Dead Reckoning: Twitter Novel Interview - Part II

This is Part II of our two part interview with Shawn Kupfer, the brainchild, mastermind, or other compound word that sounds intelligent and somewhat maniacal behind the Twitter Novel Project. If you missed out on Part I, check it out and then come back to read the riveting conclusion. Enjoy.

DR:: You mentioned that you use music a lot when you write. How do you choose what is compatible with the story?

SK:: I listen to a lot more diverse stuff than my main character does, but when I started writing him, I was listening to Black Flag (I think), and punk rock just seemed to fit with this guy. Music is pretty important to me, and I do love putting it into the novel wherever I can. . . but only if it suits the scene, the mood, and the character.

Like, I really want to use Nine Inch Nails somewhere in the book, but it just doesn't fit with the character.

DR:: Does music, specifically the punk music, play into the story any further than just shaping the character or does it actually have plot pertinence?

SK:: It tends to set the mood and feeling for certain scenes, and kind of gives you an insight into how the character thinks. Punk music was kind of a DIY business, and that's how this character works -- he doesn't necessarily wait around for someone to help him or tell him how to do something, he just gets in there, gets dirty, and hopefully lives through it. Which means he makes a lot of rash decisions, which gets him into trouble all the time.

DR:: When you're writing, are you writing in normal format and then converting it so that it makes sense in a Twitter stream, or do you write factory-direct to Twitter?

SK:: Kind of both. I write a bit in Notepad, check to make sure I hit my word count (at least 500 words a night), then go directly to Twitter with it. No editing, not even for spelling. (Sadly.)

I hate misspelling things. I've been an editor for a couple of national magazines, and I work as a writer in the Defense industry now, so I really, really piss myself off when I misspell something.

And Notepad has no spell-check. I'm just that Old-School, yo.

DR:: Has writing for the Twitter format and audience created any unexpected hurdles, changed how you write, forced you to do things you wouldn't when writing traditionally?

SK:: You know, it has. I'm one of those people that constantly anguishes over a word choice here, a sentence there. With Twitter, I have to write something and put it out there, scars, bruises, and all -- because if I don't, I miss a day of posting.

That, and when the Internet goes out at my house (our service provider sucks), it gets really fun. I go wardriving like it's 1998.

DR:: You mentioned a self-imposed 500 word minimum a day. Are there any other rules you have set for yourself in this project?

SK:: Sure. Post every day by midnight PST, no exceptions. Post every chapter to the blog as soon as it's completed on Twitter. (I'm in Eastern Time, incidentally -- I use Pacific to give myself a little cushion in case I run into snags).

DR:: Do you have a punishment/reward system for yourself for meeting your goals, or is it just on the personal-integrity honor system?

SK:: I'm obsessive-compulsive to some degree, so I probably wouldn't be able to sleep if I missed a day. And I let myself have a cigarette after I've posted, even though I'm "quitting."

DR:: As of right now, how far along are you in the first draft?

SK:: Twenty-one chapters as of tonight, which is [let me check]

47,950 words.

The original goal for the novel was 50,000 words, but that was a minimum. It's going to end up longer.

DR:: Over how long of a period of time? What is the goal length now?

SK:: I'm thinking 60,000. And I started writing Feb. 19 -- I plan to have the first draft wrapped up by the end of the month.

DR:: Now the goal is to write a first draft on Twitter. What happens to the novel, the project, and even your followers once that goal is reached?

SK:: Oh, they might actually get @ replies from me then!

The novel -- there has been some minor publisher interest, but I'm not sure what I want to do with it other than go through and revise, edit, update. . . all of that.

DR:: Now that you're well beyond the point of return, knowing what you know now, would you do this project again, with the same rules, restrictions, etc...?

SK:: Honestly, I'd build myself a day off into the schedule here and there. I don't sleep much anyway, but this project has cut it down to a couple of hours a night. But I would totally do this again, and probably will -- this time with more meta-content, like Twitter accounts from different in-novel characters commenting or adding more to the story.

DR:: Novel/Performance Art?

SK:: Sure. I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive. Books are changing. Projects like this give the readers the chance to interact while the novel is being written, which is all sorts of fun for me.

DR:: In that respect, do you consider yourself a pioneer, genius, fool, all-the-above for doing this? Do you see projects like this becoming more common?

