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-76250799206561218682009-11-21T23:41:19.809-05:002009-11-21T23:41:19.809-05:00I would have volunteered, but I have to be back be...I would have volunteered, but I have to be back before daylight.Artful Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648424630174405282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-26608964049235692712009-11-12T00:52:01.959-05:002009-11-12T00:52:01.959-05:00I would be doing that write a book in month thing,...I would be doing that write a book in month thing, but two things have gotten in my way (well, really three things). Most important is the fact that I am a crappy writer. I have had that great police procedural going for the last six years and I am still re-writing the first chapter. 50,000 words in a month? I don't think so. Second, November is really not the best of months for writing. The leaves are turning, there is that last mowing in the pasture before winter, the veggie garden has to be bunkered. Well, you get the idea. March would be good, but the veggie garden needs to be tilled and mulched in preparation for spring...well, you get the idea. And, of course, I recently got into a pissing contest over in the comments section of Skeptchicks (under a different name) that has taken up my time recently. So, maybe I'll get to the novel next month? 2013? I dunno.<br /><br />Sorry you're having mask problems. I was talking to the Lone Ranger about the same problem the other day and he was talking about trail dust and such, so I think I understand. At least you don't have some guy yelling Kemo-whatever over your shoulder. Although I have to take what he says with something of a grain of salt since he's, what, 167 years old? He probably wasn't being politically correct in his conversation either.<br /><br />Hang in thereArtful Dodgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04648424630174405282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-39544269058504489782009-11-06T09:24:56.033-05:002009-11-06T09:24:56.033-05:00Published? Ha! I once self-published one at the ...Published? Ha! I once self-published one at the insistence of my son. <br /><br />There's too much competition out there; too many writers with actual talent. I do fancy that my stories will gain me a kind of immortality among my direct descendants. <br /><br />"Gramps? Wasn't he the one who wrote thos--"<br /><br />"Now, you just forget about those, boy! He wasn't all bad."mikespeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05397674737999065117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-42844759169664525182009-11-06T08:43:48.103-05:002009-11-06T08:43:48.103-05:00That moonslide was neat, wasn't it? Phil finds...That moonslide was neat, wasn't it? Phil finds some amazing pictures to intersperse with the clearly Photoshopped pics of him hugging Felicia Day.<br /><br />I agree that 50,000 words is at best a short novel. I'm not sure of the dividing line between a novel and a novella. I should look that up. I'm just over a quarter of the way to the target word count, and I feel like I'm just finishing the introduction.<br /><br />As for letting anyone else read it, I probably will. I got the idea from a song, and I want to show it to the songwriter first before I just chuck it out there. I doubt he'll have a problem with it, since I'm not doing this for money and I will completely fess up where it came from. <br /><br />Have you had any of yours published?Christian Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440318861442751133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-2988907941207083062009-11-06T07:36:24.901-05:002009-11-06T07:36:24.901-05:00Well, I've got to say the moonslide was fascin...Well, I've got to say the moonslide was fascinating.<br /><br />True, 13,000 words in less than a week is impressive, but I'd hardly call 50,000 words a novel. The shortest I've ever written was a bit over 80,000 and I feel a little sheepish about calling that a novel. The one I'm working on now is up to almost 208,000 (though I've been vomiting prose into it since July 4th) and I fear it will never end. They'll find me hunched over my keyboard, age 98, with the status bar showing 2,478,362 words and still not done. And they'll probably just delete it, anyway.<br /><br />I do understand about how characters tend to wander off and do unexpected things. And I'm supposed to be the author, dang it! I understand how God feels, I think; or, rather, how he would feel if he were more than a fictional protagonist himself.<br /><br />So, are we going to get to read your "novel" when you're done?mikespeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05397674737999065117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-1979951848927270912009-10-14T11:42:50.543-04:002009-10-14T11:42:50.543-04:00I always like to point out grammatical errors in t...I always like to point out grammatical errors in the works of obviously better writers than myself. It's like a balm to my bruised ego.<br /><br />I've never had a CPAP with a humidifier. I might benefit from one. Sometimes, especially during the winter, when the air is very dry I'll wake up feeling like somebody is running a bottle brush through my sinuses.mikespeirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05397674737999065117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8882218549493175550.post-3834741781268922602009-10-14T08:22:27.689-04:002009-10-14T08:22:27.689-04:00You're not supposed to say you broke your nose...You're not supposed to say you broke your nose as a kid, you're supposed to come up with an awesome story involving ninjas, spies, and gorgeous nymphomaniacs that results in a broken nose.<br /><br />Hope everything works out with you and your muppet.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02446398968548702039noreply@blogger.com