Day 3. Still no water or power on our floor. My ragtag band of survivors and I intend to head out in search of food and/or epic adventure. If we had power our movie marathon would be The Day After Tomorrow, I Am Legend, and Cloverfield in keeping with the spirit. Currently no sign of zombies. Or roommate. Slept good last night. In bed early, woke up late. Quite wonderful. Raymond and I headed down to Weinstein for lunch: the food was hot and wonderful. Washed up and sat around and charge
My ragtag band of survivors and I headed to the Kimmel building for food an laptop/phone charging. On the way we passed Washington Square Park.' Well. Wow. On our way back we found an open pizza store and feasted like kings. Tonight will involve poker and sacrificing someone's laptop battery for a movie. Tomorrow the ragtag band of survivors will head out into the wild.
Last night, the power went out. Shortly thereafter the Freedom Tower went out. In our dorm we have no power, no water, but we do have wifi. Planning on venturing to other NYU buildings today for charging and food. And exploration. Because this is the closest I'm coming to a post-apocalyptic scenario with an internet connection.
So NYU cancelled classes today and tomorrow. This is particularly wonderful since I'm kinda behind on my homework this weekend (A Joss Whedon Appreciation Club meeting, a swing dance party, and a spontaneous 11pm movie and walk to Times Square does that to you). So that's awesome. And because just text is boring, here is a picture of what it looks out my window. More on this story as it develops.
Essays, Not Rants! 032: Storytelling and Parables Remember: This post is about storytelling, not the veracity of any religion Doesn’t matter what you think of Jesus, gotta admit the guy could tell a story. Or the people who recorded them spiffed them up. Either way, Jesus often communicated (religious and otherwise) points through stories in ways that were not heavy handed yet still managed to tell a good story. See, Jesus knew his audience. He knew that some people were inherently opposed t
Y'know that thing where you're offered everything you wanted? Something you've wanted for a long long time that embodies just about all you hoped for? Know what I mean? But you know you can't take it? That as much as you wish you could you can't? That you have to do the right thing and say no? And step back out alone, without what you could have had? And even though you did the right thing you feel like #### and it haunts you? So you talk it out, you pray it out, you write it out, you get
LET ME BUY MY TICKETS. Seriously though. Looks fantastic; seems to be what oughta be the next step for the story (and character) to take. And, yeah. Well. Time to wait. ...nooooooo
Friggin' love this band. Talked to Brian (the lead singer) after for a bit. He thanked me for helping fund their new album on Kickstarter (the shirt tipped him off). New York, man.
Essays, Not Rants! 031: Time Doesn’t Flow Linearly Well, actually time does go linearly in real life. But this is fiction I’m talking about. Y’know those stories where events are told in the order of the sequence of events? Well this isn’t about that. Lost’s early episodes followed a basic format: focus particularly on one character on the Island all the while showing us flashbacks to their life before. We see Sawyer’s escapades as a con man while we see him attempting to pull a con now. Ch
Well. That was awesome. The Lego booth (floor area, more like it) was pretty cool. Saw the new Batman and Spiderman sets. Got a pretty neat Hobbit poster too. They were also building a mosaic of the turtles: Went to a couple panels about stories, that was cool. Saw some Assassin's Creed III gameplay, got an inflatable tomahawk and a pretty epic exclusive shirt. Played a bunch of Play Station All Stars (as Drake, duh). Game's fun. Very different from Smash Bros, I'll probably buy it, budge
Essays, Not Rants! 030: The Consistency of Continuity The way reality (and by proxy, stories) works is that if one thing happens then something else does. Because of this, we have a natural sequence of events that happens. It’s a consistent sequence of events that have bearing on each other. Man, describing continuity is difficult. Basically, if something happened, it happened. Events that happen influence the next one. Yet how much this affects the story depends on, well, the story. Let
New York ComicCon. Anyone else going? I'm going Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Renting my ticket to the roommate so he can go to the MLP panel on Thursday. And yes, I will be dressing up.
029: Go For The Heart Does anyone remember the movie Eragon? That horrible movie based on an alright book? It was a movie so poorly made and objectively bad we could ignore how lousy an adaption it was. But what about when it’s a lousy adaption too? M. Night Shyamalan cost himself his credibility when he put out The Last Airbender. Let’s ignore the lousy script, acting, and direction for a second. The movie was pretty. The tidal wave at the end going towards the ship was absolutely gorgeou
NYU's campus is spread around Greenwich Village in NYC. So while going from lunch to another building today, I walked past where Person Of Interest was filming. I don't watch this show, but I know that Michael Emerson (Ben Linus!) is in it. So I stayed around. And this happened: Yep.
Essays, Not Rants: 028: The Hero and the Antihero The Avengers came out on BluRay (and DVD, but I’m a BluRay person) on Tuesday. Naturally, I have it. Now, stop your groaning: this isn’t another post just about how good that movie is. Well, okay, it kinda is, but not only. Trust me. See, Iron Man and Captain America embody two distinct archetypes. Cap’s the hero, Iron Man’s the antihero. But neither Steve Rogers nor Tony Stark fall into the abyss of dull stereotypes. Typically, these stere
But it ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Love. You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a Home.
Essays, Not Rants, 027: No Home From War I’m in college now, and one of the things you do in college is write essays. Every now and then one of these essays (which are certainly not rants) have a similar thread to the ones I post here. So I have an assignment to look at a contemporary depiction of a soldier’s return home in light of a classical work of literature. Said paper is underway. I’m taking Ulysses as my example, or Odysseus as he’s known in The Odyssey. But the man I want is Ulyss
C'mon ya'll! PM me your questions for the powercast! About anything! New York, South Carolina, Singapore, the ship, heart disease, the Singapore military, BZP, Lego, Bionicle! C'mon people!
Essays, Not Rants 026: Everyone’s Story If you meet me in person, chances are at some point I’ll ask you what’s your story. Who you are. What brought you from wherever you’re from to where you are what now. Because whatever the reason, it’s your story and tells a good amount about you. So naturally, when I watch/play/read something, I’m looking for a character’s story. What made them who they are? Sometimes, you don’t need a particularly deep story (Dr Horrible wants to be inducted into the
So I need to write a short story for my Creative Writing class. It's due by mid-October. What to write? Well, I could write another episode/chapter of my science fiction serial. Thing is, I will for my science fiction class anyway (and yes, that is a thing. I'm studying science fiction for college credit. Current reading assignment is Ender's Game.). Alternately, I could brush off this old story about a couple running away that I never finished and actually finish it. Probably rewrite it. It
Essays, Not Rants! 025: A Series of Arcs I decided to sit down and watch some old How I Met Your Mother episodes once, and by old I mean Season One. It was weird to watch since everyone was well, so different from where they are in the more recent seasons. It’s jarring in light of where they end up. This, of course, is one of the great things about TV shows: character development. When you have a couple dozen episodes per season you can spend a lot more time with the protagonists and working
