closed!

 

The —

“WHY I WOULD BE YOUR BEST DATE FOR THE 2010 NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS IN SCREENWRITING AWARDS AND BANQUET” essay contest is closed.

Stay tuned to meet the winners.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from black math

the horned god

 

I am looking —

At my hair. Wondering whether to chop it off before the Nicholl 25th anniversary soiree or whether to keep it. And am again sort of marveling at the way my hair grows. Not because it is a great thing, more because it is aberrant and has always struck me odd these two points of hair grow faster than any other hair. They seriously do too. If my hair grows one inch? These two tufts of hair grow two inches or three – depending on their mood. It makes for interesting scenarios if I do not cut my hair regularly because I end up with these dog ear chunks of hair on either side of my face [and hello it was never my intention in life to be a Collie so kind of problematic] but tonight it struck me – in one of those odd moments of just aberrant thought – the hair that grows faster is exactly where two horns would be if I had horns.

Hair and horns are made out of the same stuff right?

So this could be some sort of vestigial horn sitch?

I am now trying to sort out whether that makes me a goat or a demon.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from sigi k

one more day….

 

One day left for —

The great date essay competition. Ooh la la.

This has actually resulted in a certain amount of trauma because people keep sending in letters with attachments that my poor old Outlook program cannot read or see. Finally, I was forced to dust off Thunderbird just so I could see some of the attachments. Which got more complex because I forgot the email password so then had to open the site to go change the email password only another browser was fighting with the site so I couldn’t find the email account so then I had to change browsers again to see that to change the password in order to –

Let’s just say it turned into a lot of work.

Who knew?

 

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This probably means I am going to have to finally give up Outlook and change over to another mail program. I knew it was coming. Sigh.

 

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:::best date competition:::
:::the lovely ms adams:::
:::nicholl fellowships in screenwriting:::

 

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from john carroll doyle

dear god….

 

Dear God:

Clearly someone up there has mixed up “Serengeti” and “West Hollywood.” Just a little friendly heads up.

Love and Kisses,

Your Favorite Adams Girl

 

the air moves

 

 

It is —

3:30 in the morning and the air is finally beginning to move. It is still hot air, but not as hot as earlier. And if I close my eyes I can imagine the sound of wind and soft distant traffic is the ocean and I am somewhere near the sea feeling a hot coastal breeze on my neck.

And I remember last year’s fire. And think, Hot winds. Hot winds are not good.

I am still thankful for movement in the air and any lessening of the heat. So I think, Thank you for the wind. Please keep the firemen safe.

And wonder if it is still too hot to sleep.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is waking up 4 by mansel davies

btw

 

Has anybody noticed the cute new feed at the bottom of the page? That is CelluloidBlonde 1.2 — sort of my way of combining all things blog around here.

I am not sure how successful it is since I am not sure people even look at the bottom of the page. Go look at the bottom of the page.

 

priorities

 

The end —

Of the month approaches. Am I doing taxes? [Which cannot be extended past October 15th oh the humanity!] Bills? Billings? Replacing the tragically life cut short wardrobe mirror — which better be replaced soon before I break my neck climbing onto the side of the tub in heels to check my reflection in the bathroom mirror —

No.

I am scrambling to export and import opmls and set up a new reader before Bloglines goes toes up October 1st.

Priorities damn it.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from miss britt

visual writing ahoy

 

The Visual Writing class begins November 16th and I am currently building the course roster for this class.

This is an online class.

Class size is limited to 12 people, please register early once that cut off is reached, no more seats will be available. This course also requires a writing sample so be prepared to send one in if you apply to be accepted to the class.

For more info on classes visit :::classes:::

 

pictured above:
max adams pitch seminar
neon venus art theatre july 2010
photo by deborah chesher

best date competition frenzy mounts

 

Submissions continue to—

Pour in to the Best Date Competition as the September 29th deadline approaches.

What lucky bastard will win a chance to accompany the accomplished Ms. Adams to the Academy’s Nicholl extravaganza?

Will any lucky bastard win a chance to accompany the accomplished Ms. Adams to the Academy’s Nicholl extravaganza?

As the deadline approaches, competition frenzy mounts….

