Right Said Ed
My new screenplay is about a week away from completion. I work in an odd way in so much as I actually think of dialog first, then find an appropriate character and use for the dialog. Sometimes the dialog has no place in a dramatic setting. These are some snippets from that wandering dialog (in […]
Drama-rama 101
Years ago, when I was a young man with a pocketful of dreams and not much else, I had a group of friends I would hang out with. We’re talking back in 85-87ish. At the time, I thought that all of these people were normal. I was living in Ocean Beach which is San Diego’s […]
This Is Not A Love Song: A Novel, Ch. 3
“How Deep Is Your Love?” – The Bee Gees There comes a time in every new relationship when you take stock. For women, it’s usually after the first or second date. They talk to their buffalo-assed girlfriends and use a complicated math formula similar to the one used by physicists to measure the atomic weight […]
This Is Not A Love Song: A Novel, Ch. 2
“You got to let love rule!” Lenny Kravitz In a short story, I’d be hit with an epiphany and admit all my mistakes while watching Dana’s taxi fight the traffic on the way out of my life. Unfortunately, man is imperfect and it takes time — sometimes weeks, sometimes months — before we’re ready to […]
Selling Out
I’m thinking of selling out. Putting ads on my site might be a quick and easy way of making the site pay for itself. Not that I’m in a position where it is mandatory that I do so, but having it and not needing it is always preferable to needing it and not having it. […]
Punctuation Station
I’m currently reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss and I have to say, it’s pretty interesting. I’m not the 21st century’s answer to E.B. White, I think my grammar is passable. I’m pretty sure when I jack up a sentence with erroneous puctuation, spelling or grammar. Of […]
Morrison The Cat
I’m sitting here after finishing up a stack of articles for my employer. Nine 250 word articles on various topics ranging from home improvement to teaching jobs. When I write these non-fiction pieces, I can’t concentrate if anything is going on outside. A gardener whacking weeds with a gas-powered tool would kill any focus I […]
Truth Campaign
You know what would make me extremely happy? If honesty was a virus. If just by being around someone who was honest, you in turn, became honest. Even if you were the biggest lying sack of shit in the manure pile, ten minutes next to an honest man (or woman), would convert you, until time […]
Sticks & Stones…
This story, originally found through 6togo‘s always entertaining site, had me laughing. I started thinking about what it would be like to be Don Ho’s daughter… I can imagine the conversations: Guy 1: So I hear you’re dating a Ho. Guy 2: Yeah, she’s the only Ho I’ve ever found attractive. Believe me, she’s one […]
This is Not A Love Song: A Novel
“Love is a battlefield” – Pat Benatar No matter what anyone says, love is a mystery that will never be solved. You could throw a billion dollars and thousands of researchers at the problem of male/female relationships and you’d be no closer to solving the mystery than you would be to putting a Starbucks on […]