Day: May 25, 2021

Want to know who is the best deep passer from last year by the stats? Daniel Jones. Yup. Danny delivered Dimes at a rate of 48% on the deep ball with a rating of 134–highest of the league QBs. Stop sleeping on my guy!

Actually, sleep. SLEEP (insert wave of hand here).

I know it isn’t Wednesday but that stat jumped out at me and I wanted to share. I wanted to write a blog about Army of the Dead, but turns out I need more content to make this thing go Ten Minutes. Yeah, the movie sucked. Should you watch it? Well, no. It isn’t really worthy of the 2.5 hr runtime. BUT if you really want to enjoy the best of the film, watch the first 10 minutes and then shut it off. You might not even need to go the entire ten. Like I said, I don’t even need to write the entire ten on the subject.

Here is the brief:

Military is transporting a special cargo. Cargo is lost. Cargo goes to Vegas to start Zombie society. Mayhem unfolds. If you are expecting linkages to previous films in the Of the Dead variety, don’t. This is the new stuff. This is unrelated and not very good and has a deeply unsatisfying ending.

The lead actor, Bautista, is not built for these sort of meaningful sensitive lead roles. He mangles it horribly and barely manages to balance the effort against the hard ass soldier motif he is also trying to pull off. Honestly, I fear the plot was likewise maligned by the bad direction because it wound up not making a lot of sense and failing to have truly believable motivations.

In spite of a few great action sequences, this movie is pure junk…

Unlike Daniel Jones.

I rate it a Jamarcus Russell: Lots of hype that ended up fat and useless.

Some Thoughts:

1. I did the thing again when I forget to hit publish twice… Dear WordPress, that is trash. Let the dimwitted and lazy have it easy!
2. No, don’t. Seriously the dimwitted and lazy have it far too easy. We need to make stuff harder. Let’s control access through sheer force of labor and intelligence. Free access to communication is why we have Qanon in the first place…
3. Gosh. That’s clearly an overcorrection on my part. I guess I can no longer run for office post publication of this blog.

As I write this my partner is going through the first few chapters of the new novel. It’s the alpha read and I am straight terrified for what is to come. I don’t often worry so much about these things but this one is different. This one is an entirely different approach in many ways and I really hope I pulled it off. I felt it in spots, but that is largely meaningless. I don’t really write for me. I write for some faceless reader who I imagine is interested in the perspectives and thoughts of the characters more than in what I, the author, have to say. In other words, I just tell the story.

I had to find the story in some spots here. The big picture I had from early on, but the detail work–the scut work–is where I struggled this time around and I am not even done with the thing yet. So, as she reads, I write on.

When this is done I will be splitting time between the next project and something I just manifested as I wrote. I’m aiming for a ten minute novella or even novel. There will be certain days of the week where I write out the ten minutes of the novel(la) as a ten minute chapter. I will do most of the planning and thought process here as an exercise of what can be done in just a minimal amount of time. Writing does take time, but more than that it takes complete focus. I believe anyone can maintain complete focus for ten minutes a day. I feel that if I can do this and do this well, it could serve as encouragement for other writers out there in the struggle. Lets see how it goes!

Some Thoughts:

1. The Nets did in fact win that game.
2. Lakers lost theirs.