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I hate text messaging. I have a normal flip phone.  Texting from it is awkward and inefficient. I guess some find it a more convenient way to shoot a quick note back-and-forth, without the “hassle” of a 23-second conversation.  I get that.  But then I have to respond via text, using that horrible system of [...]

So my housemate says to me that she doesn’t want to know anything about any of the new fall TV shows. She already has enough shows to follow, she says, and would prefer not to add anymore timesuckage to her schedule.  Pish tosh. If she cuts back on viewing hours, whom’m I gonna veg on [...]

I really need to commit to taking a trip home in September. I saw Washington’s quarter for the first time today (I guess they went into circulation in April) and I desperately wanted to be right there, in the picture on the back. I may be biased, but this absolutely seems like the best designed [...]

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 [...]

Dear DVD Manufacturer and Distributor: I enjoy watching movies on my computer. This morning, for example, I thought I’d have School of Rock playing in a small corner window while I work on a client’s web page. This sort of thing is why people have DVD players on their computer. Here’s what I don’t enjoy: [...]

When you’re doing the Hollywood thing, meeting a new person at a party can sometimes mean that they are already looking over your shoulder to see if there’s someone more important for them to talk to instead. It’s nice when you meet someone in the industry who is more interested in being your friend than [...]

I did some freelance work for a branch of the Disney company about a year ago, and that brief experience left me with the impression that their legal army is vast and humorless.  Disney has a history of getting petty with the little guy over copyrights, and had much to do with the passage of [...]

I’m not fond of some of the labels and diagnoses that psychologists use with children, but it’s fair to say that one of the students I tutor has a… disorder, which causes him to have a… deficit… of… attention. There, I think that was subtle enough. Anyway, I find that a large part of my [...]

From time to time, I glance at the statistics for this web site. The most entertaining aspect is seeing what people search for that brings them to my domain. This week, someone googled the phrase “Christina Ricci naked super Blade Runner.” I’m not sure precisely what that searcher was hoping to find, but I like [...]

Those of you who follow via RSS will have to click through to see what I’m talking about, but I just added this swell plug-in to the right sidebar, tracking the leading providers of feedback to this site. After all, you don’t want to hear to just the opinion of ScreenwriterGuy and ScreenwriterGuy alone as [...]

I’m back from the Bahamas.  I gotta say, L.A. actually feels a little chilly.  Perspective is a funny thing.  Typing reminds me that one of the fingers on my right hand hurts slightly.  I bent it back catching myself on a table, when I lost my balance standing on a chair to watch a Caribbean [...]

When I was in college, I trained myself to sleep on airplanes.  It’s easy, really.  You just do an all-nighter before your flight.  Now I have a Pavlovian response to flying, such that as soon as I lean back on that unyielding headrest with the circulated air pumping in my face, I’m out.  It doesn’t [...]