So that was a boring post yesterday and it was boring because of its normal guy writing it had.
Maybe coming back from vacation was making me have my crazy time, but oh man good job to me for catching that one.
Here’s the hot news and that’s thanks at @bonniebell for telling everyone about my vacation and Twitter is where she did that.
Break it down.
missing person’s alert: @brianspaeth @JimCarrey @johncusack @tomhanks … let me know if any of them turn up :( thanks! :)
Yep we had a secret vacation and it was just me and my pals who like to be famous so much. Surfing is mostly what we did but also supper a little is another thing we had fun with.
The annoying part was when Jim kept saying “RUN FORREST RUN” at Tom 500 times.
Also we did some group reading of PTSA and I bet one of these buddies did up a new review at Amazon and here is part of that review and I wish all reviews told about the different parts of my secret origin like this one.
We hadn’t spoken for 56 years when this book arrived with a hand written note. “To Max, from Brian.” The choice of words meant more than I could ever tell him. I read it from cover to cover in a few days. I cried a lot, but inside, I felt a peace I hadn’t felt in years.
I took Mr. Spaeth’s book and took a trip to Seoul, hoping to rekindle my love affair with mahjong. I re-read it on the intercontinental flight, learning about super airplanes, airplane rides, and what it meant to have a dream. I too have a dream now, for the first time in years.
Thank you Mr. Spaeth. God bless you.
Okay wait maybe that one was from @worstfan because of how me and Team Famous weren’t really on vacation and instead it was a trip to buy an island for a vacation next year that we want to have.
Also remember you can have that PTSA book and I will buy it for you just go here.
Tom likes to eat lobster bisque more than regular lobsters. lol
I was having a type at my qwerty keyboard after Allef’s Android Vignette App photoshoot that he was having and my typing was for an email to tell Allef thanks for coming to the photoshoot.
He is a famous guy who likes to get thank you notes in his inbox maybe is where I was coming from.
Then this happened and I told about it inside that Twitter website.
lol I was just perfectly one key to the right in typing my name all the way through and it came out Ntosm.
half a minute ago via TweetDeck
Okay well the post was going to end early because that’s all it was that was supposed to be in the post, but here is some excitement news instead.
Maybe you can imagine Buzz Lightyear is telling you the news and that will make it even more fun?
If you haven’t read the first book I wrote well I need you to go and get it for free on your Kindle or Kindle application and as long as you have a computer or phone you can get it in like two seconds just go do that here and you’ll learn how, and the way is that I’ll send you an Amazon Gift Perk Email.
Thanks I don’t ask favors at you much so boogie down productions. lol
(Submitted without comment.)
BRAD RADBY’S FOREWORD
by Brad Radby
I think holidays are cool things to have happen at you.
Like I was born on July 4th, and fireworks always make me think, “Time to get out of the uterus!”
Okay let’s get real for you about the book. The story is a cool one and maybe you can find the Christmas meme Brian put in it so you can learn about yourself and how deep you can be.
That’s how we grow and save the poor people from those mosquitos the internet nerds are always complaining about. How come they can’t fix that one again?
LOL!
I hope you like the book when you do your reading with it.
Brad Radby
Augtember 46, 2023
Brad Radby is the two-time Academie Award winning director of Brad Radby’s The Exploders, among many other theatrical motion pictures. He is a survivor of the Super Airplane ride, and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Melinda.
(This is my outgoing mail today.
Yes, I’m giving away the Simmons basketball book. It was fine, but my time with it is now complete.
Also, this picture happened with a pseudo-Polaroid Android app.)
So I was at the gym yesterday getting ready to make my muscles happen some more, and as I opened my gym bag, I realized I hadn’t put anything in it.
There was just one stray weightlifting glove – I never use these cause I’m a tough man – and a pair of old ePod headphones.
There were no workout pants and/or shorts.
I had a t-shirt on, so no problem there. But I also had on jeans.
I sat in there contemplating what to do for about 15 minutes. I took off my shirt while I did this so anyone who walked in would think I was in the middle of changing, and also so I could do my narcissism I like to have sometimes.
Ultimately I decided to drive away in my car to someplace to buy some pants, and then came back to the gym.
I crawled in so the staff wouldn’t have deja-vu and get scared about how their minds worked.
Have you ever worn casual clothes to the gym.
I’ve been working on this script for something that’s being put together, and I’m a little back and forth on the writing style – I do think my time in novel-land messed with me just a bit.
Anyway, here’s a small piece.
Chelsea follows Jazz to the back – she’s all giddy as she passes Colleen, who notices Timothy being all fidgety and nervous. She sits next to him and gives him a napkin.
COLLEEN
Here.
TIMOTHY
We’ll get out of this, right? He can do this?
He takes the napkin all thankfully, but he’s terrified – NOT EVEN THE NAPKIN IS HELPING.
COLLEEN
(hesitant)
I’ve seen Jazz do some...
(beat)
I was at the Jefferson Incident. The Memorial.
