Houston, We Have Confirmation

Of course there's a missing stapler involved. It is called Milton Hoight, after all... (Office Space in-joke, for those who haven't seen it. You should. It's by the guy who created King Of The Hill. It's got Jennifer Aniston as The Love Interest. It features three disgruntled office employees kicking the shit out of a photocopier. What more do you want in a film?)

A particularly heartbreaking part here, obviously. And yet, for some reason, also possibly the funniest yet. The army men scene was too much fun to write, as was Ormrod's big speech at the end. When Mary and I finsihed the script we kept reading it back to each other in fits of laughter. (The other advantage of having a co-writer: you can laugh at your own comic's scripts without feeling like an egotistical maniac.)
Mary's currently working on the three-day novel (as of Saturday, when I'm writing this rant). Three Day Novel is a writing event run worldwide every Labor Day weekend (this will mean nothing to people outside America. No-one here seems to know exactly what Labor Day is, either) in which, well, people have three days - Saturday through Monday - in which to write a novel. The target is something like 25,000 - 30,000 words, so it's not as vast as, say, NaNoWriMo in November, but the time limit is ten times shorter. Also, Three Day costs fifty bucks to enter (that's probably about three quid right now with the US economy the way it is) and the grand prize is publication of the winning novel. Which is pretty cool, it has to be said. Mary's working on a political thriller/paranoid conspiracy thriller, largely because she's never written one before and wants to try, and also because she's seen too many bad movies on a similar premise that she'd like to try to write better, subverting tropes, etc, etc. It's a nice outline, and a pretty cool concept that she's come up with -- to say more would be to give the game away. Finished or not, winning or not, it should be going up at her Three Day Novel journal -- .