Competition
The best score I have ever achieved on Dig Dug got bested. So I’m back in training. On the flip side, I breached 100,000 points on Donkey Kong for the first time – about 118K in total, as a matter of fact. If I had achieved that score in front of a Twin Galaxies referee, [...]
Instead of R.I.P., let’s just say Thank You
I want to tell you about someone awesome that you have probably never heard of. Sally Menke was found dead this morning in a ravine among the canyons and hiking trails around the Hollywood Hills. The early speculation is centering around an accidental fall possibly triggered by heat stroke during yesterday’s record-shattering 113-degree weather. Hiking [...]
Link!
The newest issue of the quarterly anthology Paradigm has just been published, and it includes my short story Tourist Trap. I’m feeling a lot of pride about this – it’s my first submission of prose fiction anywhere outside of my friends-only blog, and my only past experience with lit mags was the awful poem I [...]
Funny version of non-productive
It felt like a real struggle to get out to my writing expedition last night. Through the whole evening – that first 45 minutes at the library, the drive over to Starbucks, the 45 minutes there, my conscious brain kept saying: it’s not working tonight. You’re not inspired. Why did you even leave home? You’re [...]
Final Lap
Last night I reached page 103 of the screenplay. I can probably reach an end by page 120, and then hopefully pare it down to about 112 in the first edit. The final pages usually come in a burst, so it’s fair to say that during one of the next four times I sit down [...]
Musica
Got tagged in a Facebook meme asking me to quickly assemble a list of fifteen albums that will always stick with me. I’m not much in the meme forwarding/tagging business, but I like the list I came up with. Some easy choices, sure; and naturally some dearly beloved choices didn’t make the cut. I ought [...]
Somebody get this man a development deal
“The movie industry in itself is changing. You have mostly branded titles that are successful right now and you are either… The middle ground is really being erased. You are either doing huge budget massive effects and massive cast, or you are going very small budget and you are trying to put forth an interesting [...]
Junction Point
Hoo Boy. I know that one of the reasons I am on this writing path is that, at certain moments in my development, people offered to take a gamble on my potential – and even if I wasn’t sure I could live up to it, I said yes and threw myself at the challenge. I [...]