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- One man’s love letter to romance authors and readers
- Why the best weird news stories involve glorious karmic payback
- How to format your screenplay’s title page
- Here’s why THE MEG works
- Okay, fine–let’s admit the brilliance of DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART by the Backstreet Boys
- Chapter 12: What types of apocalyptic insanity should you actually prep for–and which can you ignore?
- Why Facebook friends, Twitter followers and blog hits don’t actually matter
- Hey there
- Why rare puppers and kittehs dominate the Series of Tubes
- How to sell a screenplay
- Why does MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FALLOUT work so well?
- FROM DUSK TILL DAWN is a mini-movie masterpiece by Zayn and Sia
- Chapter 11: What’s the actual likelihood of all the different flavors of apocalyptic craziness?
- Trump’s trouble with Twitter
- If you care about protecting our democracy, follow these people on Twitter
- Florida Man: Why one state is the absolute mecca for weird news
- Four reasons why COBRA KAI completely obliterates THE KARATE KID
- How to raise the stakes
- Developing characters
- Character problems and what to do about them
- SOBER UP by AJR is a true beauty, except for this itty bitty fatal flaw
- Don’t try to understand PSYCHO by Post Malone—just enjoy the trip
- Remember this Iowa college kid, the Eagle Scout with two moms? He just won a primary for the state senate
- Sweep the leg, Johnny! The genius of COBRA KAI
- And now for something completely different — THIS IS AMERICA by Childish Gambino
- Why the USS CALLISTER worked so well while METALHEAD turned meh
- This one chart cuts through the heart of EVERY MUSICAL GENRE
- 31 brand new animal species discovered by amateur naturalists
- Kygo and Selena Gomez bring it with IT AIN’T ME
- SALUT SALON gives us a musical clinic and a giant dose of joy
- Why all writers need to study the secrets of screenwriting
- Taking apart the expensive disaster of LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Taylor Swift
- Redemption: Vets behind bars helping other vets by training service dogs
- Powell’s City of Books is packed with people, ideas and goodness
- Carly Rae Jepsen + NIN = WIN
- A peek inside the brain of puppers and doggos
- Robert Hardy was the epitome of elegant humor
- Writing prompt: Bob the Butcher puts his thumb on the scale
- Three ways to fix a very rusty IRON FIST
- RICO SUAVE by Gerardo shows the power of silly fun
- Chapter 10—Prepping for Day 1 of Any Sort of ‘Pocalypse
- Robin Boyes: ‘The heart must be moved’
- Chapter 9—Getting Real about Long Range Weapons
- Chapter 5: Resisting Oppression
- Chapter 8: Blades, Bludgeons and Bad Ideas
- Chapter 4: Winning the War on Truth
- Chapter 7: Fire and Water
- Chapter 3: The Hidden Fight
- Fitness Tips for the Apocalypse: Chapter 6—Suit Up with Seriously Practical Armor
- Proper use of jiu jitsu against a bear
- Chapter 2: Dismantling a Wall of Lies
- Fitness Tips for the Apocalypse: Chapter 5—Yes, Any Sort of Apocalypse Means Looting the Mall
- 33 ways to fight lies, propaganda and oppression—Chapter 1: Marching Toward Liberty
- Battle of the Hollywood Franchises, Week 1— GAME OF THRONES vs THE WALKING DEAD vs WESTWORLD
- The Avalanches get weird with FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST
- Fitness Tips for the Apocalypse: Chapter 4—One Backpack and a Pair of Hiking Boots
- The Hoff massacres HOOKED ON A FEELING
- Fitness Tips for the Apocalypse: Chapter 3—Getting Around
- Earth Day and the March for Science–because there is no Planet B
- Georgie Dann has talent, so why is PALOMA BLANCA so amazingly awful?
