I had a request to start a blog where you could weigh in on thoughts about a movie based on The Merchant of Death and to discuss casting. This isn’t to say that a movie is imminent. It isn’t. But I’m working with some folks to develop one now, so you never know. (Just don’t hold your breath!)
So, here’s the blog. Have fun.
Robert Pendragon says:
A hotel and a demon. Expand on this.
BuggyReality says:
Saint Dane letting loose gangsters on the hotel Bobby and Spader are in?
Robert Pendragon says:
maybe that is one idea but there is so much more
SilverMisty says:
@gocloral: agree w/Robert Pendragon.
here’s an idea:
friends who try to escape and battle against unknown fears only they know exist. (mystery and adventure) I guess you can expand from that.
or…if you have any dreams, try to remember them/write them down. Dreams can always be turned into stories.
hope you and your friend win! 😀
Batu Warrior says:
It’s really late, and I am doing homework that’s due tomorrow, while listening to songs from Oliver, so I can memorize them. Oh yeahh, multitasking! I LOVE the songs from Oliver! They’re amazing 🙂
SilverMisty says:
hey 😀 so…how’s the play going?
Flume of Doom says:
All right.
I think I will resign until you civilians start talking about something more entertaining and less soap operaish.
EelongCatfolk says:
@GOCLORAL
I agree with SilverMisty, dreams can turn into amazing stories. That’s where most of my stories came from. What I do is whenever I have a dream that I think would be great for a story, I write down everything I can remember about it, then turn it into a story. Then each night I read what I’ve got written down, over and over again, right before I go to bed, so that it’s the last thing I think about before I fall asleep and it’s what I’ll dream about, and I can dream more about it and continue on from where the dream stopped when I woke up. Another thing I do is I take old characters that I’ve made for RPG’s and such, and think of what their life’s story is, asking myself things like: where did they come from, what events have happened in their past, things like that, and go on from there.
EelongCatfolk says:
@Flume of Doom
What’s wrong, too much positive spirit? lol
Tell us what entertains you, maybe we’ll talk about it. We don’t know what you find entertaining. Bring something up. Knowing us, we’ll jump right on it XD lol
@GOCLORAL
try building something from this:
An alternate dimension, dragons at war with massive beasts (let’s call them Kraegrens) with the horns of a bull, the head of a wolf, the body of a lion, a neck like a snake, the wings of a bat, the tail of a tiger ending with a blade-like plate, and the arms and legs like a bear, a young child, two eggs, one of a dragon, the other of a kraegren, both the last known living beings of their species, the boy becomes their caretaker, the people of the dimension (who tried to help the dragons) find out about the boy raising and protecting a kraegren, they sentence him to death, the boy the dragon and the kraegren flee, they are hunted throughout the dimension for years, they escape to our world, a great tragedy at the end, but the ending left open for a possible sequel.
Batu Warrior says:
@ Flume of Doom and Eelong Catfolk
That’s very true. We do jump right onto things.
@ SilverMisty
It’s a ton of fun 🙂 I think I we’re going to start putting the scenes together, including the dancing scenes (Which I’m most excited for). I also discovered we have a ton of good actors and singers. And I’m making a ton of new friends…. I could go on forever about this musical……. 🙂
Robert Pendragon says:
Good! Things are going well.
Courtney Chetwynde says:
New page!!!!
Batu Warrior says:
I like how I got onto the blog, and all I saw was, New page!!!! Lol. 🙂
GOCLORAL says:
Whats up people?!?! We just won the basketball championship!!!!! I’m so happy!
SilverMisty says:
@gocloral: that’s great! 😀 are you going to celebrate?
@EelongCatFolk: what’s one of the coolest dreams you’ve ever had?
@Flume of Doom: just post something that you think is interesting, like EelongCatFolk said. (ex: write another one of your “swashbuckling” tales—the one with Slick Mo and Needa, interesting poems, or any topic you find exciting) You’ll keep yourself (and us) entertained.
@Batu Warrior: that seems so awesome! It’s great that you found something that you’re really excited about…that makes a worthwhile experience 😀
@Robert Pendragon: So Professor, how did teaching your English class go?
