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Archive for May, 2007

The Kind of Web Traffic You Don’t Want

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 23rd, 2007  
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Posted in: Personal     

Having a blog with the name Boys Wear Pants, Men Wear Trousers, you could just imagine some of the sick shit that people type into google and end up getting my site instead. But the past few days, I’ve been getting a steady stream of traffic from folks googling my name and not in [...]

Getting Back to Roots

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 22nd, 2007  
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Posted in: Film, Television, Music and Books, History     

Tonight I made a purchase that was a long time coming. I procured a copy of the newly released 30th Anniversary Edition of the 1970s miniseries Roots based on Alex Haley’s book.
I wasn’t cognizant enough in 1977 to appreciate the social impact of the book or miniseries but I did pick up the first [...]

Writing Fiction versus Screenplays

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 16th, 2007  
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Posted in: Film, Television, Music and Books     

All my energy lately has been going into work, work outside work and writing a screenplay about the life of one of my personal heroes. Writing a screenplay is much different from writing fiction as you are essentially creating visual images accompanied by dialogue on the page whereas with fiction, you are painting ideas [...]

Tonight’s Sopranos was the Most Important Episode of the Entire Series So Far

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 13th, 2007  
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Chrissy’s dead and it turns out he was Tony’s albatross of bad luck, the black cloud surrounding his entire existence or at least that’s how Tony now sees it. His failures are successfully buried and at the end of the episode, high on peyote and in the presence of a whore, he finally breaks [...]

What Makes Harry Potter Work

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 13th, 2007  
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Posted in: Film, Television, Music and Books     

I finally made a big Harry Potter investment that I’ve been meaning to for some years. I bought all the books on CD and even pre-ordered the seventh and final one. I listened to the books before I read them just because it’s my preferential way to ingest a book. I love [...]

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