Correspondence 6/28/09 20:23 - 20:58

   It's tough to pin a name down on the Mad General, yet we continue to try anyway. No fear, true believers, we do eventually come up with it, and we're on the right track here.

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:23 pm
Well, the Arthos Nycaster quote is a good start, but yeah, the train.
(Speaking of Nycaster, isn't "Ny" like a Persistence version of "Mc"? So should he General be named, Like, Caster Nyflannigan or sommink?)

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:26 pm
Alright, quote first, then train. Also, what are we trying to make people feel for Nephyrem in the beginning? Empathy in regard to his missing "sister"? Knowing would help.
(Yes, we kind of have set that up, huh? Um... Nylynn? Nygrin? Nydus?

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:30 pm
Well, he is the main character, and he's written that letter between the quote and the story, about how he failed Kite and is becoming more like his father, so...
(And no, none of those, because Nygrin is already more or less a real name, and Nydus is too much like elder Vidus.

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:33 pm
Well, how about I start with him writing the letter, and show, quoted, what he put in the letter?
(Well then, how about...Nyrand, Nysolen, I don't know, this is hard.)

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:35 pm
Maybe at the start of the chapter, as if we're going to have notes at the beginning of every chapter kind of thing, but we don't.
(But at least we're finally on the right track. I kind of like Nysolen.)

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:36 pm
Alright, that can be done, I'm going to try to make it so it's not just: Arthos note, 30 seconds of narrative, bam! Another note.
(Yes, true.)

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:38 pm
Great. But it's not like the Arthos thing is just a "note." It's more like an intro, Foreword, Prologue kind of thing.

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:40 pm
Yes, it really sets us all up.

Original Chapter one trial
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:54 pm
Could you send that over? I can't find any copies of it on my computer, and I figure there are some things from it to salvage.

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:55 pm
Wait, do you need the letter? Because I've called it up right here if you need it.

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:55 pm
That would be nice.

Re: Original Chapter one trial
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:56 pm
Wait, the whole thing? Okay, here goes:

Correspondence 6/28/09 19:59 - 20:19

Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 7:59 pm
I'm in a "writey" mood, and, as we've put some work into the development of PoM, I'd like to know if I should try a "chapter 1 trial" again. Or, perhaps, write from another point in the story?

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:00 pm
Well, [SPOILERS], maybe. Let's start there and hopefully progress to [SPOILERS].

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:04 pm
Hm, how should I start, specifically?

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:06 pm
Just about how he's [SPOILERS].

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:08 pm
Wait, I'm confused now.
This is from chapter one, right?

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:09 pm
Well, if [SPOILERS] in chapter one, yes.

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:10 pm
Of... book one?

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:10 pm
Yeah, when he gets [SPOILERS].

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:12 pm
Well... um, are we going to flashback to his arrival and all that?

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:13 pm
Rem's arrival? Oh, like at the train, right? It starts with the train.

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:15 pm
Hm, I think I like the idea of starting with the [SPOILERS], though. Sets in at an interesting point, pulls readers in. It would just be hard to find a good way to show the arrival.

Re: Suggestions
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 8:16 pm
If you don't set up the characters, it's nigh unto impossible to care about them.

Re: Suggestions
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 8:19 pm
...Yeah, true.
So, train then? I need to make it more interesting character/world, and less clunky exposition.

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, March 29, 2009

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TRANSCRIPT:
Marvin, thinking: Look at me. I'm an anthropomorphized Drama Mask. How am I physically possible? Am I just hallucinating? 
Oh crap, here comes Collin. Mindless psychological indulgence later...
Marvin: Hey, Collin-
Collin: Hey, Marvin. Say, I've been doing a lot of thinking about what you said, about me just being jealous of your incredible hair. You were right about me. I am just jealous. Or, rather, was.
For now I have incredible hair of my own!
*(Semi-Obscure '80s reference.)
Marvin, thinking: Yep, I'm definitely crazy.
Collin: Yo! 

NOTES:
   A Flock of Seagulls! There was an anime when I was a kid, about the Zodiac I think, that had "I Ran (So Far Away)" play over the end credits. SO that's where that comes from. And also, "Albuquerque" by Weird Al. I'm not sure where the random "yo!" at the end comes from, though, but I think it might be from like Invader ZIM or something? Yo!

Juxtaposition and Prepositions

   Another great tip for creativity is found through the use of prepositions. You can shake up a juxtaposition of two or more things by exploring all of the prepositional phrases possible to be exploited using it. Take this example:

Mars, and Bathtubs

• In- Mars in in a bathtub. How can this work? The volume of the planet Mars is 16.318(10^10 km^3)  so it should, if placed in a very large bathtub, displace as much water. I think is how that works.
• On- Mars on a bathtub? Or a bathtub on Mars? I guess that one makes more sense. All them canals and all that.
• Around- a bathtub around Mars. Call it Russel's Bathtub.
• Over- a bathtub, over Mars, floating there like a squeaky-clean monolith. Or Mars over a bathtub, ready to crush it.
• Between- A Mars sandwich, made of a Mars, a bathtub, and another bathtub.
• Under- beneath the surface of the Red Planet, something is waiting... being porcelain. Explains all the water they found down there.

Connections and Coalescence

   Genius and creativity lie in connections, connecting the unconnected. When you combine the arts or sciences or mathematics, it's called genius, and rightfully so. Connecting the previously unconnected. But when you combine popular culture, it's called a meme. That's kind of hurtful, really. Popular culture should be able to be combined and tweaked and remixed just as much as anything else. Though memes generally show that on the surface. A trope, then. Can't argue against that.

