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Disneyland (topic) Here's another one that I don't think needs a lot of unpacking or explanation. John Hench, who was essentially the architect of the original Disneyland, is one of the few people who knows what it is to make something out of your head that becomes a ... |
The Catitat | 07/22/08 08:20 |
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Tuscan Cooking (topic) Had a fabulous meal last week which reminded me of the genius of Tuscan cooking. It's a story that not only tastes good, but is rich in lessons and metaphors for writing, for comics, for all sorts of human endeavors. In a way it begins with the Crusades. ... |
The Catitat | 07/21/08 09:53 |
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Bitter (topic) There is a great piece of wisdom from Alton Brown. On the Good Eats episode "True Brew", Alton explains that many say (and think!) they don't like strong coffee when in reality what they don't like is bitter coffee. "Now logically to take care of this ... |
The Catitat | 06/04/08 09:19 |
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Two more wonderful blogs (topic) There are two more blogs I really enjoy. Brace yourselves, both men work... in comics! Yes, I am about to single out two people who actually pour their God-given talents into the making of comic books, and declare them to be superior human beings. ... |
The Catitat | 05/07/08 09:56 |
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Button Pushing (topic) Best button pushing on record? A little known Alan Mencken musical called WEIRD ROMANCE. And yes, theatre trivia buffs, that's the guy from Disney's Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. The show consists of two companion one-acts, which I ... |
The Catitat | 04/12/08 10:50 |
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Resting up (topic) Wow, that was one busy day for Gotham yesterday. After observing Respect Your Cat Day and finishing up the reformats for FFnet, the new chapter of I Believe in Harvey Dent went out. That's always a happy little flutter of excitement, but yesterday I did ... |
The Catitat | 03/29/08 13:17 |
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Hello, Sailor (topic) "You are standing in an open field west of a white house." Thus began one of the earliest computer text adventures, Zork. It was a vaguely D&Dish world with a quirky, slightly geeky sense of humor, as anything computer related was at the time. It was ... |
The Catitat | 03/22/08 10:47 |
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The Day Something Happens (topic) Many years ago we had a thread based on Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters, luscious little volume which broke down these timeless principles of storytelling with examples from movies that we all know. Oedipus, Odysseus, three bags full. We kinda-sorta ... |
The Catitat | 03/13/08 09:54 |
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You are what you eat (topic) If anybody watches the Travel Channel/Food Network cluster of stations, they've been advertising and OVER-advertising an Andrew Zimmern show called Bizarre Foods. I'm not a fan, but I did catch a partial episode the other day on insects. He's sitting down ... |
The Catitat | 03/12/08 09:44 |
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God in your pocket (topic) In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Sulu's ship just happens to have the coordinates of the peace conference and it just happens to be in a place where the heroes can just reach it in time to stop the assassination. As the SNL church lady would say ... |
The Catitat | 03/11/08 09:30 |
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Compliment and Contrast (topic) I've been on an Aikira Kurisawa kick lately. I heard a lecture on the Japanese filmmaker, and it set me off wanting to see Throne of Blood, Rashomon, Ran, and Kagemusha again as well as seeking out a few others. One of the things he did amazingly well ... |
The Catitat | 03/10/08 17:19 |
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Food Glorious Food (Part 1) (topic) There is a lot of food in Cat-Tales. Partially, that's because I, like all writers, am influenced in subtle ways by a few core works I read early on. One of those cores for me is E.F. Benson's Lucia novels. In this hyper-genteel world set in England ... |
The Catitat | 03/07/08 09:53 |
