Thinkling pointed out something about the finale that I had missed, but was established by the split wedding scene. Sarah finished her journey first. Who would ever have expected that she would be the articulate schnook of the pair and Chuck would be at a loss for words because he’d spent the last few days proving to both himself and Sarah that she could count on him to protect her now that she’s opened up and become more vulnerable.

http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/chuck-vs-the-morgansect/#comment-55860




http://chuckthisblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/chuck-vs-the-zoom-5-01/#comment-56339

joe says:
October 28, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Cenodoxus, great comment. I can sign up to a lot of what you said.

About Sarah being neutered, I think I know what you mean. She ran back to the van with Casey and Morgan, leaving Chuck to die??? Don’t think so. Not after Phase-3, right?

Well, that’s not exactly it. The opening scene established two things; that Chuck and Sarah were not afraid to face mortal danger and that they trusted each other, and Casey and Morgan. Chuck had to trust Sarah to execute his plan. She did. Sarah had to trust Chuck to get back to her safe, even without the Intersect. He did. They were a lot less tentative about trusting so much than they used to be, and I liked that a lot.

Like with Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, that’s not to be confused with a lack of passion!

patty says:
October 29, 2011 at 9:49 am
The show is called “Chuck” but the theme song is clearly about Sarah. So I think it was always about them both.

exceptional!

I remember saying to God in that moment, "Just give me my old life back." And he said, "It's not your old life you want back. It's your old idols you want back. And I love you too much to give them to you."

…I realized just how much I'd been relying on something other than the approval and acceptance and love that were already mine in Jesus.

When I speak to pastors I say, "There is only one thing that will enable you to survive, and that's the gospel. It's not whether your church grows or not. It's not having the right leadership principle. All of those things might be helpful, but the gospel is the only thing that will save you in ministry.

emotional wisdom and intuitive strength.

So what have you figured out about Dave and Alex and also about what Zachary (Knighton) and Elisha (Cuthbert) bring?

JG: Zachary and Elisha are the most experienced actors of the group. They've been in series before and on television before, and that shows. They're not strictly comedians. Damon's a stand-up, Adam (Pally) and Casey (Wilson) are coming from sketch comedy, Casey also from "SNL," and Eliza (Coupe) was a comedy theater performer in New York and then did "Scrubs," so I guess she has series experience too. I think that they bring just good acting chops, and to some extent, they're a little bit the emotional center of the show. Dave, especially, he's the guy we're trying to give stronger, funnier attitudes to play. He's a guy who has funny bad ideas of stuff he should try, like exploring his Navajo heritage. But there are also episodes - and he's happy to do it - where he's the regular guy, and our eyes and ears. And Alex, some of the early time was spent buying back what she did in the pilot, which was hard for a lot of people to process. We've made her that confidently oblivious character. There's a line in episode 111 last year, I forget the exact set-up, where hanging out with Penny and the Italians is too hard and she doesn't want to do it anymore, and Dave says, "You said the same thing about 8th grade." Intellectual stuff, she doesn't have time for. We've made her a little spacey and out of step with the rest of the group. There's a joke in the premiere where she says she doesn't understand half of what her friends say. I think she's Jane's little sister, somebody everybody loves who has a lot of emotional wisdom and intuitive strength, which Elisha has as a person, and we can make her clueless in some ways.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/interview-happy-endings-producers-david-caspe-and-jonathan-groff-talk-halloween-friendship-and-more

http://jonyangorg.blogspot.com/2011/10/music-makes-me-high.html


yay for the headache-curing powers of softball. boo for me being an idiot and not backing up 4693 pictures

i want to be as cool as the woman who just auditioned here today. i'm s'posed to be taking notes right now and i am rolling

what an amazing two days it's been

i made an acquaintance who is doing something i really admire, and i think i get to join in for eight months!

i made a friend. we went to to my favorite show place in la so far. we saw bob odenkirk. and zach galifianakis!! b stevens called me family the next day on twit

my internship overseer tapped me for a special project, i saw someone (really my fav person there) i've been in contact with at my other work, THEN someone at internship told me they really hope we get hired. i got thanked for another special project by a pretty big deal

then, another person came directly up to me and offered me a chance at a job!

THEN, i told my small group and they all immediately volunteered (no, clamored!) to support me by all getting his tshirts. it was insane. they see us as a team... what happens to one of us happens to all of us.


this weekend is also full. just need to plan the details. but hopefully it involves another shot at opencall and sea world with two of my favorite people. then pumpkin carving. then back to special project!

and, i have this week free cause i jumped the gun on the outline and hopefully i can start kicking around ideas for a "happy endings" spec.


help me to keep trusting and receiving openly so i may give the exact same way.

love louis.

http://www.louisck.net/2008/05/rip-loona-a-very-good-dog.html



[overheard, dark: that i won't be able to scream.]


local heroes:

http://www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=374870
http://www.google.com/search?gcx=w&ix=c1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=manase+tonga
v. kane / mcgathy pod


on marriage:

We all piled into the Navigator and began driving straight to our house in Upstate New York. The drive is normally two hours but, it being rush hour on a Friday in New York City, it took us two hours just to get over the Whitestone bridge and another two to get home. We didn't care, though, because we were all together and had a lot to talk about. When I think of it, it seems funny that we were bursting so much with conversation, considering that we talk on the phone and email several times a day. But that's always the way it is. "Oh, I forgot to tell you!" and "Guess who I saw!" for hours. I remember when I was younger and single, I would go to parties and when I saw married couples at a party sitting together and talking just to each other, I would be amazed. "What could they possibly have to say to each other?" I'd wonder. "They're together all day, every day, for years."