   Is creativity when stuff coalesces? Otherwise it could just be random connecting of unrelated things. That is true creativity: proof of geniuine inspiration. But it could also be little more than luck, making it up as you go and happening to have it connect wonderfully. It could be seeing how some things would fit together nicely later on.

   So you plan things to be brought up later on, setting things up even if you're not sure what that will be.

Correspondence 6/28/09 17:03 - 17:48

   After discussing how [SPOILER] might die in PoM, we talk about the unfortunate mortality of some of our favorite celebrities. Remember back in 2009, when celebrities were dying off left and right? Yeah. A DEPRESSING VERSION OF HANUKKAH. From discussion of how exactly we'd kill off [SPOILER], we focus on possible character development, possibly extending to a possible sequel trilogy.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:03 pm
I don't know. I think he gets assassinated through his window.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:06 pm
I WAS THINKING IT MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE FINAL BATTLE BIT.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:08 pm
Are you typing this from your Wii?

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:09 pm
NO, I'M JUST TYPING IN ALL CAPS TO COMMEMORATE THE PASSING OF BILLY MAYS.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:09 pm
Holy crap, not another one!

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:10 pm
I KNOW, RIGHT?
THOUGH, WITH BILLY MAYS, I FEEL I HAVE LOST A FOE.
...IT IS NOT AS GOOD A FEELING AS I'D HAVE LIKED.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:12 pm
Oh man, please say it's not gonna be Christopher Lee next.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:13 pm
IT VERY WELL COULD BE! NO ONE IS SAFE.
...WELL, NO FAMOUS PERSON ANYWAY.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:13 pm
Or Stephen Hawking.
Anyone besides a list of 11 other people but those two.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:14 pm
AND I DON'T WANT...
WELL, THERE ARE A FEW.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:16 pm
And to think I thought that Michael Crichton would be the end of it.
2009: Only the Good Die Young
Come to think of it, in the case of Michael Jackson, Bad.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:18 pm
YES, IT'S BEEN QUITE A YEAR. I HOPE THE TREND CONTINUES THOUGH, IT'S LIKE A DEPRESSING VERSION OF HANUKKAH. A NEW CELEBRI-DEATH EVERY DAY.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:19 pm
Oh man, don't say it's gonna be Andrew Lloyd Webber!

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:23 pm
IT IS GOING TO BE JEFF GOLDBLUM.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:24 pm
SNAAAAAAAAaaaappppppp!

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:24 pm
I KNOW RIGHT, IT KIND OF SUCKS.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:26 pm
Don't tell me it's gonna be Elton John!
All right, we could spend all die- day, I mean day, discussing people we don't want to see killed, but, seriously...

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:27 pm
YES, IT IS VERY UNPRODUCTIVE.
...WILL SMITH.
ANYWAY, WHAT WERE WE TALKING ABOUT?

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:28 pm
NOOOOO!!!!
Er, [SPOILER].

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:29 pm
YES, [SPOILER].
UM, HE'S A PRETTY COOL GUY.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:32 pm
No, not John Cleese!

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:33 pm
WAIT, JOHN CLEESE IS STILL ALIVE?
AWESOME.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:35 pm
Yeah, he directed Pink Panther 2, or maybe he was the executive producer or something, so he's got to still be livin' as of... Soon.
So, [SPOILER], he... Gets killed by Kite?

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:37 pm
HE WAS ALSO IN THE FIRST TWO HARRY POTTER MOVIES.
UM, THAT'D BE QUITE INTERESTING, IF EXECUTED PROPERLY.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:38 pm
I don't think I'd look at her the same way again. Isn't her going through puberty bad enough?

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:40 pm
THE RAVAGES OF PUBERTY LEAVE NONE UNSCATHED, AS THEY SAY.
YEAH... I THINK IT MIGHT BE KIND OF A TACKY EDITION TO HER CHARACTER. MAYBE WE SHOULD MAKE IT SO SHE NEVER KILLS ANYONE? MAYBE SHE CAN IN THE SEQUEL TRILOGY, FOR SOME CHARACTERIZATION/CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:41 pm
Like herself. Suicide is the ultimate character development.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:44 pm
UNFORTUNATELY THERE'S NOT MUCH LEFT TO DO WITH THEM AFTER THAT.
WELL, WE'RE GETTING TOO FAR AHEAD OF OURSELVES NOW ANYWAY. ONE OF US SHOULD UPDATE THE "ROUGH STORY OUTLINE PAGE" WITH WHAT WE'VE GOT CURRENTLY.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:45 pm
Well, good luck with that.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:45 pm
...DAMMIT.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:46 pm
See ya.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:47 pm
BUT I MAY NEED HELP.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 28, 2009 5:48 pm
Just leave blanks or question marks or something, man.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 28, 2009 5:48 pm
FINE, OKAY, JEEZ.

A College English History Essay I Wrote

Realism in the Decameron & the Canterbury Tales

            The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales are two of the most important literary works produced by the Medieval World. They represented a significant departure from the usual literary style. A vernacular style, written in the language of the common people, provided a sense of immediacy and realism to the works. This sudden break from the norm is not without cause. It reflected a new, increasingly realistic style that was making its way throughout all of art. The cause of this sudden swerve in style? The Black Death.

            The Black Death, named after the black and pussy buboes that spread all over its victims’ bodies, first swept over Europe between 1347 and 1250, killing a third to half of the population of the entire continent of Europe. Giovanni Boccaccio, a survivor and firsthand witness to the horrors of the Death, described people’s reactions to the Plague, as we can read in Decameron. Bands of the pious would separate themselves from society to live together in houses in which none had been infected, separating themselves from the rest of the world and eating and drinking only moderately. Others adopted the opposite attitude and erupted into anarchic riotous carousing. All, however, avoided the dead as much as possible, forgoing usual morning services to distance themselves from the corpses of the deceased. Death, however, came relentlessly, striking down people of all classes equally. This tragic plague left people’s faiths shaken heavily.  They turned from the idealistic to the more realistic in their lives as well as in their art and fiction.