- Fitness Tips for the Apocalypse: Chapter 2—Lone Wolf in a Bunker vs Nimble Nomad with Friends
- Ed Sheeran gets his Fight Club on with SHAPE OF YOU
- Fitness Tips for the Apocalypse: Chapter 1—You’re Doing It Wrong
- Leaked script for JUSTICE LEAGUE
- How U2 turns WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME into an event and PR stunt
- ALL THAT WE SHARE
- SILENT NIGHT by Chewbecca, just because we can
- Why WESTWORLD blows our mind—and what may happen next
- Deep story goodness for writers via The Mother of All Cheat Sheets
- ARRIVAL hits you like a giant space rock right in the feels
- Part 2 of Why NaNoWriMo is noble nuttiness–Why first drafts are always flawed and how to fix them
- HALLELUJAH by Kate McKinnon, who is just killing it
- Why NaNoWriMo is noble nuttiness–and 8 steps to make it easier
- Why MELANIANADE is peak SNL and brilliant comedy
- The Saga of Sir Bushytail the Brave
- Writing prompt: this epic armored squirrel
- Things to watch on Netflix, Part 2: Every Korean Action Movie Known to Man
- SALSA TEQUILA is a classic parody turned accidental hit
- Top 5 reasons why GO 4 IT by Corey Feldman is so bad, it circles back to good
- The five greatest cover songs of all time
- What Thor was doing during CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
- Things to watch on Netflix, Part 1: CARTEL LAND
- Why the world needs newspapers more than ever
- Top 7 ways SUICIDE SQUAD went epically wrong—and could have gone right
- STAR TREK and STAR WARS are now opposite sides of the same repetitive story
- Big boat from a much smaller boat
- FROZEN: THE PHANTOM EDIT
- The past, present and future of news
- Quirky and Fun versus Weird for the Sake of Weird
- 2016 craziness leads to brilliant and funny music videos
- The killer beside you
- Is this dinosaur-sized alligator fake or real?
- X-MEN: APOCALYPSE proves that explosions are meh
- DANCE OFF by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis opens with … Idris Elba!
- Ducks with jobs
- Just picked my first lock
- 7 secret ingredients to cook up a Bad Superhero Blockbuster
- CHARACTER ISSUES – A new column in Criminal Element
- Mother goose calls the cops to save her baby
- CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR does the impossible
- Student makes insanely great 007-style musical opener for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
- Man leads police on 112 mph chase, crashes, then flees with his pet monkey
- Jimmy with the Good Hair
- Things I’m selling that you should buy and such
- An ode to Joy (the Cat)
- Waterfall on Mt. Rainier
- The Red Pen of Doom takes on GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee
- Ruby Beach
- BATMAN VS SUPERMAN is 10 times better than I expected
- From the top of the Needle of Space
- EMP and Needle of Space
- Great Wheel of Seattle
- SO WHAT’CHA WANT by the Beastie Boys is even better with muppets
- Mini documentary: The football coach who never punts
- Monkeys amazed by magic tricks
- Superhero movies: Golden Age or insane glut?
- Ariana Grande blows up Saturday Night Live
- Double rainbow at the Dome
- Alan Rickman: a tribute
- SUNRISE by the Olson Bros, Donald Trump and the power of authenticity
- Top 7 reasons why SPECTRE is average while SKYFALL soared
- The four secret purposes of music videos
- Barn full of walkers!
- AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON in two minutes, using Legos
- DOWNTOWN by Macklemore is daring and different
- Why MAKE ME by Lee Child gets graded on a curve
- Man Uses Raccoon To Start Breathalyzer Equipped Car, Raccoon Then Attacks Driver
- Defense against the Dark Arts: Propaganda vs. journalism and rhetoric
- Watch the beatiful visual echoes in both STAR WARS trilogies
- CARL POPPA by Bad Lip Reading is a brilliant parody–and you can DANCE to it
- Why WATCH ME by Silento is simple and viral
- Why this lost trailer for FANTASTIC FOUR in 1994 is better than the turkey now in theaters
- The simple story of a dog–and why it makes you cry
- The most epic and hilarious Crime Stoppers in history
- This is where you stop
- Snowy volcano of beauty and doom
- THE SEVENTH ELEMENT by Vitas is inspired crazytown
- Just dogs freaking out about magic tricks
- Bourbon and birthdays and such
- 4 ways to improve STARLORD VS MUTANT DINOSAURLAND (aka JURRASIC WORLD)
- 8 reasons why blockbusters are meta-stories instead of Villain of the Week
- 7 reasons why music videos possess tremendous power
- Hard and Complex versus Impossible and Bizarre
- Top 6 reasons why MAD MAX crushes AVENGERS 2: AGE OF ULTRON
- Top 6 reasons why Batman must DIE!
