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Writer's Block: Time for a reboot
Live Long and Prosper. -
Summer MOVIES
I loved 500 Days of Summer. I'll see anything with Zooey Deschanel in it ( Read more... ) -
Bargains for a BAD Economy
There's this old bachelor recipe called "Shit on a shingle ( Read more... ) -
U-District Street Fair
Today starts the famous U-District street Fair. My favorite part of this event are the street performers, such as the jugglers, unicyclists, fire eaters, etc. I'm also fond of people watching ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday, Mr. Emoticon!
Today is the 25th Birthday of the ubiquitous emoticon ( Read more... ) -
MY non-existant career as a Hollywood writer...
It seems I gave some very good advice to a young man struggling to write a screenplay. I met him here in Seattle, at the 2004 SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival). We talked for about an hour, in the lobby of The Pacific Place Theater. I gave him some advice, and he was wise enough to take it ( Read more... ) -
Mid Winter Depression = S.A.D.
There's an annoying acronym for everything, and the one for Depression caused by a lack of natural light is called S.A.D, for Seasonal Affective Disorder. This is a bonafide scientific term, which is known to be a significant contributing factor to what pioneering settlers and mountain men used to call, "Cabin Fever ( Read more... ) -
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On a friend's LJ entry, she mentioned doing a favor for someone in need. She asked the rhetorical question: "Who does things like that ( Read more... ) -
OSCARS 2007
The Oscars Ceremony is too damned long and boring for me to bother watching ( Read more... )