            This shift to realism and questioning of faith is reflected in a ribald tale from Boccaccio’s Decameron, which shows the exploits of a monk, fearing being captured with a girl in his cell, tricking his abbot into breaking his vow of clerical celibacy with the girl. This story illustrates one of a multitude of styles found in the Decameron, which is a collection of one hundred stories told by a diverse group of storytellers to each other while locked up in the countryside together to escape the Black Death.

            Another collection of stories from around the same time and written in the same style is the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, which is modeled after the Decameron. Chaucer, who spoke French natively, decided to write his Tales in the vernacular tongue of Middle English, the language of the common people. Writing in a language that the everyman spoke showed, once again, the shift toward greater realism in art and fiction. In the Canterbury Tales, the diverse group of people, instead of trying to escape the Plague together like those in the Decameron are, is embarking on a pilgrimage together. Chaucer, like Boccaccio, also displays a multitude of styles in his Tales, as he deftly illustrates each of the pilgrims traveling the path to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket in Canterbury.

            In the sections of the Canterbury Tales he completed before his death, Chaucer showed remarkable skill with words, not only telling the tales but, in the telling, illustrating the personalities of those who are narrating the stories within the context of the Tales. This focus on the characters within the Tales made them come off as real people, enhancing the aspect of realism. Chaucer’s focus on not only the tales being told but the people telling them illustrated the wide diversity of people and lifestyles you could expect to see going on a pilgrimage.

            Pilgrimage was a rite of passage of sorts. On a pilgrimage, a voyage was undergone, and the “pilgrim” who went through it was changed forever by their experiences and emotions, as reflected in the Canterbury Tales. As how proximity to death increased a person’s chances of dying during the Black Death, proximity to holy objects or places increased a person’s likelihood of salvation on a pilgrimage. The pilgrimage itself, the long and arduous voyage along the well-traveled routes to the holy site, was itself an act of penance. Getting away from the dirty streets of their overcrowding cities, full those potentially infected by the Plague, certainly and almost miraculously helped out the pilgrims’ health, causing pilgrimages to become increasingly popular. Entire bands of people, from all social classes and walks of life, went on pilgrimages together, though they would have no reason even to speak to each other under normal circumstances.

We read of one such pilgrim in reading 13.7, taken from the Canterbury Tales. The Wife of Bath, as she is known because of how “five men in turn had taken her to wife,” is painted in sharp brushstrokes.  Swarthy and well-versed in manners of love, she comes in “easily on her ambling horse.” She wears many fabrics and a wide-brimmed hat. This is not her first pilgrimage, either: she is described as traveling from France to Rome, to Jerusalem on no less than three occasions. She is a living, breathing character.

Another aspect of realism revealed here as well as in the Decameron is their portrayal of medieval attitudes to women. We can see them here evolving in social prominence, and a character as major as the Wife of Bath can attest to that. Nevertheless, we still see them as being somewhat of second citizens to men. For example, probably the only reason the Wife of Bath was rich enough to afford all her trips and expensive fabrics was because of all her husbands. In the reading from the Decameron, the girl plays little more than a prop.

We can see, through these examples, how realism came to the forefront of literature during the middle ages, reflecting a shift in public attitudes. After the Black Death, there were just some realities it was impossible to ignore, so they became increasingly addressed in the popular literature of the day. Reality, as unpleasant as it could be sometimes, was worth imitating, even in fiction. After what Europe had experienced, it would accept nothing less.

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, March 22, 2009

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TRANSCRIPT:
Collin: IS THAT A NEW HAIRCUT?!!
Marvin: You messed it up.
Something good in my life, and...
You're just jealous that I even have hair!
Collin: Ha, ha. You're silly. What does the musical Cats have to do with anything?
Marvin: ! 
...
I said jealous. 
Not Jellicle.
Collin: oh.
I thought you said, "Let's go see the 2nd-longest-running show on Broadway."
Marvin: !

NOTES:

   My goal (at that time, at least) was to sneak in one Cats reference to every project I embarked upon. Here it is, I guess. (Yaaay!) Also, it's kind of apropos given that it's a strip based off of Thespian-ship. This is really one of the only times that's brought up.

Why It Is

   Do you want it in a list form? I was hesitant at first since it's kind of being analyzed a lot, because others are just as baffled by this phenomenon. But it bears going through with. Here we go:

1. Iconic design: bright pastel palettes, stylized layouts, characters and animation
2. Some second thing?
3. The writing. Keeping each character true to her own characterization, without having the characters become flat in the process.
4. Morals that people from any age group can apply to their lives.
5. One specific focus for the fandom, and fans who are fans of fans, and the base that's fan of fans, allowing it to grow healthily.

   Let's focus on point five now. It's basically a subset of the furry fandom, right? Only, with furries, it's more of a vague concept they're fans of. It becomes more of a community than an outright fandom, it's not so much of a "fandom" as... Well, I suppose you have the s.f. fandom, so maybe not. Fans of a genre. (Is "furry" a genre? Well, I suppose, but that's an entirely different can of worms.) Still, this type of "fandom" rallies around a community rather than a specific property. They're thus more likely to be "fans" of each other more than anything. Fans of fans, and so on.

