Author: Chuck
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An Evening at the Improv
Do the “Lost” guys seriously expect anyone to still believe they’re not making it up as they go along? I feel like a joiner, seeing as how it’s fashionable now to rag on “Lost,” but there’s just so much material there. They try stunt casting, and the best they can dig up is Cheech. Their…
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LA Congestion
I’m currently down in the Lesser Los Angeles area (calling it “greater” just doesn’t feel right to me). The weather has been perfect today — sunny with just a few clouds, the temperature in the high 70s or low 80s with no trace of the San Francisco chill I left this morning. I spent the…
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One Duuuuuhhhhhrrrr
Every year I think it’d be just awesome to go to the San Diego Comic Con, because I’ve never been to the city or to the convention. And every year I go to Wondercon here in San Francisco, and it kills every desire I have to go to a large gathering of nerds ever again…
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I wish I knew how to quit you, Mickey
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, but I recognize it’s vitally important to keep the internets up to speed on my whereabouts. I just got back from a week-long trip down to southern California, cementing my coveted status as The Most Boring Business Traveler Ever. I’ve complained about Los Angeles so much that I’ve…
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Circadian Arrhythmia
No two ways about it, the past two weeks have sucked. I think I left the apartment only once the entire time, my days and nights have gotten completely reversed, and each day I’m looking more and more like a mugshot of Ted Kaczynski. The key difference, of course, being that he managed to get…
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Lovely Golden Ointment
Still buried under work at the moment, but for the sake of updating: I’d heard about TV cook Nigella Lawson, and how her schtick was basically food as barely-disguised metaphor for sex, but I had no idea how intense it was until I saw this clip of her making Chocolate Hot Pots: By the time…
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Oh, do we have a clip?
I’ve been sequestered in my apartment for the last week, and I think I can finally say what the project is. I’ve been helping out with Telltale’s Sam & Max adventure games. The first episode I worked on, “Abe Lincoln Must Die!” is coming out on Gametap this Thursday, and then on Telltale’s site March…
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Writer’s Workshop: Pacing
I’m currently under contract to get paid money for stuff that I write, which means that I am a professional writer. And when you’ve been a professional writer as long as I have, you know how crucial it is to master pacing. It’s a tricky concept to explain to you amateurs, so here’s a simplified…
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Me gusta la música
The best performance in pop music is Merry Clayton’s solo in “Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones. The part where her voice cracks may be the best moment in pop music history. And there you go. I don’t know from writing about music. You want Lester Bangs, go to a different blog.
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Me gusta las películas
I’m not enjoying my theme week anymore. As much as I love giving out my unsolicited opinions (and in the list form my OCD craves, no less), I’m tired of writing a novella about it every night. So here I’m taking the Livejournal/MySpace route and just listing My Favorite Movies Miller’s Crossing Star Wars Raiders…
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Me gusta los libros cómicos
I thought I had more to say about comic books, but once you get past the fact that I’m 35 years old and I still read them, there’s not a whole lot more left to say. I’ve gotten several collections recently that I’ve enjoyed the hell out of, so they go into the list of…
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Me gusta un poco de televisión más que el resto
“So you like ’30 Rock’ and ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and ‘Lost’,” you might be saying. “Big deal. Join the frakking club, sheep!” Fair enough, but would a sheep dare to post on the internets a comprehensive list of the best episodes in the history of television? The answer is yes, if he were an exceptionally nerdy…