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Sunrise Mono Lake
2 July 2009, 7:30 am
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a wall-painted animation by BLU
19 March 2009, 5:01 pm
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This is about a year old but I am just seeing it for the first time. It is just amazing – I could watch it all day long and probably will. Check it out…

more about “a wall-painted animation by BLU“, posted with vodpod



‘Tis Good to Back in the Land of Trader Joe’s
14 February 2009, 9:30 pm
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I can’t say it any better than this, so watch the video. I especially like the part about the ‘beautiful moms in their yoga clothes.’ True, true.

 

 



Stand by Me, 2009
1 January 2009, 12:28 pm
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Steel Guitar Superstar
17 November 2008, 11:45 pm
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Wow. That’s all I can say.

more about "Steel Guitar Superstar", posted with vodpod



Bikes, Roomates and Vegetables
3 November 2008, 9:48 pm
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Here are Craig and AB and the fruits of their garden love.

more about "Bikes, Roomates and Vegetables", posted with vodpod



A little easy listening for your weekend…
22 March 2008, 3:38 am
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Check out the song of the week here.



How to kill good duck
21 January 2008, 9:52 am
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The duck is leaving the building. Sort of. He’s really just changing his name and moving to greener pastures, as ducks and cows tend to do.

In order to not create too much work for or put too much pressure on myself (read: Irregularly updating ONE blog is enough, gawd forbid two…), I’m moving How to Get Good Duck over to www.andersporter.com. This way I can keep this incredibly insightful blog, some links to some of my other crap and an ‘acquired taste’ sampling of some of my writing all in one place.

How to Get Good Duck will return one day, more than likely as a star-studded major motion picture. Until then, please check out www.andersporter.com when you have a chance. If you are subscribed to How to Get Good Duck, or are receiving email updates (yes, I’m talking to both of you), you might want to change your RSS feed or re-subscribe for email updates from andersporter.com.

Thanks for listening and have a nice day.

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Can say lots in six words
18 January 2008, 12:01 pm
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Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged
to write a story in six words. The result was
“For sale: baby shoes, never used.”

- Smith Magazine

A while back, Larry Smith and Smith Magazine asked readers to contribute to the site by offering up six word memoirs. The response was extraordinary and now Harper Perennial is publishing a book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, available next month.I offered up my own, but I can’t for the life of you tell you what I submitted, though it was undoubtedly ridiculous and corny and thus didn’t make the book. Perhaps the following would have been better and appropriately descriptive:
Do not remember what I wrote.

In any event, you can check out this awesome video promo for the book and then purchase it here.

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Quit Bitching and Start Writing
18 January 2008, 5:47 am
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I remember thinking when the writers’ strike started a few months ago: oh yeah, right – the Hollywood “strike tool”… they’ll take a few days off from work, walk around the streets of L.A. wearing khaki shorts and sunglasses while they drink soy lattes from paper mugs… cell phone in one hand and picket sign in the other… and then it’ll quietly go away: some sort of deal will be reached, and they’ll take up their cushy little jobs again, wearing khaki shorts and sunglasses while they drink soy lattes from paper mugs…
I am sort of happy to admit that I was wrong. I am glad that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has not given in yet, even though it seems fair to say that it is only a matter of time before they do.

What really amazes me is the timing of all of this. The Internet now provides an open platform on which aspiring writers, actors, directors and producers can strut their stuff. And this stuff is, right now, as good if not better than what you see on the tee vee. And the quality is improving daily. Considering this, it seems to me that union writers should be happy that they still have their cushy little jobs. Instead of branching out and creating side-projects (which, sometimes unfortunately, anyone with a camera and a microphone can do) on the Internet, striking writers have taken the “shit, we’re not going to be able to cush forever… let’s get as much as we can while we’re still around…” approach.

And the fact that there is now a whole slew of feel sorry for us videos out there is pathetic, I think. Take your pick from here here here or everywhere. Thankfully, SlateV’s Torie Bosch agrees with me, as seen in this video here:

TV and film writers make damn good money. Quit bitching and get back to work. Or I’ll happily take over for you. Soy latte… mmm, good.

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