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Archive for October 2009
The Mind-beggaring Mysteries. In the first fifteen minutes of each episode: one or more murders are committed; the central characters are introduced; the characters’ relationships are described; character movements, significant locations and a timeline are established; evidence is collected; suspects are interviewed; and the crime is solved. The remaining hour-and-a-half is occupied by the detective explaining the reasoning behind the solution.
Reading back through an old notebook I found these three words…
Androids without context.
Answers on the back of a postcard, please.
The Burn Out Mysteries. Emotionally pulped by a career spent wading through psychopathic carnage, the detective takes permanent stress leave and hides behind a fortress of locks, peeking out pensively at a world of hate through barely parted venetian blinds. Starring John Nettles.
Straight-to-Torrent.
When it comes to murder stories, many people adopt the heuristic that the person least likeliest to have done it is the one who did it.
B has developed a new heuristic: the person who didn’t do it is the one who did it.
Someone has taken one of my Creepy Magnetic Poems, turned it into a video, and used their relationship as the audio.
The vision never changes.
I heard about the “write our next ad” competition run by the Australian Financial Review too late. Here are a couple of entries anyway.
Arse was on a list of proscribed words, so I had to make do.
bastard -noun
From the Latin bastard, meaning bastard .
Example:
There are lots of bastards in the world and B has been out with most of them.