SK:: I certainly hope they do. I'd love to see more of them -- and people are starting, but they're barely updating in a lot of cases, or losing interest 200 tweets in. And I just consider myself a guy who can put a sentence together who had an interesting idea.

But that's the fun of it -- an agent won't accept your novel? Screw him. Put it out there for other people to see. Let them judge. Anyone who wants to write and publish himself can now.

DR:: What kind of preparation do you make for a novel? Are you meticulous and have it plotted down to the most minor details, are you more stream-of-consciousness and let the characters and story go as they may, somewhere in between?

SK:: I kind of think about it during the day when my brain's not too occupied by other stuff. I have a general idea of where I want to go each night, but I really just sit down most nights and see what comes out.

I had a basic beginning and ending in mind for the book when I started, but the rest of it? Pretty much on the fly.

DR:: Have the characters and choices made in this novel surprised you? Have they taken on lives of their own? Do you always know how it's going to end?

SK:: I used to know how it was going to end. Now I'm not entirely sure. And one character has surprised me by surviving this long. I thought he'd be dead chapters ago.

So, yeah, they kind of do take on a life of their own, and make their own choices. A lot of times, I just feel like I'm watching them do their thing.

DR:: Have you had to punish them, set obstacles or anything to get them to do what you want?

SK:: Actually, yes. I ended up waterboarding the main character. He needed some kind of challenge to show he wasn't just running scared, that he was actually a lot tougher than he seemed -- so I waterboarded the poor guy and threw him in a commercial freezer for 36 hours.

I'm glad he's fictional, or he'd be pissed.
DR:: In any of your writing, how much of yourself and those you know go into characters, and how much of them are completely fictional?

SK:: They always start based on people I know. Or I should say, traditionally they do -- I've based some characters off of interesting user pics of Twitter accounts this time around. But yeah, any of them is probably a small piece of me. Which I'm thankful for, actually, because they'd actually be a lot harder to write if they weren't.

I apparently really like the word "actually."

DR:: What kind of information do you draw from a simple user pic?

SK:: None whatsoever. But I see a user pic, and I think "That guy looks like a hacker." So I write a hacker character with that guy's face in my head. Or "that dude looks like a cop." So he becomes the Shift Commander of Criminal Investigations for the Douglas County Sheriff's Department.

DR:: Have you been nervous or worried about how certain people would respond when/if they realize a certain character is them, or pieces of them?

SK:: Yep, but they've all been pretty cool. I tend to DM them to let them know I've done it, and no one has freaked out on me. With one exception, none of the characters based on them have been insulting, though. And that guy turned out to be cool in later parts of the novel, but he was a real asshole early on.

DR:: Well, people should take pride in their skills, and if that skill happens to be being an asshole...so be it.

SK:: Indeed. And the Twitter account I based him on was my non-book one. So I basically called myself an asshole. Interestingly, the character was supposed to stay an ass the whole book, but he evolved on his own.

DR:: Did you evolve?

SK:: Oh, god, no. Just ask my wife.

I want to think Shawn for taking the time to chat with me when he should’ve been packing. To find out what the deal is with the novel, follow him on Twitter or check out his blog and read the nightly posts. If you want to check out Shawn’s previous novel, Mr. Six, you can find it on Amazon, or your favorite online bookseller.


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Dead Reckoning: Twitter Novel Interview - Part I

About a year ago I joined Twitter after hearing about it from a few friends. It was one of those things that looked interesting but I had no idea what to do with it, so I ignored it. It wasn’t until a few months ago that I went back in to see what was going on and if I could get anything out of it. What I found were a lot of surprises; celebrities talking to the little people, idiots being treated as sages and making bank while they were at it, and then there was some guy writing a complete novel on Twitter. That guy was Shawn Kupfer, who posts his literary progress each night before he goes to bed for the masses to see, respond to, and possibly even have a real effect on the final product. It was such an interesting and unique idea that I wanted to know more, and to my great surprise he agreed to an interview. So read on and see just what is going through the mind of this mad Twitter genius.

Shawn Kupfer: I guess I'll just start with how the project started. I don't really sleep much, so I end up having a lot of time, even though I work a normal 8-5 job. I'd just gotten through writing a novel and sending it off to my agent, so I got to wait for months before I heard anything. Instead of just sitting around, I decided I'd work on another first draft of something else entirely.

