THE Xs DOOM IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS page 5

TUESDAY

I’m going to the crane vending

machine.



beat



TUESDAY

Maybe I can grab me a ticket

out of here.



Tuesday playing with the crane vending machine that happens to be filled with toys based on other nicktoons



TUESDAY

Cool a Zim doll.



Tuesday moves the claw just above the invader Zim doll



Unknown to her a large claw is moving just above her head.



Tuesday is just about to push the button to lower the claw when…



She sees Brandon working at the counter



Tuesday runs to Brandon



TUESDAY

Brandon!



Tuesday standing at the counter



TUESDAY

What are you doing here?



BRANDON

My uncle’s making me work here.



TUESDAY

Wow, I always thought S.N.A.F.U

was kind of janky…

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MRS. X

Right.



Mr. X looks down at Truman



MR. X

And you Truman



Mr. X points to the pool of balls



MR. X

you check out this pool of

balls.



Truman looks at the pool of balls and then at some arcade games.



Truman then looks back at the balls and then at the arcade games.



TRUMAN

I’d rather play video games



Mr. X thinking about it.



MR. X

No.



Truman sadly slumps his shoulders



MR. X

Ok, fine.



Truman looking up at his father doe-eyed



MR. X

After you find out why someone

needs a pool of balls



Truman sulks to the pool of balls



Mr. X talking to Tuesday



MR. X

And you…



Tuesday walking toward the claw vending machine

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Glowface walks by in the foreground

TUESDAY

Whatever let’s just order some

food and play a few games.



MR. X

Sure, let’s play these…



Mr. X makes air quotes



MR. X

…games.



MR. X

Right, here’s the mission

agents.



Mr. X points to himself

MR. X

I’ll order some of this pizza

and then…



Mr. X points to the skeeballs.



MR. X

…I will complete that target

practice drill



Mr. X points at Mrs. X



MR. X

Dear…



MRS. X

Yes?



Mr. X points at the whack-o-mole game



MR. X

…you mission is practice with

that melee combat simulator.



Mrs. X salutes

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Mr. X holding a flyer



MR. X

Hey this looks interesting.



Mr. X holding a flyer that has a picture of Glowface with a big slice of pizza in his hand



MR. X

Snafu pizzeria and look…



Mr. X rips off the coupon that was at the bottom of the flyer.



MR. X

Spy families get ½ off triple

the cost. What a deal!



INT. S.N.A.F.U PIZZERIA

The X’s walk into S.N.A.F.U’S pizzeria in an overly grand entrance. Everyone but Tuesday jumps in and rolls behind near by objects for cover.



Mr. X jumps up and looks around



Mrs. X and Truman walk behind him with guns drawn



Tuesday stays a few feet away sulking



Frozenly all the parents and kids look at the X’s in terror



A man’s chewed up pizza falls out of his widely open mouth



Mr. X looks around



TUESDAY

Don’t you think you guys are

over doing it?



MR. X

You never know something about

this place makes me think it

might be a trap.

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the other day I sent in a submission for nickelodeon's writing fellowship.

Since I have scripts that I have entered last year for this fellowship I figured I will not put them up on line for people to enjoy at least one of the thousands of losing scripts I am sure they got.

I probably shouldn't say this but I'm not to shocked that I lost because I write a script for a show I never seen. I just got inof about it off a wiki page and talking to my little brother. So fan's of the show The X's tell me how close I got the show you love.

oh I'm putting up each page as a different post

enjoy

FADE IN

INT. S.N.A.F.U HEADQUARTERS

Glowface is sitting at the head of a meeting room table next to him is a large wheel of cheese



Also at the table are Lorenzo Suave, Brandon and other members of S.N.A.F.U



GLOWFACE

Right here is our newest tool

to defeat the X’s.



LORENZO SUAVE

Cheese? This is your new plan?



GLOWFACE

Not just any ordinary cheese…



Glow face pokes at the cheese with a knife

The cheese starts wobble and appendages start to spread out of it



The wheel of cheese explodes into a huge monster made of cheese



GLOWFACE

…it’s really a cheese monster,

shipped fresh from the moon.



LORENZO SUAVE

So how is this cheese monster

to the X’s?



Behind Glowface the cheese monster attacks a few S.N.A.F.U minions in the back ground



GLOWFACE

Oh no I have the perfect trap

to snare them to the cheese

monster.



INT. HOME BASE
Mr. X walks into the house as he is going through the mail



MR. X

Junk, junk, post card from 007.

the world is a changing

This weekend Kosovo declared independence.

Yesterday Fidel Castro has stepped down.

and today Pakistan just elected a new leader. The new prime minister will be someone from the Pakistan People's Party.


what going to happen during the rest of the week? Will the south try to secede again? Or maybe Quebec will.

