It's in Indiana. Indiana is a larger state than Idaho. Indiana is known for corn, the Indianapolis 500, Dan Quayle, and maybe the Pacers. (I believe US football teams are not as well-known overseas, that's why I picked NBA instead) Idaho is largely known for Potatoes, Mormons, and Napoleon Dynamite I reckon.

http://origin.avclub.com/articles/im-leslie-knope,62015/#comment-318088910


OM NOM NOM: http://ask.metafilter.com/196815/I-just-bought-a-dutch-oven-What-should-I-make-in-it


waterfall into a cave!
http://ask.metafilter.com/196802/Where-is-this-waterfallcave-combo-located


rachel bilson just said that someone was "one avocado short of a cobb salad." puahaha

car chase escape toward lax because helicopters can't follow.


not to mention a @shannonwoodward ("the riches"!) + @katemicucci ukelele duet & garret freakin' dillahunt. could do without the theme song though

20,000 pyramid!

i now know the impulse in me to travel of late - it is to live, and not to wait.




PRETTOK Is it possible you think you have forgotten the 'normal' episodes because they can't be described with a single word or a single visual image or theme. It doesn't make those episodes any less brilliant. "More memorable" does not necessarily mean better.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 AT 11:48PM EST
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JCPDIESEL21 I could not agree more.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 AT 10:07AM EST

http://cinema.usc.edu/criticalstudies/graduateprocedures.cfm

neil patrick harris de-stresses to wipeout. hee

garlic butter chicken broth white wine

thinkling is great:

SECOND WEDDING
THE END BEFORE THE BEGINNING

Sarah. The real girl.

The girl who didn’t have friends, apart from her stuffed animals, now has restored friendships from her past. Oh, and a little, bearded best-friend-in-law, whom she appreciates as much as she intimidates.

The girl who had a fractured family, when she had one at all, finds herself in the middle of a united family. They are warm, loving, sweet, and sometimes intense; but they accept her as she is. She finds in Ellie a friend, a confidant, and a kindred spirit.

The girl who always took care of herself, could fix anything, and never needed help from anyone comes to realize that she needs Chuck’s help in a thousand ways every single day.

The girl who was always on the outside looking in, is fully on the inside. Besides being part of a real family, Sarah will have a real name … one she will keep for life. She will be Sarah Bartowski. Yes, I know she’s Sarah Walker (I won’t forget it). But Sarah Walker didn’t belong to a family. Sarah Bartowski does. Sarah Walker never had anything real until Chuck. Now she’s part of the Bartowski family and the Bartowski legacy. Sarah Walker would have become a forgotten fallen hero, her cover name engraved on a wall of cover names. Sarah Bartowski is grafted into the Bartowski family tree, and future generations of Bartowski’s will tell her story.

http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/two-weddings-and-a-journey/

if you don't ask, the answer is always no.

spec advice

http://aboyandhistvshow.blogspot.com/2011/09/spec-script-5-speccenning.html
http://kiyong.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/writing-program-notifications-rejection/
http://kiyong.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/notes-from-navigating-the-tv-writers-programs/
http://writersworkshop.warnerbros.com/web/back_story.jsp

But I would read an original piece knowing that the person writing it probably doesn’t know nuance, scene, structure, repetitive beats or telegraphing. These are the things you learn when you’re on staff.

http://www.scriptmag.com/2011/07/18/primetime-wannabe-a-writer-get-in-the-game-or-go-home-also-comedy-writing-programs-and-pilot-page-counts/


stuck? figure out how to incorporate play
http://io9.com/5555114/inside-the-tv-writers-room-a-place-of-magic-and-mystery-and-making-shit-up-for-money


http://www.aoltv.com/2011/09/08/women-television-producers-decline/

The female characters are created through a male POV: women are to be protected, desired, or feared. So we often end up with women who are damsels in distress, sex objects/love interests, or bitches/villainesses.

maybe work on being a pa this year?

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have.

We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.

-Ira Glass

karen muruyama: https://www.facebook.com/people/Karen-Maruyama/675633057

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/12/dollhouse-fox-joss-whedon.html
http://what-fresh-hell-is-this.blogspot.com/2008/11/cardboard-supports-nothing.html


http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

Try to find one or two vivid sensory details to work into the next page, or a bon mot, so that you've already got some material when you sit down at the keyboard.

dear jesus,

i get it now. we're in it for the long haul, you and me.

love.

it is appalling how easy craig ferguson makes joke-telling look.

1) does this need to be said?
2) does this need to be said by me?
3) does this need to be said by me right now?

ok that was definitely thunder in studio city. just as i'm putting in northern exposure. what the

To borrow from Carl Sagan’s famous dictum concerning the universe, every other character on this show is a way for Chuck and Sarah to know themselves. Ellie and Awesome are the stable, functional relationship that throws the problems in how they (C&S) relate to each other in sharp relief. Jeff is the lonely guy Chuck might have become after the fallout from Stanford. Carina is a version of Sarah who chose to be a federal agent and clearly lives for it.

http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/summertime-top-ten-chuck-versus-the-other-guy/#comment-51620

http://ashleyfmiller.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/interview-with-nicholl-fellowship-winner-micah-ranum/

There are so many ingredients necessary to make a good script great that if just a few are missing, the story just won’t feel quite right. Basically, tell an entertaining story and make sure it is full of conflict with dimensional characters that a reader and an audience can fall in love with. But first and foremost, fall in love with your own story so that you can spend lots of time necessary to rewrite your work.

things seen in 5: runawarly (free matttrsd), an actyL tumbleweed, / pinePple mentos- fizzy, lighf! "sparevl yhr ait tomorriw"