Month: August 2002

Apparently the movie Spy Kids II has a Shiitake mushroom joke (note the correct spelling). I learned from a mushroom expert that it’s an ancient Japanese word pronounced “shee-TOCK-ay.” I did not know that.

I made good headway into the book How Not to Write a Screenplay last night. I’m totally digging that book. It was EXACTLY what I was looking for – how often does that happen on the first try? What it’s given me is a good sense of what to leave OUT of my screenplay, which is almost more helpful than a list of what to put in. I’m happy to see that since my last foray into the world of screenwriting (back when I was a member of the screenwriter’s forum on pre-AOL Compuserve) the spec script (what I’m attempting) is a lot more conversational. It’s hard for me to explain what I like about it, but when he tells you when to NOT name characters (as opposed to naming even the least little person) you’re on the right track.

There are days when I really appreciate having an indoor job with full blast AC. When I get home tonight Mike the Fish will probably start yelling at me for leaving him in the house without the benefit of cool air, but I just can’t justify leaving the AC on all day when he’s the only one there. It’s 99 out there today, and that’s just not one of my favorite temperatures.

We’ll get home and MAYBE it will be cool by the time we go to bed. Oy.

I read a quote on the Taking it on the Chin blog and just wanted to share. If you like what you see here, please feel free to visit the site, so I don’t have to feel bad about not adding her site to my list of frequently visited sites. This is from an entry describing those Dunkin Donuts Watermelon donuts. (Gah!)

“The flavor is overpowering, yet it falls short of its watermelon target. It’s watermelon from a time far in the future, the 25th century, say; a time when watermelons no longer exist and their flavor has been reconstructed from contemporary accounts provided by people with Alzheimer’s.”

Randy likes me! Woo hoo!

(Note, the “weird” page is one of my other pages, not this one.)