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Re: 8 Halloween Costumes That Have Been Banned By Schools

listener42 — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:43:07 -0000

In 1994 one of my classmates dressed up as a "dead german tourist". We were in south Florida, and a couple of German tourists had just been killed. It was in super-duper-bad-taste.

Re: Greg Berlanti Thousandth Floor ABC

listener42 — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:17:08 -0000

So... Robert Silverberg's The World Inside? Hugh Howey's Silo? Or nah, let's just make a TV show based on another YA novel about a Stereotypical 17-Year-Old Girl who meets a Stereotypical 20-Something With A Little Scruff and they fall in love amid the background of a World Gone Mad.

Nothing against the author; I'm sure she did a lot of really hard work on the novel. I just worry that it's Yet Another Retread Of The Hunger Games, But In A Building.

Like, is it not obvious that the tower is such an obvious metaphor for social stratification that even YAs can understand it?

Re: With HTML5 Gaining Wider Acceptance, the IAB Has New Recommendations for Ad Developers

listener42 — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:11:03 -0000

Hooray! New guidelines for publishers, marketers, agencies, and buyers to COMPLETELY IGNORE.

Re: Criminal Minds Season 10 Episode 7 Review: Hashtag

listener42 — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:15:36 -0000

I'd really like to know WHY the writer of the episode chose to make all the characters have names drawn from Buffy. I asked him on Twitter but no response yet.

Re: 15 Cases of Same Actor, Same Series—Different Role

listener42 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:26:35 -0000

JG Hertzler:
Enterprise: Klingon Captain ("Borderlands") and Kolos ("Judgment"), in addition to being best known as Martok on DS9 and now Captain Travis on the fan film Star Trek: Axanar.

Vaughn Armstrong:
Enterprise: Admiral Forrest
Voyager: FIVE different characters across five different races
DS9: Seskal and Gul Danar
TNG: Korris (the Klingon captain in "Heart of Glory")

I think Armstrong might have the record.

Re: 15 Cases of Same Actor, Same Series—Different Role

listener42 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:22:32 -0000

Speaking of Ferengi, Max Grodenchik played three Ferengi: Rom (in DS9), Par Lenor (in "The Perfect Mate"), and Sovak (in "Captain's Holiday").

Re: 15 Cases of Same Actor, Same Series—Different Role

listener42 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:21:02 -0000

David Tristan Birkin played Rene Picard in S4 "Family" and a de-aged Jean-Luc Picard in S6 "Rascals".

Re: 15 Cases of Same Actor, Same Series—Different Role

listener42 — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:19:26 -0000

Actually, I think Cecily turned out to be Hallie in disguise, didn't she? (checks Buffy wiki) Yes, Joss Whedon confirms this.

Re: 11 Actors You Might Not Realize Do Voiceover Work

listener42 — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:09:32 -0000

Maurice "The Brain/Calculon/Kif" LaMarche = Lexus
Hector "the bald guy from Chicago Hope" Elizondo = Chevron
And Cusack also does this Texas health care company that I see ads for on Hulu a lot.

Re: TableTop s3: What’s Going On?

listener42 — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:17:49 -0000

Can we make suggestions for future guests here? If so -- musician Julia Nunes, who is super-awesome, just moved to LA, and my daughter LOVES both Julia and Wil. If Julia was on an episode her little 7.5-year-old head would ASPLODE.

Re: 22 Fictional Characters Whose Names You Don't Know

listener42 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:26:47 -0000

"Once Upon a Time" calls him James.

Re: Feedback, please!

listener42 — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:31:21 -0000

I'm in a group. It's small -- six people, sometimes seven. A week in advance, we send out up to 2500 words, and each person gets 10-15 minutes of feedback. We're strictly limited on time because we're at the local library, and we only have the room from 6:30 to 8:00. We're all respectful even as we criticize each other. We meet every other Tuesday.

I'm in the group because I need constant feedback -- people telling me they want to know what happens next. Otherwise, when I get bored with a story, I just stop telling it. Right now they're reading my new novel, and next Tuesday they'll get Chapter Six. Problem is, I've only written up to halfway through Chapter Eight, so I'd better get on that, bettern't I?

Also -- I'm the youngest person in the group by far (the next oldest is in his early 40s, and the oldest is probably in her 60s).

I contrast this to the first group I was in, which allows five pages (about 1250 words) per session, there's no set "everybody gives feedback" rule, and you have to read it out loud in person. Also, that one's at someone's house, so it goes until everyone's done. And, because the group is so large (sometimes 15 people or more show up), you spend a lot of money printing out copies of your story. Finally, there's no real policing of length -- people use fonts, margins, and outright lies to get more than five pages on a regular basis.

Contrast that to the other group, where the rules are followed pretty strictly by the woman in charge of it. None of her rules are unreasonable, and I think they really help make the group better.

And that's what I think writing groups need: rules about how much you can bring, how much time each person gets, and how many people can show up. Once you open it to the world, it gets a little unwieldy.

Re: Promote Yourself, Guilt-free!

listener42 — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:49:23 -0000

1) I'm a web designer/developer living in Georgia (US, not Europe). My name is the same as a rather-talented jazz trombonist. In addition to writing, I also narrate stories for podcasts.

2) I write mostly sci-fi and fantasy, with a little horror when I'm feeling in the mood. All of my published work has been SF, although I have an adult fiction novel coming out within a year. Also, I write reviews and articles for Escape Pod.

3) An excerpt from "Side Effects", a story about PPACA (google it) that I really hope to have published before it becomes law:

With no patients to see and nothing else to do but stare at the walls, I take the train downtown to the Spring Street Clinic. At the station, I have to navigate a maze of doctors--"check your cholesterol, sir?" and "that limp could be a sprain; want me to take a look?"--to get to street level. The physicians' entrance to the clinic, five blocks away, opens to me when I swipe my HealthCard, and I stand for a moment in the vestibule, catching my breath after braving the smog--code red air alert, just like every summer day--and thanking a deity I no longer believe in that I haven't sunk low enough to panhandle for patients.

Re: FANS WILL DECIDE THE NOMINEES FOR THE 2010 MTV MOVIE AWARDS

listener42 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:09:06 -0000

Prepare for epic fail as New Moon is nominated in EVERY category and wins Best Movie.

Re: http://ennuipartie.tumblr.com/post/395132301

listener42 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:31:31 -0000

Is that me? Or another Josh? It sounds like something I would write, and I was at lunch at the time you posted that.

Re: 10 Questions For Readers

listener42 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:08:26 -0000

1. As long as it's safer-sex porn, fine. I know there are guys with bigger wangs than me. And hey, I know she does anal, right?

2. Don't care.

3. Invest in Astroglide, Inc. She has to be okay with me giving her head, though.

4. Don't think I can handle that.

6. Weird.

8. Well, I'd probably ask her to get an STD test if I haven't already, and rationalize it as "well, those other girls". I'd even go with her and get one too, to show solidarity. But whatever... a job's a job. Plus, she liked to show off and tease, but I'd be the one getting the prize.

10. Probably ask her how it happened. I'd know why she didn't tell me -- afraid I would leave her -- but whatever... people have all sorts of crazy medical shit. I have a big scar on my stomach from spinal surgery (they go in through the front for what I had done) and I know it's not really pretty to look at, so if girls want to turn the light off while they go down on me, fine. I understand.

Re: The Alexa Collection - Hot Facials

listener42 — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:44:13 -0000

I love the mid-splash shots.