Category Archives: writing
Food of Love, a short play by Greg Machlin
So my friend Greg Machlin, talented young playwright, was putting together a theater company and for a modest donation he was offering to write a short play for each microbenefactor. SEEMED LIKE A GOOD DEAL. Instead of writing about me … Continue reading
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My advice to aspiring screenwriters
I don’t talk about work on my blog much, but recently a dear friend of mine asked if I’d give his friend some advice about coming to LA to try to break into TV writing. This was my response, which … Continue reading
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Elvira
It’s unusual to know exactly when your pubescence ended, but I do. It was the summer of 1990 and I was newly eleven, standing in my friend Louis’ kitchen while he changed channels on a small television. He stopped at … Continue reading
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Grant Morrison, greatest living mainstream comic book writer, weighs in on my movie of the year
“Morrison: Yeah. I went to see Crank: High Voltage when we were in Los Angeles. I had just watched that, and I thought everything else just looks like slow motion, really. [...] To me that was just a great action … Continue reading
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My favorite magazine of all time
I read Cabinet, and Monocle, and Art Forum, and I even puzzle out what little hiragana I remember to make limited sense of Hiroki Nakamura interviews in Huge or whatever. I read ID, and Fuck This Life, and sometimes Fantastic … Continue reading
I think I just figured something out
You know how in old-time letters people signed with really flourish-y valedictions? I’ve always wondered about something: you see this a lot – Faithfully yours, &c. The “&c.,” with a period and no space between the ampersand and the letter … Continue reading
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Blogrollzz
You’ll notice I’ve added a second link list over there on the right; I’ve been meaning to for a while. VIPs are the people – single human beings, not problogs or linkmonsters – I pay close attention to. Caps is … Continue reading
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Kohl
I just read Meg Rosoff’s Just In Case – really winning, by the way, not deserving of being stuck in the ghetto of ‘young adult’ – and anyway, something caught my eye: The voice belonged to a girl of perhaps … Continue reading
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A small childhood memory
One summer when I was eight, my family drove to a town in Pennsylvania near the New York border. We were invited by the parents of friends of mine, a girl, K., just turned nine, and her seven year old … Continue reading
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That Girl Is On Fire, 17
INT. SYZRGY HAMBURGER’S LIVING ROOM – NIGHT Syzrgy and Jorge are eating hot wings out of paper boxes. SYZRGY Dude, she viewed my profile on MySpace. Your ex, homebagel. JORGE You can’t see who’s viewed you on MySpace. SYZRGY You … Continue reading
Another scene from That Girl Is On Fire, Mentally
INT. THE DROWNED SCOTSMAN BAR & GRILLE – NIGHT Jorge is sitting in a booth with BRENDA, the girl with the dead father who may or may not have killed himself. They’re watching a frat guy hit on Mandy at … Continue reading
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