climate change comedy
I want our existential crisis to be funny, I want humanity to win, and I want the story to have a glorious life extending ending. I hope that’s not asking too much—
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Author and Entertainer
finish the line
Revisions to the screenplay continue at a measured pace. I unpacked a lengthy exchange between two characters, that helped with flow. I’m still miserable about trying to hide a few key facts without bringing the narrative to a grinding halt. The manuscript is in Word on my computer and iPad, I can read while I’m […]
Read More finish the lineSausage Along the Potomac
Principled people can disagree about a lot of things, casting a vote not to raise the debt ceiling is not one of them. I don’t like the deal, but I don’t like defaulting on the national debt worse. Bernie, Warren and AOC are not on the same principled page over the debt and think they’ve […]
Read More Sausage Along the PotomacFalling Water/Crumbling Sea Cliffs
Our nearest reservoirs are full to the brim. Our hillsides are slathered in wildflowers.
Read More Falling Water/Crumbling Sea CliffsColorado River Agreement
A lot can happen in the next three years the most important perhaps is that if Biden wins reelection negotiations in 2026 can’t harm the career of a lame-duck President.
Read More Colorado River AgreementSaguaro Bloom
It’s there somewhere behind a gate with a guard standing at a barricade that military undercover agents are trained.
Read More Saguaro BloomSwabbing the Decks
Mother’s Day begins when I drop the wife at Oakland Airport to fly to Portland to hang with her daughter. I had imagined sailing out to Clipper Cove for a night on anchor. I thought I’d do a quick spray off undo the mooring lines and go. Once I started spraying the boat off the […]
Read More Swabbing the DecksPlot as Epiphany—
Coming up with plans—
Read More Plot as Epiphany—Let’s Talk City Buildouts—
If Phoenix is a hot mess of a beast, Gilbert is the sizzling distant unknown reptile nobody has ever heard of. I’d come in from the south, drove through Coolidge, then finally the long straight boulevard into downtown, the very beating heart of this anonymous gargantuan valley town.. Three lanes in each direction for 20 […]
Read More Let’s Talk City Buildouts—Nine Arizona Touchstones
Nearing late afternoon in Tempe, late April touching 91 degrees F, waiting to pickup Eileen coming in from Denver. Crow, a street performing friend lives in Tucson. After blueberry pancakes this morning drove to his place for coffee before heading north. Married to a Korean wife, she’s visiting family and is away, when she returns […]
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