Sunday, August 10, 2008
My first weekend living in Seattle is drawing to a close and as the sun very, very slowly sets I figured I'd give a wee status report. Right now I'm living in an apartment provided so nicely by Microsoft in an area of downtown Seattle called Belltown in a place The Shelby. It's a fairly modern, clean, 1 bedroom place with a kitchen and dinning nook that fits two people rather well. Fully furnished though someone should talk to whomever outfitted this place, we need more towel racks, seriously people. Towel racks. The area is pretty much full of hipster
Thursday, August 07, 2008
It's all about the snappy opening line, watch any classic movie from the 40's and you'll realize the importance of the opening line. If you need some evidence check out 'His Girl Friday', at least the first 20 minutes, for some of what I consider some of the back & forth dialog around. Of course the classic for lines from the 40's is arguably 'Casablanca' and if you've never seen it you owe it to yourself to watch it with a bottle and some friends, you'll be amazed at how many lines come from just that one movie. The point,