- SAY IT RIGHT by Nelly Furtado is just right
- Top 10 titles for a novel
- JADE HELM: Texas rebels train kamikaze armadillos for coming federal invasion
- True facts about the Mantis Shrimp
- Put your writing to the Screen Time Test
- The Red Pen of Doom puts a stake through TWILIGHT
- What you need to know before seeing AVENGERS 2: AGE OF ULTRON
- The random junk in our garages, it is multiplying, and IT MUST BE STOPPED
- Four killer trailers for the best movies of 2015
- YOU SPIN ME ROUND by Dead or Alive is the best of the ’80s worst
- Why TITANIUM by David Guetta + Sia is a hidden gem
- PACER is an awe-inspiring short film
- Top 3 reasons why YOUR LOVE by The Outfield epitomizes classic ’80s videos
- EXPLODING KITTENS is what card games should be
- Top 3 reasons why the new, extended trailer for AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON rocks so hard
- How Obama’s 2015 State of the Union tries to break the mold
- TAKE ME TO CHURCH by Hozier is film-noir goodness
- Pop Danthology 2014 absolutely destroys all music video compilations, forever
- Six smart steps after #NaNoWriMo
- Many Bothans died to bring us this teaser for STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
- Top 9 reasons to write in first-person plural
- Golden retriever destroys obedience course, wins Interwebs
- Do not look upon your #NaNoWriMo word count and despair, for there is hope
- Sam Smith makes a sweet short film out of I KNOW I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE
- Why TOO MANY COOKS blew up the interwebs
- Six easy ways to improve NaNoWriMo
- On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month
- Harry Potter hops on the Tonight Show and absolutely nails ALPHABET AEROBICS by Blackalicious
- Where the lava kissed the ocean
- Bamboo forest
- Little fire, big burning ball of flame
- Hurricane is coming, but it’s beautiful
- BLACK WIDOW pays excellent homage to KILL BILL
- The one little thing that made Hong Kong’s protests so big
- Monster Truck Bike
- Was Episode 2 of GOTHAM an epic fail or glorious win?
- Lake Sylvia, black and white
- Reading times for famous book-like objects
- The six types of insane song lyrics
- Photo of the Day: The otter abides
- DOWN ON MY LUCK by Vic Mensa is different and special
- Why this video is intentionally bad and tremendously good
- Age and size matter not — attitude is everything
- Photo of the Day: A castle passageway in Luxembourg
- Photo of the Day: How many students can fit in this autorickshaw?
- Big, Beautiful Movies with Sad, Stupid Endings
- Photo of the Day: Hand this tiger a script and he’ll read the nightly news
- Photo of the Day: This is NOT the set for a sci-fi movie
- The poetry of TEAM by Lorde
- Random Photo of the Day: Stoplight and local star join forces to create art
- Mystery Monster in Backyard possibly not so mysterious
- Random Photo of the Day: Houseboat in Kerala, India
- Random Photo of the Day: A simple river valley
- Random Photo of the Day: A sunset in Germany
- The trouble with LUCY by director Luc Besson
- Deconstructing the classic ROUND HERE by Counting Crows
- ‘Native advertising’ disguised as news: miracle money or menace to journalism?
- WORD CRIMES by Weird Al is a writer’s anthem
- Barnes and Noble, tear down these walls
- IT’S GOOD TO BE IN LOVE by Frou Frou conceals writing truths
- Giving THE TRANSPORTER a tune-up
- Fireworks set to music, from a drone flying INSIDE THE FIREWORKS
- GAME OF THRONES as a cheesy ’80s TV show
- Insanely great photos taken the most epic possible way
- Why ARCHER’s arrows are hit and miss
- Throne gets trippy with the first embroidered music video ever
- The Duckpocalypse is upon us
- Top 5 reasons EDGE OF TOMORROW works — and why it redeems Tom the Cruise
- Success is often accidental
- Bad Writing: The Six Horsemen of the Writepocalypse
- Top 3 reasons why DEAR KITTEN won the interwebs
- How weird news teaches us great storytelling
- FANCY by Iggy happily subverts CLUELESS, start to finish
- Introducing the iWatch, which will change the world FOREVER
- Bears climbing cliffs, I kid you not
- Crazy storm + music = mind-blowing video
- Tiny film teaches us big honking writing tricks
- PLEASE USE THIS SONG wins the interwebs
- French filmmaker’s epic tribute to BREAKING BAD
- What words get shared on social media – and what doesn’t?
