Recent weeks have been a sustained series of thrills in the world of “The Retriever”. Just over a month ago I was well over a mile high in Colorado at the Durango Independent Film Festival, just weeks later were screening
Bringing Cloudy to the Desert
Had a thoroughly-wonderful overnight excursion last week to the Borrego Springs Film Festival. Borrego Springs isn’t even a town, as far as the law is concerned, it is a “census-designated place”, one of my favorite pieces of strangely-provocative bureaucrat-ese. The
Independent Authors – You Are the New Prey
I had a new experience recently – someone cold-called my family’s house and left a message on the answering machine, claiming to be a publisher “very interested” in Seeing by Moonlight. The book is published already; but with independently-published books
Curiosity Shoppe
Little Nick going down the slide on the playground back at Springmyer Elementary School had no idea what a “personal brand” was. He was also a stranger to body hair. Quite an innocent, was little Nick going down the slide.
Probably a good thing I have no time to blog
Where to start? Probably here: Click for a closeup – my name’s in that credit block This frames a journey. About two years ago I got the news that I had been cast in my first on-camera speaking role in
MOVIE REVIEW – Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens Director: J.J. Abrams Writers: Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt, based on characters created by George Lucas Producers: J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Kathleen Kennedy Stars: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie
The magic behind the minutes
This acting thing is so funny. A guy spends months working on a script. A director and a production team spend months planning and prepping. They hire an actor. The actor braves the freeways and comes to the set. He
Reality Adjacent
Here’s a pretty cool thing – my first-ever professional commercial voiceover job: That take is actually the audition I recorded in my closet. They liked it so much they just bought it and put it in the commercial. The possibilities
Legitimacy Day
I’ve got a birthday coming up next week; and it’s inevitable for me to take measure of my accomplishments and my progress on the path I’ve chosen. If the feeling of the last 48 hours holds, I’ll be in rare
I’m making the one damn thing for after the other
I’m at one of my network of writing-conducive cafes; I’ve just polished off a flat brown and five pages of a new Earbud Theater script I’m calling Monday for the Sweepers. My previous script Scary Ride is in the final