“No way out but to die!”
Or, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Hack. So, shortly after moving back to the Chicago area, I began to seek out the elusive beast called Gainful Employment. It … Continue reading
Misleading ads and their effect on my britches.
From playwright’s online resource ScriptSeeker: $5,000 CASH PRIZE and publication by Samuel French for winning script. Full-length plays only. Scripts must be unpublished and unproduced. Submission must be accompanied by … Continue reading
Musical chairs.
Yesterday heard the first single off of Liz Phair’s upcoming album, entitled “Why Can’t I?” The title is used in the chorus in such lines as “Why can’t I/ breathe … Continue reading
We wuz had.
Mark Bowden, the author of Black Hawk Down, Killing Pablo, and Finders Keepers, is one of the finest journalists I have ever read. [1] He is one of a dying … Continue reading
Contest! Sorta!
All wordsmiths out there in Reads My Journal Land, I’m instituting a contest to come up with a word that best fills in the following blank space: ________, (n), a … Continue reading
Remind me to tell you someday.
Logical yet nonetheless irritating–I’ve had so much going on in the past week that I’ve been unable to update the journal with what I’ve been doing for the past week. … Continue reading
“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”
It’s true. Everybody’s a comedian. I’m now almost 48 hours removed from the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I think I’m still processing the experience. I watched the … Continue reading
His fists were as big as babies.
Below is a response to my buddy Duck who asked, in the previous entry, for details of a detective novel I once wrote to my girlfriend, in a world where … Continue reading
Editorial license.
Pulled from the Amazon reader reviews of the DVD release of Stephen King’s IT, the mediocre made-for-TV adaptation of his novel: _________________ Boring Story, Good Terror If You Like Weird … Continue reading
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
This letter might come as a surprise to you.
Creative Control 