   Bronies not only have that sense of community, of fans of fans, but have also got that one specific focus to their fandom, that being the show itself (as well as of course the tie-in toys and other assorted properties, but we'll get to that in a moment.) A large (often maligned) group, check, whose fandom revolves solely around one property, check. This higher level of focus, Bronies to Friendship is Magic, is more like the Juggalos to Insane Clown Posse. ICP, MLP. Makes sense to me. (Haha, oh man. Juggalos and furries. Yeah, I'm putting bronies in terrific company, aren't I? Not that they don't do that themselves. But I'm alright with these things.)

   Feeding back into the loop is the fact that the base itself is a fan of the fans, releasing official press releases through Equestria Daily and official shurts through We Love Fine. It becomes something of a metafandom. That's what the best of storytelling is. A give-and-tqke with the audience. I'm not sure if this has had precedent before in either form or execution (Hasbro's traditionally been cool with fansites,) but even if it does, bothering to look it up would be missing the point. It'd be unique, each and every time. 

Lichen

   Could we exist in a world so fully entrenched in mediocrity, eating lichen off of rocks for nourishment, that we must needs pounce on the first thing with even a glimmer of quality? Quality is quality, though; when you're good you're good. Still, if that were to hold true, could we not achieve our quality elsewhere, and through less ponyish means of entertainment?

   Why is Friendship is Magic such a good show? It's all things good and decent and wonderful. It's a show specifically for young girls but designed to have appeal for a far broader audience. So it's fun and clean and uplifting. That could be said of a lot of things. Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, Care Bears? All of these properties started out as designs on greeting cards. My Little Pony was designed to sell toys. Could that be it?

   Friendship is Magic. My Little. Pony. Magic. Pony. Magic. Pony Magic? Yeah, that's good. Horses, through being alongside us for all of human history, have distinct lyrical ties. Medieval Europe, the American (and I guess Australian) Old West, legendary and mythic horses like Pegasus. So that gives us the archetypes for Pegasi, unicorns, and (just plain old) earth ponies. It's horses. The magic is an integral part of this. It extends to the core.

   Style and substance? The horses aren't just the style, but the substance. Example. Without serial killers, say, Silence of the Lambs wouldn't be, so the darkness is necessary. Contrariwise, the lightness is necessary for Friendship is Magic.

   (Just trying to think of a way to slip Cupcakes into this. I guess.)

   It's a My Little Pony show, meaning it's designed to sell toys, meaning the adventures are meant to be able to continue beyond the screen. It's supposed to capture the imagination. Yay. That also causes the idea of personalization: being based off of that which is meant to be collectible, the character design has a sense of customization, from the colors to the mane style to the cutie marks. I guess that's another thing that comes from that.

   If it weren't My Little Pony, it wouldn't be good.

   Bizarre.

My Little Redesign

I went there. But I would be remiss if I didn't.

   My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is noted for its Faustian (that's Lauren Faustian) design style. I'm not sure if there are any people really confused by this, unsure how ponies could go from this...

to this:

...but if there are, this post is for you.

   It's not just a matter of totally new non-sequitur redesign. My Little Pony has undergone quite a few alternate designs over the years. There's Generation 2, which featured more realistic pony proportions (and has thus been called the "My Little Anorexic Pony" by fans...)

   Then there's Generation 3.5, still technically Gen 3 but with a complete design re-haul of the more Gen-1-inspired design.

   I'm not sure where this fits in, but there's also the Takara Japanese Generation 1 series (by far my favorite.) Just look at this stop-motion animated toy commercial.

   愛らしい!

   But like I said, this design is one of the things that allows it to be, not only good, but popular. That's... really it. Iconic character design. Remember, it's based on toys, and is meant to capture the imagination. Iconic design captures the imagination of artists, certainly. Remember also that the character design has a sense of customization, from the colors to the mane style to the cutie marks. It's ideal for making OCs. So there's that. All of these things. Lauren Faust designed both this style and the idea that the property should hold broader appeal.

   Can something be fortuitous if it was planned that way?

(Images via My Little Wiki and the Friendship is Magic Wiki.)

Correspondence 6/27/09 15:12 - 16:07

   The Mad General! Or, "the general character," which is a phrase that happens to be a double entendre for "the general character," which causes a little bit of confusion there at the start. We get derailed brainstorming what his name should be (I guess to avoid future understandings like that,) but don't settle on anything. Meaning: there will be more.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:12 pm
I got it: an introduction of the general character. Sets him up for the sequel, so that [SPOILERS] can take place much earlier in the story, so [SPOILERS] earlier.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:13 pm
Could you elaborate, I'm sorry, but I don't think I understand.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:15 pm
An introduction of the General. A scene from his viewpoint. To set his character up for the sequel.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:17 pm
Ah, I see, I rather like that idea, as we do need a few more characters.
What shall he be called?

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:21 pm
...
You go first.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:22 pm
Um, something that's kind of like "Ingstrom" or "Mugabe".

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:23 pm
Ooo, what are those from?!

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:25 pm
Ingstrom's a Swedish name, and Mugabe is of some African origin.
But, you know, they're real names so we have to mix them up.
But, for the general, I imagine and "African" guy, with the awesome accent and everything.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:27 pm
I really imagined him as the dude who wanted to use the MD device to blow up the planet in Children of the Mind, till Valentine's and Peter's aiuic replicas came in and dismantled it.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:30 pm
Ha, this guy seems like he could be a likable character, unintentionally so.

And, here are some cool( I thought) African names:
Kalenjin
Makua
Akan
Makonde

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:32 pm
Well, I suppose he was.
Lots of M's, A's and K's, mebbe a j.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:33 pm
Hm... I've got nothing. Makonde sounded coolest to me.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:36 pm
But not exactly that name. Arthur is to Arthos as Makonde is to _.
And what's the planet's version of Africa?

