What a strange couple of weeks this has been for me. It’s true I suppose that things happen for a reason, but I didn’t expect all of it to happen at once. A couple of weeks ago I saw an article in the local paper regarding the Veterans History Project, a project being done by [...]
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Projects and changes
Posted: July 14, 2010 in anthropology, Community Theater, writingTags: Community Theater, Follow That Dream, Veteran's History Project
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Lately, I’ve been working on the massive storyline to my trilogy of novels that I expect to write when I graduate. So this isn’t a typical blog from me. This is what I call a “writing” blog as opposed to my usual mess of anthropology, religion, sociology, folklore, psychology that I traditionally have written about. [...]
Clash of the Titans 2010 Review
Posted: April 10, 2010 in Reviews, writingTags: Clash of the Titans 2010, Film, Movie Remakes, Remake, Review
The Clash of the Titans 2010 – Remake Review 2 out of 5 Stars – for terrible screenplay, incalculable changes to the storyline and choppy action sequences. For a certain generation, many of us grew up with Harry Hamlin, Sir Laurence Olivier and the original cast of this cult classic film released in 1981. In [...]
A New Orleans fairytale: part 1
Posted: February 2, 2010 in writingTags: Fiction about New Orleans, New Orleans, Sub-cultures
I had never even heard of the Dungeon. At this point, my roommate Tracy had arrived and was unpacking her stuff in an adjoining room, and I knew if anyone would know what this place was, she would. I found her bending over a trunk in the small room she had claimed for herself, unpacking tarot cards and other accessories she used for reading down in Jackson Square.
It never ends! All this writing and reading and writing. I feel like my brain is in some perpetual state of absorption. I’m reminded of an episode of Married….with children: Kelly needs to learn something for some tv show, and Al & Bud teach her stuff, but for every one fact she learns that is [...]
Government does suck, Why the hell did I take this? Essay is the easy part. Wish me luck, I have an 11 chapter government exam at one o’clock. Yes, I realize the last line of my senryu is over by one syllable. Deal with it, it’s called artistic license.
Sydney and Clifford plot to kill Myra, Sydney’s wife. They conspire to fake a murder, and give her a heart attack. She dies, and the two move in together. In the second act the tension builds between the two male leads, and leads to a dramatic, climactic ending where they are both dead. What I saw this night was true comedy. It reminded me of vaudeville.
Heaven is full now.
No entry without a pass,
Stop praying for death
