Inherently Different

The One About Not Necessarily The News

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I was just watching the local news here on Maui. Like most local news shows, they try to end the report on a good note and they usually succeed. Tonight’s “feel good” story was about three little girls ranging from age 5 through 8 who foiled a car theft somewhere in Washington State by alerting … Read more

The One About Three Films for Thursday

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Some movies you should do your best to check out when they come out. I’ve read the scripts and they’re pretty damn funny. Maybe it’s just me but zombie movies are a genre I just can’t get enough of. Really have no idea why, but it is a fact. This could be right up there … Read more

The One About Stealing Words

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I doubt anyone would ever want to steal anything I’ve written, but if they do, I have a way of checking. A site named copyscape can wade through oodles of posts on your site and match them across the oodles of posts on blogs across the blogosphere and see if there is any monkey business … Read more

The One About I Need A Hero

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This is less a review than an observation that resulted from watching Hero with the Red Queen today. Movies have played various roles throughout my life, some teaching lessons in loyalty, others in humility, still others how to avoid taking myself or my lot in life too seriously. I think that a good many of … Read more

The One About Desert Island Disc

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I’ve been on a tear lately. Music makes it easy for me to get work done and feel connected to the things I’ve left behind when I moved to Maui. I’m making a variety of music mixes with I-Tunes and would gladly share my most recent collections with anyone who wants to get into my … Read more

The One About When Darwin Fails

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I have to admit one of my guilty pleasures lately is watching Animal Planet’s King of the Jungle II. Unlike the first season in which naturalists and animal experts competed, in the second season regular joes get an opportunity to compete for the title of King of the Jungle. The idea set forth for this … Read more

The One About My Better Judgement

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I watched a few segments of the VMAs tonight. I can now easily see how, forty or fifty years ago, our parents found rock and roll a bit of a mystery. I look at some of the popular music these days and I’m in awe. Not of their talent, because that is suspect, but of … Read more

The One About Writing for Fun & Profit

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Some of you who visit regularly might be aware that I’m entering a screenplay competition in just a few days. I’ve worked on this particular script for months and have been getting decent feedback from my regular screenwriting group. Over the next few days, I’ll post sections here as the mood strikes me. It has … Read more

Nothing But A Heartbeat

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I was about sixteen the first time I came face to face with my own mortality. Okay, well maybe it happened before that day, but I’ll be damned if I remember that experience half as well as I remember the day we crashed into another car while getting high.

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