i've spent the last year and a half writing a procedural thriller. most of the feedback i've received focuses on the fact that we never get invested enough in the characters. the message came in different forms. some said i hadn't developed my characters enough, some said they weren't sympathetic en...

I spent the better part of Sunday testing out our new HD camera and shooting video for a program on techniques employing ideomotor effect (also one of my topics for the upcoming Global Hypnosis Summit which you really should be signed up for if you haven't signed up already). I did some muscle t...

today i saw the billboard version of this on the way to work. and it disgusted me. i mean really. an all-white cast? wtf? you're telling me in this day and age you can't find room in your ensemble movie for anyone who isn't white? there are nine roles represented on this poster alone; not one of tho...

I keep telling my children that there is one thing that never changes, and that is human nature. The more you know about what people will do, the less you need to care about what the world becomes. I hope I get them deeply aware of that before I ship them out of here. As I have spend about 52 hours ...

from the comments on this hd for indies article about the death of the independent film business model, comes this about living room theaters: Hey Mike, Interesting the timing of your rant… I am tinkering with the wording about what IS an “indie� film to you? Is it a movie where the money come...

This post is just a footnote to the forthcoming or long lost theory I've been writing. It just so happens that I pulled in two 'plates of shrimp' today. Meme synchronicity. The first comes from Nassim Taleb in this video. The second comes from Yglesias channelling Gladwell, emphasis mine. At the end...

i found this latimes article about the falling ratings of reality shows fascinating. apparently reality-based shows are being hard hit: New York-based ad firm Horizon Media today delivered an analysis of Nielsen Media Research data for broadcast series during the first two months of the TV season, c...

One of the things we're undoubtedly going to here in the upcoming administration is how it's always the conservatives who are for in the pockets of the capitalist pigs. Yadda yadda. I'm here to tell you different. And why don't......

What does it all mean?...

There is a reason that blacks don't support gay marriage. You might think that it's because of homophobia but you'd only be half right, if that. What a lot of conservatives don't know about progressive blacks (or ex-progressives like myself) is that we appreciate black lesbians and gays because they...