Barkerburgh

1> Last night I finally saw ‘A Mighty Wind’ and thought it was great. What was even greater was that in the closing credits was this: “Video Assist - David Barker”. I can’t believe I don’t remember doing that. I guess I was really busy at the time. Now I only have to see ‘Best in Show’ and ‘For Your Consideration’.

2> I haven’t looked at CSS for a while so I thought I’d catch up. So I was reading quite a bit about CSS yesterday afternoon and wondering a lot about how to apply both PHP and CSS to the construction of my Jeopardy scoring project, instead of just using plain vanilla HTML and just a little CSS and PHP, which is what I’ve been doing. One of the books suggested that HTML tables be avoided in favour of CSS positioning, which kind of made more sense the more I read about it. So last night I actually dreamed about creating the Jeopardy screen without tables. When I remembered that this morning, most of it actually made sense. Cool.

3> This weather is wonderful. Lovely and springy in the daytime and cool and comfortable for sleeping at night.

4> Look at Chez PL&J to catch up on Jon’s recovery and Photon’s life in general.

This is a NaNoWriMo cousin event.

It’s a script writing contest : play or movie makes no never mind.

And it’s only 20,000 words.

Now, as you all are aware, I know at least 20,000 words.

So, given that ScriptFrenzy starts on June 1, 2007 and that is the month in which I will turn 50, I think I’m gonna give this a try.

Remember my 2006 NaNoWriMo request? (Which I am still working on, in case you were wondering - and thank you all again, your ideas were manure, rain and sunshine for my fallow imagination!)

(No, seriously. Manure, rain and sunshine. That’s how I think of all my friends. Which is who and who is what depends on my mood really, though.)

So here’s the thing of it.

I’m thinking a stage fantasy and totally stream-of-conciousness riffing here, ghosts, Atlantis, spiritual possession, (hell, spiritual dispossesion), Victorian sets, disembodied voices, disemvoiced bodies, you get the brunt of my gist…

But don’t be intimidated by the perceived limitations of a stage play: remember stage illusions can be indistinguishable from magic!

So do the same thing again you did last time. Give me a phrase, a short sentence, a soupcon of je-ne-sais-quoi, seven to ten words. Keeping in mind it’s for a live action stage script (Ronnie!) that may never be produced except on the Flash stage of my mind.

Deadline: I guess about Friday May 25 to give my a week to integrate your amazing ideas.

FY yer I: My bona fides: In high school I played Macbeth in Macbeth (the Shakespeare one) and John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, so over 30 years later, I must still have some stage cred, right?

Wow, as I write this, I’m thinking that a 20,000 word stage fantasy might be more challenging than NaNoWriMo! Cool.

Wow. I was goose-bumpling. I’m not going to the future, though. Everybody there’s mean and grumpy.