Damnit, Rogers!

As if I didn't have enough to do - now, thanks to your tweets I'm gonna have to go watch this:

1. This is actually structured like a really good Dr. Who episode.about 15 hours ago from web
2. You too, Caleb Mayo http://tinyurl.com/mvjljlabout 15 hours ago from web
3. Jason Graham, your deadpan just won you a role on something I type. http://tinyurl.com/myqnjaabout 15 hours ago from web
4. I will never write a death scene as good as that. EVER.about 16 hours ago from web
5. "How long's it going to take to re-light?" This is the GREATEST FILM ABOUT FILM-MAKING I HAVE EVER SEEN.about 16 hours ago from web
6. "... hold on, I hear wind." "Good for you. Roll, and action!" Not a director on earth hasn't wanted to say that.about 16 hours ago from web
7. "It's been tested many, may times. And cleaned,"#oneeyedmonsterisridiculouslyentertainingabout 16 hours ago from web
8. "... it disables the olfactory bub in my limbic system, so I can't smell anything for 12 straight hours."about 16 hours ago from web
9. "She's making $6,000? What has she made, only a hundred, a hundred fifty movies?" This movie is killing me.about 16 hours ago from web
10. " and introducing RON JEREMY." One-Eyed Monster, you're already a thousand times better than you have any right to be.

LEVERAGE The Internet and Chat With The Kung Fu Monkey

1.) Who wants what?
2.) Why can't they have it?
3.) Why do I give a shit?

As the excitement builds over the return of TNT’s hit series LEVERAGE this July, fans around the country have an opportunity to choose which cities will host a special screening and chat with the amazing talent behind the series.

(Yes, you too can get this Monkey to chat with your town. This pic taken from an actual Leverage writer's room meeting)

From now until June 14, LEVERAGE fans can go to http://www.tnt.tv/series/leverage/heist/?contentId=47936 to vote for a city to host a screening. In the five cities receiving the most votes, fans will have the opportunity to attend a special screening of the exciting season 2 premiere of LEVERAGE, followed by a Q&A session with series executive producers Dean Devlin, Chris Downey and creator John Rogers, facilitated through the Skype online communication service. TNT will announce the five winning cities June 17, with screenings to take place the week of July 6.

TNT’s fast-paced drama series LEVERAGE stars Academy Award^® winner Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People) as the head of a team of thieves, grifters and con-artists who settle scores against those who use power and wealth to victimize others. The series co-stars Gina Bellman (Coupling), Christian Kane (TNT’s Into the West), Aldis Hodge (Friday Night Lights) and Beth Riesgraf (Alvin and the Chipmunks). LEVERAGE returns for its second season Wednesday, July 15, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT).

Fans can vote for one of the following cities:

Atlanta Baltimore Boston (Manchester) Buffalo

Charlotte Chicago Cleveland Columbus, OH

Dallas-Ft. Worth Dayton, OH Detroit Ft. Myers

Greensboro, NC Greenville Hartford/New Haven Houston

Indianapolis Jacksonville, FL Knoxville Los Angeles

Memphis Miami-Ft. Lauderdale Milwaukee Nashville

New Orleans New York Orlando/Dayton Philadelphia

Portland, OR Providence Raleigh Richmond

Sacramento/Modesto San Francisco/Oakland

Seattle/Tacoma St. Louis Tampa/St. Pete Tulsa

Washington, DC West Palm Beach

So Vote today!

I'm Having This Tattooed on My ...

Soul.

You should too. It's the pulp way.

H/T to Kung Fu Monkey.

(where you can download the image)

Those Are My Words, But That's Not My Voice...

The observant amongst you have no doubt noticed the wonderful little widget I have installed on my blog - Odiogo.

Odiogo takes the written word and translates it into speech that you can hear either on my blog itself, or via downloading this blog from Itunes. I got the idea after seeing it used over at Kung Fu Monkey, and it's one of those widgets that's fun to play with...

For those of you curious as to how my whiskey-soaked voice really sounds, I would suggest that you head over to Geekerati tonight at 7 pm...

OR -

You could join us this Friday night at Boardner's at 7pm for a pulp meet-and-greet. Friends of the mad pulp bastard who will be attending include James Felix McKenney of AUTOMATONS fame and BLOOD TIES producer Peter Mohan.

So here's your best opportunities in the near future to hear me rant and rave. I am working hard on a script treatment and a dozen or so other things that I feel need doing.

If Leverage Had Been Created in the 80's

Then Nate, Sophie, Parker, Hardison and Eliot would have been riding the highways and byways in this baby here:

And they would have had a chimp mascot who occasionally (every episode) saved their ass by whipping up some Mad Monkey Kung Fu.

I'm just sayin...

The Monkey is Leveraging the Pulp

From the Kung Fu Monkey.

"Yes, we made 13 prime time episodes of television with stuff you can buy at your local Apple store. "

From the Apple FCP article:

Devlin kicked off his more-for-less strategy by devising an end-to-end Final Cut workflow for the show’s pilot episode: “My goal on the pilot was to stay entirely within Final Cut Studio and really see how far we could take it. We color corrected in Color, we edited in Final Cut Pro, we mixed in Soundtrack Pro. We delivered the show without ever going to an outside post house.”

And he says that the extreme inside moves had immediate and conspicuous results: “The workflow really exceeded all of our expectations. We were trying to do a show that costs about twice as much as we had the money for, and the Final Cut post workflow allowed us to take every dollar we saved and put it back up on the screen."

Putting. The. Value. On. Screen.

Where have I heard that before?

The show is on tonight. Check it out.

It's My Birthday!

(with apologies to 50 Cent)

Rogers sent me an early birthday gift

Schweet.

"Who wants what, why can't they get it, and why do I give a shit?"

John Rogers dissects the SAVE THE CAT books....

Submitted Without Comment...

Save for this:

WHAT HAPPENS AT COMIC CON, STAYS AT COMIC CON.