This is a documentary film that a girl wearing denim traveled over 50 countries in two years.
The denim walks freely in the world, meets people, changes and fades.
Pretty funny stuff, if you're familiar with Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style".
16. Use definite, specific, concrete language.
Generalities enervate your writing; strong details invigorate it.
In short order, you'll notice enhanced length and girth.
What is meant by "short order"? A week? A month? The imprecision is suspicious. Further, avoid bankrupt modifiers such as enhanced. Rewrite with exactness.
Your exactly one week away from an 11-inch jizz stick.
[snip] But in rewatching the show, I’m struck by how strongly Farscape seems modeled on the story/structure of a gaming group. Not ‘game-based fiction’, but the group itself. [/snip]
If you're a Farscape fan, or a geek or a gamer of any sort, read this article. It's brilliant.
Giggleworthy and quite true.
And yet it makes me question, does originality really matter when there's a good story in need of telling? It's becoming rare for books, movies, and TV shows to be based on completely original concepts nowadays. I don't think that's necessarily based on a lack of original ideas, but rather the sheer amount of great ideas and stories that have been told and forgotten, yet are still relevant today.
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