Get Your Foot In The Door

Front Door or Back Door…there are 2 ways in:

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White Playhouse Mystery Science

Obscure Reference Time! One of the set designers for Netflix’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival is Wayne White.

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Internet Freedom Day Gratitude

On January 18, 2012 the Internet went on strike to protest SOPA and PIPA.

I’m so grateful they did.

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Damn The Fridge: A Scribble Manifesto

Say goodbye to Artistic Freedom.

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Freedom vs Gym Class

Remember that infamous book from years back All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten? Yeah well the truth is if we could all write a book together, Wikipedia style it’d be All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Gym Class. It’s Gym Class where you get saddled with inferior paradigms like Shirts vs Skins (really us vs them…I coulda gone for this had it been no pants vs pants, though), winners and losers etc. That’s great for sports because there are clearly defined rules and somebody’s keeping score…in the real world, it’s far to messy for such naive simplicity.

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That Guy…Spielberg…

So I’ve decided to “understand” Spielberg. Checked out a bunch of books from the library: interviews, quotes, methods, whole deal.

And now? I sort of have a better handle on him; I kinda get it. I didn’t before, just didn’t make sense. I couldn’t comprehend why his movies are successful: what was the appeal? What was I missing?

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