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Geek fail? Not that I won't watch it, but the preview for the new-old Star Trek movie is done in the cinematic style of ... well whenever a cartoon makes fun of movie previews? That style. The prequels in the beginning of tropic thunder for adventure joe's movies? That style.

It's only media, but I pass on these observations and I'm hardly the first to make them:
1. Some of our favorite old geekery was based not on special effects, but on interesting concepts. I'd say based on good writing which was often the case, but many sci-fi classics are mediocre and sometimes just horrible in terms of actual prose. Suffice to say it required a script at some point.
2. Scripts are dying, writing is dying on the screens. Dramas are expensive to make, and falling to "reality" tv not because they gross less, but because they net less. Actors and good writers cost money - attention whores nary a cent.
3. Investors rule media. As long as finding investors is the seed behind movie and television life, we will continue to see art falter while sequels, prequels, books to movies, movies to series, remakes of classics, and the like fill the airwaves.

Meh by the time I finish writing this I think that the potential is there still for new stories, as slumdog dogs the awards and anyone can write on the internet (even me), any artist can have a myspace page, people break through all the time. In fact, everything I wrote isn't wrong but it's wrong to think it's very different than the way things were. If anything, good writing today could easily be lost in the signal to noise ratio. Hey look - noise. La la la la...

SAVE THE SPECIAL EFFECTS FOR PR0N!
Or for prawn.

Speaking of noise - I'm so damn happy right now. I finally busted my caboose at work enough to get most of my work due in the next month done...well now. I have a stack of issuances ready to go at various points through the next two weeks while I'm on travel. I finally have the time to draft something due in a month that I happen to need to produce in ... well by Monday. I am working-at-home today and with any luck, perseverance, or cut and paste I'll have a workable draft done within 8 hours. Thought I was tired, 9 point 5 hours of sleep later I think I was tired. Toast, 5 iced teas, and one lemon later I'm still tired - but happily catching up with the uncensored internet. Soon banking, sales, and work. Skipping murky to marathon this work that needs doing, but...when I hit the road I should be ok. This is dull - sorry - but it's my focus right now and I felt like sharing. I'm a little proud I made it through this period, I'm proud to be this far ahead (which is only on-schedle but still), proud I'm getting fluent at my job, and proud I'm carrying the highest caseload in our office even though I'm the newest legalish noob.

One more thing - thank you Chris for showing me shoutcast radio. I just dl'd the newest version, and happily found it loaded up all my bookmarks. Looking for fun radio? I suggest the following for a quick listen:
xwave radio; free for radio hvar; KOOL ROCK RADIO; Radio Balwelna (oddly a lot of good radio is from Bulgaria); Groove salad; radiopowernet; limbik frequencies (one of my favs for ambient); electrique (one of my all-over favs); radio frequence metz woippy; french kiss fm; xrm; gremlin radio; puredj.com; borgradio.de; voices from within; rockjam metal; death.f(ucking)m(etal); satanac hands radio bulgaria; diseno uv

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Project draft an arbitration brief completed. I even re-read it and added a section, and I'm convinced it is not a steaming pile. I only sunk 5 hours comp (plus regular time) into the project today, skipping the office and most of the internet to do a marathon of concentration. 29 pages (28 plus cert) including a diagram I made on MSPaint. That was just to be silly, though I believe it really helps explain the issue.

I essentially just drafted part of my motion in crayon, didn't I?

On the bright side, I now have tomorrow off.

On the not so bright side,
while out I was assigned another case, and I'm on travel the next two weeks
there is a good chance that cunt will call my work trash and re-write the entire thing, only to word-smith the order of and words used in my argument - even re-writing the parts that I adopted from her writing in the last hearing on this subject.

Now to do my on-line timesheet to reflect comp time.
Whew...did it! By their count, 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
By my count, one day due to travel lunacy.