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Thursday, October 10, 2002
I just watched this week's Buffy. Best exchange:
Anya: Everyone's all about the high school. Buffy's got some kind of job there helping junior deviants, Spike's insane in the basement, Xander's there doing construction on the new gym...
Willow: Spike's what in the what-ment?
Anya: Insane. Base.
Damn, those people can write.
Anya: Everyone's all about the high school. Buffy's got some kind of job there helping junior deviants, Spike's insane in the basement, Xander's there doing construction on the new gym...
Willow: Spike's what in the what-ment?
Anya: Insane. Base.
Damn, those people can write.
Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Old! I stayed up until 4 AM Monday night working on my web site and I'm still suffering from the effects. I just can't party like I used to.
Is this stopping me from staying up late? No. Last night I played a role-playing game with feng and the rest of my RPG group. We managed to save the world from the power-hungry Nazis in spite of my poor decision-making. It was very fun. I can't wait until our next session.
Tonight's non-sleep-catching-up-on event was seeing the film Igby Goes Down. I liked it. It had a sort of Catcher in the Rye feel about it that I enjoyed. Also, the DP is a man called Wedigo von Schultzendorff, which is one of the greatest names I've ever heard. I think I would get much better tables in restaurants if I made the reservations under the name "von Dierdorf". I'd probably need a monocle to pull it off, though.
I bought the new Jurassic 5 album Power in Numbers the other day, and I highly recommend it. These guys rock. If you're looking for something new, you can't go wrong with J5.
Still no novel idea yet. Only three weeks left to think of something. I'm going home next week, so maybe I'll have a marathon brainstorming session on the plane. Yeah, right. All of the ideas I have involve these extremely dramatic and serious plots, which is not my forte. I feel like my brain is trying to sabotage my novel writing efforts. I guess I have no one else to blame, so my brain is going to have to be my scapegoat.
Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I've been tracking the number of entrants they get per day. For some reason I feel possessive about this contest. I want it to break last year's entry record (5,000), as if that would somehow impart some glory onto me. According to my calculations, we are getting just over 300 new entries per day. At that rate the contest will have roughly 10,600 entries by November 1. I don't know why I find stuff like this so interesting. Sometimes the air seems thick with data, just waiting to be captured in a spreadsheet, like fireflies. One of my favorite lines from Gravity's Rainbow:
"Behind you, long, night-long queues of men in uniform move away slowly, kicking AWOL bags along, mostly silent, toward exit doors painted beige, but with edges smudged browner in bell-curves of farewell by the generation of hands."
I think this is why I like Thomas Pynchon so much - he sees it too.
Is this stopping me from staying up late? No. Last night I played a role-playing game with feng and the rest of my RPG group. We managed to save the world from the power-hungry Nazis in spite of my poor decision-making. It was very fun. I can't wait until our next session.
Tonight's non-sleep-catching-up-on event was seeing the film Igby Goes Down. I liked it. It had a sort of Catcher in the Rye feel about it that I enjoyed. Also, the DP is a man called Wedigo von Schultzendorff, which is one of the greatest names I've ever heard. I think I would get much better tables in restaurants if I made the reservations under the name "von Dierdorf". I'd probably need a monocle to pull it off, though.
I bought the new Jurassic 5 album Power in Numbers the other day, and I highly recommend it. These guys rock. If you're looking for something new, you can't go wrong with J5.
Still no novel idea yet. Only three weeks left to think of something. I'm going home next week, so maybe I'll have a marathon brainstorming session on the plane. Yeah, right. All of the ideas I have involve these extremely dramatic and serious plots, which is not my forte. I feel like my brain is trying to sabotage my novel writing efforts. I guess I have no one else to blame, so my brain is going to have to be my scapegoat.
Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I've been tracking the number of entrants they get per day. For some reason I feel possessive about this contest. I want it to break last year's entry record (5,000), as if that would somehow impart some glory onto me. According to my calculations, we are getting just over 300 new entries per day. At that rate the contest will have roughly 10,600 entries by November 1. I don't know why I find stuff like this so interesting. Sometimes the air seems thick with data, just waiting to be captured in a spreadsheet, like fireflies. One of my favorite lines from Gravity's Rainbow:
"Behind you, long, night-long queues of men in uniform move away slowly, kicking AWOL bags along, mostly silent, toward exit doors painted beige, but with edges smudged browner in bell-curves of farewell by the generation of hands."
I think this is why I like Thomas Pynchon so much - he sees it too.
Monday, October 07, 2002
Hi, I'm Scott Dierdorf. You may remember me from such blogs as NaNoWriMo 2001. I've decided to try blogging on a more permanent basis, hence the official blogging software. I'm currently working on a new page design, so be patient. With all of the nut jobs on the Internet, I feel that good presentation is necessary to be taken seriously. (Check out feng for a good non-nut job example.) There is a fine line between witty observation and incoherent manifesto, and that line is antialiased. If the Unabomber had Photoshop, he'd probably have his own TV show by now.
I've spent the last few days working on photos and fiddling around with miscellaneous bits of web sitery. NaNoWriMo is coming up, and I was planning on having my site finished before it starts. I've come to realize that this is impossible, so I'm focusing on getting the design done so the blog page will look all pretty. I have a ton of photos to post, but I don't see it happening until December. Sorry, folks.
Anyone have any good novel ideas?
I've spent the last few days working on photos and fiddling around with miscellaneous bits of web sitery. NaNoWriMo is coming up, and I was planning on having my site finished before it starts. I've come to realize that this is impossible, so I'm focusing on getting the design done so the blog page will look all pretty. I have a ton of photos to post, but I don't see it happening until December. Sorry, folks.
Anyone have any good novel ideas?