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Waiting for the trolley to come pick us up at Ana Maria Island. Uhh…yeah!

Where Have I Been?

I haven’t tumbled in a long, long time. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I was finishing up my last stressful semester of college. I then followed that up with a week of complete irresponsibility, followed by non-stop interviewing for new jobs and now I’m over at Ana Maria Island. I’m on vacation until Saturday and I’m taking complete advantage, as I may start a new job when I get back - plus I’m going head first into Monster, which is almost done on the script front.

So what’s going on?

Yeah, that’s my backyard.

That’s currently my balcony view. I’ve got a beach for a backyard and I’m taking full advantage. I came with my family to enjoy a week of relaxing. The place runs on a very different pace than that of South Florida. There’s very few people and, whoever is here, they keep to themselves.

We’ve spent most of our time either down on the sand or up in the room, catching up on lost sleep and playing with the baby.

Here’s another snapshot of absolute serenity - just to make sure you’re still jealous.

Today we decided to take a ride on the local trolley to get a view of the island. It’s very peaceful. As you can imagine for an island, there’s plenty of ways to reach the beach.

Ana Maria has a lot to choose from when it comes to Mom-and-Pop-owned restaurants and stores. One of my favorites so far is called “The Tortilla Bay”, a Tex-Mex restaurant that serves up dishes that include tacos and burritos. I opted for three chicken tacos, and they beat out what I’ve had at Tijuana Flats and Chipotle back at home. That’s no small feat.

Today, we ate from some place called “McDonald’s”. It was located off the island - deemed too ‘mainstream’ for the islanders - and served up some mean Chicken Selects. We need these back at home.

 

By southbound, it means another two miles before it has to turn back

Tomorrow, we’ll be driving over to Sarasota. A few of us got pretty burnt today at the beach, so we’ll be giving that a break for now. We’re here until Saturday, so I’m sure we’ll have more than enough time to taste salt water once more before hitting the road.

Want to be nosey and check out the rest of the pics from the trip so far? Take a look at them over at my Picasa album. I’ll be putting up more later this week, and I’ll probably get some video, too. I didn’t get any today since my FlipHD’s battery died on me.

Hope to hear from everyone here on Tumblr! I won’t leave again!

