sbradycalhoun

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Dune Part 2 is both a worthy end and a set up for a third movie. It’s really fantastic filmmaking. http://adarkhighway.com/2024/03/01/dune-part-2/
Dune Part 2

We must first come to recognize the brilliance of writer Frank Herbert who created a new world with his words. His story was so powerful that it influenced George Lucas’s Star Wars (which also owes…

Dark Highways
Pop Quiz Hotshot. You just took over a movie studio in a bloody coup. Now, what do you do about all these superhero movies? http://adarkhighway.com/2023/11/22/project-greenlight-2-what-do-we-do-with-all-these-superheroes/
Project Greenlight 2: What do we do with all these superheroes?

Ed. Note: This is the second column in this series. Part 1 is here. Before we declare what we should and should not do about superhero movies as the fictional head of a movie studio we need to blun…

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Callsheet is the new app every movie lover needs

Welcome to the first edition of our new series, Installer! Also in this edition: new Nerf gear, a new Lego set, apps for travel and notes, and lots more.

The Verge
I for one am glad I always read the chapter titles in each episode of the @atpfm because I am now checking out @caseyliss cool new app. Thanks Casey! This looks fun.
There's a secret list of Twitter VIPs whose accounts and tweets are getting boosted over everyone else's. And @zoeschiffer got it https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
The secret list of Twitter VIPs getting boosted over everyone else

Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron?

Platformer
Often I seem to give up on TV shows after like 4 episodes not because they’re bad but because I get the idea
I wish we could have good luck all the time. I wish rainwater was beer! I wish we had wings! But we don't. http://adarkhighway.com/2023/02/07/a-man-for-all-seasons/
A Man For All Seasons

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Social media! It super sucks for writers right now, and I had some thoughts about that, should you care to read them.

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2023/02/03/the-state-of-social-media-as-it-pertains-to-writers-in-particular/

The State of Social Media (As It Pertains To Writers In Particular)

This is a post about social media, which is the most boring kind of post. But for writers in particular, it’s an essential one. And here is why: we are at a time when traditional media is a f…

Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds

People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and *add* them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.