- TV Squad reports that at this year’s Emmy Awards, “celebrities will utter famous catch phrases and lines from 60 years of television.” I think they should read them off in one long extended list, in a sombre monotone, as if they were reading off the names of the fallen dead.
- I think I would better enjoy Doveman’s Footloose covers — which I’ve heard about practically everywhere by now, including on NPR’s All Songs Considered — if I thought his singing was any good. It’s an interesting idea, though.
- Ann Hornaday on George Lucas and why he’s a bad storyteller:
Although the difference between plot and story may seem arcane, it’s quite crucial: The plot is merely a sequence of events, whereas a story limns those events’ deeper motivation and meaning. The plot gets characters from point A to point B; the story makes us care.
She’s not wrong.
- Another reason why fast food is bad for you.
- I’ve been working on an update of the Kaleidotrope submission guidelines (along with the whole site, actually), and I’m thinking of adding a caveat along the lines of “Why I don’t want to hate your story but probably will…”
- Matthew Baldwin almost makes me want to use my Twitter account. I particularly liked this “recent tweet” of his:
War in Afghanistan, rising US / Russia tensions. This WATCHMEN ad campaign is amazing.
I can’t access Twitter on my computer at work or with my cell phone, so I don’t think it’s going to happen, even if I had anything half that clever to write.