Batu Warrior says:
@ GOCLORAL
Awesome 🙂
@ SilverMisty
I don’t know what I would do without dancing and theatre. It’s funny, I go to dance every day, but every minute I’m not there, I want to be. The other dancers always want to go home…. I must be crazy, but as my teacher/director says, Theatre people, are weirdos. Wich explains why Will is so weird 🙂
SilverMisty says:
anyways, how’s it between you and Will?
(as for the “weirdo” thing: i’m pretty sure that anyone with that much enthusiasm about something is like that. including me. 🙂 So call it crazy, but that’s what makes those hobbies fun!)
GOCLORAL says:
@ SilverMisty
We celebrated at Baskin Robins! YUM! The downside is that I sprained my ankle. 🙁 . Thank God that it’s a minor sprain 🙂
Robert Pendragon says:
@SilverMisty I don’t teach until next week.
Courtney Chetwynde says:
@batuwarrior
Lol about the new page thing.
Ya i know what you mean about wanting to be a theater all the time. For me it isnt theater but music. I play guitar, cello and i sing in my schools acapella group. Music is kinda my life, most people dread orchestra and chorus at my school but i love them. When people ask me why i love music my response is “music puts me in my own world, a place where no one can bother me. Its a place where i can get away and be myself.” anyways i totally get what you mean about always wanting to be at dance!
Batu Warrior says:
@ SilverMisty
Well, I found out the other day he STILL doesn’t know my name….. But we talk a lot now. The other day, someone said something about the titanic, and me and Will both were like, “I LOVE the Titanic!!” And then he started talking like a mile a minute about it. It was funny. Then he started asking me about the Titanic, what I knew about it. I’ve always been interested in it, but I never got around to looking up random facts… Lol, but yeah. I feel like today I’m just going to go up to him and be like, “My name is MAGGIE! Okay?” Haha ^_^
@ GOCLORAL
Aww. I hate spraining ankles. I have like seven different spots I hurt myself at dance :p it sucks.
I get my contract done in a few hours 😀
Flume of Doom says:
This is a story I started writing a while ago. See what you can add to it and it can be finished as a public project.
A while back in the Wild West…
Make that back in 1851, when you could carry your gun everywhere, drink from a horse trough, get into a real live barfight, and when other realistic and highly graphic experiences were available at little or no cost, there lived a man called Brian. Crazy Bert O Brain, to be significantly more precise!
Why’d they call him Crazy Bert O Brian, you ask?
You’ll see soon enough, But first, a note of advice: Watch out for that bear trap!
What bear trap, you ask?
“AAAEEEOOO!â€
I didn’t mean you! I meant that guy in the striped bandit costume over there by the shed!
“Whadda ya mean, COSTUME?! This here is the real deal!â€
Oh.
Anyway, Out comes Crazy Bert O Brain, with his authentic Clint Eastwood Steel Toed Socks, his 24 and a half gauge, double barrel shotgun, and, believe it or not, a genuine Woody action figure hanging out of his pajama pants!
“What the!?†Inquired the slightly attenuated crook.
“Well looky what we have here…†growled Crazy Bert in an not so innocent tone of voice.
“Please sir, don’t decapacitate me!†begged the insignificant thief.
“Ah, you don’t need to worry about that.†said Bert blithely.
The thief gave a sigh of relief.
“Yeah,†said Bert, “Why decapacitate you? That would not be very nice. I prefer the democratic approach, which is…perfectly fair.â€
“Well, I’m glad to hear you’re a man of high morals,†began the thief, “because I was starting to get pretty scared that you would be as bad as you are in all those mouse trap commercials, you know, ‘There’s more than one way to disassemble a pest!’â€
“Well, none of my…options contain disassembly, but let’s get on with it. Pull the string. You’ll get a fair chance.â€
The thief gave a quizzical look, and so, Bert held out the Woody doll, turned it around, and made one of its hands point toward the loop hanging from its back.
“It’s gonna be this easy?†asked the thief.
“Yup.†said Bert.
The thief still looked uncertain, so Bert turned Woody to face the crook, and made him nod in approval.
So the thief pulled the string. A moment later, a little recorded voice said
“Run like the wind, Bullseye!â€
The thief paused, and then looked down at his slightly problematic bear trap.
