Maru box paradox.
In The Descendants, though, [Alexander Payne has] successfully blurred the line between the comedy and the drama. The result is a film that still manages to deliver excruciating laughs and moments of genuine heartbreak, but in a way that’s much more surprising and memorable.
By just about every estimate, women buy around two-thirds of all books and 80 percent of fiction.
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The agony of the male novelist - Salon.com
And I wonder why most of my male friends are such slow and/or inconsistent readers.
It’s an abdication of narrative responsibility, in my view. The storyteller, in film or novel, should take charge of the story and not feel shifty about it. Put the camera in the place from which it can see the action most clearly. Make a decision about where that place is. Put it on something steady to stop that incessant jiggling about. Say what happened, and let the reader know when it happened and what caused it and what the consequences were, and tell me where the characters were and who else was present – and while you’re at it, I’d like to know what they looked like and whether it was raining.
Missed Connections Poetry on Craigslist, Under the Influence - NYTimes.com
Drunk Irish Guy to the Girl in the Red Tights on the Subway to Queens:
drunk irish guy
to the girl in the red tights
on the subway to queensi really hope
I did not creep you out…
I was so drunk and you were so hot…I wish I could have met you
at a different moment
and a different place.
It’s like… the poetry of Shame.
I think what I did right was take risks and take action. I didn’t wait for somebody to allow me to become a reporter, and I didn’t agonize over the ‘right time’ to enter your contest. It’s good to think before you do things, but I think most people have that part down pretty well. The hard part is remembering to act on our decisions afterward.
I was just thinking about the contest when one of my talented Facebook friends announced they got a book deal. Even though I’d love to write a book one day, I realized that I won’t be excitedly announcing a book deal to my Facebook friends any time soon… because I haven’t written or submitted a book proposal to publishers. Successful people will find this obvious, but it wasn’t always obvious to me. To receive life-changing good news, you have to take the first step. You can’t sit around waiting to get ‘discovered.’ Even if you fail, at least you’re not standing still.
Of course, most companies can’t buy into that. They hire twenty-something kids who have been on Facebook since they were tweens to manage accounts, but they don’t take into account whether or not the kid has a feel for it, because you can’t put that on a resume. And that’s why so many companies suck at social media. Because they just don’t get it. And they’re too stupid to hire someone who does.
This made my fucking life.
(Source: bananasqueezy, via juliasegal)