TIMOTHY
I know that, Miss Burns.
He unfolds the napkin and starts tearing it up.
TIMOTHY (CONT’D)
I know a lot of things I shouldn’t.
Anyway, the part I’m questioning is the action line that ends with the big “NOT EVEN THE NAPKIN IS HELPING”. Especially the end, but the whole line is in question.
Debating with myself:
1) It does nothing to help from a production angle – it’s really a bunch superfluous words, and there are more compact ways of getting the point across that the napkin isn’t making him more at ease.
Example: He takes the napkin – it brings no comfort.
2) On the other hand, this isn’t a shooting script, and the way it’s written all over-dramatic to the point of stupid helps put across the ridiculous-played-straight tone of the material.
It needs to be played like this napkin should be a Xanax or something, and this is a way to do that without having to be all “even though it’s a napkin, he takes it from her like it should be relaxing him”.
At the same time, I do know that some readers will need their hand held like that, though. (And that’s fine – they’re not predisposed to like this, if I had to guess.)
3) A lot of the script is written in this style, and it reads FUNNY. So tell a coherent a-b-c story along with that, and you’re in good shape – a good story that made you laugh is a successful comedy screenplay.
I dunno – my thoughts – would love yours.
NOTE: For you Prelude to a Super Airplane fans, Timothy is someone you will know, at least indirectly. (It’s not Colonel T, and this story takes place in 2001.)
So my sister did some photoshoot for a friend last week, and I just got my eyes on the pictures.
If you have no idea what a Two Gun Girl might be, go watch this Two Gun Guy thing.
Anyway, most of this week has been spent brooding and being happy about how sad and happy I am. Also, lots of self-important writing.
Over at AOL Fanhouse, I wrote up my problems with LeBron James, and did a podcast with Brett Pollakoff, wherein I talked about LeBron’s Dancing Crisis, Bill Simmons’ basketball book, and of course some Who Shot Mamba? plugging.
At Yahoo!’s Ball Don’t Lie, there’s a small essay about the logistics and fun of shooting at Bill Walton’s house. Couple cool behind-the-scenes pics – I think in that one I’m trying to explain what an Orange Roundie is.
LOL!
What.
At CT Kingston’s blog – otherwise known as @CTK1, I did maybe my favorite Photoshop work I’ve ever done for part of her mega-super-2009-roundup-post.
Thanks also to @DennyMayo, @mfeige, @cjrider, and @thegnc for joining me in that Matt Bullard-based Houston Rockets chat, helping to bring Calvin Stadiums, Petey Skippen, Sherpa, Peter Ovaire, Brad Radby, Russell Slanteer, Monstero, and others to vivid life.
Keep in mind we are twins, but I’ma go ahead and say it – do you want to date my sister?
I was doing a reformat on the Kindle version of Prelude to a Super Airplane over the weekend, and totally forgot there’s an amalgamated Twilight + Harry Potter series of novels that are part of the 19th subplot.
Anyway, Chapter 30 of PTSA was actually an excerpt from one of the books.
I thought this an apt time to post it here – if you’ve never read the Twilight books, sadly this is exactly what they’re written like. Everything after this sentence is lifted directly from my book.
30
(I know this has nothing to do with airplanes, but I wanted to put it here, because I’m hoping if I put like a blurb on the cover, I can sell more copies of the book.
This is an excerpt from “Andreanna Marsupial and the New Moon’s Glow”, the fourth book in the Andreanna Marsupial saga. All material is copyright of the author, Stephenie Piperbraum, or however you say that correctly.)
CHAPTER 143 – THE END OF ACT 1
I wasn’t sure. I didn’t know if I should or not. The television was sitting there in front of me, and I’d been looking at it for several hours, debating whether to turn it on or not. My father, Lugustus, had bought the television many years ago – it was old now, but when he bought it, it was new.
[Like here is how to read the rest.]
At the start of the movie, Brad is finishing the new cover for his book, which he did because he has his exciting ADD and wanted to make people confused.
The inside of the book was still the same, and like that was so the paparazzi would not go crazy?
Brad used inDesign.
So like then Brad looked at the 14,000 different formats he would need to re-create to make the eBook version of his excitement book widely available, and like that made him do his vomiting, and he cursed society again.
But Brad saw that now the Kindle software was available for PCs, and so that was a good thing that he liked to have happen, even though Kindle formatting robs him of all the exciting fonts that he likes so much, and that it was a somewhat archaic device the day it was released.
Brad right then like at that moment made a decision that until the Apple Tablet arrived and fixed society, he was only going to keep it simple and have his book only available in three ways: Paperback, PDF, and Kindle.
He also decided this would include any related books that he appeared in as a character, like Prelude to a Super Airplane.
(Brad also knew that he thought it was funny how the publisher was like, “Hey, do you know that you state this Brian Spaeth person is the author, but the cover misspells his name, and doesn’t even list him as the actual author?”
Brad was just like “LOL!! Hit that publish button BRO.”)
