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Although the Stubborn Writer website was once very active, other demands have caused it to be somewhat dormant for a long time. However, we are pleased to announce that we are bringing the site back into action – this time with a new focus.

The primary purpose of this site when it was created was just to be a place to post random rants and complaints about things that annoyed me. The problem with this strategy is that I’m actually a pretty happy person with a good life and few things to complain about. In order for this site to continue, the focus would have to change into something more sustainable over time.

So, we’ve shifted our focus to the secondary purpose of the site to turn this into a resource for writers. Some of the things we’ve added include directories of writing publications, organizations for writers, writing software, scriptwriting software, and conferences for writers. We are also reviving the Stubborn Writer Facebook Page. Our Twitter page (@StubbornWriter) never went inactive, but it will start focusing more on writing related posts.

This post will be followed by a few targeted blog posts for each of the new directories we have added. This is just a method of helping the search engines find the resources we have added to the website. Once those posts are up, normal blogging will resume. And for those who enjoyed the old attitude of the site, don’t worry. While most of the focus will be on issues related to writing, we will make sure to find time for plenty of snarky posts about other things too.

Thanks for returning to our site, we hope you enjoy it.

 

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Selling feces as art? Sasha Grey interviews artist Terence Koh

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Feces for sale: Sasha Grey inverviews artist Terence Koh about selling feces and other aspects of being a gay Asian artist.

In an interview published on BlackBookMag.com, Sasha Grey conducts an online interview with artist Terence Koh.  Koh is a mixed media artist who apparently sold his feces – plated in gold – at an art auction in 2007 for $500,000.  He recently started selling more of his shit (the feces, I mean) on his website without the gold plating, bringing the price down to a mere $150.

The interviewer, Sasha Grey, is an adult film star who recently crossed over into mainstream movies to star in Steven Soderbergh’s movie The Girlfriend Experience. In that movie, she plays a high class call girl.  She also recently accepted a part in a horror movie in which she will play a Bible-thumping teen who takes a pledge not to have sex before marriage.  However, while she is crossing over into the mainstream media on selected projects, it appears that she is continuing her porn career as well.  She has starred in over 200 porn films over the last four years.

If you are offended by articles about using feces as works of art, gay sex, porn stars, or the challenges of being a gay Asian artist looking for love or a sex partner, then skip the interview.  But if you are looking for a good laugh with a bit of twisted humor, read the interview on BlackBookMag.com by clicking here.

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Review of the review of James Cameron’s Avatar on RedLetterMedia.com

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Roger Ebert, step aside. There’s a new movie reviewer in town who is grinding all others into dust. Or perhaps chaining them up in his basement and skinning them alive would be a more accurate description. His name (or at least his character) is Mr. Plinkett, his website is RedLetterMedia.com, and his method is to create scathingly brilliant video reviews of movies such as James Cameron’s Avatar.  As soon as I heard him describe Avatar as “Dances with Wolves in space,” I knew I would be a fan.

To understand Mr. Plinkett as a movie reviewer, try to imagine Jame Gumb in his basement with a videocamera creating lengthy and highly analytical reviews of major movies, while pausing from time to time to scream at prisoners in his homemade dungeon. For those who don’t remember, Jame Gumb was Buffalo Bill, portrayed by Ted Levine, in the movie adaptation of Thomas Harris‘s novel The Silence of the Lambs.

I first learned about Mr. Plinkett and his movie reviews earlier this week when Musetta, one of the ex-wives of one of my ex-business partners, posted a Huffington Post story to her Facebook account.  The essence of the article was to say’ “look at this great movie review of Avatar,” which was embedded into the Huffington Post story without a direct link back to the source. Fortunately, the video itself displays the web address at the end of the clip, so I was able to rush to the website to spend the rest of my day watching brilliant but demented movie reviews.

The Avatar review is divided into two parts of roughly 10 minutes each.  Speaking with the voice and mannerisms of a cross between Jame Gumb and Walter Matthau, Mr. Plinkett dissects Avatar with the precision of a skilled surgeon or serial killer, peeling the skin off the movie to reveal the weak flesh and fragile skeleton inside.  The review of Avatar is simply too brilliant to be summarized in a blog post, because no description can do it justice.  You have to watch the clips to fully appreciate them.

One criticism I have of the Red Letter Media website is that the design prevents linking to any specific page in the site.  No matter which page the reader is on, the url always displays http://redlettermedia.com.  This made clear why the Huffington Post decided to embed the video into their own site,  and consequently I chose to embed the Plinkett review of James Cameron’s Avatar into this article as well.  Parts one and two are below:

I’m surprised that more people writing about this review have not recognized the numerous subtle references to the Silence of the Lambs, but then again I may have watched that movie a few too many times. Watch this site for future articles about Plinkett’s movie reviews and the geniuses behind them.

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