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Jan. 4th, 2012 09:51 pm1. I should probably be more consistent about posting in both lj and dw, but I forget and post in lj only. Like yesterday.
2. Bitter cold. And the air is so dry...that my skin feels chalky. You know that feeling you get when you touch chalk? A weird edgy headache sensation? Or maybe that's just me? I think I may be allergic to chalk-dust or powder. Get the same feeling with powdered sugar and the powder on marshmellows. The cold air is so dry. And the heat inside is drier still. It suck the moisture out of your body.
Came home tonight to a note written in a red magic marker to the 2nd floor neighbor. ( Read more... )
Anyhow the weather must be turning, have the beginnings of a headache...
3. It struck me...not for the first time, mind you, while reading reactions to the whole Mark Watches Buffy bit, and reading the blog itself...that the creators of Buffy did a sort of bait and switch on both the network and the audience. ( Read more... ) Which is what I loved most about Buffy - that bait and switch. To this day, I wonder if the network knew what the writers were up to.
Network: So this is going to be wrapped up each week, right? No cliff-hangers? Because the pilot has a cliff-hanger.
Whedon: That's a two-parter. Furtherest we'll go. Promise. And well there is a bad guy arc...that she has to figure out how to resolve. But that's all action. It will keep people coming back.
Network: Still, monster of the week format?
Whedon: Yep.
Network: No melodramatic relationship soap opera, because we already have Dawson's Creek.
Whedon: Not a soap opera, promise. We won't have the leads sleep together. No romance. Total action show. Lots of monsters that get killed. Vampires? Clearly evil. None of that Anne Rice stuff. And the monsters are all metaphors for high school. High school was evil, man.
Network: All right, sounds good.
The fact that he was able to continue to fool the network with pitches for Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse after this, makes me ponder their intelligence. (And yes, according to interviews he more or less gave the same sort of pitch. Yes, yes, episodic, issue of the week, no big serial arc, no melodramatic relationships, or soap opera stuff...promise! Lots of action.)
4. Speaking of blogging - read an article in Metro about it. I don't blog the way you are supposed to. "Mark Reads/Watches" blogs the way you are supposed to blog. Which is basically stick to a format, a topic, stay consistent in voice, and cater to your readership - within a set group of rules. I treat blogging like an insane correspondence club or discussion board of interlocking unrelated posts. No rules really. No consistency. And I really don't care if I annoy people half the time. The other half I do (or I wouldn't delete the posts in which I didn't). In short, I probably shouldn't give up my day job and become a professional blogger any time soon...I don't do it right.
5. Just watched Parenthood - which is a serial but not a soap opera. How can you tell? ( Read more... )
Off to read. Would take a shower, but I'm afraid my skin will crinkle up. I really need a humidifier. Or a good rain storm.
2. Bitter cold. And the air is so dry...that my skin feels chalky. You know that feeling you get when you touch chalk? A weird edgy headache sensation? Or maybe that's just me? I think I may be allergic to chalk-dust or powder. Get the same feeling with powdered sugar and the powder on marshmellows. The cold air is so dry. And the heat inside is drier still. It suck the moisture out of your body.
Came home tonight to a note written in a red magic marker to the 2nd floor neighbor. ( Read more... )
Anyhow the weather must be turning, have the beginnings of a headache...
3. It struck me...not for the first time, mind you, while reading reactions to the whole Mark Watches Buffy bit, and reading the blog itself...that the creators of Buffy did a sort of bait and switch on both the network and the audience. ( Read more... ) Which is what I loved most about Buffy - that bait and switch. To this day, I wonder if the network knew what the writers were up to.
Network: So this is going to be wrapped up each week, right? No cliff-hangers? Because the pilot has a cliff-hanger.
Whedon: That's a two-parter. Furtherest we'll go. Promise. And well there is a bad guy arc...that she has to figure out how to resolve. But that's all action. It will keep people coming back.
Network: Still, monster of the week format?
Whedon: Yep.
Network: No melodramatic relationship soap opera, because we already have Dawson's Creek.
Whedon: Not a soap opera, promise. We won't have the leads sleep together. No romance. Total action show. Lots of monsters that get killed. Vampires? Clearly evil. None of that Anne Rice stuff. And the monsters are all metaphors for high school. High school was evil, man.
Network: All right, sounds good.
The fact that he was able to continue to fool the network with pitches for Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse after this, makes me ponder their intelligence. (And yes, according to interviews he more or less gave the same sort of pitch. Yes, yes, episodic, issue of the week, no big serial arc, no melodramatic relationships, or soap opera stuff...promise! Lots of action.)
4. Speaking of blogging - read an article in Metro about it. I don't blog the way you are supposed to. "Mark Reads/Watches" blogs the way you are supposed to blog. Which is basically stick to a format, a topic, stay consistent in voice, and cater to your readership - within a set group of rules. I treat blogging like an insane correspondence club or discussion board of interlocking unrelated posts. No rules really. No consistency. And I really don't care if I annoy people half the time. The other half I do (or I wouldn't delete the posts in which I didn't). In short, I probably shouldn't give up my day job and become a professional blogger any time soon...I don't do it right.
5. Just watched Parenthood - which is a serial but not a soap opera. How can you tell? ( Read more... )
Off to read. Would take a shower, but I'm afraid my skin will crinkle up. I really need a humidifier. Or a good rain storm.