train tragic
Jan. 21st, 2007 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhia
Despite recently viewing the train crashes in The Peacemaker, I fearlessly chose to take the train to Jersey, to be a surprise guest at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dr_pretentious's Annual Bad Poetry Party.
Well... I survived it. (EDIT: er, the train ride. party too, but I wasn't worried about that.)
Another New Yorker-style cartoon that would automatically be rejected would be the Acela engine with an iconic kill count on the side (little restroom-door style people icons). Such a thing may already exist, but I'm not finding it.
I have now had a first-hand experience of an Acela tragedy.
A quick search suggests these things really don't happen often, like maybe 4 times in 6 years on the NE corridor. But this is the second time in a week, so the coverage may make it out to be an epidemic. To sum up: crossing the Acela train tracks is akin to playing frogger on the Autobahn. DON'T DO IT.
The first announcement we passengers heard yesterday was that there was a trespasser on the train.
Perhaps, like myself, you automatically assumed they meant *in* the train (some homeland security bureaucracy nightmare). You'd be wrong. Around when they mentioned "we have to wait for the coroner", I realized it was something else.
They haven't released the name yet. But, since I spent those extra hours finally expanding on my original notes about THAT SILLY SCREENPLAY IDEA that's been kicking around my brain for a decade, I might want to dedicate it, at least in part, to that person, or rename a main character, since it's arguably about people with morbid interests ("goths").
Not that I'm writing it with more intention than just finally getting it the heck out of my head. Mostly, I am responding to a great manifesto linked viasiderea. And, ever since ceciliatan recently friendulated me, I'm constantly, guiltily, reminded of how, when I described the screenplay to her in, o, ~1998ish, she promptly handed me a book on how to write screenplays. Probably the first book I ever borrowed from her, and I'm still not done with it.
dr_pretentious's Annual Bad Poetry Party.Well... I survived it. (EDIT: er, the train ride. party too, but I wasn't worried about that.)
Another New Yorker-style cartoon that would automatically be rejected would be the Acela engine with an iconic kill count on the side (little restroom-door style people icons). Such a thing may already exist, but I'm not finding it.
I have now had a first-hand experience of an Acela tragedy.
A quick search suggests these things really don't happen often, like maybe 4 times in 6 years on the NE corridor. But this is the second time in a week, so the coverage may make it out to be an epidemic. To sum up: crossing the Acela train tracks is akin to playing frogger on the Autobahn. DON'T DO IT.
The first announcement we passengers heard yesterday was that there was a trespasser on the train.
Perhaps, like myself, you automatically assumed they meant *in* the train (some homeland security bureaucracy nightmare). You'd be wrong. Around when they mentioned "we have to wait for the coroner", I realized it was something else.
They haven't released the name yet. But, since I spent those extra hours finally expanding on my original notes about THAT SILLY SCREENPLAY IDEA that's been kicking around my brain for a decade, I might want to dedicate it, at least in part, to that person, or rename a main character, since it's arguably about people with morbid interests ("goths").
Not that I'm writing it with more intention than just finally getting it the heck out of my head. Mostly, I am responding to a great manifesto linked via
siderea. And, ever since ceciliatan recently friendulated me, I'm constantly, guiltily, reminded of how, when I described the screenplay to her in, o, ~1998ish, she promptly handed me a book on how to write screenplays. Probably the first book I ever borrowed from her, and I'm still not done with it.