Now that I'm married, I understand. I will try to explain it. Talking to your spouse never never never gets old. I think it's because when you are really sharing your life with someone, when you are living with them, part of everything that happens to you or them is talking about it with them after. Nothing that happens to you really feels like it's done happening till you talk to them about it. Like when you experience something, you don't really experience it completely till you think about it. But when you're married, you now think in a dialogue instead of an interior monologue.

I guess that, to me, asking "What could a married couple have left to talk about" Would be like looking at any solitary person and asking "What could he possibly have left to think about?" As if, at some point, you will have had all the thoughts you're going to have and that your inner voice would start to just say "So ah.... I don't know.... What's up with you?" and then eventually fall silent. I suppose maybe that does happen to some people. You might realize one day that the thoughts that are running through your head on that day are old or rehashed. That you have nothing left to say to yourself. Jesus, that's pretty grim...

A comparison of the solitary mind and the dialogue of a marriage is in my mind because a large part of this trip for me was the rare experience I had, as a father and husband, of sitting by myself for miles and miles, for hours and hours, just alone with my thoughts. Spacing out and wandering in my mind all over the place. It was very euphoric. yet every night I craved this weblog, the ability to connect with someone. And I called my wife every time my phone had a signal and now that I have her and the baby back, I wouldn't dream of missing my time on the road alone.

lord, did you ever use your sense of humor to cope?

how (instead) did you use it to overcome?

today, a thrift store owner prophesied in(to?) my life.

he said i am a captivating speaker.
he said that even if i don't make it, i'll always have the spirit i had in me to 'fall back' on. it won't have been wasted.
he said i am a writer.
(he says i can write anytime day or night ;)

he looked at me and mirrored what he saw. and what he saw wasn't dreary or gray or desolate.

i got to stretch muscles i haven't since campus.
i got to see a man who is using his store to be salt and light
i got a great number of celebrity stories. eee! melissa mccarthy


lord... do i dare connect all this
-are you this kind of father?

it's creeping into jammie weather

http://johnaugust.com/2011/my-daily-writing-routine#comment-193430
I use Apple’s Pages, with formatting functions that are also in Word. Create five paragraph styles for Slugline, Description, Name, Parenthetical, Dialog. Select “Keep with next paragraph” for the Slugline, Name, and Parenthetical styles. Select “Keep lines together” for the Dialog style.

http://johnaugust.com/2011/my-daily-writing-routine#comment-193440

today i learned so much random stuff at community group. barney and wishbone filmed in the same studio place in dallas. their producers went to church. joel mchale! the 7th heaven church is in studio city. three different kinds of bread and three different kinds of cheese make lovely grilled cheese sandwiches. i can eat cream of tomato soup. it is for freedom that he has set us free.

on sitcoms

When Parks & Rec started out, like most comedy pilots, it was largely driven by plot. Leslie had a pit to fill and turn into a park, so each week was largely centered on her go-get-’em attitude and the obstacles that got in her way. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that roughly around the time the pit was abandoned (and later filled—they dropped it before that happened), Parks & Rec got a whole lot better. I don’t tune in week after week to watch a comedy because I’m waiting for something to happen; I watch comedies because I love surprises. Sitcoms can establish a goal and throw hurdles up as much as they want, but we all know things will get resolved at some point. What’s truly surprising is when we learn something astounding about a character we’ve grown to love just because they’re around, not because they serve a larger part of a story.

I absolutely loved “Ron & Tammys” because it completely caught me off guard. After last week’s episode establishing Leslie’s run for office, I expected at least one small part of the episode that followed to set up the rest of the season. I should have remembered that pit, though, and that Parks & Rec is at a place in its run where it’s just so giddy to let its characters have fun with one another. “Ron & Tammys” was just that: great one-liners, ridiculous send-ups, and silliness just because it felt like being silly. It was a hilarious ode to Parks & Rec’s characters.

And Ron Swanson is a hell of a character—one of the best on TV today. What makes him so compelling is that the more we learn about him, the more mystery remains. It’s counterintuitive, too: Parks & Rec introduces very specific facts about Ron, like his fondness for breakfast food and the fact that he invests heavily in gold buried in several places around Pawnee (Or does he?). But rather than answering my questions about the character, the new information opens more doors, because I’m forced to think logistically about how Ron would have the time to go around Pawnee and bury all that gold. Assuming he does it at all.

http://origin.avclub.com/articles/ron-tammys,62356




pump up the jams!! http://ask.metafilter.com/192768/Pump-up-the-jams

http://what-fresh-hell-is-this.blogspot.com/2006/02/stick-fork-in-it.html

http://what-fresh-hell-is-this.blogspot.com/2005/07/failure-is-not-option.html

http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/