Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

Here they are, the first cast pictures for the upcoming film version of Twilight! Yes, the Cullens are indeed beautiful creatures.
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‘Bout TIME our man Sayid is back on his game! After all those weeks of moping and being all dewy-eyed over Shannon–get over it! You’re a killer! Be true to your school!
Very happy with tonight’s episode. So much to take in and digest.
But mainly happy to see Sayid being used properly [...]

Thought I’d post my favorite Super Bowl ad from this year:

It’s possible that at the end of watching Lost just now, when it was during the previews for next week, the phone rang. And it’s possible that I shouted into the phone, “Hold on! Previews!” And that the voice on the other end would not hold on, but insisted on saying, “I [...]

Dudes, wasn’t that Jack’s dad?
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For those of you who don’t care even a little bit about what’s going on at Sundance–and even for those of you who do–here’s a little something to entertain you.
And this really immature thing that made me laugh very hard.
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Some random tidbits from this week at Sundance:
–People do not observe proper sneezing and coughing etiquette (FYI: we always sneeze or cough into our sleeve, not our open hand, so we don’t spread the joy onto every single thing we touch), and so you can feel the disease spread throughout the jam-packed theaters and [...]

Memo to self: Remember to tell everyone about that long conversation you had yesterday with that ridiculously handsome and modest actor on the shuttle about the comparisons between acting and writing, and how we’re all responsible for our own careers, and how we both know people in our own professions who seem to think [...]

Today was a very good day in my particular Sundance world, with two truly excellent films I hope you’ll all keep an eye out for. (Yes, I end sentences with prepositions. All the time. It’s what I’m made of.)
The first is Sunshine Cleaning, starring Amy Adams (yay, Enchanted!) and Emily Blunt yay, [...]

Tonight we saw the coolest caper film, and it was actually a documentary. It’s called Man on Wire, and it’s about Phillipe Petit, this guy who pulled off the most outlandish stunt imaginable, walking on a tightrope suspended between the two World Trade Center buildings back in 1974. The guy not only survived, [...]