The Voice Of Common Sense, That's Me

[dr_pretentious]

Dan and I just watched Word Wars, the documentary about Scrabble championships and the flat broke, anagram-obsessed people who try to make careers of winning them. It's a delightful documentary. Everyone should rush straight to Netflix to get it.

After a scene in which one of the Scrabble guys talks about how the game is the only thing he does with his whole day, and he hopes someday that the world will support professional Scrabble players the way it supports professional golfers, Dan turned to me and said, "Thank goodness you decided to pursue a nice practical career like writing fantasy novels." He wasn't even being facetious. I'm not inclined to protest, since I spent the whole film thinking much the same thing.

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

T just howled with laughter when I read this out, and said, "That is SUCH a Dan thing to say!" We agreed that he is, indeed, The Man.

[blackbear88.livejournal.com]

Marlon rocks. Mr. "Scrabble is my life no wait I've got to smoke some pot and miss my first tournament match of the day instead"--unreal. It is indeed a fantastic movie, we had it last spring as one of the selections in the Indy Film Society series (our series topic was movies about games/sports.) I've showed it to a bunch of people since then. Gamer nerds got nothing on those guys...

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I recognized a kindred spirit in the guy who takes a job as a night watchman so he can get paid to sit around and memorize word lists. Ah, sweet days of Campus Patrol, when I got paid to walk and read! Marlon is my favorite of the Scrabble heroes, though, for his pure improbability.