January 2012
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“Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth,...”
– From “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins
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“And everything heals, given time / And everything dies, given time.”
– The Builders and The Butchers, “Golden and Green”
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Plot To Script: This Is How Cullen Bunn Does It →
A great look at comic book creation from notion to page.
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On Writing Writing Advice
I set aside this space to put in some writing advice—maybe a quote from some famous novelist or long-dead playwright—but finding writing advice now would send me sailing across the open sea, from island to island, whiling hours on pre-whittled quotes and Wikipedia links hidden behind choking vines. Those hours spent trawling the Internet’s seas would be years off my characters’ lives,...
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Geography of Games →
Each RPG is a city.
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Dear Representative,
(A version of the letter I sent out today:)
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. My name is Will Hindmarch. I’m a Chicagoan, a writer, a designer, and a game developer. I have worked, both on salary and freelance, for companies that make their living on homemade and licensed IPs. I have seen my work appear without my permission on websites I don’t approve of, circulated...
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"[SOPA and PIPA] diminish what makes the Internet... →
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“Understanding what is joyful about illustration is important. It’s important to...”
– Warren Ellis on comic-book scripts (via WarrenEllis.com)
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“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens” (via fwriction)
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“In a nearby vault is a bent gold coin that archaeologists also found in the...”
– “Complete Civil War Submarine Unveiled For First Time” (via)
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“Cities look to me to be our most characteristic technology. We didn’t really get...”
– William Gibson in The Paris Review (via)
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moledro
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
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“1. Space: Above and Beyond (1995-1996)
Why it’s unsung: Like many of the shows...”
– 10 Unsung Science Fiction TV Classics
Srsly, Space: Above and Beyond was AWESOME. I’ve got the DVDs if anybody wants to do a rewatch with me.
(via jaybushman)
Not only do I still hold this show dear, but I gave it as a Christmas gift as recently as yesterday. A bunch of what I learned about how...
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“Ahh…you see, this is where you make your fundamental mistake, grasshopper. Let...”
– Neil Gaiman on John Hodgman via the Nerdist Podcast #106
We are all Hodgman. Amen.
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I am Hodgman, and so is my wife.
(via wilwheaton)
I have been more Hodgman than I am right now. And I will be again.
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“I don’t understand. I don’t understand. What is happening?”
– Me, throughout the duration of my first Kickstarter campaign
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“I think revision is hugely underrated. It is very seldom recognized as a place...”
– William Gibson in The Paris Review (via)
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the bends
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.
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Standing On The Border Between: My New Year's Eve... →
December 2011
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The Lyrics to the Mission: Impossible Theme
dunununununun! Dun dun dundun dun dun dundun dun dun dundun dun dun dundun.
Whir-dee-dunn (bom bom) Whir-dee-dunn (bom bom) Whir-dee-dunn
Dun dun.
(chorus)
Whir-do-din Whir-do-din whir-do-din.
Mwhir-dee-deedun-dun
Duh dun!
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I wish I was writing something insightful and supportive about the charming delight that is Parks & Recreation and how it and Community interact with their television and Internet audiences in provocative ways. I wish I was writing something celebratory about the clever enthusiasm of those shows’ audiences and how they play and participate with those shows through animated GIFs and...
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"You must be at peace with not knowing, they tell... →
Xeni Jardin’s amazingly written piece about learning she has cancer.
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Always/Never/Now Is Go →
So, I launched my first Kickstarter campaign. Always/Never/Now is a cyberpunk-action RPG adventure in the tradition of Lady Blackbird. I hope you dig it. [This was post #1,111 on my Tumblr, by the way.]
November 2011
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“He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (by way of Marly Youmans)
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Cover of Flock of Seagulls “Space Age Love...
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Kickstarter Giveaway: "Time Lord"
unchartedbooks:
There are 8 days to go on our Kickstarter campaign! That means it’s…
Giveaway time!
I will randomly choose from the next 10 pledges of $50 or more to win the vintage manual for “Time Lord,” the official Doctor Who role playing game. It’s the nerdiest thing I’ve ever seen, and it’s awesome.
Go!
I write RPGs as part of my job and even I have never owned this rare item.
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Stepto.com » Blog Archive » A Microsoft Life: The... →
wilwheaton:
My friend Stepto says:
Tonight I am proud, very proud, to release the audio version of my book, A Microsoft Life. This edition is called “A Microsoft Life: The Audiobook Expanded Edition with Bonus Material and Surprises (Abridged), with a forward by Wil Wheaton. A forward by Paul and Storm. A forward by Mike Phirman. A forward by Len Peralta, A forward by Larry Hryb, and a forward...
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The album version of this song is near the top of...
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Could the Enterprise beam a vampire into a house... →
Until about 2/3 of the way through Voyager, I had seen every episode of every Star Trek series. I watched a bunch of Enterprise. I designed my own home-brew Star Trek roleplaying games—like D&D, but for Trek. I’ve read scripts, I’ve read makings-of, etc.
For years I either wrote or developed for a vampirocentric storytelling game of some repute. I read a lot about vampires. I...
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On Meeting Famous People →
Today’s post is about trying to talk to people you admire.
I mentioned a couple of friends we had in common, which is to say I dropped names like a dufus. By which I mean: I didn’t work them into the conversation so much as I opened my mouth and let them fall on the signing table like a slobbery dog toy.
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October 2011
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Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Iceland’s Midnight Sun
Photographer Joe Capra spent 17 sleepless nights traveling across Iceland in June, shooting stunning time-lapse videos of the never-ending sunsets that occur in the summer months at northern latitudes. At night, the sun actually travels horizontally across the sky, as you can see at 00:51 in this video. Make sure to watch full screen!
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Yeah, I have no idea how the notes thing works on Tumblr anymore. The number goes up but the notes alluded to come and go within. Sometimes the notes are all invisible. Sometimes they stick around for a day or so and then leave. I don’t even know. From now on I shall simply presume that the number of notes is correct, that this or that post is appreciated, but that you likers and rebloggers...
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“All I ever wanted was to bring them something great. Why does nothing ever turn...”
– Jack Skellington
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A: What's your favorite book?
B: THE AUTUMN LEAVES OF OXFORD, I think. Yeah, actually, for sure.
A: That's your book. You wrote that.
B: Yeah. It's terrific. It spoke to me. Changed my life.
A: I don't mean your favorite of your books. I mean your favorite book.
B: Yeah. That's it. AUTUMN LEAVES OF OXFORD. I reread it every year. I get chills every time. It's a beautiful book. It's just... oh, it's so good.
A: ...okay.
B: Why? What's your favorite book?
A: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Harper Lee.
B: Huh. Okay.