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I have read that, and will read it again, and then have a close friend explain the larger words to me.-Jack Neary, playwright

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Iron Lung capsule reviews: Everyone Loves "Precious"

Confinement in an iron lung makes it difficult to get to the movies, so I often watch films months or even years after their release via services like Netflix and Hulu, where I can enjoy the comforts of home as well as a grounded 120v outlet to maintain basic life functions.

Star Gabourey Sidibe gained more [...]

What public restrooms say about evolution

I found this hyper-evolved superbeing on a restroom door in Los Angeles.

It has often been said that science fiction says more about the time that it was created than the future world it seeks to illuminate. The 60′s haircuts in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” for example.

But I find it intriguing that we see who [...]

Children to Arizona: We're not soda

You know, you’ve got to help me out.

Traveling to Arizona, when the California side of the Colorado River is an arctic 99 degrees, and everything to the east is despair and torment and 115 degrees, requires some mental preparation.

It was only recently that Harrison admitted that he was singing “I’m not a soda.” Marisol, on [...]

Pilgrimage for a decapitated saint

Santa Barbara, beheaded by her dad for her devotion to God, is the namesake of the city I will visit this weekend for the first annual Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival, which I have the honor of hosting.

Fogelfoot Friday Fais Do Do

Satan/Songwriters Fogelfoot returns to the glorious and exotic Club Fais Do Do this Friday for a very special evening of whimsy, despair, chicken licks, time travel, and emotional ambiguity.

It Does Matter What They Say: Remembering the Easter Earthquake

We were watching Go Go’s videos when the quake struck. It was a 7.2 temblor originating 250 miles south in the exotic country of Mexico.

Irish by any means necessary

I shot this video in the Irish enclave of Dorchester, MA on St. Stephen’s Day, as a seisun band tuned up with a ditty by Celtic icon John Denver.

The children and I spent long hours rehearsing this deft script penned in the wake of the Easter Uprising by James Joyce:

HARRISON
Daddy telephone. Daddy. A [...]

Lynne Rosetto Kaspar tells me to trust my instincts, for some reason

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I was ashamed to tell her that it was my common sense that suggested I just put the whole lemon rind in there in the first [...]

Random Phone Call: Can Mime Save Haiti?

Does altruism exist? Often, when asked to help, we try to control how our help will be received or how it will be utilized, if the recipient will be grateful, if we will be acknowledged, if the results will be beneficial to us, personally, before we agree, rather than giving with eyes closed and arms [...]

The Many Colors of Angus Scrimm or: You Can Learn A Lot from a Tall Man

Because I travel in elite circles, I managed to get Angus Scrimm to write something appropriate on my copy of “Phantasm.”