“You heard him!†shouted Bert with a sly grimace.
“But!“ started the thief.
“You better do it, mister, before he says ‘There’s a snake in my boot’!†said a little kid from the window next door.
“What would happen then?†asked the bear-trapped burglar.
“Let’s just say the last victim of that particular aspect of democracy was doing the Howie Scream for about two and three quarters minutes while the hospital treated him with three liters of rattlesnake antivenin…†the kid said.
And the crook ran like the wind when it was getting chased by the Death Star.
Yup, that was how it went with Crazy Bert O Brain. His motto was ‘no pain, no gain’ like most cowboys back then said. Let’s now consider examining his slightly controversial past…
Back even before Swindler Jim and Black Bob, Wild Bill or Wyatt Earp, there was an even tougher gunslinger. Slick Mo Two Toe. He was tough. Thirteen kills in two years, the loss of eight toes in the same, due to standing right on one of those boxes of dynamite when Beefy Banker Bob hit it with his imported yak that had a kerosene lantern tied to its head.
Now Crazy Bert was in a saloon, watching a commercial on TV about Slip-Resistant shoes.
It started by showing a criminal running across a cement floor, with a bag of money in each hand, with about fifty seven police behind him. He comes to an alley, and a bounty hunter dumps a bucket of oil in his path. “AAAAAAAAEEEEEEEOOOOOOO!†the criminal did a perfect Wilhelm Scream as he slid across the oil slick into a cage. Every successful thief or burglar should have his own pair of Oil and Slip-Resistant shoes. It showed another bank robber in the same situation, but this time with a confident look on his malicious countenance. He glanced down at his shoes, which were marked by an “Oil and Slip-Resistant†tag, and then it zoomed back in on his face. Then it showed the police shouting, “Let’s bag him so we can get some doughnuts!†The bounty hunter dumped the oil in his path, but the thief continued sprinting forward! He went through the oil, and ran around the cage.
It then showed the rest of the crooks back at their hideout, digging through their money bags. One said “wow Jimmy, that’s a year’s salary you just earned us, thanks to your-“ “BOOM! OIL AND SLIP REISTANT SHOES! ONLY FOUR INSIGNIFICANT PAYMENTS OF $19.95!†It displayed the shoes on screen, and gave a phone number.
“We gotta get us some of Those!†Exclaimed Crazy Bert, “Whadda you think, Woody?â€
Bert pulled the string, and the inanimate doll replied,
“There’s a snake in my boot!â€
“I know what you mean,†said Bert, “What’s that number again?â€
Bert got out of his seat, and started walking toward the Morse code machine that people back in those days used as a telephone. “BAM!†“What the!†“BAM!†“HELLp!†A guy over by the gambling table fell over, with a hole blown straight through his thoracic cavity. A big dumb sidekick voice said “I KNEW IT! I mean, wow, he has an ace of spades stuck in his sleeve.†“He does? Then why’d ya shoot him?†said a mafia-ish voice. “Cause he was cheating!†“If it was still in his sleeve, he wasn’t technically cheating yet!†“Yeah well now he can’t cheat! He’s dead! D-E-D dead!â€
Robert Pendragon says:
People I am alive and will be alive until I die.
Courtney Chetwynde says:
Hey does any one elses school participate in National Science bowl
SilverMisty says:
@Batu Warrior: lol…I’ve never heard a guy talk a mile a minute…I’d like to see that. and you guys make great friends 🙂 next time, he says hi or ‘sup or whatever he says, you should just tell him your name.
I thought of a cheesy scenario:
[You (MAGGIE) comes over and sits next to WILL, who is taking a break after the last dance.]
MAGGIE: Knock. Knock.
WILL (laughs): I already know who’s there.
MAGGIE (jokingly): Oh, really?
WILL(with a mock pride): Yeah. I’m Sherlock Holmes, remember? Cool, smart, and good-looking. I know everything.
MAGGIE(laughs): Sure you do. So just ask the million-dollar question.
WILL: Do I get a million dollars?
MAGGIE: I thought you were the great Sherlock Holmes. The one with all the money. The one who’s supposed to know EVERYTHING…including the right question.
WILL(hands up in surrender): Alright, alright. I’ll ask the “million-dollar” question. Who’s there?
