Adaptation and Atlases.
This would normally be relegated to a "pondering" post, but I wanted to post David Mitchell's Wall Street Journal column about the adaptation of his Cloud Atlas. If you somehow missed Cloud Atlas, do yourself a…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
The disruption of a dead fuel pump and fuel relay put a huge dent in the pondering end of my business. But though I'm certain that there's another giant car…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
To take my mind off of mounting car repair bills, here's what I'm pondering: Tom Tomorrow encapsulates almost everything that bothered me about the first J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie. True, much…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
A thousand apologies for skipping a day's pondering, but my energies have been focused on a screenplay version of an audio drama I did a couple of years ago called Denial.…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, suggests five novels about addiction. Arbitrage, starring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, is both out in theaters and available for rental on iTunes. I don't know…
Upcoming Projects
Now that Dismantle the Sun is out and available for purchase, you might think of me as The Great Author, perched on a throne in a Brobdingnagian abode on an Olympian slope,…
Movies of the Weekend
Seen this weekend: Panic (2000): William H. Macy plays a hit man whose visit to a psychologist puts him in direct conflict with his capo father, played by Donald Sutherland.…
I Viddied It On A Stream: How To Steal A Million
Although my default mode in public is to be the guy in the corner whose every look says I only came here to count the seconds until I can leave,…
Five Great Movies about Troubled Marriages
My new book, Dismantle the Sun, revolves around a troubled marriage, so I'd thought to gear up, you might want to check out other works that cover similar territory. Of…
Speaking of Riffing
I've cut together a collection of some of my favorite riffs from my and Larry's adventures in 1950s era short films. These movies tell us a lot about mid-century America.…