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:38 pm
Um, well, it'd be west of Akkash, I suppose. Hm, we never named continents, come to think of it, but that was kind of intentional. We could name the country though.
Hm... how about Makonden? Akmonde? Makonda?

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:44 pm
Makonden and Akmonde I definitely like, they still preserve the sort of Nordic feel that Ingstrom had. And character-relate, is there a sort of childishness to his character? Not child-like, but stubborn, refusing to take blame, etc. would explain why he [SPOILERS], but of course no-one believes him yet.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:47 pm
Ah, yes, that's exactly what I was thinking.
And, maybe we could combine it with Ingstrom? Or try out some more nordic names.
Halfdan
Yttling
Muren
Inghardt
Latham
Sigfinn

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:49 pm
Yttling... Sytt... Yttsam...Yttsburg...

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:52 pm
Yttstrom... Ingstradt...

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:53 pm
Ing...str...
Ytt...
Ing...

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:55 pm
Now it just sounds like we're mentally deficient Norwegians.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 3:57 pm
Makonden Yttstraus.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 3:59 pm
So he's African and Scandinavian?

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 4:01 pm
Ytt...Ingstraus?
Yttstraus Makonden.
Yttstraus...Yttling... McOnden.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 4:02 pm
Ah man, now he got Irish somehow.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 4:03 pm
None of these are right!

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 4:04 pm
I know!
Let's just call him "the general" for now, and worry about it later.
(Though, this is what we did with Nycaster too)

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 4:05 pm
And everyone else.
So, the point of the last twenty minutes: we introduce the general.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 4:07 pm
Yep, I suppose that's decided.

Correspondence 6/27/09 13:45 - 14:02

Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 1:45 pm
Okay. Uhhh. The one with Kite, taking place after, I got it: The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.
Or is that the one with the short stories taking place in the PoM universe, such as that time in the military with Phyr, and the computer at the end of time that calculates using the power of memory?

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 1:48 pm
I thought that was the "making of" documentary on the DVD extras.
And, I'd actually be pretty excited about the short stories project. It needs an awesome name too.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 1:49 pm
Just unpublished stuff, you know. You don't have to write anything specifically for it, an' all that.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 1:51 pm
Yeah, I suppose so.
Could be a fun little side project after we wrap up PoM.
...Though I don't suspect that will be anytime too soon.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 1:53 pm
And I quickly tire of all this pointless (or, at least, lacking a point) conversation. Is there any important stuff that needs to get done? Characters, Events, Sciences, etc.


Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 1:54 pm
Hm, there's still that mid series lag that needs filling.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 1:56 pm
Not really. You can't "fill" a lag, lest you make it "sag."
Hmm...
The mad General?

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 1:59 pm
Ah, right, you more speed it along.
The one who [SPOILERS]?

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 1:59 pm
Yesh.

Re: Name
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 2:01 pm
Well, all I remember being defined about him is that he wanted some serious promotions, and advancement, and so notified no one about finding Nephyrem and OREM.

Re: Name
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 2:02 pm
Yes, and thus is crazy independent and selfish.

Correspondence 6/26/09 19:10 - 6/27/09 12:41

Ghostwriting
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 26, 2009 7:10 pm
Looked at some fees for ghostwriting, an, at least, for a trilogy of books, it'd take us $150,000. At most, $200,000.
And, as you know... that is quite a lot.
So, guess who's writing this?
...Us.

Re: Ghostwriting
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 26, 2009 7:55 pm
Well, just today I read that cowritten books are really hard to pull off. But I don't suppose that that applies to one guy writing and the next guy re-writing.
(But as a note of warning, it's not "drafts". Just do the final draft, and then make improvements on that if it doesn't work out.)

Re: Ghostwriting
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 26, 2009 7:58 pm
Yeah, I heard that same thing today too, eerie.
And, well, let's see how well some 17 year olds can write.

Re: Ghostwriting
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 26, 2009 8:00 pm
Style is easy. Anyone can pull off style.

Re: Ghostwriting
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 26, 2009 8:37 pm
But style is largely overrated anyway. All that really matters is a good story.
(And by the way, how are we going to overcome that middle-book-in-trilogy "lag" in which nothing basically happens?)

Re: Ghostwriting
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 26, 2009 10:10 pm
That's true... and I'd say we do indeed have a good story.
(That's a really good question. We could take a cue from Hollywood and fill it with an explosion or two, and a sex scene. But that isn't very like PoM at all. Quite distasteful. Plus, we've kind of honed the "asexual protagonist" in all this. Hm, does he ever get a love interest? in his past, even. The only person I ever saw where that could make sense is Seth, but I think that's kind of silly addition. I like the idea of the friendship better. An Alexander-Hephaistion, Kirk-Spock kind of thing. And... I'm rambling. What was this even about? Oh, right, the "lag". Um, I don't know. What needs, at that point, some exposition?)

Re: Ghostwriting
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 10:08 am
Well, his past, certainly. And there's usually only a lag if it's because the protagonist's objective can't be met. Isn't his objective to [SPOILERS]?

Re: Ghostwriting
From Persomem to POMegranate   Jun 27, 2009 12:28 pm
I thought we were leaving that up to interpretation.

Re: Ghostwriting
From POMegranate to Persomem   Jun 27, 2009 12:41 pm
Fine. You interpret it that way.

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, March 15, 2009

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TRANSCRIPT:
Marvin: ...
Hi.
The Author has an acute case of writer's block today, so...
We are so sorry.

