Have I Ever Told You About The Chicken?

I don’t know that I believe in any official life-after-death, but I do know that we live on in our legacies, in the stories told about us, and my father is the source of endless stories.

So, with that in mind, I have to ask: have I ever told you the one about the chicken?

What Writers And Storytellers Can Take Away From Tron: Legacy

If you’ve come here looking for my review of TRON: LEGACY, it’s this: I liked it but did not love it. I’d also add that it’d be great if Hollywood spent as much money on plot and story as they do on effects and worldbuilding. That last little bit is the takeaway for writers and storytellers.

Edit Your Shit, Part Three: The Contextual Edit

If you were to print out your manuscript, it would seem that your story was neatly bordered by the pages in frame it — like an apparition trapped into a box by intrepid ghostbusters, it feels contained. Bzzt. Wrongo. Your manuscript is like a cell phone. It emits invisible voodoo.

And Then, Hilarity Ensues

I probably don’t need more funny. But I’m asking anyway, because goddamnit, I like to laugh. Life is hard enough. Sometimes, you need to crack the ice and bring the thunder with paroxysms of laughter that cause you to evacuate 1d6 fluids from your body. Here are some of the sites I’ve been going to as of late…

Sexually Transmitted Search Term Bingo

You know what time it is. It’s time to dip my ladle into the river of depravity, a river that draws miscreants and deviants to the shores of terribleminds, as ineluctable as the tides, as certain as my utter pantslessness. It’s for time for — *crash of thunder* *keening violin* *braying donkey* SEARCH TERM BINGO.