Haiti has been devastated by an earthquake. Please take the time to dig out a few bucks to help them out. One option is The American Red Cross. There is also the International Red Cross, Red Crescent. – Don

Michael Cornetto’s web series has finally premiered, Computer Girl an electronic girl trying to find my way through life’s biological problems.

First up: Computer Girl loses her virginity. You can read the script (pdf format).

You can check out the promo below or watch it on either YouTube or on Machinima.com

You can also go to Computer Girl Central on YouTube. Or, read what folks are saying about it on the Discussion Board. – Don

Congrats to scriptwriter Sam Mills. His piece Army Math: Bringing It All Back Home was bought by University of Chicago’s euphony.

“ARMY MATH” is an eyewitness account of the bombing by the SDS Weather Underground of the University of Wisconsin’s Army Mathematics Research Center on Monday, August 24, 1970.

Sam adds, “[I]t’s an account of the effect that level of violence had on the antiwar movement downstream of the event. My piece treats the aftermath – the counterculture’s rejection of violence as a way of ending the Vietnam War – at some length.

At the time, I was a student living across University Avenue at the St. Francis House, the Episcopal Student Center, when the Madison cell of the terror group blew up the Department of Defense research facility (e.g., the Claymore mine was developed there), killing a young post-doc named Robert Fassnacht. (Though only 33, “Fass” was already one of the nation’s foremost authorities on superconductivity.)

As I write in my account – with only a modicum of poetic license – “I was blown out of bed and woke up in a carnal embrace with a stained-glass Virgin Mary.”

The 1750-pound ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) bomb devastated the campus, and for a year afterward, turned UW into “Old Plywood U.” (It was calculated that more than 38,000 square feet of plywood were required to cover all the broken windows.)

It was the most destructive act of domestic terror in American history until Tim McVeigh and Oklahoma City 25 years later. Ironically, left and right used identical munitions – though McVeigh’s bomb had an extra 100 pounds of fertilizer.”

Sam now lives in Pensacola, FL, and can be reached at sam @ sammills.com

Script Girl’s weekly script sales report for the week ending July 11, 2008.

Two groups of talking animals living together, a high school student in a murder plot orchestrated by his substitute teacher, male dancing cheerleaders, a modern day animal doctor hired to overlook mythological creatures and Inglorious Bastards script is floating around.

Anchor bay has given SimplyScripts a DVD of Dario Argento’s directed Masters of Horror episode Pelts signed by the director Dario Argento. If you live in North America, you are eligible to win this signed dvd. Just put in your name and valid email address below and hit submit. Come back on November 13th to see if you’ve won. Note: one entry per person. All duplicate entries will be deleted.

The Giveaway is closed. Come back to SimplyScriptson November 13th to see if you are a winner!

Thank you for entering our “Masters of Horror” contest!!!

And make sure to return to our site to see if you were one of the randomly chosen winners

Vern. Don’t fret, I’ll be giving away another signed MOH DVD in November.

Thanks everyone who entered. Vern, drop me a line with your addy and I’ll get this off to you.

Fifteen scripts up on the Unproduced Scripts page. Among the postings this week is Mike Shelton’s Saving the Blue Note the play I blogged about a bit ago. It was presented in March at St. Gabriel?s Auditorium. Also, you can read Adam’s Down on Cloud Nine about a wealthy ad executive brought down by a kidnapping and ransom. There is also a spec script for The Office. This is just a sample of the reads on the unproduced scripts page.

Here is an opportunity to film a short two minute piece and perhaps win a trip to see Gwen Stephani in concert. Gwen Stephani is holding a Wonderful Life contest. Create a two minute video of your interpretation of Wonderful Life. You can listen to the song here. Upload it to the contest site then let me know here. – Don

On the Unproduced Scripts page, there are twenty-four new or revised scripts up for your reading pleasure. And, after you have read them, you can discuss them on the Discussion Board

For those of you familiar with George’s Fempiror/Vampire work, I’d thought I’d let you know that he’s finally gotten his site up and running at Fempiror.com. Those not familiar with George’s work, though keen on vampire mythology, you might want to check out The Fempiror Chronicles which is a series of stories following a race of people who resemble the mythological vampire in many ways.

For those of you who do your holiday shopping through Amazon.com, please consider using our search engine to find the gifts you are looking for and at the same time, help support the site. – Don