NOTES:
   I'm not sure-- I think this may have been deliberate to set up a plot point much later on (which it will become,) but I doubt it. Yeah, I copy/pasted Collin and the pie on this one.

Film Review: War Horse

   Another Spielberg film review, because I wrote it. Steven Spielberg's War Horse takes place in an alternate version of World War One in which all sides, regardless of nationality, speak English as their first language.

   The puppetry in this film is very good. They're puppets, right? In the stage version, at least. If not, they're really taking away one of the major draws of the original show in adapting it to the big screen. Was that on stage, the scene when Joey jumps over a tank John-McClain-versus-fighter-jet-in-Die Hard 4.0 style? If so, then that should be every scene in every play ever.

   I kind of slept through about half of it, so I've got no idea how Joey is drafted into the military in the first place (being a puppet, I guess,) but at least I woke up in time for Benedict Cumberbatch.

   This film should appeal to everyone who likes either war or horses. And that's pretty much everyone.

Film Review: Lincoln

   Steven Spielberg's Lincoln is a film about how terrible movie trailers can be at their job sometimes. In the commercials for the film, Daniel Day Lewis's performance looks like tremendous overacting and ham and cheese on rye, but in the actual film all you can think is, "holy crap, Abraham Lincoln!" It is also, like I had said, about how just because something is politically expedient does not make it right.

   That's... that's really all the snark I have for this movie. Why'd it have t be both so good and based on a true story? Why?

   Oh, I know. It takes place in an alternate version of history where they changed the names of those who voted against ending slavery so their progeny wouldn't be called out on the street. SO, uh, that's something.

Who Needs Blipverts?

   The companies have got us in Skinner boxes, having us locked in a behavior-rewards loop. If they can control us so thoroughly, why are their advertisements so mind-breakingly stupid?

   Advertising is becoming more and more personalized, but is this leading to a dead end? Will the art and entertainment of the future revolve around demographics? Well, each person isn't just a part of a demographic to be pandered to; each person is part of several demographics, which combine in intriguing ways. Even then, though, with the combinations of all the demographics you can combine, that's just one small demographic.

   So advertisers need to not only attract an audience but to expand it, coax people into liking what they would not normally and making them realize that they do like it.

Sugar Faith

   Another OC, Sugar Faith. That's like slang for sweet tooth or something, right? Or, in my head, at least. I didn't really intend for her to come up looking so much like Fluttershy, and I actually modeled her more on Rarity, but there you go I guess. Actually, I kind of think she looks like Jodie Foster...

No, calm down. That's a butterfly, not a moth.

    Yeah, I see the tangency there between the foreleg and the... shank? Yeah, I think so. Shank. (A tangency is when points on two planes in a drawing touch without overlapping, cancelling out the illusion of depth.) Beginner's mistake, I know. There's also one between her chin and the butterfly's wing and one between the top of her forehead and her mane, but those feel more in place, like they'd actually be touching. The one between the legs is less excusable, and originally I was going to fix it digitally, but decided against it as it wasn't worth it.

Answers to Guess the Theme

   And now, the conclusion to the story, which answers the theme:

   These names sounded familiar. And then I realized where I had heard them: Holes, by Louis Sachar. They were the nicknames of the guys at Camp Greenlake. I was trapped in a book!

   Yep, the theme was this, you are a UPS driver who gets kidnapped by fictional characters. What? You thought it was anything different?

   Alright, yeah, you had it. A sentence starting with each of the letters in sequence. It's so obvious, especially when I highlight it like that. But I bet I could do that with posts and you'd be none the wiser (and now I've told you my evil plan. Great.)

Guess the Theme

   At last! Behind me lay all of the other deliveries. Clear before me was the last home that needed a package, and my favorite song began on the radio as I popped out of the van. "Dancing Queen," by ABBA, if you must know. Everything was going on pretty smoothly. Far too smoothly, in fact...

   Great big old clouds crept in front of the sun. Helios, that mighty god, began to shrink, to disappear. It got dark far too suddenly. Just dark enough for me not to see the shovel come out of nowhere and hit me in the head. KRAK!

   Lying there unconscious, I had some pretty strange dreams. Melon balls doing strange little dances through the air. Nexium pills and Vallium pills and all sorts of other drugs began doing feverish swan dives at me. Ouch! Pounding me and pounding me, wave after wave of pills shook my frame, until I began sinking out from the onslaught. Quicksand had saved me, but who was going to save me from drowning? Reaching for the surface, I sputtered and awoke. Someone had dumped me in a small cabin, I could see that much. There were piles of stuff cluttering everything up all around me, so I couldn't really see much. Under me and over me, just as nightmarish as my dream: piles of clothes, books, dishes, overturn board games...

   "Very good," said a voice from the next room. "We've got the mailman. X-Ray, Zero, could you come over here a sec? You just go in there." Zero and X-Ray...?

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, March 8, 2009

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TRANSCRIPT:
Collin: I'm... Embarassed [sic].
Marvin: About... What?
Collin: ...
No, it's too stupid.
Marvin: Okay, then.
Collin: !
COME BACK!
I'll tell it.
I...
I USED TO THINK THAT ALL PENGUINS DIDN'T HAVE EARLOBES!
Marvin: !
Marvin, thinking: ...
Of course not. It's just the macaroni kind.*
(*Editor's Note: This is sarcasm.)

NOTES:
   I'm just as baffled as you are on this one. Sorry. Maybe Collin was making it up to disguise that which truly embarrassed him?

Pretty Boy Rainbow Skyjammer

   Now in pretty boy style.

   I don't know either. It was fun I guess?

Rainbow Skyjammer

   It's the first MLP OC I did (My Little Pony Original Character... really, now, it's not so obscure...) Rainbow Skyjammer. That one's alright, I suppose.