- Wait for it
- Improve your blog’s bounce rate and such
- What YMCA by the Village People can teach us
- Everybody panic: expert says Yellowstone Supervolcano could ‘destroy the United States’
- Super-powered mutant Avenger of the ocean: The Mighty Cuttlefish
- Why the classic movie DUNE is a hot mess
- Why boy bands — and girl bands — will haunt us forever and ever
- SELFIE by The Chainsmokers is timely and brilliant
- Why THE LEGO MOVIE works like magic
- KISSING IN THE RAIN by Patrick Doyle is perfect
- 007 the Crow solves epic eight-step puzzle using TOOLS
- SAY SOMETHING by A Great Big World and Christina the Aguilera
- Smug yuppie Snow Joggers give TV interview, then fail
- A little girl discovers rain — and what we all can learn from her
- Sting nails it with WHY SHOULD I CRY FOR YOU?
- Super Bowl goodness: Bad Lipreading, the NFL edition
- Say hello to Teddy Bear the Talking Porcupine
- The Red Pen of Doom harpoons MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
- Why WORLD’S END ended with a wimper
- Billy Squire wrecks his career with ROCK ME TONITE
- BREAKING BAD music video mashup is pure gold
- This is how you do a White House Xmas card
- THE WOLVERINE proves Writing Law #1 – Less is More
- A montage set to music: The best movies of 2013
- THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 skips right to three villains, which is nuts
- MISSING YOU by John Waite teaches us all about subtext
- Snow!!
- Bulletproof skin and other insane inventions
- This is not a photo, I kid you not
- Why Hollywood is plagued by The Invincible Hero problem
- NOVEMBER RAIN rocks out for an epic nine minutes
- SAFETY DANCE by Men Without Hats is insanely classic
- Some of my favorite editors OF ALL TIME
- I LIKE THE WAY YOU WORK IT is epic, brilliant and classic
- OBLIVION swings for the fences and misses
- Giant killer hornets prepare to devour the planet
- Top 5 reasons BREAKING BAD was insanely good
- WE ARE BROTHERS by Baddy Paris and Rufus Starlight is pure brilliance
- What doesn’t kill you makes you happy FOR MONTHS
- THE FOX by Ylvis is pure nutty goodness
- The Greatest Synopsis that Ever Lived
- Six ways to fix NEVER GO BACK by Lee Child
- The Mother of All Query Letters
- Six immortal — and possibly invincible — animals
- A random duet turns out to be awesomesauce
- Beach cliff
- THE AVENGERS + THE BREAKFAST CLUB = AWESOMESAUCE
- CLARITY by Zedd is ambitious and good
- I DID IT MY WAY by Walter White (Br Ba)
- SUFFERING by Satchel will break your heart, then rebuild it
- DESERT ROSE by Sting
- New advice column: ASK AYN RAND
- The most epic movie trailer mashup OF ALL TIME
- ICE, ICE BABY as sung by the movies
- CAMERA ONE by the Josh Joplin Group
- Great writing tips from reddit, of all places
- Let Jessie Ware turn out your NIGHT LIGHT
- Like Godzilla in Tokyo, PACIFIC RIM smashes all expectations
- I threw it on the ground — why people stop reading books
- Snuffy the Seal, plus an epic round-up of Shark Movie Goodness
- TIM’S PLACE: three minutes of film that’ll make you smile and cry
- Another musical invasion from the UK: Jessie Ware’s WILDEST MOMENTS
- Walk Off the Earth blows up GRENADE by Bruno Mars
- MAN OF STEEL and the Invincible Hero Problem
- Portland
- STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS: Why it works
- Music video madness: HURRICANE by MS MR
- Watch this rare and beautiful graduation speech – DO IT NOW
- This video — and this man — defines determination
- Possible script for STAR WARS VII by J.J. Abrams
- 007 marathon: Just say yes to DR. NO
- Leonard Nimoy’s insane music video: The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
- This’ll make your hike more exciting
- HANDLEBARS by Flobots deserves some kind of award
- DON’T YOU WANT ME by The Human League
- Happy birthday to the Twitter!
