Greetings and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!
Between the Fringe DVDs from my parents and the Farscape box set from an extremely thoughtful elf, I have something like 100+ hours of TV waiting to be watched, so I'll keep this short. But I just wanted to marvel at the fact that somehow, over the past twenty-four hours, a page-long synopsis of my putative movie musical has appeared on my computer, as have two pages of notes/dialogue snippets and about a page worth of a scene-by-scene outline. HUH. Parts of this story seem to want to be told as a novel, while the majority of it I can see in my head as a movie (plus, you know, dancing), so I think I may end up writing it in both formats. Well, if I finish it at all, which is always a question with me, but having a conclusion and a plot outline is a good sign!
Also, I wanted to post this hilarious telegram from Aimee Semple McPherson, found in David E. Kyvig's Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.* Back in the early 1920s, all radio stations were only allowed to operate on one, then two frequencies across the nation, thus causing interference between stations. However,
Some stations simply altered their frequency on their own. When warned against doing this, Aimee Semple McPherson sent Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover a telegram saying "PLEASE ORDER YOUR MINIONS OF SATAN TO LEAVE MY STATION ALONE STOP YOU CANNOT EXPECT THE ALMIGHTY TO ABIDE BY YOUR WAVE LENGTH NONSENSE STOP WHEN I OFFER MY PRAYERS TO HIM I MUST FIT INTO HIS WAVE RECEPTION."
* Reasonably good, but not as socio-culturally focused as the title implies. I was expecting something like a 20s/30s version of, say, Judith Flanders's The Victorian House, but this is lacking in the detail and reference to primary sources that made her book so enjoyable. Suggestions for better resources welcome.
Between the Fringe DVDs from my parents and the Farscape box set from an extremely thoughtful elf, I have something like 100+ hours of TV waiting to be watched, so I'll keep this short. But I just wanted to marvel at the fact that somehow, over the past twenty-four hours, a page-long synopsis of my putative movie musical has appeared on my computer, as have two pages of notes/dialogue snippets and about a page worth of a scene-by-scene outline. HUH. Parts of this story seem to want to be told as a novel, while the majority of it I can see in my head as a movie (plus, you know, dancing), so I think I may end up writing it in both formats. Well, if I finish it at all, which is always a question with me, but having a conclusion and a plot outline is a good sign!
Also, I wanted to post this hilarious telegram from Aimee Semple McPherson, found in David E. Kyvig's Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.* Back in the early 1920s, all radio stations were only allowed to operate on one, then two frequencies across the nation, thus causing interference between stations. However,
Some stations simply altered their frequency on their own. When warned against doing this, Aimee Semple McPherson sent Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover a telegram saying "PLEASE ORDER YOUR MINIONS OF SATAN TO LEAVE MY STATION ALONE STOP YOU CANNOT EXPECT THE ALMIGHTY TO ABIDE BY YOUR WAVE LENGTH NONSENSE STOP WHEN I OFFER MY PRAYERS TO HIM I MUST FIT INTO HIS WAVE RECEPTION."
* Reasonably good, but not as socio-culturally focused as the title implies. I was expecting something like a 20s/30s version of, say, Judith Flanders's The Victorian House, but this is lacking in the detail and reference to primary sources that made her book so enjoyable. Suggestions for better resources welcome.
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