And here he is all painterly (def 2.)

Correspondence 5/2/09 18:15 - 19:54

We swap some lyrics. It's gonna be an awesome one today.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 6:15 pm

Um, Generation Y:

Why are there so many songs about love?

Songs about love lost and love found

And love lives turned around?

I guess the poets and dreamers all just can’t make up their minds.

I used to think that everything was

Everything was fine.

I think the things I think are fine are fine, are fine

And I want to think this through so you can just get out.

Girl, without a shadow of a doubt.

Girl, without a shadow of a doubt.

I want to be alone

So you can just go home

I hope that is all right.

Still, I think of you at night.

Girl, without a shadow of a

Everything was fine.

And I can’t make up my mind.

Do you want to be mine?

Girl, without a shadow of a doubt. Girl, without a shadow of a Fools rush in and out

And the fools all twist and shout

Tell me, what’s love all about?

Girl, without a shadow of a doubt.

Girl, without a shadow of a doubt. Girl without a shadow of a

Everything was fine.

And I can’t make up my mind. And I can’t make up my mind.

I’m sure that if you start

To open up you’ll find

If true love’s from the heart

Or is it just a state of mind?

I used to think that everything was

Everything was fine

And I think the things I think are fine are still all right

I think the things I think are fine are fine, in spite

of the thoughts I think of you that keep me up all night

Girl without a shadow of a

Everything was right.

And I can make up my mind, and I can make up my mind

And I can make up my mind, and I can make up my mind

Girl, without a shadow of a

Everything is fine

We’re Generation Y. We’re a generation stuck in time.

Girl, without a shadow of a doubt.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 7:24 pm

I really like the progression of thought in this one, it's like stream-of-consciousness-songwriting.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 7:37 pm

AND i'M WORKING ON ONE CALLED kILL mE TO sLEEP oops darn capslock anyways here it is so far

Just ’cause I’m strait

Don’t mean that I’m sexist

Just because you’ll pay

Don’t mean I’ll teach you how to play gui-tar

And just ’cause you say

That it’s love,

Honey, that don’t mean that it’s love

At all

Let’s get you out of those wet, wet clothes

Here, you can put on my shirt

Maybe we’ll dance the night away

I know that you’d like that

Love me softly

Kill me to sleep

Love me softly

Kill me to sleep

Love me softly

Kill me to sleep

Love me…

People are gonna notice

And think things that aren’t true

I don’t care, don’t shed a tear

It’s worth it all just to be with you

And Just ’cause I’m awesome

Don’t mean that I’m phat

I see you playing possum

But it’s not over yet

We’re not gonna stop,

No, we’re not gonna stop,

No, We’re not gonna stop

Until I’m dead.

Kill me to sleep.

We’re not gonna stop,

No, we’re not gonna stop,

No, We’re not gonna stop

Until I’m dead.

Kill me to sleep.

Love me softly

Kill me to sleep

Love me softly

Kill me to sleep

Love me softly

Kill me to sleep

Just ‘cause I’m strait

Don’t mean that I’m sexist

Just because you’ll pay

Don’t mean I’ll teach you how to play gui-tar

And just ’cause you say

That it’s love,

Honey… I’m pretty sure that means it’s love.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 7:41 pm

Ha ha, that is one of the best things I've read all day. Awesome title/motif line, by the way.

I wrote one song as well, though, tell me if you think of a title.

I have prayed for you,

To a fake, deaf god,

I have come for you,

Even though you'd gone,

I have prayed for you,

Now a lost, dead soul,

I have searched for you,

As it grew too cold,

There's nothing I won't suffer,

Nothing I won't endure,

Not to be your lover,

Or to hold you near,

But to free you of your nightmares,

To rid you of your ghosts,

Finally dry your tears,

So it is to you I toast,

"The faltering light!

The waning moon!

The coming night!

I'm coming soon."

What am I to you?

Acquaintance or friend,

Just what can I do?

To steer you from the end,

What am I to you?

What does that even imply?

What am I to do?

While I watch you slowly die,

I would do anything for you,

Just to see you smile,

And there's nothing I'd not do,

Please stay a little while,

Please tell me I can help you,

Please tell me there's still hope,

Just tell me what to do,

In hopes that I can help,

"The dimming flame!

The burning root!

Am I to blame?

I will follow suit."

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 7:45 pm

I like it. Kind of... Vampire-y. And come to think of it, I did write Generation Y on the spot. er... a spot. We could use that spot in the music video. But really I already knew what it would be like, and then just put it in order, went home, and wrote something like that order down, until now it's in its final form like you see here.

But name, name... I rather like that line in the I think second to third last stanza.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 7:47 pm

Vampire-y?

And I would love to see Generation Y become a full-fledged song, it has a uniqueness in thought and form I've not seen often.

Which line?

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 7:49 pm

Umm, "just to see you smile" or "while I watch you slowly die" but never mind, I came up with a different good title for it...

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 7:50 pm

it being? (you've got me excited.)

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 7:51 pm

Toast to Remember, Drink to Forget.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 7:54 pm

Oh god yes that's awesome, so fitting and, oh man, thanks.

Correspondence 4/28/09 20:40 - 5/2/09 17:24

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:40 pm

Can I link the typed up lyrics to the song articles?

