appearances
Off to class
Running off to try and teach a bunch of 14-year-olds about action scenes. Wish me luck.
writing
Lights, Camera. . .
I’ve been invited to do a class for a bunch of kids on how to go about writing an action scene/sequence. Thought I’d use the blog to flesh out some of the ideas I want to get across. So here are some of the necessary elements of a successful action Read more…
politics
Iran
One thing history tends to teach is that shooting from the hip about ongoing events will often tend to make you look like a complete asshat in retrospect. So I’m not going to theorize on what’s going to happen; the Berlin Wall might be falling, or the tanks could be Read more…
real life
And how to do customer service right
After my post eviscerating Lowe’s (In particular, the Lowe’s at 24500 Miles Road in Bedford Heights) I thought it might be a good thing to illustrate a counter-example. Last night, me and my wife ventured to the Regal Cinema in Cleveland Heights to watch a satellite broadcast of Glen Beck’s Read more…
politics
News is making my head explode. . .
David Letterman doesn’t read this blog, but it’s ok, in his mind she was 18. DHS says told ya so, veterans are dangerous, if they’re racist white supremacist whackjobs who hate Fox News, but it’s really Limbaugh’s fault. But someone gets it, and the Huffington Post suggests that a change Read more…
real life
For fellow writers and those in Texas
I recently received a donation request from the Fandom Association of Central Texas. Since it’s for a good cause, in addition to sending them a few titles of mine, I thought I’d pimp it here on the blog. If you’re a writer, consider shipping them some donations. If you’re a Read more…
asshat
And Liberals have no lock on the ironic asshat award
Lest one think I’m suggesting that the idea of using offensively asinine statements that allege to support one’s point of view while fatally undermining the political principles one claims to support while being cringe-inducingly tacky at the same time was in fact a monopolistic practice on the left side of Read more…
asshat
Playboy invents PC term for rape
There exists a certain type of incredibly sleazy male, the kind who has paleolithic attitudes about women that would embarrass the guy filming the Girls-Gone-Wild videos, but who at some point in his education, discovered that he got a complete pass on his repulsive personal antics as long as he Read more…