Well, I've just been to Hell and back with the latest "Top Eleven" feature for UGO. It's my personal list of Arnold Schwarzenegger's best movie adversaries, and it's around 75,000 words. I must say, I think it came out pretty well. I was pretty scared of the topic when I pitched it, but now that I'm reading over this body of non-information, it looks like it paid off. Should be up on their site tomorrow.
The "Elevens" are a bit of a challenge for me considering the three years I've spent here not really needing to make any sense, but they're kinda fun to do. Honestly, I don't read books and I can't even get into newspapers -- the only way I'll become more rounded is by actually writing different things, so while the fateful days of the week where I know I'll have to spend an additional eight hours putting something else together seem like a bit much, they're worth it for me in the long run. Personally, I prefer tackling one singular topic and talking it to death, but I guess this is cool too.
Hey, look, I'm finally using the right quotation marks. 'So ends an era.' Actually, I've known I was incorrect with those forever, but I just hate the way real quotation marks look. In the end, my decision was to look slightly less like an idiot, especially when the material goes a long enough way in promoting that. Get used to "this," say bye to 'this.' This is all very important stuff, folks.
Posted by Matt on 07/01/2003. E-mail me!
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Does anyone else thing Caracappa sounds like a Pokemon name?