Dead Regime: Are you previously published, or is the novel that you sent off your first?

SK: I was published waaaay back in the far off year of 2000, when cell phones were the size of cars.

DR: And cars the size of buildings?

SK: And the buildings. . . don't even get me started. Size of modern-day cell phones, actually, which was odd.

Anyhow, I was WAY too into Twitter at the time, and I started thinking -- what if I could send the novel out there in near-real time, getting feedback as I go? At least I figured someone would be reading it, and I wouldn't have to wait forever for that to happen. Publishing a book traditionally is a long, long, boring process. . . but who says you need to publish traditionally?

DR: So for those not up-to-date on your current project, can you give me a brief synopsis of your twitter novel? And can you do it in 140 characters or less?

SK: Oh, totally. It's on.

A former felon in Witness Security is hunted by killers from his old life, strange shadow-assassins, and various strangeoids. He likes punk.

140 characters exactly, sir. The "he likes punk" thing is kind of a throwaway, but punk rock is kind of linked with the novel now in interesting ways.

DR: And now the dust jacket version?

SK: Dust Jacket Version: Eric Hawkins is a boring man. He goes to work, to sleep, and to work again, and not much else. So why is a Sheriff's Deputy constantly following him around? Why are Federal Marshals constantly tearing up his apartment? And who are those two horribly thin guys who keep shooting at him?

DR: Aside from the immediate gratification of having an instant audience, what did you expect to get out of the Twitter outlet, and what has actually happened that wasn't planned?

SK: You know, I thought the medium of Twitter would be interesting, as I could link directly to people and places that use it. Another thing I hoped to get out of it (and did) was the motivation to keep writing, because I knew there were at least a couple of people out there waiting on it. Writers are very lazy people, and unless we have someone to hold us to a deadline, we can waste a day like you wouldn't believe.

DR: What kind of feedback from the Twitter community have you gotten? Any good suggestions, corrections, expert witnesses?

SK: Funny you ask -- I just got a correction tonight, and the guy was completely right on it. He's a mystery author from Boston, and he corrected a bad use of a steak knife as a slashing weapon. I've had some doctors follow, who gave me great ideas on damage and torture, and a couple of military folks, who gave me good advice on tactics and procedures.

DR: Dr. recommended torture?

SK: Not really, but they did explain what it would probably do to a person. I would LOVE to see doctor-recommended torture, though. Probably something to do with a colon cleansing.

DR: Sounds like a Lifetime Television movie - Prescription for Pain - the true story of a murdering doctor.

SK: Starring Richard Dean Anderson as NotMacGyver.

DR: death by enema?

SK: Torturous, for sure. But so is watching a Lifetime movie.

DR: So have you gotten any negative feedback, or has it all been helpful or positive in some way?

SK: Here's something I realized about 1500 followers in (where I still hadn't gotten any negative feedback) -- Twitter is cool because if you piss someone off, they don't bitch at you. They just unfollow. Though, I did get one negative comment, from a guy who didn't like all the swearing. It's a crime novel -- criminals don't say "shucks." Except on Lifetime.

DR: That's true, instead of complaining I just lost a few followers the other night for saying that I wanted to be the actor known only for the role "guy with dick in his hand"

SK: You wanted to be Jason Mewes?

SK: I just realized I never answered your "unexpected" question, which actually does have an interesting answer. What unexpected things have happened posting the novel to Twitter, that is.

One of my very first followers was actually someone I've admired for a very long time -- Dennis Thompson, drummer of the MC5. He and I have actually started talking because of the novel, and I've written some guest posts for hisblog.

I also got accused of being the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys, back when I was writing this thing anonymously. I mentioned two Dead Kennedys songs in the novel -- I mention music frequently when I write, and as I said, the main character is a punk rock fan. I got an email (I seem to get a ton of email and DMs, very few blog comments) from a guy who was like "I know who you are." I got a few of those in the early days.

Then this guy goes on to flat-out ACCUSE me of being Jello Biafra, and writing this novel and giving it away for free simply to sell back-issue Dead Kennedys records. The conspiracy theories in this dude's head must be mind-boggling, because that is probably the most inefficient way to make money ever.

DR: Was it a conscious decision to initially write anonymously, and was that sort of confusion what made you change your mind?

