Wow! This Suddenly Looks Normal Again!
Apr. 21st, 2007 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdust...and it makes me want to write and write, in case it isn't like this anymore, next time 'round. But unfortunately, I just don't have sufficient time right now.;)
At any rate: Last night,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
agincourtgirl came over, bearing belated B-Day cake and gifts from London (the gifts, not the cake); we listened to the Birthday Party (BITE!), and told anecdotes. She seems happy as Hell, which makes me happy. Earlier in the day, meanwhile, I discovered that Tangent Online had reviewed ChiZine #30/"Spectral Evidence" in such a way that said review frankly doesn't merit a link, at least not from my blog--look it up yourself, if you want the gory details. They certainly had nice things to say about cristalia and the chick who did "The Virgin Butcher", which is only right and proper.
Oh, and I also got the single worst-formatted script I've ever seen submitted this week--not in the class it was actually meant to be submitted in, at the very last minute, and by a guy who (when he saw my reaction) said, defensively: "Well, I used Movie Magic!"
"Uh huh. But you used it...wrong."
"Well, what's wrong with it?"
"Listen, there is SO much wrong with this, I don't have the time to go over it with you right now, because it'd take upwards of half an hour. So I'll see you next week. 'Bye."
"..."
Then again, I'm sure he emerged from this humiliating experience with another wonderful anecdote about what a Queen Bitch I am, so really, no big loss. But seriously, dude: Lay this next to my sample script. Note that in my script, scene action and dialogue are not constantly capitalized (making it look like the narrator is SCREAMING AT YOU), that I don't stick descriptions of what the characters are thinking into scene action (because how can I see that, exactly?), that in my version the dialogue has (oh, I don't know) headers which serve to inform us which character these "brilliant" words come attached to, that I don't format sound effects (like SCREAMING and MUSIC) as dialogue, etc...
Etc. Etc. E-T-fucking-C, etc.
But you "tried", right? And that should count for something, right?
Yeah. Except you didn't really even "try", so it doesn't. And I didn't make the cake, and it might be poisoned. Thank you, fuck on through.
And now, BodyCombat!
At any rate: Last night,
agincourtgirl came over, bearing belated B-Day cake and gifts from London (the gifts, not the cake); we listened to the Birthday Party (BITE!), and told anecdotes. She seems happy as Hell, which makes me happy. Earlier in the day, meanwhile, I discovered that Tangent Online had reviewed ChiZine #30/"Spectral Evidence" in such a way that said review frankly doesn't merit a link, at least not from my blog--look it up yourself, if you want the gory details. They certainly had nice things to say about cristalia and the chick who did "The Virgin Butcher", which is only right and proper.Oh, and I also got the single worst-formatted script I've ever seen submitted this week--not in the class it was actually meant to be submitted in, at the very last minute, and by a guy who (when he saw my reaction) said, defensively: "Well, I used Movie Magic!"
"Uh huh. But you used it...wrong."
"Well, what's wrong with it?"
"Listen, there is SO much wrong with this, I don't have the time to go over it with you right now, because it'd take upwards of half an hour. So I'll see you next week. 'Bye."
"..."
Then again, I'm sure he emerged from this humiliating experience with another wonderful anecdote about what a Queen Bitch I am, so really, no big loss. But seriously, dude: Lay this next to my sample script. Note that in my script, scene action and dialogue are not constantly capitalized (making it look like the narrator is SCREAMING AT YOU), that I don't stick descriptions of what the characters are thinking into scene action (because how can I see that, exactly?), that in my version the dialogue has (oh, I don't know) headers which serve to inform us which character these "brilliant" words come attached to, that I don't format sound effects (like SCREAMING and MUSIC) as dialogue, etc...
Etc. Etc. E-T-fucking-C, etc.
But you "tried", right? And that should count for something, right?
Yeah. Except you didn't really even "try", so it doesn't. And I didn't make the cake, and it might be poisoned. Thank you, fuck on through.
And now, BodyCombat!