Hey Fedex guy

it takes some more then the length of one ring for some one to get to the door

instead of ringing once and running back to your truck...wait a minute or two.

something else that would be a good look...when you see someone opening the door, waiving their hand, yelling hey...don't drive off...give them their freaking package.

free copywriting

Ok this is only going to be a very limited time only offer. For the first 10 people to e-mail me I will do one copywriting assignment for them…for FREE.

That’s right for free.

If you like it or hate it you didn’t spend a dime so there is no worries on your end.

Here are my terms
Nothing more then 3 pages
I have the right to use the work in my portfolio
Since this is free I may have to focus my time on paying gigs so don’t get mad if it takes a little time to get done.
I have the right to refuse anything on any bases.

contact me at mr.martinjackson at gmail {hit the period key} com with the subject free copywriting

free copywriting

Ok this is only going to be a very limited time only offer. For the first 10 people to e-mail me I will do one copywriting assignment for them…for FREE.

That’s right for free.

If you like it or hate it you didn’t spend a dime so there is no worries on your end.

Here are my terms
Nothing more then 3 pages
I have the right to use the work in my portfolio
Since this is free I may have to focus my time on paying gigs so don’t get mad if it takes a little time to get done.
I have the right to refuse anything on any bases.

contact me at mr.martinjackson at gmail {hit the period key} com with the subject free copywriting

This is the first of a news series of post I am going to be running on this blog looking at ads. More precisely, I will be talking about and dissecting them and more then likely do a bit of mocking…ok a lot of mocking



The first up is this ad that appeared in an issue of the comic book Flash with the print date of January 02, for Starburst candy.








Ok after reading the ad I guess we are supposed to think that this young lady rammed a bunch of starburst in her mouth. But looking at the picture and I am not sure about that.



This girl looks like she has gone mad. Just look at her eyes. It is clear that this young woman has gone mad. Now the question is did she go mad and just rammed a fist full of Starburst in her mouth or does Starburst candy drive people insane. If the later I’m just going to stick to Now & Laters.



But honestly the first thing I thought when I saw her eyes, is that this is the face a sheer terror. Did she really just try to eat a handful of Starburst or did someone forced them down her throat. That’s right I think this poor girl was really flogged to death. I don’t know why a company would run this ad in a comic book no less but it is clear that someone forced feed Starburst to this girl to the point that they just spill out of her.



Because of this ad I haven’t bought a pack of starburst for over 5 years. Sure if someone offers me a piece I may take it but I can’t spend money on a company that places snuff ads in comics.

What to do about the horror at Dunbar Village

I don’t know if you have heard of the news story about a woman that was gang raped by a bunch of teenagers and then made to perform oral sex on her own son. It wasn’t a story that really made a splash in the national news, because there where other stories that the media thought where more important such as Paris Hilton going to jail, Nichol Richie being with child, Mick Vick cruelty to animals, etc.

But the story has been talked about on the web and has sparked much outrage. And rightfully so. The horror of this story doesn’t end with the fact that this woman and her son where raped, but continues with the fact that none of her neighbors cared enough to lift a hand to help her. They did nothing, no one came to her rescue will she was being raped, no called the police or called an ambulance for her. She and her son had to walk to the nearest hospital, even with the fact that they had bleach poured into their eyes.

One would think this is the type of event that would spark outrage in it community but as stated the people in Dunbar Village couldn’t seem to careless. The people of that community have been dealing with such a high crime rate that many have seemed to have lost their humanity.

Reading the articles that quoted people saying things like “so what a woman got raped, crime happens here all the time” shocked me nearly as much as the crime itself.

Luckily as I stated earlier even if the people living the Dunbar Village projects are outrage enough to do anything to either help this woman or to make sure things like this doesn’t happen again there are people on the net that have decided to try and do something about this.

Well at least one person the net is. The woman running blog whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com has started a campaign to try and get people that are either seen as or call themselves leaders of the black community to pick up the cause on this event.

I commented on her blog that I think that there are better ways to try and do something about this besides trying to get these guys on board to do something. In fact she has a list of leaders and ways to contact them or their orgs. Maybe it’s just me but I think that to many people think that only these people are in a position to help the black community, and over look are on power.

I didn’t know at the time I made the comment what else should be done but after sometime thinking about it have thought of a few more things to do beside trying to get the leaders to take action (and try to get other people to do something)

First of after I thought about it is a good ideal to contact the Black leaders, but that is only a start.

Second I think we should also contact our local congress person and asked them to reinstate funding for the security of are nations housing projects.

3rd contact the media about this story. The media covers stories that they think will get them ratings (it’s why we get so many stories about celebrities) if they know we want to hear about this story they will cover it more. If the story is in the news a lot people (including the black leaders) might be more likely to take action

double nerdy skull and crossbone with the blues

I just added another nerdy skull and crossbone tie. this one is blue and instead of just having a little nerdy skull & crossbone at the bottom, it has a little skull and cross bone at the bottom and one closer to the top of the tie.

Nerdy Skull and Crossbones black tie

make custom gifts at Zazzle

this is the first in a series of ties

Why are small business over looked in plans to rebound economies?