 

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:::best date competition:::
:::the lovely ms adams:::
:::nicholl fellowships in screenwriting:::

 

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from john carroll doyle

never say no to panda

 

I love this.

 

the geat date essay

 

Okay, the Essay Date Contest.

I am not sure whether this is the result of the writing community being one of the most bloodless passionless communities in the Stripes [holy fuck are you people even related to me?] or there just being way too many wannabe writers out there who should cast their nets wider, like, um, IRS agent or accountant maybe —

[Just kidding IRS agents, you rock, please do not audit me.]

[Just kidding accountants, please do not burn my tax docs.]

[Not really kidding writers, wtf?]

But, the date essays are problematic.

A few high points so far —

 

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“I don’t do essays but I’m a fun guy.”

[Whoa, I am convinced. Where is the fun part again?]

“You’re a much better and more successful writer than I am, so you’d feel good about yourself all night.”

[Um. I’d like to feel good about my date.]

“My dear sweet Mama, now departed, always hoped ….”

[When did bringing up your mother become a good approach to getting a date?]

“Max, pick me and I’ll wear the school girl uniform!”

[This is an awards banquet not a bondage party.]

“Was on twitter for only a few days when I read you had gotten some porn, so I immediately cancelled my account and my Droid so the ‘powers that be’ would not make it look like I sent it.”

[I do not sit up nights trying to figure out who porned me on Twitter -- who are you again? -- but porn sure is the first subject I mention when looking for a date.]

“I entered a couple of screenplays in the Nicholl contest this year but didn’t have much luck (chuckling).”

[What a coincidence. I entered a script in Nicholl and won. Clearly we have a lot in common.]

“As awesome as it would to attend the ceremony, it’d also be invaluable to talk to YOU.”

[Wow I am so useful to you. I totally feel pretty now.]

“I bcc’d my work address, the attachments work fine.”

[Nice. Um. What about essay and photo was not clear?]

“I’m on really good anti-depressents these days.”

[Cool. Do you have a safe word in case you turn into a Summer Glau killing machine?]

 

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Nothing personal gentlemen but Mom, porn, anti-depressants and cross dressing? Seriously?

 

where the art work comes from :
that is by cinema cowgirl

whoa cool commercial

 

Whoa. This is very very cool animation. Have I been watching the wrong channels or do I just watch at the wrong time of day night? I have never seen any of these and apparently there is a whole series —

[The music is a little cheesy, it is actually better with the sound off.]

 

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santa is an autumn

 

The UPS guy is like a kinder gentler Santa. He still has atrocious fashion sense, but he has toned it down a little and dresses for the climate now. [I suspect he had his colors done.] He doesn’t care so much about naughty or nice so tossed that list. And he’s not fixated on the Christian calendar so just brings you prizes whenever. Yay!

 

hosers!

 

There is a problem when a comment about a social media marketing site gets more play than a hot date essay contest post does — what are you people all snorting salt peter? Hosers!

Let’s try this again — and this time try not be lamaoids. Show a little passion for feck’s sake you are supposed to be writers.

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And Now For a Competition of Another Kind

 

Ooh la la –

It is a competition of another kind. It is the Plus One Competition. Yay!

This is not my fault. It was Donna’s idea. Really. I was saying on FB that it is tragic I have this plus one to the Nicholl Fellowships Awards Banquet and all my single guy friends have gone and gotten themselves married off so now what do I do? And Donna said, Oh it is obvious essay contest! Yay! And the “WHY I WOULD BE YOUR BEST DATE FOR THE 2010 NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS IN SCREENWRITING AWARDS AND BANQUET” essay contest was born.

Yay!

Enter at your own peril.

 

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*note, no entry fee is required this is a not for profit competition

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from john carroll doyle

better than wayne’s world

 

I love these guys. They’re like two stoner surfer guys caught in a tornado in Brooklyn. “Dude! It’s funneling!”

Also you have to love how NY officials and “news” peeps are all saying, Oh that was not tornadoes, that was “tornado-like” Seriously? “Tornado-like”? Next you will tell me we do not have earthquakes in California, those are just “earthquake-like.”

 

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