The writer’s strike, explained

(via Boing Boing)

“It was an amusing anecdote!”

Army Man remembered.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think it is worth describing in detail.

George Orwell on being shot.

I love the way he writes, at one point, that his may not have been the thoughts of a dying man because he wasn’t actually dying. A true writer; striving for accuracy with a hole in his neck.

The best line is mangled on the site. He talks of the “violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well.”

Yeggs and Violence

“No, bulls would gum it. They’d flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they’d trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we’re doing this I want the whole story.”

My problem with Chandler-beholden movies is that they’re all tell and no show…too much yapping. But when they’re done well, you get a film like Brick which is more fun to read than to watch. Or at least, it’s fun to read, then watch.