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Europe Day 1- The Dark Side of Storytelling

Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged , , , on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Berlin Holocaust Memorial is a series of 2,711 gray monoliths, which all together take up an entire block near the center of the city. On the outskirts of the Memorial, each monolith is about waist high. As you walk toward the center, they get taller, and the ground begins to dip lower, as if [...]

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“Memphis” Wins! Neener Neener!

Posted in Writing, tagged , , on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This weekend, the Broadway musical “Memphis” won the Tony Award for Best Musical. It was a triumph I was glad to see, because as I mentioned in this post from January, my brother Charlie is part of the ensemble. He was with the show while it was in La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, and [...]

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Dances with Pocahontas in Space, Revisited

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on May 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »

A few months ago I wrote a post criticizing the movie Avatar, which has become the most read (and most contentious) post in my otherwise quiet corner of the Interwebs. I didn’t even think of it as particularly critical; I liked the movie, I just wished it had stretched further with the story. A couple [...]

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Making Sense of the World, One Story at a Time

Posted in Life, Writing, tagged , , , on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I haven’t blogged much lately, because I’ve been too busy following Neil Gaiman’s advice, particularly the first 27 seconds: The stories that I’ve been writing over the past two weeks aren’t the kind that get edited, proofread and sold to a magazine. No, I’ve been writing the messy kind, the stories that I can’t write [...]

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Avatar: Dances with Pocahontas in Space?

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Okay, so I finally got around seeing Avatar in 3D at the local IMAX. (Tickets are still selling out a week in advance– crazy!) By now, anything I say about it will be old news, but I’m still interested in analyzing it from a writer’s perspective. We all know it’s a beautiful movie, with amazing [...]

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The Frozen Apple

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Somehow everytime I visit New York City it ends up being in the dead of winter. I hear the temperature occasionally creeps above freezing there, maybe sometime between March and October, but I don’t recall ever seeing it myself. Anyway, last weekend I boarded a plane about the size of a compact car, along with [...]

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Happy New Year and Decade

Posted in Life, tagged , on January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Happy New Year, everyone! There are a lot of unwritten stories to be told in the upcoming year and decade, both on paper in real life. I always find it exciting to reflect on the future, to realize that from here, our lives really are unwritten stories, and we can take them anywhere we choose. [...]

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Australia Day *error*- Back Home

Posted in Travel, tagged , , on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Well, I’ve been back home from Australia for a week now. The jet lag from the return trip wasn’t too bad; the worst side effect of coming back is that every morning, my alarm clock goes off at 7 am and I can’t get back to sleep, because I have to drive to this place [...]

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Australia Day 3- On Winging It, Wickedly

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I said in my first Australia that there might not be an entry for every day. I did not, however, say there wouldn’t be days with multiple entries… One nice thing about travelling, particularly by yourself, is the ability to change or make plans instantly, on whatever whim strikes you. Like how, tonight, after dining [...]

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