{"id":161,"date":"2008-06-15T06:18:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/15\/point-click-9\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T22:29:34","slug":"point-click-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/toonai.dfmamea.com\">the short<\/a> didn&#8217;t make it into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzff.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">local festival<\/a> but &#8211; half a kilo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whittakers.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Whittakers<\/a>&#8216; finest later &#8211; life. Goes. On.<\/p>\n<p>Mm. This week, for your infotainment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wellington film and television writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0597132\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Molloy<\/a> has joined the Kiwi scribosphere with <a href=\"http:\/\/seanmolloy.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Why I Write<\/a>.  <i>Malo<\/i>, man!<\/li>\n<li>What if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fawlty_Towers\" target=\"_blank\">Fawlty Towers<\/a> were to be submitted to the BBC today?  Click <a href=\"http:\/\/bitternessspeaking.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/fawlty-feedback.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for a laugh.  And some tendrils of fear.  (Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesandthebluecat.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/friday-music-video-chemical-brothers.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Henry<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>The Independent has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/theatre\/features\/beauty--the-beastly-neil-labutes-new-comedy-deals-darkly-with-a-weighty-matter-832011.html\" target=\"_blank\">interesting chat<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001438\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Labute<\/a> on loving thy villains.  (Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/writersguild.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/neil-labute-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">WGGB Blog<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>UK blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/robinkellyuk.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Kelly<\/a> has a great post on <a href=\"http:\/\/robinkellyuk.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/killing-hero.html\" target=\"_blank\">what makes a good thriller<\/a> (hint: put yourself in your hero\/ine&#8217;s shoes).  It raises a very good question though:  how <b><i>do<\/i><\/b> some of those bone- and knuckle-headed plots get on to the screen?  (Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyvee.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/new-links-for-list-of-wonder.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy Vee<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Crime writer and retired detective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelofland.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Lofland<\/a> blogs about the many facets of law enforcement at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelofland.com\/wordpress\" target=\"_blank\">The Graveyard Shift<\/a>.  Of recent interest to <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/mmm-guns\/\">this closet-gun-nut<\/a> were author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lorillake.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lori L Lake<\/a>&#8216;s guest-posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelofland.com\/wordpress\/?p=638\" target=\"_blank\">Guns<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelofland.com\/wordpress\/?p=734\" target=\"_blank\">Guns<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leelofland.com\/wordpress\/?p=811\" target=\"_blank\">Guns<\/a>. (Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/complicationsensue.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/police-procedural-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Epstein<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the short didn&#8217;t make it into the local festival but &#8211; half a kilo of Whittakers&#8216; finest later &#8211; life. Goes. On. Mm. This week, for your infotainment: Wellington film and television writer Sean Molloy has joined the Kiwi scribosphere with Why I Write. Malo, man! What if Fawlty Towers were to be submitted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Point &#038; Click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,5,4,6],"tags":[350,1017,1016,400,1019,814,1015,1018,19],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-alex-epstein","tag-fawlty-towers","tag-independent","tag-james-henry","tag-lee-lofland","tag-lucy-vee","tag-neil-labute","tag-robin-kelly","tag-sean-molloy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}