Nearly half of American jobs in the private sector are with small companies. Yet it seems when states to small towns are trying to are trying to find something to save their economy they don’t look to build or help small business they look to bring an outside source either giving deals to big companies or building a prison.

In fact when certain types of big business come are many local business end up going out of business. For example Wall-Mart causes a lot of mom and pop stores to close, Starbucks takes out local coffee shops even McDonald’s shut down local eateries.

And with the cause of Wallmart the jobs don’t really pay that well. And by not paying well I not talking about it pays enough to get by but I wish I had a little more so I can get some cool stuff. I’m talking about people working but still need welfare to help them make it.

It doesn’t really make sense since one would think that the smartest thing to do is pass laws that will help the little guy thrive.

Of course it doesn’t have to be an either/or. If a town/city/state is looking to boost it’s economy by trying to woo big companies in prisons they should make sure that they have it in place that they will only allow the company or prison to operate if they have to help local small business in someway. For example a prison should be made to get 50% of their supplies from local companies, etc.

Along with more and more people spending more of their money at local small business this could really be something that could be a real catalyst to bring economies to big heights. Because the economy wont just increase because local business have a good deal with what ever the out side source is (nor the fact that that source will should also hire local people.) But the fact that those business and the people working in them (and the people working at the big companies/prison complex/whatever) will have more income (or more people will have income) to spend. If spent local that just means an increase of revenue for small business.

The economy how does it still stand

The other day I saw reports saying that customer confidence has been on the raise. Which puzzles me, giving that last week the stock market had such a huge drop, the prices of goods have gone up and let’s not talk about gas and milk. And there is also the job market which (at least where I am at) is horrible.

Ok the stock market dive is a recent event and wouldn’t effect the people in that study. In fact the stock market has been doing really well even though much of the gains where whipped out last week. But the other factors would still be in play.


Maybe someone out in the wonderful world of the internet can’t tell me what everyone else sees that makes them think the economy is good that I don’t.

Giving that that value of the dollar and hence are economy is based so much on what people think I wonder what the future well hold. Well the economy have a big down turn because people look at the stock market, all the new homeless people that lost their homes because they couldn’t pay their sub-prime mortgage, sky rocketing prices on consumer goods and staples like food, milk and gas. Or well we be able to keep the economy going by people doing what they have been doing for some time…say the economy is doing great so people feel like everything is good and spend, spend, spend.

Of course I think the by the time the next report on consumer confidence comes out I think the raise in the minimum wage should be in effect and maybe people well fell good about the economy for a reason I can understand…they’ll have a little more money in their pockets then they did during the last study.

America is Back?

I was just watching an Obama speech on C-span and I am starting to see why there is so much hype around the guy. He has away to sweep you away with his words, bring up things that many people miss because of the way the current president is running things. Things like habeas corpus or even talking with other countries to get things done.

Funny thing is that he even drop a line that popped in my head some time ago that I think who ever wins the 2008 election should use as slogan…”America is back”

I still think it is to early to say if I want to get behind the guy but I have to say that for the most part he has been cementing his place near the top of my list.

Free Martin Jackson

I guess we all feel it (at least from time to time) the need/want to be set free. Free from the daily grind, the worries, the boredom, etc, etc.

it was this type of mood that I was end when I made these.


or maybe I just have a huge ego and wanted to have people wearing one of those political free _________ shirt about me but with out actually having to do anything : )

rebuild New Orleans green

The other night (Monday) I was watching the Tavis Smiley show’s first part in a series on the victims of hurricane Katrina that have moved back to New Orleans to try and rebuild there lives. Watching people talk about the hard time they had getting things like power in their area I begin to wonder why there isn’t more being done not only to rebuild the city but to make it even better.

Now when I say make it better I don’t mean the way that many in the city fear, ie tearing down the mostly Black areas and either building housing that many of the original residents can’t afford or make it to boutique town. What I was thinking was to rebuild the city so house are more ecologically friendly.

Maybe I’m only thinking this because I noticed a lot news about green tech recently. But think about it, when this documentary was being filmed a lot of people where living in areas with no powers. It made me wonder what if people and companies got together to help rebuild peoples home with things like solar panels. People in areas that government doesn’t feel is populated enough to worry about trying to get energy to can at least generate their own.

Know if a company wonders why should install homes with any renewable energy set for free, the answer is simple. You can use the people that you give help to as public relations and also for advertisement. Your company will look really good if you can run ads saying “WHATEVER CO. helped the Jenkins family of New Orleans get the power they need to rest their lives” or something to that affect.

a sad and true look at Black super heroes

This was funny but sadly it is still very true.


a side-note I Black Panther was a king in his comic not a prince.

Al Franken is running for senate

Al Franken just annonced on his radio show he will be running for senator of minnesota.

Not much of a surprise since that has been rumored to be the reason why he is ending his radio show.