SK: Yep, exactly. I felt like the author wasn't important -- the story was. I got a lot of email from people asking if I was this guy or that guy (no one got it right), so I just decided, hell, it's not a big deal.

So I posted on the blog who I was, and how you probably haven't heard of me unless you're one of the 15 people who read my novel back in 2000, or you're a hardcore computer geek who read some tech articles I wrote.

My wife didn't even know it was me initially, nor did a good friend of mine who was following.

DR: Was your wife following before you unmasked?

SK: A couple of weeks before, yeah. She even mentioned it, and said I bet I wished I had come up with the idea

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What's Up(coming)?

Just a quick note to let you, the dear, gentle, lovely...oh so lovely...mmmm....

Anyways, just wanted to drop in, let everyone know I'm not dead (though I am Dead) and that coming up on Monday we have a pretty cool two-part interview with an interesting guy I met on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Sooo...tune in on Monday and Tuesday for that interview.

Awesomely Bad: Hard Ticket to Hawaii

You know a movie is going to be good when a former Playboy Playmate model (Dona Speir - Miss March 1984) invites a soap-opera star (Bold and the Beautiful’s Ronn Moss) to join her in the warm ocean waters and his reply is “I’ve got better things to do with my body temperature.” I mean really, you just don’t find good dialogue like that anymore. Oh yeah, and then they have sex. That’s how Hard Ticket to Hawaii starts. Hard Ticket is the first release (though not first to be filmed) in the 12-movie Triple B Collection, films predominantly written and directed by camp auteur Andy Sidaris. The three B’s in Triple B? - Bullets, Bombs, and Babes of course. Considering Hard Ticket is a cheesy action movie littered with a hand full of Playboy Playmates it manages to deliver all three with gusto.

Hard Ticket to Hawaii is a by-the-numbers action flick in which a very poorly explained ring of generic bad guys are guilty of something. The story is convoluted to the point of absurdity. Initially it seems the movie is about a generic group of drug dealers that have taken over what used to be a small, family-run pot growing operation on the small Hawaiian island of Molokai. Two cops stumble upon this newly subverted operation, which should be too small to really be of interest to a group of hard drug lords, and end up dying for their blunder. Now let’s add to this a poorly copied Jeremy Irons-ish mastermind with a bad English accent, even though played by legitimate Brit Peter Bromilow, who is smuggling a rather small amount of diamonds into Hawaii by way of remote controlled helicopter launched from his yacht and delivered to our new drug lord friends. This delivery of diamonds gets intercepted by supposedly undercover FBI agent Donna Hamilton, the aforementioned Playmate Dona Speir, and her sidekick Taryn who is a mob whistle-blower under witness protection, played by Hope Marie Carlton (Miss July 1985). If this weren’t enough, let’s add to this mix a vicious, man-eating, “contaminated” snake that gets loose on the island.

I have no idea where the snake storyline comes from; it makes no sense and adds absolutely nothing to the movie - but damn is it funny. The story behind the snake is that the Department of Health has shipped this snake, in a flimsy wood-slatted shipping crate, because it has been “infected by deadly toxins by cancer infested rats.” Why anyone would ship such a snake to Hawaii is beyond me. Even more so, why in a cheap see-thru slatted crate? The problem is that there is also a non-infected, perfectly normal snake that is supposed to be delivered to a nature ranch on Molokai. The inevitable slip-up sends the monstrous super snake to the tiny island via a small charter plain, inexplicably piloted by our undercover agent and witness-in-hiding, along with a honeymooning pair of tourists. The snake gets free when the drug lord and a pair of his thugs, one of whom is a scary female bodybuilder, show up at the undercover agents home, where witness and super spy wannabe Taryn is also staying, to recover the filched diamonds.

The snake makes a number of cameo appearances throughout the movie to terrorize the tiny islands inhabitants, and I suppose add a sense of danger to island life. It scares off the macho drug lord, ominously named Seth, just by sitting there, relatively far away from him. It eats the honeymooning couple (come on, you knew they weren’t gonna make it anyways). And even pops up, literally, in the final showdown between the good guys and the drug lords by bursting through the toilet in a foamy froth of green light, shattering the toilet as it goes. The snake is a badass however, as it takes several shots straight to the tongue, yes tongue, and only meets its match when blasted to bits by a 4-barreled rocket launcher that keeps popping up and getting fired in close-quarters. This 4-barreled rocket launcher is super-agent Rowdy’s favorite weapon, and supposedly the only one he can hit a moving target with, as he uses it to take out a skateboarder using a blow-up sex doll as a body shield (he also blows up the sex doll), an assassin hiding behind a Japanese paper screen, and even a helicopter (which, if you kept a tally, accounts for all four barrels).

