Comments on: This Is My Movie

By: Spencer Ackerman

Spencer Ackerman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:34:20 +0000

Point well taken, but that wasn’t about accounting.

@robert.waldmann, I hear you. We might be able to make a good sitcom about a blogospheric journalist who solves crimes and capers from the comfort of the Big Bear Cafe. Hi-jinks ensue.

By: macaquerman

macaquerman — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Movies about accountants can be pretty hilarious, my dear Bloom.

By: robert.waldmann

robert.waldmann — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:55:35 +0000

I have already noted this at Yglesias’s place, but if you think your day is boring, trying working in a laboratory for a day. MMM DNA fingerprinting almost as exiting as brushing your teeth 300 times in a row — without a pause. Yet somehow CSI, CSI Miami, CSI New York and CSI New Rochelle are still on the air (well on the airlessness of space via SKY-TV anyway).

Just have some jump cuts, classic rock and pointless zooming as you stare at your monitor agonizing about whether to hit the post button.

Call it something like “comment section instigation” DC.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:05:30 +0000

imo “All The President’s Men” led to a rise in I-can-be-a-star journalists.

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:13:24 +0000

Gotta find a tall guy, a smoker, to meet in parking garages. Then it becomes a great movie. Especially if your editor gives this source a cool name, that is more than slightly prurient. Also, Redford.

By: mikeyhemlok

mikeyhemlok — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:38:15 +0000

Spencer, deep breath.

We can both agree that you could make a very nice, uncomplicated living writing web copy, white papers and training video scripts. Considered and rejected.

You do what you do because it’s what you do, not because it has any glamor or likelihood of vast riches.

I stomped around the globe doing what I did because the alternative was soul-crushing, and now I’m old and paying the price in physical and mental health and know what?

I still can’t understand why someone would do anything else…

mikey

By: endaround

endaround — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:17:55 +0000

I think that at some point everyone thinks their job (and life) is interesting enough to be made into a movie. In general, it isn’t. Even Hollywood thinks their job is so exciting that it should be the basis of countless TV shows and films. And in general it shouldn’t be either.

By: Endymion

Endymion — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:38 +0000

I think what Yglesias describes could be turned into a compelling Fugazi video.