( Musings on a character's flaws. )

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For those sword-inclined among my readers (that's the only phrase that seemed to work here) there is a documentary coming out in the middle of December (when it will reach Montana is anyone's guess) called Reclaiming the Blade about swordplay, particularly in the movies (the interview about half the sword wielding cast of LotR and John Rys-Davies ( Read more... )

Every Sunday I drive past the Farmer's Market at the mortuary.

One: I could have edited Photographing Fairies better than de Borman and I didn't even graduate film school. Also, what's with killing every character just for the heck of it and did you get Ben Kingsley to do this back in '97 ( Read more... )

What do you do when through intense and persistent prayer two people reach mutably exclusive conclusions?

Only Alive.

I just canceled an essay ( Read more... )

( An Open Letter to Norman Cantor )

I recently fully realized one of the great powers of writing poetry: it reveals to us ourselves. The act of writing out a poem that comes from something real forces us to examine that in light of ourselves, and ourselves in light of that real thing (assuming it has relation to us as people ( Read more... )