MAGGIE: Maggie.
WILL: Maggie who? From the Simpsons?
MAGGIE: No. Me. I’m Maggie.
WILL: Oh…so that’s what your name is.
MAGGIE (smiling): Yeah. Glad you finally figured that out, Holmes.
WILL (imitating a British guy): Well, Maggie, I must say that I’m awesome that way.
Sorry, that was long…but I had fun thinking of it.
Courtney Chetwynde says:
@silvermisty
Thats really sweet. My friensa all call me a hopeless romantic because im always dreaming of fairytale endings. My luck is though when i can make won reality i end up stuttering or making a fool out of myself……
@bath warrior
One hint dont accidently fall on top of ur crush. Luckily i havent fallen on top of my crush yet, but i have fallen repediatly on top of my best guy friends. One of them i have fallen on top of so many times ot isnt akward anymore, lesson learned: dont try guarding someone 5″ taller then myself and reaching over them. The other one its stil akward but we just end up laughing. Anyways if you want an easy but akward way to start a conversation with Will would be to trip over him, though i wouldnt suggest this method.
SilverMisty says:
@gocloral: I love eating Baskin Robbin’s ice-cream and cakes 😀 Hope your ankle gets better soon.
@Courtney: No. Sorry, my school doesn’t. But I just want to know…is it fun? And…music is awesome! 🙂
@Robert Pendragon: good luck next week, then 🙂
@Flume of Doom: “Jeez, what’s wrong with you? You didn’t have to shoot just because he was cheating!”
“And what? Lose all of my money?”
“So? Look, partner, it’s your fault that you bet all of your money! A guy like you should know better than that!”
“I’d watch my mouth if I were you, boy,” The guy says, raising the gun to the other guy’s chest. “Or you’re next.”
“Oh yeah?” The other guy taunts, taking out his own gun from its holster.
Another guy (owner of the place) interrupts.
“What in the tarnation is going on here?”
That’s all I have for now. Hope you liked it. 🙂
SilverMisty says:
@Courtney: thanks 🙂 lol about tripping…I guess everyone has nervous and funny tidbits/habits. I talk more when I’m nervous…like before a test. 🙂
Courtney Chetwynde says:
@silvermisty
Ya its a ton of fun regionals for me are in 3 weeks and if we win we go to nationals in april i think!
Haha ya we all do things when we r nervous except me tripping isnt me nervous its just me being a clutz…….. My nervous habit is stuttering.
GOCLORAL says:
Yeesh. A girl leaves for a day and someone writes a story and someone gets dating advice. Well, I’m at a volleyball tornoment. Exciting! GO NASA!!
@ Courtney Chetwynde
Lol. You sound like Mark!
GOCLORAL says:
Is my GRAVATAR gone? NOOOOO!!!!
Courtney Chetwynde says:
@GOCLORAL
Yes i do seem like mark. For quite a few reasons
1) my stupid nervous stutter not as bad as his but Still
2) im the smartest girl in my grade
3) i participate in the national science bowl, tech wars, science club amd and a gifted math program
As for your gravatar i would suggest making sure your email that u used for the account is typed in correctly
GOCLORAL says:
@ Courtney Chetwynde
Thanks. I’ll try that!
We lost our tournament. 🙁 of course I made the losing pass. But at least I’m a starter! My serves were on fire! Yay! Heading to the Cheesecake Factory. Yum!
GOCLORAL says:
I swear. If I eat any more food, I’m gonna pass out. The Cheesecake Factory is SOOOOOOO good!!!!!!!!!!!
Batu Warrior says:
@ SilverMisty
That’s very random…. Haha. And yesterday we were talking, and some of my friends were there too, and I said, “Do you know my name yet?” Then he said, “No, you never told me.” So then I turned and showed him my shirt, which had my name on the sleeve, and said, “Right there.” then he was like “Maggie.” And then he laughed…. I don’t know why lol. And today he said my name like a million times
@ Courtney
Lol, okay, I’ll make sure not to fall on him. 🙂
Courtney Chetwynde says:
@batuwarrior
Thats one way to get him to know ur name. Haha he probably said it a million time because he thinks its funny and it will make u laugh or he wants you to know that he remembers it.