What's Going on With This Whole Cinematical/Moviefone Business

  • David Chen: so have you been following this whole Cinematical debacle?
  • Michelle: You know, I tried to look into it last night, because it kept showing up in my twitter feed, but i can't say i understand what's going on
  • David Chen: woudl you like me to explain?
  • Michelle: yes please!
  • David Chen: so it's like this
  • David Chen: Cinematical has been in danger for awhile now
  • David Chen: they got folded into moviefone which is less friendly to their type of film criticism/discussion
  • David Chen: but still, EIC Erik Davis fought to keep the site alive and separate
  • David Chen: despite the fact that cinematical.com no longer directed to its own site (it redirected to a moviefone subsite called cinematical)
  • David Chen: it was a losing battle
  • David Chen: AOL bought Huff Po
  • David Chen: Huffpo took over all AOL properties
  • David Chen: (including moviefone/cinematical)
  • David Chen: In the past week, AOL/Huffpo began the process of firing all freelancers
  • David Chen: of which Cinematical had dozens
  • David Chen: they offered some people full-time jobs.
  • David Chen: Davis is such a good guy, he refused to take a full-time job
  • David Chen: because he knew it would involve firing all his writers.
  • David Chen: Are you still with me?
  • Michelle: yes, totally
  • Michelle: i didnt get the huffpo connection, now it makes sense
  • David Chen: So the other day, Davis told everyone he was stepping down
  • David Chen: Writers started leaving in droves
  • David Chen: but around that time, Moviefone EIC Patricia Chui sent an e-mail out to all the Cinematical writers
  • David Chen: Eric D Snider tweeted out the email
  • David Chen: it got picked up everywhere
  • David Chen: http://gawker.com/#!5789245/youre-fired-would-you-like-to-work-for-free
  • David Chen: here's a good summary of that story
  • David Chen: Apparently, Chui wasn't supposed to tell people about the offer to write for free in that same e-mail
  • David Chen: so that was her bad
  • David Chen: but she was doing right by the writers
  • Michelle: she wasn't supposed to put it in the same email because it would look too much like what it is?
  • David Chen: yup
  • David Chen: so yesterday, her higher ups at AOL got wind that the email was public
  • David Chen: and they terminated her
  • David Chen: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110406/exclusive-aol-fires-moviefone-editor-who-offered-fired-freelancers-the-chance-to-work-for-um-free/
  • David Chen: so now a bunch of writers are pissed off because she was only being like, a human being
  • David Chen: and AOL/Huffpo are making her out to be completely incompetent.
  • Michelle: jeez
  • Michelle: has she commented?
  • David Chen: Not publicly, to my knowledge.
  • Michelle: what a mess
  • David Chen: Indeed.
I’m finally back online! My family made the switch to Comcast over a week ago. We’ve been stuck without internet after one of the technicians made a careless flip of the switch five days ago, leaving me without the ability to post to the blog. I mean, I could post over my phone, but God knows how long that’d take! I wanted to start off with news on Monster. The photo you see above was taken during a location scout back in January, and (sorta) shows one of the spots that will play a pivotal role in the movie. Larry, Cross and I had our first reading on Wednesday through an incomplete script. I only have a few scenes left to write out and the first draft will be done, but already we decided to splice some sequences and move some scenes forward to help the flow of the story. The more we add to it, the more excited I get. We established that shooting will take place at the end of April or beginning of May, in order to work around the semester. At this rate, it will clock in at less than 30 minutes, and one or two major details may be changed. Stay tuned to the blog and my Twitter feed. I also wanted to make a quick post on how disappointed I was during a trip to see Battle: Los Angeles. I barely ever go to see a movie on the big screen. Unfortunately, the movie was God-awful and the previews - sans Super 8 - were really dismal. I have zero interest in Hollywood films for the year outside of J.J. Abrams’ flick and the last of the Harry Potter movies. I’ll be sticking to Fandor for now. Other than that, it’s good to be online.  Monster news will be more consistent from here on out, so don’t miss an update! That’s a wrap for now.

I’m finally back online!

My family made the switch to Comcast over a week ago. We’ve been stuck without internet after one of the technicians made a careless flip of the switch five days ago, leaving me without the ability to post to the blog. I mean, I could post over my phone, but God knows how long that’d take!

I wanted to start off with news on Monster. The photo you see above was taken during a location scout back in January, and (sorta) shows one of the spots that will play a pivotal role in the movie.

Larry, Cross and I had our first reading on Wednesday through an incomplete script. I only have a few scenes left to write out and the first draft will be done, but already we decided to splice some sequences and move some scenes forward to help the flow of the story. The more we add to it, the more excited I get. We established that shooting will take place at the end of April or beginning of May, in order to work around the semester. At this rate, it will clock in at less than 30 minutes, and one or two major details may be changed. Stay tuned to the blog and my Twitter feed.

I also wanted to make a quick post on how disappointed I was during a trip to see Battle: Los Angeles. I barely ever go to see a movie on the big screen. Unfortunately, the movie was God-awful and the previews - sans Super 8 - were really dismal. I have zero interest in Hollywood films for the year outside of J.J. Abrams’ flick and the last of the Harry Potter movies. I’ll be sticking to Fandor for now.

Other than that, it’s good to be online.  Monster news will be more consistent from here on out, so don’t miss an update!

That’s a wrap for now.

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viasquaredd:

1000 reblogs = $10

10000 reblogs = $100 .. and so on

Okay, we know, we know, it’s shameless self promotion. We will be using the increased traffic from our website to fund this donation. We will be sending Red Cross the check for the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami.

UPDATE: We forgot to add what we’d do if someone were to “like” the post. We will combine the reblogs and likes we got from our last post along with the reblogs and likes we get from this post.

We wish we can donate more, but it’s all we can handle. If you would like to donate directly to the cause, please click here.

We will be donating 1 cent per every reblog, 1 cent for every like and 5 cents per every new follower we get. We’ll be sending the check to American Red Cross.

Email us at what@viaSQUARED.com for any questions regarding this.

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