LB: MY STRANGE GRANDFATHER

Strange Grandfather

This short film from Dina Velikovskaya and the Russian State University of Cinematography really got to me.

Mainly I realized that it’s probably how my grandkids see me. read article

8 New Punctuation Marks We’d Like To See

College Humor shows its ironic/clever/literate side:

by Mike Trapp

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We’re All Heroes in Our Own Movie…In Fact, Some of Us Even Think We’re Real

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We love this pic even tho we don’t understand it at all

Can you believe it?

Real?

We mean, we know we’re real, but the rest of you…? read article

RIP Gerry Day

Gerry Day was one of the greats of television writing, with a career that spanned almost the entire existence of the TV industry. Almost all of us writing and reading this have seen something she wrote – because she wrote a helluva lot and it was all good stuff.

Most television sites on the web have overlooked Gerry’s passing. Stephen Bowie’s Classic TV History Blog did not, and for that we should all be glad:

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John Ostrander: Telling Secrets

…Cuz that’s what good writers do.

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by John Ostrander

Everyone has secrets. The thing is, secrets want to be told. The level of intimacy we have with another person is reflected by the number of secrets we share with them. read article