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French Cuff III

June 18th, 2011

I made a movie!

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A trivial comedy for serious people

January 27th, 2011

LADY BRACKNELL
Now to minor matters. Are your parents living?

JACK
I have lost both my parents.

LADY BRACKNELL
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Who was your father? He was evidently a man of some wealth. Was he born in what the Radical papers call the purple of commerce, or did he rise from the ranks of the aristocracy?

JACK
I am afraid I really don’t know. The fact is, Lady Bracknell, I said I had lost my parents. It would be nearer the truth to say that my parents seem to have lost me… I don’t actually know who I am by birth. I was… well, I was found.

LADY BRACKNELL
Found!

JACK
The late Mr. Thomas Cardew, an old gentleman of a very charitable and kindly disposition, found me, and gave me the name of Worthing, because he happened to have a first-class ticket for Worthing in his pocket at the time. Worthing is a place in Sussex. It is a seaside resort.

LADY BRACKNELL
Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you?

JACK
In a hand-bag.

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All the Senses Known to Science

January 24th, 2011

1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste (incl. umami)
4. Touch
5. Smell
6. Direction
7. Phantom limb
8. Pins and needles
9. Humor
10. Decency
11. The Force
12. Timing
13. Invisible extra step at the top of a staircase
14. Clairvoyance (in some humans)
15. Command animals (see above)
16. Horse
17. Myoclonic jerk
18. Forks, knives, spoons (l to r)
19. I before E, ‘cept after C
20. The person I’m talking about is right behind me, right?

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Goofs

January 23rd, 2011

IMDb page for the movie Milk:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the beginning, as Harvey Milk begins to record his message, a screen card reads “1978.” Harvey says, “Friday, November 18.” November 18, 1978 was a Saturday.

I think I’ve been using IMDb for about fifteen years now. (Remember when there wasn’t an Internet? Crazy, right?) If I’ve learned anything from IMDb’s goofs section, it’s that there is someone somewhere who watches every single movie and makes sure the dates and days of the week match up. What a bizarre hobby that must be. I imagine this person–let’s call him Rick–has the days of the week in history algorithms memorized. When somebody in a movie says, “And then I killed him on Saturday, July 14, 1963,” Rick completely freaks out.

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Poème Inédit

January 19th, 2011

Vous demandez si la poop rend heureuse;
Il le promet, croyez-le, fût-ce un jour.
Ah! pour un jour d’existence pour la poop,
Qui ne mourrait? la vie est dans la poop.

–Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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Showbiz

January 17th, 2011

I caught my first office flu/cold. Whatever it is, it’s my new best friend. And it’s made even more special because I caught it from my new friends in TVLand!

Working here is by turns terrifying and exactly what I was hoping. I’ve never worked in an office, and I’ve never been someone’s assistant. That much is obvious to everyone I’m working with, but I hope they can sense how excited I am to be here.

I should clarify. “Here” is at my desk in the empty production offices. I’m here to answer the executive producer’s phone. Each time someone calls, a whole other avenue of television production opens up: the network wants to integrate such-and-such a product; legal needs to clear the name of the hotel we were at this weekend; hiring a Town Car to drive from there to here will be too much– can’t we get a PA and a Tercel? (“I mean, of course, don’t get a PA and a Tercel, but you know what I mean.”)

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