Today is my birthday (yay, birthday!), which means it’s time for my annual performance review. Which means, by extension, it’s time for yours if you choose to play.
Here’s the deal: Every year I try to make an honest assessment of how fully I’m living, and then I spend the next year trying to [...]
This one from A Fuse #8 Production.
Enjoy. (Oh, and be sure to use sound for this one.)
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On Nadia’s blog yesterday, she quoted a friend of hers as saying, “We’re basically as mature as we’re ever going to get by the age of 16, after that it’s all just layers of sediment.” Nadia added, “I see the truth in that. How when you’re hit the wrong way, when you aren’t expecting [...]
This is another one of those times where I reveal more of my own weirdness. Why? Because you demand my total and complete honesty at all times. And because I’ve had a lot of carrot cake tonight because it’s almost my birthday and we had a family party tonight and I’m a little [...]
All this talk about The X Files over the past few days made me long for a little Mulder and Scully. So tonight I treated myself to some DVD rentals and watched a few episodes from season 7. The one I really wanted to see wasn’t in either set, but I couldn’t know [...]
Finally, we got to the important stuff in sign language class last night–a short list of the most useful swear words. Now I can go on Howard Stern.
Do any of you remember that movie Children of a Lesser God? Remember when Marlee Matlin cussed out William Hurt, her hands flying and gesticulating? [...]
Maybe I’m not supposed to reveal this–maybe it’s a trade secret we’re supposed to keep from readers–but the fact is that sometimes you’re sitting there in a lecture hall or waiting in line at the bank or pulling on your second shoe, and suddenly the whole idea for a novel pops into your head like [...]
I was reading some of your comments from the last post about what endings you would have chosen for certain books and movies, and it made me think about the stories and characters that have actually changed my personality over the years.
You know, the ones that make you want to act like the hero or [...]
Tonight I wrote a long post that I just deleted. On purpose. Because I decided it was too depressing–not depressing in the way my Blue story was (although that was sad enough), but depressing in the “there-is-so-much-evil-in-the-world-what-can-we-possibly-do-about-it” kind of way. It was about what happened today in that Amish schoolhouse. We [...]
Hint to all you writers out there: People are happy for your success, but they’re happiest if you feed them cannolis.
Yesterday was my pal Barry Lyga’s book launch party, celebrating the release last week of the much-buzzed about The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Think I’m exaggerating about the buzz? [...]