It is the middle of June in a year when people still actively remember Y2K fizzling out. I book a one-way flight to Toronto on a whim, with no real plan for when I land. Somewhere in my head I’m
March 21 – Rosie O’Donnell gets a schubladenbrief
March 20 – Spike Lee gets an encounter with a blind Venetian lady of the night
When I was ordered to be stationed in Italy after the war, I gathered, from the way the other guys talked, that it would be the easiest few months since I was drafted. We were there on a peacekeeping mission,
March 19 – Glenn Close gets my Olive Moment™
Well, it’s finally happened. And it’s about time. I have returned from having my olive moment, and I admit, that means a lot to me. I’ve actually been waiting for today for years, when at last I would be able
March 18 – Queen Latifah gets an unplanned revolutionary origin
I’m at a party on the 22nd floor of a building downtown, and based on the decorations it must be New Year’s Eve. My friends are all around me but for now I am alone. I’m watching the city below,
March 17 – Rob Lowe gets my filmic concerns with slightly relevant #as#tags
In the course of my movie watching, I often catch myself falling for the pitfalls of misattribution. Other times I discover continuity holes, missed opportunities or potential connections. These are their stories. • For the entirety of Room, I thought
March 16 – John Darnielle gets a dream that, when scrawled on paper, evolves into a film about a calamitous first day at work
The other day I had this dream that woke me up, as it strongly urged me to write it down. It quickly turned into a short film, and someday when it gets filmed I can legitimately call it that. So
March 15 – Bret Michaels gets a welcome mat switcheroo
I’m walking my friends home from the bar because the air is crisp and the friends are clean. As we approach their place, I acknowledge that I will not be immediately continuing on. There’s unfinished business inside, and although I’m
March 14 – Jake Fogelnest gets a rundown of the first season of “Trials and Tributaries”
I have an idea for a show where each episode is a different court case (NOT Night Court). Some judges are crazy, some are all serious, either way they should be wildly different. Some cases make sense, with audience introspection
March 13 – William H. Macy features prominently in the first story I ever wrote
“Spike was bad to the bone. He didn’t care what his parents thought, and he didn’t listen to his teachers. Spike had a friend named Henry who was bad to the bone but not as much as Spike. The two
March 12 – Ron Funches finds out I am a card-carrying citizen of the cancer community
I saw you perform on February 24, 2016. I remember the date not because of how funny you were – although I did get a few good guffaws in – but because it’s also the day I found out I