Day 125: Nine Shakespearean Sonnets About Immortality In Fiction
In honor of reaching the 1/8th benchmark of what I’ve come to call “My Bat-Shit Crazy Project”, I felt I should contemplate a larger issue – something beyond stacking chairs and arctic wastelands....
View ArticleDay 301: Being For The Benefit Of Pablo Fanque!
There was a time, long ago, when going to the circus meant more than eating questionable food from even questionabler vendors. More than cultivating the fertile ground of potential nightmares with the...
View ArticleDay 357: Feeding On Danger And Destruction… Could It Be… MURDER? – The...
For a writer, there is no shame in working for cheap. This comes from the perspective of a writer who spews out a bunch of words every day and receives no payment (except that one time, with the free...
View ArticleDay 480: Where Stars Go At The End Of The Day
Have you seen Quartet, that new Dustin Hoffman-directed movie about the four singers in the retirement home full of singers? I’ve seen the trailers for it, and what sparked my imagination was not so...
View ArticleDay 503: The -EXPLETIVE DELETED- Hays Code
Having recently wrapped up my film studies degree, and now poised in that no-doubt brief window between finishing classes and discovering how this degree will make me an instant multi-gazillionaire, I...
View ArticleDay 598: A Thousand Words, Part DXCVIII
The trailer begins: “In a world… that looks strikingly familiar…” We exist in a vacuum of repetition. No less than 35 sequels are plopping their predictable posteriors into theatres in 2013. This is...
View ArticleDay 637: Great White Way-Out Trivia
As the lack of such topics on this site may indicate, I am not a raving fan of Broadway musicals. I’ve seen some that I quite liked and other that were Cats, but they just aren’t my thing. Naturally,...
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