Considering there are at least four Playmates in the movie it shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a good bit of gratuitous nudity in the movie. With the exception of the very noticeably 80’s hairstyles, they’re all quite attractive and deliver their lines better than most of the men in the movie. So you can check off the Babes. The movie has enough of a budget to do some explosions and although the shootouts are ridiculous, they’re still shootouts so it covers the Bullets and I guess Bombs on the list as well. The movie has some brilliantly cheesy lines, such as “Man, he must be smoking some heavy doobies.” when the two male leads see the skateboarder, who will later come armed with blow-up doll, skating down the middle of the road while doing a handstand. When the agents realize there’s a rat in their midst, the cross-dressing identity of said rat is revealed when Agent Hamilton pulls of some CSI Miami bullshit saying “I recognized the cigarette in his left hand and his pinky-ring.” And apparently it’s someone’s idea of sexy pillow talk to say “All I wanna do is suck the polish right off your toes.” And finally, how can you not like a movie that works its title into one of its cheesy original songs? “It’s a hard ticket to Hawaii; it’s not paradise all the time.”

Final Verdict: This movie is absolutely brilliant. It’s got a completely retarded story, with pointless subplots. It’s got horrible and hilarious dialogue. The acting is laughable in so many ways, though as I said the ladies did much better than their male counter parts. Hard Ticket to Hawaii is just loaded with so many fun things to laugh at and make fun of, and the best part of it is that it’s actually hard sometimes to tell if it’s intentional or not. Something that is actually very uncommon for straight up cheesy B-movies is bonus content on the DVD and this one actually delivers a directors commentary with Andy Sidaris and a behind the scenes featurette with Andy and B-move goddess Julie Strain (and yes, she shows her tits in it too). Hard Ticket to Hawaii is a must-own and gets my first 5/5 rating.
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What's On TV? or What's Wrong With TV?

I've been watching a lot...a whole lot...of TV lately. In the last few months there have been quite a few new shows to pop up that initially had me rather interested. I was excited about the return of Ian McShane, who was an absolutely genius as Al Swearengen in Dead, as King Silas in Kings, which is a modernized retelling of the biblical story of King David. I also had high hopes for the new, gritty and realistic cop drama Southland. Being a huge fan of The Wire, I thought maybe it would have that same real-world, dirty look at crime. And what about the quirky, comedic cop show The Unusuals - whose previews showed them tracking zombies, guys in hot dog costumes, and a whole host of bizarre characters. Sadly it seems that all of the new shows, and most of the existing shows, have left me incredibly disappointed. What's up with Chuck, House, Heroes, and Lost? Oh yeah, and Caprica. The run-down, after the jump.

Kings - It's occasionally heavy handed on the religious aspects of the story. Biblical allusions are one thing, biblical pimp slaps tend to sting a bit. On top of that, they completely wasted Ian McShane's Shakespearean ability to deliver beautiful soliloquies, and his oddly cool way of being a complete son-of-a-bitch. The story is a roller coaster of plodding and boring episodes with peaks of mildly interesting but still mostly plodding episodes in between. The show has already been halted and supposedly ran again over the summer. Whether it's being revamped, or just going to have the remaining episodes run out and canceled is yet to be seen.

Southland - This is one schizophrenic show. The first episode was borderline great, but then the second episode was borderline shit. Third episode...pretty damn interesting. Fourth episode...shit. The problem is that the 2 episodes so far that have focused on Det. Lydia Adams, the only non-white major character so far in a town that is approx. 50% Hispanic, have been crap. She's and overly sensitive and rather boring character who has overly sensitive and rather boring cases. The episodes that show the rookie and the vet are good so far, and any scene with the crazy ass retired/not-retired Officer Dewey is incredibly entertaining. I just don't think it's gonna make it, especially when Jay Leno comes back in it's current time slot.

