NBA on Twitter, Dragon's Game

By On March 31, 2009 · 31 Comments · In Actoring, Airplanes, Books, Brad Radby, Bruce Willis, Celebrities, Girls, NBA, Twitter

As you know, I’ll never apologize for how much I amuse myself, and sometimes when I amuse myself, I also have actual good ideas.

This popped out of me on Twitter lasterday.

I might start a website called “Idiotic Things I Have Said to Famous People on Twitter”.

I’d probably want to limit it to people in the NBA, just because that doesn’t seem so much like harassment, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun. For example, I’ve said all of these purely by accident.

@jalenrose I like when the ball goes through the hoop and goes SWOOSH!

@paulpierce34 Hey Paul not to be forward but my girlfriend said to ask if you would like to have a romantic lunch date with her.

@paulpierce34 I wrote a movie called Paul Pierce: The Movie and in it you are shopping for Happy Birthday presents for your friends.

@THE_REAL_SHAQ What you think of this beat: Boom-boom cheh, da-boom-cheh-cheh, boom-boom-da-doom (in the 09…09) – thx

Okay, so the Brad Radby book – yesterday you got the Foreword. Here’s a link to the Introduction, by none other than Eastham Way.

I want to get into the movies, though. And I would stress, if you’re gonna read this online, do it in order.

While it’s very skip-aroundable in many aspects, there is a definite narrative, especially inside the production notes.

Brad Radby’s first released movie was Dragon’s Game, which came out in 1999. It was the start of a major new franchise for Bruce Willis, wherein he played a college football coach in Hawaii, who was also an action detective.

His main nemesis was always the President, and in the glory days of the franchise, this was a role inhabited by Keanu Reeves. An excerpt from Brad’s own summary of the movie:

When Bruce wakes up he’s in a coffin, and the coffin is hanging off a bridge, and when Keanu blows up the bridge, that’s how he’ll kidnap the scientist from his electric magnet car, and then he’ll get the stolen cold fusion recipe, which the scientist took because Keanu wants to tie the cold fusion to a missile and shoot it at other countries.

Keanu explains this to Bruce, and when Bruce tries to be sneaky and get out of the coffin, Keanu is like “no-no-no” with his finger.

Dragon’s Game was one of the first of these that I wrote, and came from some throwaway thing in PTSA, when I needed to name one of Brad’s movies. At the time, I had no idea what it would be.

The entire book is posted in blog form over there, is downloadable as a pdf, and the paperback version is now available, as well.

(The Amazon one isn’t up yet – as soon as it goes live, I’ma link up this and PTSA so you can get both for some kind of exciting discount. The Kindle version is indeed active.)

And just in case you need to make me feel horrible about my click-thru stats, here’s @ColleenBurns from Twitter – feel free to go meet her instead of reading my free and hilarious book.

In her background picture, she’s like, “Hello! Here I am!”

(Follow me on Twitter here.)
(Download the first 55 pages of my epic, pretentious, and stupid book, Prelude to a Super Airplane, here.)

 
  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    a) how did you not call pierce chubby (like a baby)?

    b) i want to buy BRBR, but i have mandated a no-$ rule until my wayward screener or re-burnt screener arrives.

    c) when does miles standish way enter the picture?

    d) —-b) puhlease

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    a) how did you not call pierce chubby (like a baby)?

    b) i want to buy BRBR, but i have mandated a no-$ rule until my wayward screener or re-burnt screener arrives.

    c) when does miles standish way enter the picture?

    d) —-b) puhlease

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    a) Because that is not conducive to further conversations about the Happy Birday present buying movie.

    b) Someone somewhere in this country had the contents of my PO Box, I'd guess.

    c) SA #3 sees a character named Miles Stanford – he works for ARMTA.

    d) Not until the other ones are recovered. I need to keep tabs on all copies. :/

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    a) Because that is not conducive to further conversations about the Happy Birday present buying movie.

    b) Someone somewhere in this country had the contents of my PO Box, I'd guess.

    c) SA #3 sees a character named Miles Stanford – he works for ARMTA.

    d) Not until the other ones are recovered. I need to keep tabs on all copies. :/

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    where is my movie… I've been off work for a month and have had plenty of time to watch it.

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    where is my movie… I've been off work for a month and have had plenty of time to watch it.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    roar.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    roar.

