Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
Writing here on the blog has been slower as the pace of screenwriting has seized the waking hours of my day. You’ll forgive the glazed over eyes, the seeming inexplicable delving into rabbit holes, the burden of the finite clock exacts its price and works to contain the prolific. I have been putting ukulele chords […]
Read More Much Ado rewriteKey decision in my run up to the next screenplay is selecting the music tracks. Even if things all get tossed out, I like building a file of songs that catch the flavor. Bossa is of course Brazilian built for yearning, heartbreak and pathos. You want to dance you’ll play a samba. Bye, Bye […]
Read More Blame it on the Bossa NovaPrincipled 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 PotomacSure, there are some cutting a fat hog, but plenty more are just scraping by, living on the land, each one with a fated story.
Read More hot honey of a worldI’d offer classes in how to plant your own garden, kill rattlesnakes, squish scorpions
Read More Thacker Pass as salvationThere is a bright future. In Colorado energy researchers at the Rocky Mountain Institute make it their business to know a thing or two because they’ve studied a thing or two. Battery storage when paired with solar and wind is the cheapest form of energy on the market in 2020. Coal and natural gas can’t […]
Read More Hope is the New Dopeapproximately all of us will be affected by this change
Read More Singing Telegram GiggingLaura is a Category 4 hurricane barreling through the Gulf of Mexico’s overheated waters taking aim at East Texas-West Louisiana. The timing of Laura’s arrival is a national nightmare. Predictions are for tidal surges to reach up to 30 miles inland. Driving through Oregon and Idaho Sunday and Monday I was in thick smoke from […]
Read More Making it RealPut down the drumstick, eat a carrot, save the world. You don’t need to know why.
Read More March 20, 2018 Solstice Mesquite Tree LoveYou Win a Baby Blue White Leather Interior Cadillac Rain is the sworn enemy of a street performer. Cold wind and ice come in second with unbearable high humidity and heatwaves next. The not too hot, not too cold is supportive of such things as solvency. It is the shoe that is always about to […]
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