The Unusuals - This is a text book case of bait and switch. They show us all this quirky, cool, silly stuff that is going to happen, making it sound like a NYPD Blue meets The Twilight Zone. Then when we actually get to see an episode, all that weird shit that happens is so minor and inconsequential that a majority of it is just filler and squawk being randomly spewed out by dispatch. The cases are boring, the characters are boring, Amber Tamblyn, as hot as she is, is all wrong as Det. Shraeger and Adam Goldberg, as funny and awesome as he is, is wasted as Det. Delahoy. I'm hoping this one gets canceled because I'm pissed off at being lied to.

Chuck - I love Chuck. The fictional man and the show. Chuck the man represents all off us dorks out there. We're weird, but there's so much more to us than social inadequacies. The show represents all our dreams. Action, adventure, espionage, really hot women that dig us for our minds and hearts. But after watching the last two episodes, which includes the season finale, I have to wonder if ONLY us nerds and dorks like it. It seems like the writers set the show up to where it would be just as logically for the show to be over as it would to continue next season. The network seems to be just as on the fence. Rumor has it that execs love it, but the ratings just aren't there. Hang in there Chuck!

Heores - God damn you Heroes. I keep giving you chances and you keep raping my eyes and remote control. I loved, loved, loved season one ALL THE WAY until the 1st season finale. I hated the finale. But I figured, ok....one bad episode out of an entire season...not bad. Then season 2 when all Back to the Future and sucked. Season 3 I thought I was finally going to be able to kick the habit because it had hit a new low with a solid 13 episodes that were absolute crap. Overly cliche, and poorly executed, with stories (like the secret formula) that built up to some great battle that never happened and repercussions (Hiro getting stuck without powers) that ultimately had little effect...and then they ripped out the whole Mutant Registration storyline from Xmen and it actually got better. And then they brought on the awesome Zeljko Ivanek (Damages, Oz) and shit started heating up. And then they had their finale where Sylar, who was again becoming interesting after taking shape shifting powers, rearranged his body and no longer had a known weakness, killed Nathan Petrelli (something that should have happened at the end of season 1, and hopefully Peter is next), but they fuck it all up by tranquilizing Sylar (despite his hyperactive, self-healing body, amongst other powers) and having Matt Parkman (who should also die) frying his brain and turning him into the dead Nathan Petrelli. Bull...shit. Die Heroes! Just die! Please!

House - What the fuck? Kumar leaves to go work at the White House (in real life, Kal Penn took a job as Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, for really real) and they have him commit suicide, and even they can't figure out a reason why? So now they have House staring at the face of guilt, grief, and possibly love like he's some alien trying to understand Shakespeare. He's an asshole, not retarded. Regardless, I still love you House (the man and the show).

Lost - It's lost, that's all there is to it. I don't think they have a fucking clue. Supposedly next season, reportedly the last season, will answer all the questions. At this point I don't think it even matters. What answer could possibly make all their flip-flopping and self-important ambiguous mystery worth the wait? Kill Jack, once and for all, show more Loche (I can't remember the last time we saw him for more than 5 minutes), find some way to make up for the whole time travel crap they've been pulling, and either do something with Desmond or get rid of him. Quit wasting so much damn time trying to make dramatic revelations that we figured out at least an episode prior (oh no, Charles Whitmore and white-haired lady are Daniel Faraday's parents). Oh, and I want an entire episode of Juliet and Kate making out.

Caprica - Now I left this last in case nobody bothered to go out and pay full DVD price for a 90-minute pilot episode. Essentially I think it's going to be crap, the series. The pilot wasn't terrible, but it seemed to cover a lot of ground that I really thought would have made up the first half of the first season. Instead of a good jumping point, it felt like a really long episode of The Outer Limits that doesn't quite wrap everything up right. None of the characters are very interesting. In fact they really only focus on three characters. They seems to have either rewrote or taking a lot of liberties with some of the history that was established in Battlestar Galactica. Either that or in 50 years (which is the time frame between Caprica and BSG) people got kinda stupid and forgot all their history, including that of their own families. It's a piss poor substitute for BSG and I don't think it'll last.

And that, is the lumped proof of the fact that I watch far too much crap on TV. Do you have any opinions on current TV? Do you have and disputes with my views? Let me know, leave comments. ...Continue Reading >>