- Backyard
- Just a man and his wombat
- Banned substances for writers
- DANNY BOY by Sinead O’Connor
- Prepare yourself for the robopocalypse
- A short film full of win
- A sad and beautiful music video: KHWAAB by Niraj Chag
- BARBIE GIRL by Aqua may be the worst video ever
- Vini sinks DEEP BLUE by Kat Martin
- DECAY, a zombie movie made by real scientists
- Ice sculpture FTW
- Fog in the forest
- Golden eagle: the honey badger of birds
- One second, every day, for one year
- 3 ways to change the digital world FOREVER
- The happiest hurdler in the world deserves more screen time
- Writers: can you do it in FOUR WORDS?
- SAME LOVE by Macklemore
- What made SKYFALL so insanely great?
- I’M ON FIRE by Bruce Springsteen
- 007 villains: Getting rid of incompetent henchmen
- 007 music video montage
- ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN by Elle Goulding is completely bonkers
- IRON MAN 3 trailer gets all Sweded
- Simple and impressive: The Finnish Whistler
- A media star is born, then goes all supernova on us
- Why new STAR WARS movies by Disney are an achy breaky big mistakey
- Joss Whedon + politics + zombie apocalypse = EPIC WIN
- 5 ways to make blog posts GO ALL VIRAL
- The Red Pen of Doom impales FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
- THE PROTOTYPE trailer is what movies should be
- Top 4 features Twitter should add — or kill
- Skydive from space — with Legos
- SKYFALL song and trailers, for all you 007 fans
- PSY, Klingon Style
- The Mighty and Mind-blowing HEXAFLEXAGON
- GOTYE played by robots or whatever
- Say hi to HELLO by Karmin
- Hunter S. Thompson + Conan O’Brien + whiskey + machine guns = WIN
- Headlines you can’t make up: Burger with onions ignites ‘McFury’ at McDonald’s
- Honest trailer: THE AVENGERS
- Short film ROSA blows Hollywood away
- SIMPLE SONG by The Shins
- Insane ’80s show MANIMAL returns to the Glowing Tube
- C.C. Humphreys: author, actor, fight choreographer
- Danish commercial makes Michael Bay look like an AMATEUR
- Real animal that should NOT exist: the blue dragon mollusk
- Top 10 Myths of Journalism School
- Thank you, beautiful and brilliant blog readers
- Otter stacks cups, breaks hearts
- Hollywood: Sidekicks do NOT need their own stupid sidekicks
- Writing secret: all you need is CURIOSITY and SURPRISE
- Here’s how that movie should have ended
- HO HEY by The Lumineers
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- Seven movie clichés that must be NUKED FROM ORBIT
- TAKE A WALK by Passion Pit
- TOO CLOSE by Alex Clare
- Top 10 evil tips for authors, actors and artists
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- Top 5 reasons Batman crushes the nancypants known as Superman
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- Music Video Monday: GANGNAM STYLE by Psy
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- The Red Pen of Doom dissects every Batman movie IN HISTORY
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- Music Video Monday: Iron Maiden on the Ukulele
- Pixar deathmatch: BRAVE vs. WALL-E
- Violinist creates clone army to play THE AVENGERS theme
- Time lapse photo goodness, set to music
- Good things come in small, funny packages
- Writers: Cross-training is essential
- YouTube video lovingly guts everything Aaron Sorkin ever did
- Storytelling: Some random man on Facebook takes tired, bored SUPERMAN and nails it
- Music Video Monday: Florence + The Machine
- Zooming on das Autobahn to Belgium, the friendliest place IN THE WORLD
- The aliens, they have landed
- Three random airplane movies: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- OUKA does crazy things with rings, to music
- Book publicity: The case of the hitchhiking writer who gets shot
- Difficult doesn’t make it good
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- THE KILL by 30 Seconds to Mars
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- Movie trailer madness: WILD WILD PLANET
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- Why critique groups MUST DIE
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