Who knows how far this could take you... Maybe John Williams will produce a movie about you!

That's a link to The Stranger ...

But electrons were mercilessly forced to travel along copper wires in the process of making your video monitor show you the words, Flurf.

WILL IN SEATTLE, age 30s, quickly moves from the stove to the kitchen table.

CLOSE-UP - TOASTER

Toast pops up in the toaster. We SEE WILL'S HAND quickly pull out the toast.

WIDE SHOT - KITCHEN

We HEAR a KETTLE WHISTLE. He quickly moves to the stove to turn off the burner.

WILL (calling)
Dominic, I saw those design plans. For the new building. There's not enough green space!

He takes a pan of oatmeal off the stove and pours it in four bowls on the kitchen table. DOMINIC HOLDEN, age 8, bursts into the room.

WILL (continuing to Dominic)
And 90 stories is not 100 stories! I expect that height to get put right.

MEDIUM SHOT — DOMINIC (sitting down)
Bullshit. You make the stupidest comments. Even the hyphenates hate you.

WILL (throwing hands up and storming to the table)
Dominic! Damn it! I feel like Patricia Neal in "The Fountainhead." Do you think that's easy? Well it isn't. Now eat your oatmeal and get to that damn job at that damn paper.

WILL - MEDIUM SHOT (as he runs offstage). A roll of paper towels falls onto the stove, catches fire and burns down the entire house.

THE BURNING HOUSE - LONG SHOT - Dominic is seen crawling out the dog door to safety.

THE END

WILL IN SEATTLE, age 30s, quickly moves from the stove to the kitchen table.

CLOSE-UP - TOASTER

Toast pops up in the toaster. We SEE WILL'S HAND quickly pull out the toast.

WIDE SHOT - KITCHEN

We HEAR a KETTLE WHISTLE. He quickly moves to the stove to turn off the burner.

WILL (calling)
Dominic, I saw those design plans. For the new building. There's not enough green space!

He takes a pan of oatmeal off the stove and pours it in four bowls on the kitchen table. DOMINIC HOLDEN, age 8, bursts into the room.

WILL (continuing to Dominic)
And 90 stories is not 100 stories! I expect that height to get put right.

MEDIUM SHOT — DOMINIC (sitting down)
Bullshit. You make the stupidest comments. Even the hyphenates hate you.

WILL (throwing hands up and storming to the table)
Dominic! Damn it! I feel like Patricia Neal in "The Fountainhead." Do you think that's easy? Well it isn't. Now eat your oatmeal and get to that damn job at that damn paper.

WILL - MEDIUM SHOT (as he runs offstage). A roll of paper towels falls onto the stove, catches fire and burns down the entire house.

THE BURNING HOUSE - LONG SHOT - Dominic is seen crawling out the dog door to safety.

THE END

HULK WILL SMASH PUNY STRANGER EDITOR!

And no, I'm not letting it go.

Except with a happy ending.

And your hero worship of a guy that I don't regard as especially talented, regardless of his official accolades (which are numerous), doesn't make me regard him as any better than the sound guy from F/X .

Call me a cynic, but seriously folks, you choose some really strange people to idolize.

Oh, give it a rest

All i said as #3 (albeit in all caps), was that you missed the point of the post. Now we will analyze how the rest of your comment supports the position that my post was incorrect, and therefore i should "give it a rest".

they grow producers, executive producers, script writers, actors, directors, and all that in orange groves all over Cali, @3.

Actually, they grow oranges in those, and not all over California. At least i am guessing you meant California, but we don't call it "Cali" here. As for the glut of other people that work in the film industry... they are, by and large, nameless and their work is not instantly recognizable around the world. Also they are still living so their work gets reviewed in other posts. See the difference? Or is it too dark where your head is?

Heck, the closing night film had something like seven producers …

...something like seven producers. Seven people you did not name for a film you did not name at a festival you did not name. Seven people who are apparently not associated with some of the most famous images in science fiction films in a career spanning decades. What does that have to do with Stan's passing? Oh, right. They are still alive so his passing and the loss of his creative genius is not worthy of a slog post.


I am at the end of your comment, but i did not see the part where you demonstrate how i was incorrect in stating that in #2 you MISSED THE FUCKING POINT. Or were you trying to support my position by continuing to MISS THE FUCKING POINT?

:(

It's a blog. Grow up. We don't have:

1. Rules
2. Courtesy
3. Fair Play
4. Respect
5. To read your pitiful blog post

Now, obviously, the reverse is true, in that weak sisters (in the classic sense, not the gender sense) like our Guest Slogger sometimes run crying off when they get piled on.

And, especially to ECB (and mostly other females) the SLOG is unfair in their critiques.

But, sorry, in the grand scheme of things, his death, was not a death most geeks really gave a flying (insert choice single anglo saxon word of four letters) about.

Wake me up when Harry H dies.

Harry Houdini died in 1926. Harry Hamlin is still alive.

If you're talking about Ray Harryhausen (aka Ray H), will do.

Less Will more Toaster. I gotta have more Toaster.

I do appreciate Will's "never give up, never give in" attitude to posting on Slog. Even though his comments drive me crazy, I think I might miss them if he stopped posting.

To balance out my sweet, here's my sour, "Will, did you leave your brain on the short bus this morning? Your comments on Slog today have been particularly wacked out."

p.s. Incredible sulk, why the hell are you sulking?

Tell you what, why don't you go ask Gwen Ifill what her plans are?

Seriously Will your comments today are more disjointed than usual.

Plus, there are like 7 other women at the Stranger who don't get any crap when the post on the Slog. ECB is really the only one who has a train of sexist critics who hang on her every word (weirdos!).

Or we could just retire him to Stupid Post Hall of Fame and exempt those.

Ahem.

Spam purse, cunny dollop, frightful rogering, clambake, paula abdul.

Much better.

And yes the geeks do give a flying fuck about Winston.