Flume of Doom says:
See! I told you! Here we go…back to Dr. Phil.
(I don’t think that guy’s a real doctor.)
GOCLORAL says:
Ugh! I HATE being sick!!!! I think I have strep. I’m going to the doctor later today. 🙁
EelongCatfolk says:
@SilverMisty
One of the coolest dreams I’ve even had, first one that comes to mind would be when Arin, Erin, and Auran came to my school and took me away to help they stop Gigarim, one of the evil beings from Ty Marrik’s Story, who was searching for me because I had the power to destroy him once and for all. Gigarym would destroy all existence, feeding from it’s essence, and recreate it with him as the ultimate power. I got to meet all of the characters I created and put into my story; I got my own sword and became a member in The Order of the Onyx Blades; fight along side Ty Marrik, Kirram, Darik, and Neoma; and try Darik’s cooking. And it was one of those realistic dreams, I could feel everything in there and I could actually taste Darik’s cooking (the taste of which lingered in my mouth for hours after I woke up.) It was amazing.
@Flume of Doom
Your story is great. I enjoy a good Western story.
EelongCatfolk says:
@GOCLORAL
I hope you feel better soon!
@Everyone
HAPPY (early) VALENTINE’S DAY!!!!!!
EelongCatfolk says:
@Flume of Doom
“Just the usual sh-tuff that accompanies a game o’ cards. Someone tries cheatin’ and gets caught, another guy gets angry and shoots ’em.”
“Well, you’re scaring away all my customers! If it happens again, you’re all gonna be banned from my bar!”
GOCLORAL says:
Ugh! My mom is SO annoying! She just got done yelling at me for being sick! She was like, “Your not sick! You just wanted to stay out of school!” All because I didn’t want to go to volleyball practice!
SilverMisty says:
@Batu Warrior: Maggie. Maggie. Maggie…lol 🙂 I think he was just joking around with you. it’s great that you found the perfect opportunity to tell him your name—it’s on your shirt.
@Flume of Doom: I think that you should just ignore the stuff that doesn’t interest you. Anyways, your story is progressing well 🙂
@gocloral: I think pretty much everyone hates it when they’re sick. Anyways, try to talk with your mom and make her understand that you’re really sick and aren’t just acting to skip practice—that you wouldn’t miss practice on purpose.
@EelongCatFolk: that’s a really cool dream…it would be awesome if I dreamed that I was a character in one of my favorite stories 🙂
SilverMisty says:
@gocloral: also…hope you get well soon 🙂
Courtney Chetwynde says:
Happy valentines day!!!!!!💟ðŸ’💑💘💓â¤ðŸ’šðŸ’—💜💙ðŸ˜ðŸ˜šðŸ’
Flume of Doom says:
Crazy Bert eyed the argument at the table warily. He was too young to get his head blown off in a barfight.
“Hey look boys,” said the guy the bartender had just reprimanded, “It’s Crazy Bert O Brian! Let’s bust him!”
Bert didn’t like the look of this. He quickly turned his back to the gang, and pulled his Woody doll out of his pants.
“What should I do, partner?” He asked the doll desperately. (And then pulled the string)
‘REACH for the SKY.” Said Woody.
Crazy Bert did not hesitate. He cold hear chairs scooting behind him as the thugs got up to put the Whack on him. He put his hands above his head in a gesture of surrender.
But what was this? His finger touched what appeared to be the end of a cord. He pulled it. “WhooshclankclankclankclankTHUD.”
A trapdoor on the ceiling opened and a ladder fell out.
“He’s gettin away!” Yelled one of the bullies, “Get him!”
And Crazy Bert O Brian started to climb.
Tribbun and Ribbon says:
Woah!! I haven’t posted in so long!!!! This is so exciting!!!! Happy Valentines day everyone!!!!!!!!!! Woo hoo!!
Tribbun and Ribbon says:
awwwww my pictures gone again!!!!! 🙁
Tribbun and Ribbon says:
woah!!!! I made a smiley face!!!!!!!
Wait im going to try something..
🙂 🙁 😮 :0 😛 B) :/ >:) >:(
Tribbun and Ribbon says:
some of them worked!