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Sweat
Sweat spot on the swimming pool deck. According to my exercise journal, I’ve huffed and puffed more often in the past month than in any other one month period over the last two decades. Government...
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Layers
You’ve seen the shorthand in films: a paintbrush applying one layer of paint on canvas, then another, then another. It’s how I write most scripts: an iterative approach where I can look back at the...
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Fourteen Years
If you muffle the speakers a little, I think this might… Okay, it’s a stretch. But I do like this song. And since this is my website where I am the master of all that passes through it, it’s what we’re...
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Walking Dead Forever
Without permission from undeadwalking.com. This time last year, I opened up issue 192 of The Walking Dead and did my usual first-pass read — the kind of breath-held-whaat’s-happeniiing-neeeext...
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WE ARE MANY: a clinic
Last weekend, Playmarket provided a one-day clinic for We Are Many, a newish play inspired by the Womens Mau Movement who continued passive resistance against the New Zealand occupation in 1930s Samoa....
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Lit
INT. DEN, FORTRESS MAMEA -- AFTERNOON THE LOVELY WIFE, a slab of “Owner Builder” MAGAZINES on her lap, glances up at her PET WRITER’s reading: a NOVEL by [a very famous New Zild writer]. THE LOVELY...
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2020 in Pixels and Points (and Sweat)
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link Features enjoyed: Uncut Gems Judy Blades of Glory Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Tell Me Who I Am By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link Television...
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Plan v Life
Yes, 2020 was quite the year. I had plans: people I’d worked with in the preceding years also had plans that were progressing, and those progressing plans’ becoming could/would/should have made 2020,...
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Wheel Reinventing
A life-size horse lamp because A LIFE-SIZE HORSE LAMP. (Without permission from www.droold.com.) Late last year, I got asked to work up a little something that would probably open with — BASED ON A...
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Apples, Oranges, Rifles, Shotguns
By Source, Fair use, Link I’ve been rewriting and rewriting a post about comparing the experience of watching a four-hour headache-inducing director’s cut of a blockbuster with a tender and...
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