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As a capper to a great birthday three-day weekend, Sam & I went to a small birthday gathering for one of her former co-workers, who happens to have just moved to Smith St. & 3rd St. (a decent walk from our[!] apartment, though we got lucky and caught convenient G trains and took them one stop in either direction to reduce the freezing walk). We watched the Golden Globes from Joan & Melissa Rivers' nonsense all the way through to Denzel Washington's awkward goodbye, and when I got home I had to write this down. If you didn't see the broadcast tonight, I'm sure you'll hear about Larry McMurty (the co-screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain) and his bizarre paean to his typewriter. I hope to write a full-length version tomorrow, but meanwhile...
...a Breaking News Snippet I wrote tonight for thespoof.com:
Writer and Typewriter Share Golden Globe for "Broken Backspace Mountain"
A Hermes 3000 and its owner Larry McMurty win award for Best Screenplay for their controversial autobiographical film about forbidden love between an American screenwriter and his European typewriter
...a Breaking News Snippet I wrote tonight for thespoof.com:
Writer and Typewriter Share Golden Globe for "Broken Backspace Mountain"
A Hermes 3000 and its owner Larry McMurty win award for Best Screenplay for their controversial autobiographical film about forbidden love between an American screenwriter and his European typewriter