I have pushed to 24. It was uuuuuuuugleee.

Yea Tim for finishing a draft he's happy with!

I did all-nighters from time to time when I was younger. My job even required it for awhile. (Every other week I had to work midnight to 4am at the local office, drive an hour to the corporate office to work from 7am to 7pm, drive an hour back home and then be back at work at the local office for another midnight to 4am shift. It was the suck.) But back then all it did was make me a little tired and loopy the next day.

Last time I tried it was a few years ago. I got Baldur's Gate II for Christmas, was playing it on a Sunday night and suddenly it was 5am Monday morning and I had to be at work in 3 hours. I looked and felt like death warmed over all day and passed out as soon as I got home. So I can't really do that anymore.

Wait, I did do an all-nighter again earlier this year, with similar results, though at least I didn't have to work in the morning that time and was able to pass out early in the afternoon (though I missed Easter dinner because of it.) So, yeah, I need my sleep these days.

He made me love Wyoh, BTW. No small feat.

He made me love Wyoh, BTW.

It's a miracle.

Dayamn. Has anybody checked Allyson to make sure she isn't a pod person? I think her pinkies won't bend if so.

Did you also miss Albert becoming a morphine addict (and recovering from it all in one episode)?

And thus, we know who Jack Bauer's ancestor is.

If you want to counteract the phobia, perhaps renting Valentine and watching the villain off Denise Crosby and various easy-to-confuse blonde actresses while wearing a porcelain mask would help? I was rooting for the killer through most of the movie before knowing for sure who it was supposed to be.

Denise Richards. It's bad enough Lt. Yar got offed by a vicious oil slick (and then the writers spent the rest of the series finding ways to take it back one way or the other); don't go putting her in Valentine too.

Today's Achewood is slightly Minearverse relevent. See if you can spot it.

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No soaps though.

I read Tim's drafts as he was writing, sometimes they came in at 11pm, sometimes at 5am, and so I read it from start to finish a half a dozen times, each time worrying about his poor overtired brain, and mostly just amazed at the sharpness of the work.

I believe wholeheartedly that Heinlein's fans will appreciate Tim's adapatation. Without giving away how he accomplishes things, I can say that he hits all of Heinlein's themes with a quick jab right to the vein.

He explains the free market ideas, and the culture on Luna very naturally through the plot, and this thing that Tim does, telling a whole story in a frame. So it's visually rich as well as hilariously funny, until he stops your bellylaugh with a kick to the gut in all the right places.

Wyoh is less kitten and more tiger, which pleases me.

There's a surrealness to it kind of like a Gilliam film, with a touch of Fight Club threaded though.

I find some new thing everytime I read it, and it's one of the few scripts that I've printed out to put in my bookcase so I can read it again, like a book.

I told Tim that he managed to become a sieve and drain out Heinlein's spooge while trapping the good stuff. I always thought Heinlein wrote Moon with one hand on the typewriter and the other in his crotch.

Tim kept both hands on the keyboard. It's focused on themes withouit getting preachy, and the character's relationships to one another without getting wanky.

I really hope it makes it to screen, under a director who can do it justice.

Just very proud of Tim, and honored to have been able to read it.

And that's all I have to say about it. For now.

Has anybody checked Allyson to make sure she isn't a pod person?

She's not! Tim just did a really great job!

I believe wholeheartedly that Heinlein's fans will appreciate Tim's adapatation.

Though you totally do not have to know the book to appreciate the script. Because I never got around to reading it and still thought it rocked.

BTW, do you want the book back? I don't feel the need to read it now.

BTW, do you want the book back?

Oh yeah, I want to do a compare and contrast.

I need to take a lot of notes for Tim's biography. I thought I was gonna have to wait a longer time, but if he keeps writing screenplays, he'll have about 2 marbles left rolling around in his head in the next 18 months and won't be able to sue me. I could make shit up.

Tim was the son of migrant farmworkers. He taught himself to read and write when he was 10, after overcoming the whooping cough which left him with one lung and a terrible grizzly bear attack which left him with only half a face...