I’m in Birmingham, Alabama for the week. A few thoughts so far… Had a layover at LAX. Never been to LAX. Puts a pretty serious dent in my “Airports get nicer the further west you go” theory. Yikes. Horrible airport. Cranky employees. In case I doubted I was in LA, though, 2 things happened: Someone […]
June 13, 2013
It’s Like “The Birds,” If It Was One Bird, And If Tippi Hedren Was 10 Lbs And Furry
Listen, Oliver, buddy… I get it. I do. You’re a tough cat. When we met you at the Humane Society, they called you Brute, because you pushed everyone around. After we got you to our house it took you about one day to decide not to take any crap from the dogs. You even took […]
June 10, 2013
A Very, Very Dirty Post
This weekend I ran the Dirty Half Marathon. It was intense. The build-up got to the point where at the starting line I was ready to do an about face and run the other direction. Why? First, my friend Mark who I run with signed us up, and I knew it was largely a series […]
June 6, 2013
Quiet Concern On The Set, Please! (pt. 2)
**This is a continuation of the story that begins here. I’d highly recommend reading that first to be caught up. It won’t take that long, I promise. So… The lead actress and the director arrived at last. She wasn’t really speaking because she’d lost her voice that morning and was going to have to croak, […]
June 4, 2013
Quiet Concern On The Set, Please!
Putting together any kind of creative performance – dance, a play, shooting a film – requires such delusional, quixotic optimism, that when I got a call this Saturday asking if I was available to play a part in a scene for a web series on Sunday, and the associate producer said: I knew there was […]
May 31, 2013
Susie Strong
An unusual Friday post: just a quick note. The incredibly warm and kinetic Susie Lindau, over at Susie’s Wild Ride, is undergoing a double mastectomy this morning. She’s been very funny and upfront about the whole experience, and – thanks to the organizing efforts of BrickHouseChick at Swimming To My 50′s – a number of […]
May 30, 2013
In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream “Wheeeeee!”
With the movements towards a permanent colony on Mars, and Virgin Galactic’s progress toward civilian space flights, it seems like a good time to offer just a few reflections on space travel and its implications. I think the end of the shuttle program bodes poorly for the screenplay I wanted to produce when I was […]
May 27, 2013
Excerpt From The Journal Of A 6-Month-Old
4:20am: Hm. I think it’s time to get up. Hm. Yeah. Time to get up. Time to get up! Time to get up! Time to get up! Gosh, where is everybody? TIME TO GET UP! 6:14am: I am very close to figuring out the code to the three buttons on the play station. There is […]
May 23, 2013
Why You Should Buy Luke Skywalker’s Pants
The sand-colored jeans worn by Mark Hamill in the original Star Wars have gone up for auction! You might reasonably wonder why you should spend the expected 70-100,000 dollars for them, especially if you don’t happen to have a size 29 waist. But that would be because you haven’t thought it through. Just consider all […]
May 16, 2013
Your Guide To Very Essential Non-Verbal Communication Signals
As most people know, there are agreed upon nonverbal signals ranging from fairly minor – like the “okay” signal or an eye roll to communicate an “Oh, brother” reaction – to very important non-verbal distress signals. *** But the truth is, there are an incredible number of situations in which non-verbal communication is crucial. Here […]
May 13, 2013
Introducing: THE JAFEES!
I had an idea. An idea that bubbled up from some terrible dark place. It was an idea for my own award, which I am introducing today, in hopes that people will connect with it, and pass along their own winners. The basis of the Jafees is blogs that do something, or have some component, […]
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