So I just clicked out of my tumblr dashboard and looked at my actual TUMBLR (as in stamos.tumblr.com) for the first time in a while. some thoughts I am having:
- I totally forgot to mention that that not too long ago when I was probably supposd to be procrastinating but was fucking around on a photo app on my iphone instead i made a new graphic for this tumblr that incorporates the title from my original blog
- Have you guys looked at your own tumblr, like, outside of your dash? Is everyone’s as insane? Mine looks like this weird freak portal inside my brain that couldn’t possibly make any sense to anyone but me and i barely understand what it is I am posting and why.
- Are there some people who visit this website who don’t have tumblr? And like, is this how you see it every time you visit this website?
- Man it is a GOOD THING tumblr and blogs and all this stuff didn’t exist when I was growing up and in high school. Kids today are so fucked.
#sailingtonewwaters #ciaofornow by markvandelli
RKOI is one of the few meme tumblrs I still follow. And it’s days like today that I am so happy for that.
Accurate.
Loving Beyonce on Tumblr but someone really needs to teach her how to use the Queue.
by the way it’s fun getting questions, we should do that with each other more.
This one’s a no-brainer: watch GIRLS on HBO tonight at 9pm, because you already do, but especially because one of my closest friends, the lovely and amazing Sarah Heyward (aka @shinyunicorn on Twitter and tweenysomething on tumblr) co-wrote the episode with Lena and I have a feeling it’s going to be damn funny and amazing, just like Sarah is! (Yes, Sarah is the one who often pops up on my Instagram and tumblr as we live just three blocks away from each other and spend an excessive amount of time at each others’ houses and staring lovingly into the adorable eyes of her dog Pixie, who has a permanent dog bed at my house. She’s amazing, I love her, and you should too).
Two things:
1. I would very much like it if Tumblr made it so you could like people’s replies to your posts. Because that would be so much easier than taking a screen shot and reposting.
2. There’s got to be some correlation between not liking Katherine Heigl AND Anne Hathaway, right? Because I know there are lots of us like-minded opinionated types out there. Maybe we should start a secret society.
3. Okay I know I said two things but I have to admit that I am sort of starting to slowly like Anne Hathaway a little more than I did before. I still don’t love her but she’s been killing it on this most recent press tour for Les Mis. Although I have it on very good authority (a friend who went to college with her), that Anne Hathaway is kind of huge bitch in person. So I guess I don’t know what I think.
4. Yes we can be friends, duh.
tv writing about tv writing
So it’s nice having a job but it’s somewhat frustrating because I no longer have time to work on my own writing — which is why I’m procrastinating on tumblr at 8pm on a Saturday night when the majority of my friends are drunkenly traveling to Christmas parties all over LA. I’ve been in this coffee shop since 5 and I’ve gotten a few things done, I guess. Not enough. It’s never enough when you’re writing.
I can’t decide if I’m more productive in a coffee shop or in the cave that is my room. Starting to think… maybe nowhere. Maybe I’m destined to procrastinate with any available method. Are there people who DON’T procrastinate? Who are you? How do you do it? Teach me your ways!
Anyway, the best part about having a writing job again is the access to free food. I didn’t realize how much I missed that from The Finder, but being back in a writers room with access to all the nosh I could possibly want, from catered dinners, to individual meals from delicious LA restaurants, to a full kitchen stacked with groceries — it is the greatest. Besides writing, it’s my favorite perk of this profession.
Speaking of the new job — did anyone watch the show this week? I hope so. If not, check it out here — I hope you enjoy it! It’s been fun writing, not only because the hosts were actually saying things I had written, but also because I’ve been able to incorporate my personal experience of previously working on a show and for a studio, and of course all that I know about the television fandom at large. For example, I know a lot about tumblr’s TV fanbase so I’ve tried to cater to you guys especially (for example, see the “Tiva” mention on Thursday’s show featuring a small clip of NCIS).
Writing about TV shows is much easier than writing TV shows. And on that note, I’m back to work — the goal is to finish the vomit draft of my new pilot by the end of the night. At the rate I’m going, it’s a good thing this coffee shop is open 24 hours.
Also my new pilot is called JAW WIRED SHUT — it’s loosely based on my experience with braces in my mid-twenties. I pitched a different version of it (that took place in college) to MTV in October and they passed, so now I’m writing it as my sample for staffing season.
It’s fun. Having that surgery and the braces was horrible but it really does make for a good story. And after all, they always say to write what you know.
home alone and other random things
I’m home alone in Maine recovering from Wedding Number One which has left me exhausted with a sore throat, wanting to do nothing but watch Cheers from the beginning on Netflix streaming, but instead I am pushing through, trying to write and work and prepare for a meeting in New York next week before I come back to LA, after Wedding Number Two this weekend.
My family went back to New York and LA this afternoon (including the newlyweds, my brother and his wife HIS WIFE!). It’s really great being home alone here except two summers ago I had a major visit from three ghosts in my room in the middle of the night and even though I’m into ghosts I could do without a visit when I’m home alone. We’ll see. I’m going to take some NyQuil so let’s just assume everything after 11:30pm EST is a hallucination, just to be safe.
I finally caved and put some stickers on my computer. Three butterflies that I got at the Maine Audubon the day before the wedding.
Hey did you know about this Tumblr queue thing? It’s great! It makes it look like I’m always blogging and churning up stuff on a regular basis when I am so totally not. Fooled you guys.
Kate Spencer you are brilliant and fantastic and with that one comment you have lifted my spirits infinitely. I think YOU are great and I want to spend more time with you when I get back to LA. There — yes! That’s a GREAT thing about living in LA — the vast amount of talented people in a very small area that you have access to, and how many of those people understand all the things you feel. Like Kate Spencer!
“Ramou” I have no idea who you are but the “Identifying My Anxiety” Game is one too many of us know all too well and thank you for understanding and appreciating. I don’t often take to Tumblr to vent because I don’t really love using it for that (I’d rather use it for JOKES! GIFS! BRAGGING ABOUT MY LIFE WITH MY INSTAGRAM FEED!) but whenever I do it’s very reassuring to get the support from whoever all you are that read this thing.
Hi. I fiddled with my layout tonight. Here is its latest incarnation. What do you think?
How, then, to encourage feedback while discouraging drive-by hecklers who make you never want to post again? First, Karp notes, you can comment on someone else’s post, by reblogging it and adding your reaction. But that reaction appears on your Tumblr, not the one you’re commenting on. “So if you’re going to be a jerk, you’re looking like a jerk in your own space, and my space is still pristine,” Karp explains. This makes for a thoughtful network and encourages expression and, ultimately, creativity. “That’s how you can design to make a community more positive.”
Another example: when users wanted a private message system, Tumblr’s answer involved clicking on the words “Send Fan Mail” — a prompt to encourage positivity. “We don’t want to allow you to have your feelings hurt on Tumblr,” Zack Sultan, a Tumblr designer, says
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/can-tumblrs-david-karp-embrace-ads-without-selling-out.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all (via sarpa)
Tumblr is awesome, but we all knew that already, didn’t we?
I seriously love photo booth photos way too much. Also Aisha’s face in the top pic is my favorite.
