February 2011
19 posts
People keep telling me to enjoy my unemployment because one day, I’m going to be really busy again and wishing I had a cute little problem like too much time and how to fill it.
But Baby Girl don’t play that. Baby Girl spent six years working 40 hours a week, plus working on book projects, plus doing freelance work reading scripts for a friend’s production company, plus writing...
January 2011
15 posts
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Overheard One Time Miley Cyrus and Jeremy Piven... →
“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer - he bides his time, waits for...”
– The Paris Review Interviews, E.B. White, 1969.
(Now we hit refresh, refresh, refresh until anyone could reasonably expect us to tap out a rhythm on keys calibrated to resist pressure, but only slightly.)
rockstareddie asked: What chain of events in your life inspired you to become a writer?
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I’m starting to feel like the world could be my oyster, but I have to be really careful not to jam the shucking knife into the shell so hard that little bits of it break off and swim in the brine. Little bits that then swim in your mouth until you bite down and you feel like you’re chewing on sand. Or I have to be careful not to jam the shucking knife into the shell so hard that it...
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One Day/Sunday →
A (weekly? recurring?) feature borne from my new, profound boredom. I’ve enabled the Ask box and I’ll collect them until next Sunday.
Let’s talk about our feelings.
Presented Without Comment
A list of available “jobs” in the writing/editing and writing gigs sections of Craigslist Los Angeles:
We need your sexts - We are looking for content for a website that will post poeples [sic] sext messages. These will be totally anonymous, it’s just something for entertainment, kind of like tfln, but with sexts. Dialogue would be best, for example, an exchange of several texts...
A few months ago, I subscribed to the Radiolab...
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L’espirit de l’escalier - French for the “spirit of the staircase”. The act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it.
I’d heard this before, loved it, and was reminded of it when the book I’m reading (Goldengrove - Francine Prose) made use of it.
Then the attractive man at the coffee shop where I was reading said book asked me a...
I have applied for unemployment. I have harassed everyone I know who is even tangentially related to someone who might possibly work in television/development/film/word industries. I have uploaded my resume places where it probably doesn’t belong and am wondering if you can support yourself by going to focus groups. (“Do you drink cranberry AND pomegranate juice?” - $100....
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2010: the surprise ending
Two days before New Year’s I was informed that my company could not continue to pay me. This is the reality of writing jobs, of television jobs - sometimes funding just evaporates and you’re frantically updating your resume and emailing everyone you know, trying to sound like you’re not currently in the throes of a heart attack. “Oh, hey. I’m looking for some work....