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After fighting through 50 different story ideas, the boys have picked Time to Die as the script to write. They are now starting the writing process.

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Re[4]: A Radical Idea

May 02, 2006 · by Burley Grymz · Permalink · comment on this post in the forum · Category: Original Version, the screenplay
Assuming this is correct, I vote "yea" on this plan, with the caveat that I may want to Needlessly Complicate how the winner is generated in Step 3; but that idea's for another post.

It is correct, and I gleefully await your next addition to Needless Complexity.

What's a magic penny song?

Are you sure you were raised in California in the 70s? I couldn't escape this song as a kid. The Magic Penny is a song by Malvina Reynolds, whom many of you may know for song Little Boxes, which is the opening tune to the TV show Weeds. It's pure commie propaganda tainting our children with ideas of love and giving. We should be singing Let The Eagle Soar to our children. Who wants kids to love? We want them to be tough! Anyway, I digress.

The lyrics go:

Love is something if you give it away, give it away, give it away
Love is something if you give it away, you end up having more
It's just like the magic penny
Hold it tight, and you haven't got any
spend it lend it and you'll have so many
they'll roll all over the floor

As you can see, it's basic buddhism. Do good, and karma will repay you. Or, appealing to the lowest common denomenator--greed of money--to change the lowest common behaivor--greed of love. Or maybe she's advocating orgies and gambling--not quite sure. In any case, it's a beloved sing-song youthful ditty. You can hear the woman herself singing it on iTunes.