I had a meeting at NBC last week and the executive's assistants told me "Drive" was their favorite pilot script (they rank the competish).
Ack! Variety-speak!
How much do I love the possibility of getting to hear a television character call something "craptastic"?
We had a television character call something "sucktastic" on VM a couple weeks ago.
Russell T. Davies had a character use the term
chavtastic
in Doctor Who s2 ep1 "New Earth".
Just ordered it, David
A sound investment. It's like a very cold cynical and tonic served with a twist of lime.
Even after watching Arrested Development and Adult Swim shows and various other boundary pushing efforts, I still watched Action and kept thinking, "They aren't really going to go there are they? They did!"
Or, not "fun", because of the gasping and the oh-my-goodness and the ouches in my head. So some other word, that's less merry than fun, but still keeps the meaning?
Exhilarating? As that's what came to mind while reading your "ramblings".
Coming soon to your mobile phone: Prison Break: Mary Sue.
"Your obsessively bitter solitaire version of the license plate game."
I can't believe no one has picked this line up and snuggled it and fed it pudding and soup and called it George.
I can't believe no one has picked this line up and snuggled it and fed it pudding and soup and called it George.
It struck entirely too close to home.
What's the license plate game? I have a license plate game, which is to work out exactly when California plates moved from writing the word California in all caps to writing it with cursive. So far, 3FIK seems to be the highest plate with asscaps.
I have a long commute.
But that's its charm!
Yes that, but my heart belongs to the Columbine line.