Intellectual Robbery
Ever feel like someone just reached into your head, read what was there, and then used it for him- or herself?I imagine frustrated creative types feel like that all the time, no matter what their discipline. Artists struggle with the perfect human form in their head only to find da Vinci has painted the Mona Lisa or Michaelangelo has carved David. Architects find their greatest dream already standing thanks to Frank Lloyd Wright. Inventors devise their most brilliant plan and find someone else has beat them to the patent.
Which brings me to me. I've established a rigorous schedule for myself (see below right) with one feature a day. I need all the good ideas I can get. That means I'll be upset when, through no fault of their own, someone else thinks of the good idea as well and runs with it.
Enter Mark Davis of the Dallas Morning News (via RCP). His subject: torture, a hot topic thanks to the Alberto Gonzales confirmation hearings. His vehicle: Fox's drama 24, my absolute favorite TV show. I was deliberately holding off on blogging about either of these subjects because I was going to save them for the inaugural edition of The Marchand Chronicles weekly column.
I won't bother now. Not only did Mark Davis combine the two already, he did it flawlessly, which is to say way better than I ever could.
Which I suppose is just as well. The only thing worse than someone executing perfectly what you had only planned is if they did it and it sucked.
posted by Marsh @ 3:59 PM
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