One of the best tickets I buy at the movies is when I treat myself to the annual program of the Academy Award-nominated animated shorts. The short subject is such a lost treasure in the moviegoing experience, and yet, almost
Slightly conspiratorial thinking about the fitness industry
I remember during my initial orientation session at the gym, the trainer kept emphasizing that cardio alone was not going to help me meet my needs; he assured me that results would come too slowly, that I wouldn’t build enough
Good for business
I’m starting to map out the next submission blitz in the lit. mag. world. It’s been about six months since my last one, and I’m going to have a stronger set of material this time around. I’ve done productive edits
I watch, I think, then I write
I’ve spent most of the last three days watching movies, which is pretty much a go-to when I’m too sick to leave the house. There have been some very good films in there, and they have sent my brain careening
A great day for independent film
Many of the first studio bosses were showmen – theatre-chain owners for whom bringing in an audience and giving them something to love was in their blood. In the Golden Age of Hollywood, all the major studios owned their own
Thanks for the sour persimmons, Michael
Every writer talks about influences, but the truth is that your earliest influences are the ones that happen before you understand there’s such a thing as writing. The sincerity of character and freewheeling show-must-go-on energy that Jerry Juhl and the
I’m just sayin’
This is what I wrote on the first day of the NFL Draft back in 2005:
I’ll admit it
Microsoft Kinect may be glitchy and finicky, and after about an hour it started crashing my brother’s XBox, but it is damn fun stuff. I haven’t sweat so much from a video game since the heyday of the Nintendo Power