Have You Checked Out ‘StoryShifter?’

by TVWriter™ News Service

We’ve just discovered a new organization that’s not only worth talking about and even visiting, it’s also a primo place to totally hang out.

It’s called Storyshifter and here’s its very impressive mission statement: read article

Batman Wants To Join The Marvel Universe

Conan O’Brien as Batman. Who could ask anything more?

From Team Coco

16 Old Words for Young People

Words for millennials and their descendants so you can portray your, erm, “elders” better in the media of your choice…and understand and in general communicate better with all the alte cockers in your life.

Ooh, good news for those of you who’ve scanned down this far: LB didn’t know any of the above words either. In fact, when we asked him, he answered, “What language is this in?”

‘Latvia: Europe’s Nation of Introverts’

Latvians are often self-deprecating about their culture’s tendency towards introversion, but could this personality trait be the key to their creative identity?

LB’s NOTE: I fully intended to have another post about tips for PEOPLE’S PILOT 2018 entrants today, but a funny thing happened on my way to my keyboard: The Brodys got a new puppy.

More likely than not, considering how popular dogs are in the Western world. (I hear they’re popular in the East as well, but not necessarily as friends or pets…) you know what that does to the best of intentions.

It’s – Layla, Queen of Digestive Services. Oh yeah!

Right – it turns them into grist for the real purpose of puppy owning life: Cleaning up pee and poo. So instead of writing anything, here I am, hysterically living the life (read, “breaking in the pooper scooper and buying newspapers by the half ton”  for the adorable little creature on the left. read article

Larry Brody sees ‘Upstart Crow’

It’s from BBC! It’s about Shakespeare! It’s funny in a way the Shakespeare we all had to read in school never was!

And it’s oh oh oh so true!

In other words, Gwen the Beautiful and I have just finished re-binging Upstart Crow,  the Shakespeare sitcom, and every two minutes my wonderful wife groaned at a line or two spoken by David Mitchell as Shakespeare and gave me The Look. read article