David Hopkins

...is a freelance writer ...is a regular contributor to D Magazine and Smart Pop Books ...lives in Arlington, Texas ...has a wife named April ...has a daughter named Kennedy ...has a dog named Berkeley

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Trailer (and the coolest “walking away from an explosion” ever)

doctorwho:

“The Doctor’s message seems to be accept life in all its forms. He doesn’t react with horror when he sees a blue, three-headed monster. He reacts with wonder, and I think that’s a very important message to send out to children.”
- Christopher Eccleston

doctorwho:

“The Doctor’s message seems to be accept life in all its forms. He doesn’t react with horror when he sees a blue, three-headed monster. He reacts with wonder, and I think that’s a very important message to send out to children.”

- Christopher Eccleston

highway62:

topsbloobybear:

EDUARDO RISSO DRAWS BLADE RUNNER

This is not a drill, people! Eduardo Risso just drew a BLADE RUNNER thing and it is…well…Risso meets BLADE RUNNER. Go click already.

highway62:

topsbloobybear:

EDUARDO RISSO DRAWS BLADE RUNNER

This is not a drill, people! Eduardo Risso just drew a BLADE RUNNER thing and it is…well…Risso meets BLADE RUNNER. Go click already.

(via stumblebumstudios)

Matthew Warlick ft Jake Ekiss & Vinh-Luan Luu,

—February 2013

spacegunstudios:

Beaming at’cha LIVE from the Space-Gun Station, this is month two of our Quetzalcoatl Tour. This time we’re talking with studio member Matthew Warlick about ALIENS! Like the space kind, not the movie kind. Well, we talk about the movie a bit. And we curse… a lot.

Space-Gun Studios. 2013. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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I would love to have heard the phone conversation between Mark Cuban and Lamar Odom a few days ago.

CUBAN: Hey Lamar, sorry to hear about how things went down in LA. The Lakers wanted to trade you and Pau to get an overrated point guard. What were they thinking?
ODOM: If you called to gloat, man, just stop.
CUBAN: No, actually, I wanted to remind you that you need to report for practice in 48 hours. I booked your flight to Dallas.
ODOM: Excuse me?
CUBAN: You’re a Maverick now. Welcome to…

I have the privilege to work with some very talented student writers as their UIL Ready Writing coach. We meet every Friday during lunch to prepare for our next tournament. As something new, I decided to start a book club with them. We’re reading A WRITER’S COACH by Jack Hart–one chapter a week.

I’d highly recommend this book. I appreciate Hart’s willingness to cut the BS regarding the writing process. He dares to suggest that writing is hard because you’re not working hard enough. He…