Page-to-screen Appreciator Gifts

Producer, Director and Novelizer.

The Googler

ZOOM 'n' GLOOM.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I don't know what else we can do. He won't look up from the screen!"

"Baldo, why don't you turn that computer off and do something else?"

"I'll be glad when this is over and Sarah can be herself again."

Technology and literature

"Why would I want to see anything that far away from my phone?"

'They might as well sleep all day - all they do is stare at that screen.'

Nethead strip: Over doing the time spent on the computer

A sign outside a bookstore reads: "Meet the people in the bookstore cafe staring at their laptops 2-4 p.m."

"Your mind is somewhere else." "My mind is somewhere else."

"I'm sure you may need your phone, portable charger, laptop, iPad, Xbox, and music player. But we're only going to the mailbox."

"I didn't want this book to end, so I stopped reading it midway."

"That's a zombie, alright. But he's the worst kind. He doesn't eat brains, he eats data."

"Dig deep! C'mon! You got this!"

Better Living Through Technology

Book computer

Traditional Family Meals

"Okay. Hit it."

'The computer's down again.'

"... And how long have you had this total fixation with T.V.?"

"Have you figured out what the powers of that new super hero will be? How about the power to meet deadlines? That would be a good power?"

'...if you look at it in the right way it begins to make sense.'

Painting the Sistine Chapel. 1508. 1509. 1510. 1511. 1512. It looks great, Michelangelo, but there's one thing I don't understand. Why didn't you just paint it in the regular way and then mount it on the ceiling?

"It's always Roy G. Biv this, Roy G. Biv that. Never Burnt Sienna!"

"So - we meet at last."

Worshiping the TV.

"Don't fold, McFly! He's bluffing. You know he's got a crappy hand!"

TV tie-in book signpost.

People at work on social networks fail to communicate socially with each other.

'Joyce, you've gotta see this! This 3-D large screen HD TV is amazing!'

Michelangelo's David

'Unzip your pants. . .while you're here, I want to pay up my bill in full.'