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My housemate received a similar e-mail several weeks ago, but mine just came yesterday: Netflix is reducing the price of the service I have through them.  This is the same company that recently activated monthly hours of free online movie watching. Sure, I get that their motivation is all about competing with Blockbuster, even if [...]

Tonight I caught Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a do-over from attempting to see it on Friday, which outing was ruined by a melted IMAX film. I’m so glad I saw this movie. Enough people have accused me of being unable to suspend disbelief recently, as I’ve vocally expressed my distaste for [...]

For some reason, my My Name Is Earl spec has been giving me all kinds of problems.  It’s been the top priority for me, writing-wise, for weeks now, and I’m nowhere.  Haven’t been able to break the story.  This normally doesn’t happen to me.  Normally I get an idea, then I watch the show over [...]

I had Harry Potter tickets for last night, and was really looking forward to seeing film number five. Leading up to the release of a Harry Potter book, it has always been my tradition to re-read the preceding books, or at least the preceding several. This time around I opted to watch all the movies, [...]

There’s a rule of thumb in which I’ve always believed:  if you are writing a story in which a protagonist is an artist (of any kind,) you should never ever show the artwork your character is making.  Maybe, if the artist is supposed to be bad, you show a sample of his work, probably as [...]

I have to say I’m quite pleased by the huge box office success of the fifth Harry Potter movie over the last week. Because I’m a fan of the franchise? True, but that’s not why. It’s because at last I can stop getting copies of Variety spouting about the success of Transformers. Have I mentioned [...]

Last month I posted a comedy monologue for women I had written on a lark. I was surprised by the immediate reaction it received. I wound up talking to several female friends with acting backgrounds who agreed wholeheartedly that it’s tough to find good comedic material for women. The screenwriterguy.com stats seem to back up [...]

As a publicity stunt to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie, select 7-Elevens have converted to Kwik-E-Marts, completely changing their look, and selling Simpsons-related products inside. I’ve been by this particular 7-Elev– er, Kwik-E-Mart several times, and there has always been a line around the building.  You’d think people were waiting to get into the movie.  [...]

I had a burrito for lunch today. At the next table, two businessmen discussed their preferences in bottled water.  One insisted that spring water contains too much sodium.  They were having a sincere discussion about brands of WATER that are bad for you.

Once, back when I was producing sketch comedy in Seattle, I started doing some research into adding an L.A. show onto a tour we were prepping. I came across several online resources, including one web site that detailed the capacity, price, and contact information for numerous theater spaces across the city. How magnificent! How easy [...]

Transformers isn’t the only recent release that is annoyingly inadequate and yet still has millions of customers. I had a side job that issued laptops, until they recently ran out of work and asked us to return them. Since, I have been woefully unproductive during my hours in coffee shops, or while waiting for tutees [...]