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:41 pm

I guess no wait- that goes in the- yeah okay.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:44 pm

You could add lyric sections as a standard.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:45 pm

The media section- lyrics, liner notes, art, etc

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:47 pm

Ah, alright then

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 1, 2009 3:23 pm

mmmm

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 5:07 pm

how's it goin

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 5:09 pm

Good. Evidently Raphael wrote a bit of music to 3 songs I wrote, though I still have yet to hear them.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 5:11 pm

nice. I finally got the back of Birds Cracking Foxy printed off, the other attempts being hard to explain why they aren't good but easy to see when you look at them.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 5:13 pm

I see I see(figuratively)

Looks like our band is beginning to fade into existence

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 5:14 pm

H, h

[onomonopeatic chuckle]

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 5:17 pm

Now I just need to hear these songs, and maybe some awesome can be born of it

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 5:18 pm

'these' as in all of the songs?

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 5:20 pm

Just the 3 for now

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   May 2, 2009 5:22 pm

So,

wait what three oh the three albums?

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   May 2, 2009 5:24 pm

The Plague, Gently Baby Easy Slowly, and In a Sense (which I don't think I ever showed you, come to think of it) are all he's started on

Correspondence 4/28/09 20:07 - 20:38

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:07 pm

Well, in that vein,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4tQiXM3IiY

(you seen it? it's a classic eppy)

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:11 pm

I have no idea what relevancy this has, but thank you so damn much, I loved this episode and almost forgot about it.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:17 pm

You know, songs.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:19 pm

That's a loose organization.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:19 pm

Well, you know...

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:30 pm

Yes.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:32 pm

Speaking of which, do you have any more songs of coverage?

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:34 pm

New ones you mean?

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:35 pm

yesh

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 8:37 pm

Just one, but seeing as I'm typing this from my wii, I'd much rather show it later.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 8:38 pm

kay

Correspondence 4/27/09 16:31 - 4/28/09 18:46

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 27, 2009 4:31 pm

Okay, I've got the back cover all nice and finished (unless we want a barcode, which I don't think we do, and if we do it can just be on the plastic wrappings)

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 27, 2009 6:13 pm

Good good, how's it look?

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 3:26 pm

umm... good?

No wait, I was gonna show you at school, but I didn't get your message because I had to go to work.

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 4:31 pm

Next time then.

Re: BCF

From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 28, 2009 6:38 pm

Maybe

Re: BCF

From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 28, 2009 6:46 pm

If you remember.

Also, I've begun the process of typing up all my songs, you should too, as I've not read a lot of them.

Thespis Strip Dated Sunday, March 1, 2009

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TRANSCRIPT:
Marvin: Hello again.
Many of you out there were offended by the politically - charged nature of one of our recent strips.
Jeez, guys. It's a comic strip. It's suppose [sic] to be funny. Honestly. It makes us wonder if we'll ever be able to return to business as usual.
Collin: Now, Marvin...
Marvin...
Now Marvin....
Now Marvin.......
már •vín.
hmmm...
IT'S A SPONDEE!
A SPONDEEEE*!
Marvin, thinking: Business as usual...
(*Editor's Note: The word Marvin is actually a Trochee. We just think that "Spondee" is more fun to say.)

NOTES:
   Creative writing class, forms of metric feet. Spondee really is quite a funny word, so, eh, why not? It really is more fun to say than "trochee." First appearance of the Editor, very nice, that's going to be important later. And you can really see me get into my later, smoother style with the artwork here, as opposed to the flatter artwork of previous strips.

   Also, didja catch the visual pun in the way I wrote my name there? Per-A-zzo. I'm not sure if that was intentional (probably not?) but, you're welcome very much.

Trivia Sections

   Go back in the article history of an article on Wikipedia, to a time when the page still had a trivia section. I guarantee it'll cause you to lose IQ points, but at least you'll also learn a lot of pointless trivial crap at the same time somehow. It makes you more smarterer. It makes you more smarter.

   For example, did you know that more '90s sitcom families than are even relevant drink Tang? Who cares, but it's... it's a fact, I guess. A free online fact, that anyone can edit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tang_(drink)&oldid=279950192

Correspondence 4/26/09 15:25 - 15:44

   After a crash, I need to come up with the order for the songs on Birds Cracking Foxy again. Song ordering on albums is a pretty serious business, you know, and I think I did a really good job on this one (the song ordering on Felinity Femininity, not so much, but this one is good.) The person with whom I settle Catan at the end there, I'm pretty sure it was Adam.

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From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 26, 2009 3:25 pm

I think I had it something like this:

Lovely Nuisance

Touch

Wrong of Me

Love Names

Springtime

Whatever Happened?

Generation Y

Two Years Ago Today

Or in Our Beds

Fur on a Wire

Burn

...To Die For

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From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 26, 2009 3:25 pm

For the ordering?

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From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 26, 2009 3:27 pm

Something like that.

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From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 26, 2009 3:29 pm

Alright then.

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From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 26, 2009 3:29 pm

Well, I'll work on the back...

Which reminds me, could I see the aborted PoM script/book?

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From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 26, 2009 3:30 pm

I have to see if I still have it, I tend to delete things out of frustration...

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From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 26, 2009 3:31 pm

'kay.

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From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 26, 2009 3:34 pm

And it is lost entirely, along with a lot of other PoM stuff actually.

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From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 26, 2009 3:35 pm

Well, okay, then. I guess. It just needs to be done is all. And you've got it up there. [points to head]

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From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 26, 2009 3:36 pm

Yes yes, I need to get back around to doing that.

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From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 26, 2009 3:37 pm

Welll, off to work on the back of the album.

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From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 26, 2009 3:42 pm

Good luck.

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From POMegranate to Persomem   Apr 26, 2009 3:43 pm

Done.

Well, now I'm off to go play Settlers of Catan.

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From Persomem to POMegranate   Apr 26, 2009 3:44 pm

You settle that stuff then, for Catan!