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Breaking Bad, by Vince Gilligan
Season 2 In the second season, we are introduced to an insane, psychopathic, distributor named Tuco. Tuco is a character who loves to kill — probably gives him some sort of sexual endorphin filled rush which is why he has … Continue reading
Circuit, by Dirk Shafer
I mention this movie (the photo is from the CD) only because the writer and director was Dirk Shafer, who made a name for himself by becoming the first Playgirl nude model to come out as gay. He made this … Continue reading
Breaking Bad, by Vince Gilligan
Season 1 And I’m guessing you’d have to add to Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul (pictured) and Anna Gunn to the “creator’s” list, because I don’t think this show would have achieved the same greatness as it did without them. You … Continue reading
Future
It doesn’t seem possible when I feel still quite young that I could be thinking about how I will approach the latter part of my life. Or time, if those are the same thing. Personally, I think gravity and time … Continue reading
Activitism
That’s not a word. I just made it up. One of the most important lessons of writing fiction, whether in a novel, short story, screenplay or play, is the word “active.” The characters, especially the main character, must be active. … Continue reading
Lines
Sometimes I’ll read something by a well-known, lauded author and have absolutely no idea what he or she is talking about. I just finished an old review by John Updike of an Alan Hollinghurst novel. I couldn’t tell if it … Continue reading
A line
I was walking down the street and passed the playground of a public school. The teachers had apparently told all the children to line up, with the boy at one end of the line and the girls at the other. … Continue reading
Bully
I’m going to the library today because I realized, from the small class I took, that you must absolutely have a place or a space to go when you want to write. Sometimes, when you’re younger, that “space” can be … Continue reading
New Born, by Ella Hickson
This got a tremendous review from the New York Times, and it was mostly sold out — you could get a seat here and there on different nights, which is how I got a single seat toward the back of … Continue reading
Rage quitting and other perils of the modern world.
One thing I learned from my recent “Intro to Fiction” class, where they teach the absolute basics of attempting to write fiction, and which I took as a last ditch effort to kick-start myself back into a writing mode, is … Continue reading