WE COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP IF WE TRIED - MARCH 22ND

A man armed with a “Taser Me Elmo” rifle and a hand grenade loaded with hot, spicy peppers walked into his local TOYS R US and purchased a new Laser Bore sight for his 5 year old son.

WE COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP IF WE TRIED - March 12, 2010

A 101 year old woman who wakes up with a horn on her forehead and a baby girl born with a 5 inch tail drive to a restaurant which serves Squirrel Pie and end up in a tragic accident caused by a woman who was shaving her bikini line while driving.

Now...write that screenplay!

WE COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP IF WE TRIED - March 4th, 2010

A man who advertises illegal circumcision’s on Craigslist builds a flying hovercraft made out of his old barbecue, his daughter's scooter, and his wife's car and flies to Russia in order to rescue an alcoholic chimp who is sent to rehab.

*Note: This is another genius idea for a screenplay based on insane headlines from today's news. Go write that screenplay!

WE COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP IF WE TRIED

Another dose of real-life news from the internet which, when meshed together, creates the framework for an ingenious screenplay concept.

Dateline: Februrary 25, 2010

A woman so fat she can stop bullets teams up with a cop who has to kill a crazed chimpanzee and then uses music to deal with his pain. Together they steal a commercial jetpack and help Kirstie Alley’s dream booty call come true.

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SCAVENGING DAILY NEWS HEADLINES TO CREATE STORY CONCEPTS

Dateline: Feb.24, 2010

A Lingerie model runs one of the world's largest drug cartels while her husband is an undercover Mossad agent spying on Hamas. Together they take on an evil vice principal at their daughter's school who has been spying on her via her laptop camera.

PKD'S ELECTRIC ANT: THE COMIC

MAY, 2010 --
PHILIP K. DICK’S ELECTRIC ANT #2 (of 5)
Written by DAVID MACK
Penciled by PASCAL ALIXE
Cover by PAUL POPE

FROM THE MIND OF SCIENCE-FICTION LEGEND PHILIP K. DICK -
David Mack and Pascal Alixe continue their charged and visually stunning adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant. When most people have crises of identity, a therapist might advise them to look inside themselves for answers. But after Garson Poole, CEO of Tri-Plan Industries, wakes up in a hospital and is told he is not human, but, in fact, a robot known as an Electric Ant, he goes looking for answers by opening up his chest panel and literally looks inside himself. But what lies in there is more profound and terrifying than anyone is prepared for…
32 PGS./Parental Advisory $3.99

THIS MAKES ME SMILE

For years now, my friend Scott Laumann and I have been talking about creating Thomas Kinkaid style paintings with grafitti and poverty and real-life to counter-act the Disney-fied fantasy of the "painter of trite".

Thank goodness Banksy had the vision to beat us to it.

Bravo.