Everyone's screaming about how bad everything is, as if now is some special time in history when things are particularly bad. You know, as oppossed to that time when everything was good. But I find myself wondering whether things are actually worse or if we're just more aware of the bad stuff happening all around … Continue reading Bethlehem Revisited: The scary prescience of Didion’s ‘Slouching’

“It’s a journalist’s job to be a witness to history. We’re not there to worry about ourselves. We’re there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.” —Robert Fisk I was there and I watched it die. I sold my first few … Continue reading We’re all to blame for bad journalism

I'm not only a fan of the Short Prologue Club, I'm also a member! Dunging out some old writings folders on my laptop and I stumbled—digitally—across a snarky little intro I penned nearly a decade ago. Forgetting the quality, or lack thereof, I was struck primarily by how long this epilogue was. Granted, it's short … Continue reading Prologues: the shorter the better

Just a quick end-of-February update since I've not checked in in a while. Boy, I tell ya: Hollywood is nothing if not a bottleneck. I now have three feature films in post-production with three different filmmakers. The previews and snippets I've seen has me stoked and I can't wait to see the finished products. Currently, … Continue reading Pre-production, post-production, and plain old production-production