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My Torment
Submitted by J Floyd King on Sat, 05/10/2008 - 01:41.Nothing is ever official in Blinverted.
I wrote this nice little story from the point of view of a dog. I shared it in MySpace and it was a hit. I still laugh at certain parts when imagining what my dog is thinking and trying to capture it in words on a page. The problem, and reason for my torment (I might have already mentioned my torment in the title), is that dog's don't think in English.
I could create a doggie language (call it doggy freestyle?) using barks and growls but those growls and barks would still have an English translation. I guess it would, I mean, every other freaking language has an English translation.
A False Idol
Submitted by J Floyd King on Sat, 04/19/2008 - 07:23.To wit...
My good friend Mike Z, who has been my bartender and friend for four years now (man I drink a lot), lost his job on Monday. It wasn't an epic blowout where he was fired and the bar stayed open. The freaking bar closed down too.
The owner, Bob McMahon, is of the social elite of Tucson. The rent at Metro Grill was outrageous and he made a good business decision to close up shop as opposed to taking a loss or breaking even every month. He made a poor people decision though by not giving any of his Metro Grill employees any notice that it was about to close. Mike Z shows up to work and not even the managers were able to look him in the eye.
The Revolts
Submitted by J Floyd King on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 09:54.You know all the good parts of the Bible.
It is the middle story for the mythology I have on my mind. It is the story of creation from destruction. It is the sorrow that one must always beget the other. It is why this is a human tragedy and a divine comedy all in one spinning package.
I was born into a world where there was a means to destroy it. Every breath I take is a gift given by those with the power to launch such intsruments of death. Regular men who were born of this world and will pass away from it have the ability to destroy it during those two poles of life and death.
What Do Kids Watch on Saturday Mornings Now?
Submitted by J Floyd King on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 21:25.There was one where flying pigs shot bacon grease out of guns. ABC didn't even have cartoons on. Where's the Looney Toons? Where's The Littles? The Snorks, Smurfs and Rainbow Brite? The kids today get the Suite Life of Zack and Cody and bacon grease.
Beodog Production Blog
Submitted by J Floyd King on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 20:12.And it was.
It was not an easy shoot, they never are. I had a clearer vision of what is possible and only heard my Dp, Darren, tell me one or two things I couldn't do.
That's not quite true. You really can film anything you want, it is the set-up time that makes things so hard.
When my wife and I wrote Beodog, we wanted to write a script that could be shot in one location in one day. Darren kept saying it would be two days so I rolled with that. then at the meeting last week, when he heard we had three set-ups, two upstairs and one downstairs, he started thinking we could get it done in one day.
Blinverted is as Blinverted did
Submitted by J Floyd King on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 09:00.I have really come into my own as a writer in 2007 (not including the above title). It is the culmination of everything I have learned and written about since I started with a short story called Rut in my senior year of high school. Evrything I have ever written still means something to me.
I remember we had to read The Veldt by Ray Bradbury in my freshmen year of high school. The assignment was to write a story using those themes. What I wrote was for the most part forgettable, except for this part I wrote where a couple of kids fell out of the sky when their flying machine broke. One fell and was knocked out. The other landed on his feet but that caused even more problems. I remember I wrote that one of his kneecaps was ejected from his body by the impact of his two large leg bones.
2007's Parting Shot
Submitted by J Floyd King on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 09:21.
Some Nice Reviews (Only One Actually)
Submitted by J Floyd King on Sat, 12/29/2007 - 16:01.I have my first agent shopping The Disciples now. I have received some nice feedback from a critique and wanted to share that here in a way to fill up space and still talk about me.
This is a retread of somethig that someone wrote about me, I call that progress:
Well, it's on my computer in a red only file and I can't copy and paste it. I guess I could rewrite it but that is an awful lot of work for a little self-glorification.
Craig Oliver
Submitted by J Floyd King on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 08:44.Craig Oliver, in the idealistic time of the 60's and 70's, enjoyed life to its fullest. During his own joy, he could not ignore the suffering of others. As a nation turned from idealism to greed in the 80's, Craig was hustling to gather materials for a great project he conceived. There was a need for medicine and education and hope in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Cambodia as thousands of displaced refugees were seeking safety from oppression.
They Always Come in Three's, Except for the 5th Harry Potter
Submitted by J Floyd King on Tue, 12/04/2007 - 12:01.That CD is really good.
That was two 10,000's so I figured I'd write about that. Then I go to see the new Harry Potter and during the 20 minutes of previews, I see one from the director of Independence Day called 10,000 BC.
And there is your three. I don't think the Phils have 10,000 wins but that is just a hunch.
I have really lost interest in the Harry Potter movies. I did like the first three but in the last two that bad guy Valdemort has been lurking and it turns out those two have to fight to the death but there's seven books. Every time this Dark Lord messes with Harry, Harry beats him.



