Remixing Today
I’m remixing today to see tomorrow.
Pitch: OPM hack was obfuscation. Data was injected, not stolen. MS13 now has dozens of sleeper agents in the pipeline.
— Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 22, 2015
Pitch: Pluto mission goes awry, New Horizons crashes into Charon, finds a very, very drunk Optimus Prime sadly watching over us.
— Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 18, 2015
These are the pitches I’ve been posting to Twitter lately. I’ll compile them here every so often. Maybe with some expansion, maybe with the news stories that inspired them. Some may even turn into things. Because, in a lot of ways, that’s the kind of writer I am, a result of the kind of neural code I’ve developed over the last decade: one that can scan, process a multitude of short bits of content, and then deliver rapid, horizontal thinking.
What I’m growing into, or more comfortable with, is stacking those together, and longer work.
Is it the ideal approach? No. Others built this capacity early – they write to length, they dive deep, they own subjects. But they concentrated while I explored, and that’s just the nature of my wave.
The rest:
Pitch: Man stands up 20 minutes into a movie he doesn’t like, looks around, sits back down, strokes his pistol, enjoys human warmth. — Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 24, 2015
Pitch: Bezos buys Kepler-452b, builds galactic distribution hub manned by Alexa. He cries, looking in her direction, as the world drowns. — Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 24, 2015
Pitch: Washington Post grows a pair, hires PMC to retrieve jailed reporter, raid goes well, this becomes known as the Bezos Doctrine. — Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 22, 2015
Pitch: Candidate announces opponent’s cell phone number, dials it. It rings somewhere on stage. Black hole spawns, ending all life. — Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 22, 2015
Pitch: Tommy Craggs and Max Read launch a news on the blockchain. All truth all the time forever. It’s fucking boring. Quit, become escorts.
— Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 20, 2015
Pitch: Someone bangs a billionaire’s wife, he kills him, her, and then goes after the website that enabled it all just prior to IPO.
— Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 20, 2015
Pitch: CFO tries to bang escort, turns out to be a blackmailing bot, CFO fights back, is murdered by shady Russians led by nerd.
— Shlok Vaidya (@shloky) July 17, 2015
-Shlok
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