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  • On My Unapologetic Love for The Oscars (with predictions)

    I don’t know anyone else where I live now who cares about The Oscars. There are a lot of casual movie fans here, and some of the best movie theaters in the country, but the amount of people who are really hardcore movie buffs is pretty small. Every Oscar season I tend to hear the… Read more

  • The Wilhelm Scream—Hollywood’s Inside Joke

    I’m in total movie mode this week. We’re six days from the Oscars, and I’m keyed up. I’ll go into exactly why the Oscars excite me so much later in the week, but suffice it to say I’m thinking movies nonstop—making my predictions for Oscar night, reading about upcoming movies (strangely excited to see how… Read more

  • 5 Things I’ve Learned After a Year of Blogging

    This is slightly premature, but let’s go with it: late February marks my one year anniversary here on the blog (blogiversary?). Yessiree, it’s been a whole 12 months since I started this thing…my, how things have changed. What have I learned in the past year? Let’s take a look back…The Books of Jobe, this is… Read more

  • Minor Annoyances, A to Z—26 Words That Piss Me Off

    I’ve been feeling kind of gripey lately. Maybe the cold is finally getting to me. As a native Californian, I think I’ve handled the adjustment to the frigid Midwestern winters pretty well—but we all have our breaking points. The last month or so has seen my inner grouch grow exponentially. This weekend we’re actually looking… Read more

  • The Reddit ‘No Sleep’ Experiment

    So do you guys reddit? With all the mandates on writers to use all forms of social media (including my reluctant creation of an account with Google+, which I’m still trying to get a feel for), I assumed that most everyone would have at least dabbled with the internet behemoth. After reading a post from… Read more

  • The Oddity That Is The Encouraging Rejection

    I’ve become accustomed to rejection. I’m still in the early stages of my collection, as yesterday I received lucky number 13 if you’re scoring at home. But this one was different. To paraphrase, it read, in part: Thank you for submitting your story to our online magazine. Unfortunately, our editors did not feel your story was… Read more

  • Could True Detective Be the Future of Television? And A Word About Philip Seymour Hoffman

    I love TV. I really do. There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between books and film as opposed to television among a lot of people. TV has always been looked down on a bit, seen as appealing to the lowest common denominator by putting out broader, more simplistic programming. In a recent… Read more

  • The Bechdel Test: I Passed and I Didn’t Even Study

    I recently became aware of a sort of litmus test for movies, which I feel also relates to writing and storytelling in general. It’s called The Bechdel Test, the origins of which go back to a comic created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel in 1985. From the site Bechdeltest.com: The Bechdel Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel… Read more

  • The Grammy Awards: Your Uncool Uncle

    “The Grammys is the one award that doesn’t matter to anyone until they win one.” For 15-20 years, I dismissed the Grammys as utter crap. It all started back in 1989, when they decided to branch out and recognize heavy metal and hard rock with its own category/award. And in a year when Metallica’s …And… Read more

  • Twenty Dollars and a Simple Gesture

    The waiter at Olive Garden put his palms down on the table and leaned forward, speaking a little softer than usual. “Hey guys,” he said. “That family at that table over there that just left? They paid for your meal. They didn’t want me to say anything until they were gone, but you guys are… Read more