help me, obi-wan kenobi. you're our only hope.

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We, the Rebel Alliance, do therefore in the name—and by the authority—of the free beings of the Galaxy, solemnly publish and declare our intentions: To fight and oppose you and your forces, by any and all means at our disposal;To refuse any Imperial law contrary to the rights of free beings;To bring about your destruction and the destruction of the Galactic Empire;To make forever...
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rudeboy71:
Fuck Yes! Remember the Nazi's call themselves the Alt-Right now. Don't understand why the media is using this term instead of White Power groups. Also, never understood why these groups were never called terrorist groups, when they have been doing terrorism in this country for years.
loucian:
I'm still in the bargaining stage too. I have 3 kids, one of whom is a gay teen. I am terrified of this reality.

Rogue One is a STUNNING film.

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Anne and I went to the world premiere of Rogue One last night, because we apparently live in a world where we get invited to the world premiere of a Star Wars movie, which I still can't believe actually happened.

I wanted to experience a Star Wars movie the way I did when I was a kid, so I deliberately avoided everything about...
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loucian:
I already have a dozen tickets for me and my geekiest friends. I can't wait!
ratkermit:
"The last time I loved a Star Wars movie as much as I loved #RogueOne, it was 1977." This was a striking comment, which I didn't fully understand until I finally saw the movie yesterday. But immediately it was the perfect way to describe the new film - not since the first one was there that sheer, unexpected sense of wonder, "oh, they can do THAT?" But seeing Princess Leia at the end, alive and well and as she was in 1977, was an exhilarating but gut-wrenching experience yesterday that it wasn't even a week ago. I was emotional already at that point, so the moment hit esp. hard - but it was good to express that emotion.

Westworld

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Hey speaking of self-aware robots: how about Westworld? I kept feeling like there was a good show inside whatever I've been watching for ten weeks, so I stuck with it, enduring awful exposition, two characters that are either badly written, badly performed, or both, and a criminal underuse of Anthony Hopkins ... but after watching the season finale, I'm so glad I stuck it...
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soopknertzi:
I loved Westworld. Partially for the cast and  story. Partially because it's the single best video game show I've seen. Serious WoW flashbacks with the quest NPCs and chains. Mostly I just loved sitting down and losing myself in a show that didn't simply kill a beloved character to shock the audience. Nothing against TWD or GoT. I love and watch them both, but it's nice to do more than grieve after an episode. 
drawingfromusic:
@nebula really? Hah..yes..I totally agree..it took so long to unravel and after this finally..a lot of questions were answered..It should get interesting..as long as it doesn't get in their heads and they don't fuck it up

Let it be.

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Sometimes when I’m writing, and I feel stuck, I do something that’s creatively a little different to shake loose my brains.

So I decided to play around with fake tilt-shifting in GIMP, and I made this, using the Beatles’ performance on top of Abbey Road in like 1972 or 1973 or whatever. It’s not great, but it’s not bad for my first ever attempt at
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jozsef:
Ah, good old Let It Be. That concert film was the first time it truly sank in for me that it was just four guys with a band and the quality of the music took my breath away.
nebula:
I'd be interested to see you keep playing with photo editing :) 

america the plum blossoms are falling

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It is five in the morning. After a little over four hours of restless sleep, I got out of bed before my tossing and turning woke up Anne. I’m not sleeping much recently, and what sleep I do get is plagued by nightmares.

It’s been raining all night, which I realize isn’t something worth mentioning for most people, but it hasn’t rained here in Los...
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78walk:
It's these twin trends happening at the same time that are really frightening - a turn toward authoritarianism combined with normalization of virulent racism and other fascist ideology. There are a range of possible outcomes below the apocalyptic ones, but I don't think we can afford to take a wait and see attitude, even for a moment. Once authoritarianism really takes hold, fighting it tends to become extraordinarily difficult. 
lyxzen:
This. All of this. It's like you wrote down all the thoughts in my brain.

words and words and words an

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If anyone cares, I’m currently at 37970 words on the short story that wanted to become a novella that’s trying to be a novel and still needs a good title. I wrote a thing two days ago that I like. It sounds like this:

“Are you okay? You seem weird today.”
I didn’t seem weird. I was weird. And hormones and pre-teen angst and my...
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caraphernelia:
Don't stop! you are full of talent, I'm sure. I know what you are going through and I'm sure what you are writting will be useful and nice to read. 
tadkil:
My writing has all been for gaming or work, so I cannot speak to fiction as a process.  I will tell you Dave Arneson used to say, "Tell the story together until it's done." For fiction the same is true in a different way. Let the character(s) bring the journey to an end together. My $.02.

When you write a blog and the browser eats it because it's 1996 for s…

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kiley:
wait, are you on AOL then? 
jozsef:
Not to be preachy but it's god's will that anything over a few sentences shall be written in a word processor or text editor and then in the fullness of time be copied and pasted therefrom. Thus sayeth the lord. A browser extension such as Lazarus may be used instead because no-one will ever know of so slight a transgression. (Actually Lazarus may have been struck down but Textarea should still work.)
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