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RT@TheOnlyTrout Original US copyright law was FUN. You got it for seven years after it was written. It was intended to force authors to make MORE.
If the first thing Smaug says to Bilbo is, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," I'm walkin out.
@TheOnlyTrout You don't understand. The purpose of a new MicroSoft product version is to remove features the users liked.
The proper response to conservative complaints about Muppets liberal propaganda is, "Duhhh." http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2012/01/why-the-muppets-are-propaganda/
Coming up with tomorrow's script improves the whole day
I learned to write with fanfiction. I don't do background. RT@blambot For chrissakes, webcomickers, draw the backgrounds. JEEEEzus.
.@TheOnlyTrout Re backgrounds: I was influenced at an early age by Bill Mauldin's discussion of Johnny Hart, and "rivet men". (more)
.@TheOnlyTrout Mauldin said a "rivet man" draws every rivet on a pot. "So what if the hero is offcenter in the panel? (more)
.@TheOnlyTrout "Put in a computer with lots of dials, or a tree with every leaf. Nothing wows the reader like a tree with every leaf. (more)
.@TheOnlyTrout "But you place two unwashed cavemen against a line that might be the top of a horizon or the bottom of an ovecast, (more)
.@TheOnlyTrout "And you'd better place them RIGHT."
Newly waxing moon low on the western horizon. That's a big rock.
@TheOnlyTrout When I've done that, I've drawn the notes but not the staff. No one's ever come out and said they recognized the tune.
@TheOnlyTrout Unless I actually copied out a few bars from an actual score, because that was the joke.
@TheOnlyTrout I once drew two guys whistling Rhapsody In Blue for three panels.
@scifichat #scifichat A2 The epitome of the machines-don't-belong-in-charge-of-people trope is the STAR TREK episode The Apple, ...
@scifichat #scifichat ...which was deconstructed in my fanfiction story Half A Worm, ...
@scifichat #scifichat ...which was adapted and serialized in my webcomic Arthur, King of Time and Space. (Links available on request.)
I wonder if many The Big Bang Theory viewers see the salute to sitcom history in the protoganists' names.
It's too bad that there's only one Peter Bishop. We could call the second one Repete. #fringe
@heldaction He thinks he's not home because no one here knows him. But in the season finale everyone at home forgot him. #fringe
My god. Hutton is so good. Nate Ford is drunk off his ass.
@choochoobear I know how you feel. No one but me seems to have noticed that humans raised by Moties suffer from jump shock like Moties.
MSPaintVista has some advantages but I think it's MSPaintXP most of the time for me from now on. (7 is right out.)