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The online journal of Vermont filmmaker, Bill Simmon.

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All conversations are hilarious in Deadwoodese

Like this one, from McSweeney’s (via)… AN OVERHEARD CONVERSATION AT THE SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD POOL, IF THE SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD POOL WERE IN DEADWOOD. BY KARI ANNE ROY – – – - MOM 1: Fucking Homeowners Association cocksuckers. Are they so slow in the ass-fucking cerebrum as to not allow a goddamned simple, commonplace, gullet-pleasing peanut-fucking-butter sandwich [...]

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Already with the technical problems!

If any wordpress or web geniuses out there have some advice for me, here’s what just happened:  Candleboy.com was crashing browsers.  I tried returning home to the blog and I was getting a spinning beachball of death as Candleblog tried to load.  It totally crashed Firefox 3, Firefox 2 and Safari whenever I tried to [...]

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Blank Inside

About eight years ago I wrote a 20-page short film script called Blank Inside.  It was the story of a guy who had broken up with his long-time girlfriend and the personal fallout from that event.  It’s a dramedy that’s imbued with an indy quirkiness — an aesthetic I was way into at the time.  [...]

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Starting with a bang!

Sheesh.  The new blog is only hours old and it’s already had its first clickthrough windfall thanks to Steve at The Carpetbagger Report, who included news of the redesign in Friday’s mini report.  Check out the referrals… Click the image to see it full-size. Thanks, pal! Any of you visitors who are clicking here from [...]

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Meet the new Candleblog…

…same as the old Candleblog. Yes, it’s true. We’ve bitten the bullet, jumped in with both feet, crossed that bridge when we came to it, ran it up the flag pole and saw who saluted, dove in head first, said “here goes nothin’,” and perhaps jumped the shark. Following the sage advice of AlexW and [...]

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