Listen, people. (Not YOU people. But pass this on to the idiots if you encounter them.)

You are seriously annoying me when you want to do a big reveal in writing and you spell the interjection "Wallah!" or some similarly phonetic phailure.

It's not a made-up word that you can just spell however the hell you want. It's a French word, and it's ( Read more... )

An interesting challenge is coming for me next week. I have an audition for a short film about the conflict between religion and the gay/lesbian community. I'm reading for two different characters, both of which are pretty homophobic (one is blue-collar, the other more middle-class ( Read more... )

New review up on "50 Books for 50 Bucks." This week's review: "A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement," by Ian Whitelaw.

http://bit.ly/i3iEEr

So I made it to the finals of the "Tweet Me a Story" contest. My entry from the first round that got me to the semifinals (no more than 140 characters, must include the word "jealous") was:

I never thought I’d be jealous of my fat-ass brother’s body, but 38 days post- plane crash with no food, my priorities have shifted a bit.It was one of the ( Read more... )

new book review up on "50 Books for 50 Bucks"!

This week's review is of Fay Weldon's memoir, "Auto da Fay."

http://bit.ly/dREA75

I'm not normally in the habit of flagrantly asking you guys for anything, but I could use your help ( Read more... )

This week's review is now up -- it's about Turning Tables, a chick-lit novel set in the restaurant industry. Enjoy!

I know some of you don't read LJ on the weekends, so I'm mentioning this again...

In case you missed last week's post, I've started a book-review blog called 50 Books for 50 Bucks (the idea is that each week I'll read and review a book bought at my local dollar store ( Read more... )

In case you missed last week's post, I've started a book-review blog called 50 Books for 50 Bucks (the idea is that each week I'll read and review a book bought at my local dollar store).

Anyway, the first review is up on the blog. For my first book to review, I chose The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, by Joe Eszterhas (screenwriter of such movies ( Read more... )

I haven't worked up my New Year's Resolutions yet, but I know one of them will be to read and review fifty books this year. I'm going to be posting those reviews in my new blog, "Fifty Books for Fifty Bucks" (http://50books50bucks.blogspot.com). For more on why I'm doing it, feel ( Read more... )