  • http://www.ndeddiemac.blogspot.com NDEddieMac

    I think we need to take our fight against the Postal Service to a new level to try and make those happen Brian. I think the best way to do it is to completely destroy some weaker one like DHL (unless they already actually died, I think theyre still kickin around tho) to show them we mean business. At first they'll be like, sweet, less competition. But then it will slowly dawn on them that its all a precursor to their own doom

  • http://www.ndeddiemac.blogspot.com NDEddieMac

    I think we need to take our fight against the Postal Service to a new level to try and make those happen Brian. I think the best way to do it is to completely destroy some weaker one like DHL (unless they already actually died, I think theyre still kickin around tho) to show them we mean business. At first they'll be like, sweet, less competition. But then it will slowly dawn on them that its all a precursor to their own doom

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    I guess 42 cents doesn't get you very far at the Post Office anymore.

    I'm actually pissed that I have to pay astronomical amounts of money to ship things and I look at the assholes who handle the package. They don't care about caring for your package

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    I guess 42 cents doesn't get you very far at the Post Office anymore.

    I'm actually pissed that I have to pay astronomical amounts of money to ship things and I look at the assholes who handle the package. They don't care about caring for your package

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    you have to make them care. like write “very small grapes inside :-O” or “adolescent raisins inside”.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    you have to make them care. like write “very small grapes inside :-o” or “adolescent raisins inside”.

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    omg enough with the raisons

  • http://madpropstobakedpotatoes.com Brian

    omg enough with the raisons

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    i kinda like that, i may start calling them raisons. it's like they are from france or something

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    i kinda like that, i may start calling them raisons. it's like they are from france or something

  • TVBrain

    Does anyone else find it strange that UPS uses a song by The Postal Service in their commercials? (And a guy I just want to punch.)

    New twitter girl much cuter than girl with many small pictures in one avatar.

  • TVBrain

    Does anyone else find it strange that UPS uses a song by The Postal Service in their commercials? (And a guy I just want to punch.)

    New twitter girl much cuter than girl with many small pictures in one avatar.

  • http://twitter.com/ColleenBurns Colleen Burns

    HAHA i like this one:
    @paulpierce34 Hey Paul not to be forward but my girlfriend said to ask if you would like to have a romantic lunch date with her.

    HAHA! Nice!

    And thank you so much for the shout out, i appreciate the love!

  • http://twitter.com/ColleenBurns Colleen Burns

    HAHA i like this one:
    @paulpierce34 Hey Paul not to be forward but my girlfriend said to ask if you would like to have a romantic lunch date with her.

    HAHA! Nice!

    And thank you so much for the shout out, i appreciate the love!

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    it's official..

    “LOL”, “OMG”, “ROTFL”, “LMAO”, etc are now officially past their prime.

    orange5o,

    +1 for calling them raisons… so how do you pronounce that? raze-OHN? or do you pronounce it like the french pronounce croissant? KWA-SOHN?

    silly french people… that's why I call my fried potatoes “freedom fries” because of how silly the french are.

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    it's official..

    “LOL”, “OMG”, “ROTFL”, “LMAO”, etc are now officially past their prime.

    orange5o,

    +1 for calling them raisons… so how do you pronounce that? raze-OHN? or do you pronounce it like the french pronounce croissant? KWA-SOHN?

    silly french people… that's why I call my fried potatoes “freedom fries” because of how silly the french are.

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    I like the capitalization used in the text laughter in your post Colleen Burns. It proves to me that you may have actually laughed rather than just settling for the standard “lol” or “rotflmao”.

    Thank you for being you Colleen Burns.

    By the way, you are the only Colleen I know so +1

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    I like the capitalization used in the text laughter in your post Colleen Burns. It proves to me that you may have actually laughed rather than just settling for the standard “lol” or “rotflmao”.

    Thank you for being you Colleen Burns.

    By the way, you are the only Colleen I know so +1

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    raw-shawn. i think.

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    raw-shawn. i think.

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    it's official..

    “LOL”, “OMG”, “ROTFL”, “LMAO”, etc are now officially past their prime.

    orange5o,

    +1 for calling them raisons… so how do you pronounce that? raze-OHN? or do you pronounce it like the french pronounce croissant? KWA-SOHN?

    silly french people… that's why I call my fried potatoes “freedom fries” because of how silly the french are.

  • http://www.icanprobablydothat.com Boney

    I like the capitalization used in the text laughter in your post Colleen Burns. It proves to me that you may have actually laughed rather than just settling for the standard “lol” or “rotflmao”.

    Thank you for being you Colleen Burns.

    By the way, you are the only Colleen I know so +1

  • http://www.jenwatch.com orange5o

    raw-shawn. i think.