For the second time in HBH’s ingluorified career, we will have a guest post-er! I first came across Brian through a TrueHoop link, and my life has been a lot weirder ever since. Brian invents new ways to use the internet’s many resources, to a point that the inventors of said resources never saw coming. Don’t believe me? Follow him on twitter. Enough for introductions, here are his brain words:
WHY BRONCHITIS IS SO FUNNY
When you stand up to write a blog post for someone else’s site, the first thing you need to do is take a look at their site and make sure your interpretation of what will fit there is match for what they may think fits there.
As a long-time blog-keeper, I can tell you that many sites open with one mission statement, and thirty days later, they voice and intent that’s settled in is something completely different.
Refreshing then that this was the first statement found on the “about” page of HBH:
Half Broke Hotel is the brainchild of randomness really and truly.
Perfect – I check in with these guys anyway, but knowing I’ve been getting out of it what they intend to put forth is making happiness be created.
The question becomes then, what does one write about, given full and complete creative freedom. I have a good idea (see title) but first I want to tell a quick story about what happened to me at the movie theater the other night.
Star Trek was recently re-released in IMAX for like two weeks – I think they owed something on the contract or whatever. In any case, I’d seen this like four times already – twice in IMAX – but really wanted to go again so I could see it in 3-D.
It wasn’t actually in 3-D - it’s not a 3-D movie – but I wore like these huge sunglasses and pretended like I was special and had privileges other people seeing the movie didn’t have.
Anyway, it started out fine, but about 10 minutes in, everyone was getting mad when I kept yelling, “Whoooaaaaa…outer space is coming right at me…Spock is coming right at me…”
Then like I was fine for a few minutes until the next space part, and then it was like, “Look out for the space, it’s coming right at me…there are tribbles coming right at me…” and like reaching out in front of me, and then reaching back, as if it was in 3-D so much that the tribbles had actually gotten behind me.
So by that point, the usher had come in, and she was in 3-D also, so I was all like, “Your nametag is coming right at me…get me off this crazy machine…whoaaa…”
I was the only person in the movie.
Much like blogs lose their way and morph into something other than intended, so this post did. What do you think it was supposed to be about.
Brian Spaeth is the writer and star of Who Shot Mamba?, a Broadband Motion Picture debuting October 13th on Koldcast.tv. You can see the first teaser-trailer on the website, and the second exclusively at the Facebook Page. Brian has also published two novels, and writes regularly at his own blog.
Guest Post: Brian Spaeth
For the second time in HBH’s ingluorified career, we will have a guest post-er! I first came across Brian through a TrueHoop link, and my life has been a lot weirder ever since. Brian invents new ways to use the internet’s many resources, to a point that the inventors of said resources never saw coming. Don’t believe me? Follow him on twitter. Enough for introductions, here are his brain words:
WHY BRONCHITIS IS SO FUNNY
When you stand up to write a blog post for someone else’s site, the first thing you need to do is take a look at their site and make sure your interpretation of what will fit there is match for what they may think fits there.
As a long-time blog-keeper, I can tell you that many sites open with one mission statement, and thirty days later, they voice and intent that’s settled in is something completely different.
Refreshing then that this was the first statement found on the “about” page of HBH:
Half Broke Hotel is the brainchild of randomness really and truly.
Perfect – I check in with these guys anyway, but knowing I’ve been getting out of it what they intend to put forth is making happiness be created.
The question becomes then, what does one write about, given full and complete creative freedom. I have a good idea (see title) but first I want to tell a quick story about what happened to me at the movie theater the other night.
Star Trek was recently re-released in IMAX for like two weeks – I think they owed something on the contract or whatever. In any case, I’d seen this like four times already – twice in IMAX – but really wanted to go again so I could see it in 3-D.
It wasn’t actually in 3-D - it’s not a 3-D movie – but I wore like these huge sunglasses and pretended like I was special and had privileges other people seeing the movie didn’t have.
Anyway, it started out fine, but about 10 minutes in, everyone was getting mad when I kept yelling, “Whoooaaaaa…outer space is coming right at me…Spock is coming right at me…”
Then like I was fine for a few minutes until the next space part, and then it was like, “Look out for the space, it’s coming right at me…there are tribbles coming right at me…” and like reaching out in front of me, and then reaching back, as if it was in 3-D so much that the tribbles had actually gotten behind me.
So by that point, the usher had come in, and she was in 3-D also, so I was all like, “Your nametag is coming right at me…get me off this crazy machine…whoaaa…”
I was the only person in the movie.
Much like blogs lose their way and morph into something other than intended, so this post did. What do you think it was supposed to be about.
Brian Spaeth is the writer and star of Who Shot Mamba?, a Broadband Motion Picture debuting October 13th on Koldcast.tv. You can see the first teaser-trailer on the website, and the second exclusively at the Facebook Page. Brian has also published two novels, and writes regularly at his own blog.