772 tonight for a grand total of 2697 for chapter 2! wow this is. gonna be a bit longer than I thought
hey artist friends, anybody feeling a commission? big bunch of human characters (nine of ‘em heh), will trade a cast shot for writing/video services and/or commensurate cash. I’ve got ref images for all, but not really a specific person they each look like, more like collections of people I see them as mixes of. so. it’s kind of a weird project. figured I’d throw it out there to see if anyone’s interestedddd ;D
lets just turn abandoned shopping malls into affordable apartments and keep the food courts and comfy palm trees and fountains and places to sit that’d be real nice
I must say that although I doubted the value of today’s luau party at work, the hour and a half spent standing in the sun with newly-nicknamed Turf Titties and Twinkybear and earning myself the nicknames Polyglamorous and Rollerblades miiiiiiiiiiiight have been worth
I told my two favorite coworkers about ~the problem child~ and without prompting they rolled their eyes at the correct time. GO TEAM JUDGMENT
PARTS UNKNOWN
a play in three acts written with a predictive text imitator
source: all available transcripts of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
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Methodology:
1. Get all transcripts of the show Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown from cnn.com.
2. Divide transcripts by character and give them to computer program that uses word sequences in a source text to suggest likely words to continue a sentence, like the predictive text function on a smartphone. The program offers a list of top options and the writer picks one of these.
3. Write Bourdain lines using collection of all lines transcript attributes to BOURDAIN; write Unidentified Male lines using collection of all lines attributed to UNIDENTIFIED MALE; write Unidentified Female lines using collection of all lines attributed to UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE.
4. Arrange lines into play.
5. Write stage directions without machine assistance. Add punctuation.
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Act 1
Daytime. A modest kitchen in a distant land. American television personality ANTHONY BOURDAIN hunches over a small, bare table opposite an UNIDENTIFIED MALE and an UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE. Behind them, a cracked window gives onto a vast desert. Bourdain moves his hands animatedly, addressing his hosts with utter confidence.
Bourdain: It’s delicious to be a poet of life. I guess what I’m telling you is, I am famous for my great joys and I would like to eat a big thing of the pig. A big bowl of rice might be worth dying for.
Unidentified Female: We have one food here and it’s very bad for sure. We can get a lot of it for you if you like.
951 tonight!