Twenty years ago, I drove from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania to pick up my girlfriend, a recent college graduate. On the drive back, I proposed to her in Oklahoma (she said yes). We kept driving west. We arrived in Portland on July the 4th. I sort of registered the significance back then, but we hit the ground running since we didn’t …
Welcome back to my blog! Today, I wanted to discuss film reviews. Many of the films I’m going to discuss are violent, but I’ll rarely highlight the violent or bloody scenes. I’m going to write about the quieter scenes. The quieter scenes in violent films can seem mundane but they’re actually sinister. A couple are always mentioned in the same …
I’ve had many blogs over the years. Blogger, LiveJournal, Tumblr, my own domain … I had a blog on each one. When I founded my business, I thought it would be better to have content writing topics at Enlighten Writing, and other topics on a different blog. I joined the Rainmaker platform and then Medium.com for awhile. Neither situation worked …
You Were Never Lovelier came on Turner Classic Movies some time ago. I’ve always thought Rita Hayworth was stunning, but I’ve seen far too few of her films (I know). I hadn’t realized what a gifted dancer she was, or her deft comic timing. Before the Age of the Internet, I would have looked up the film in Leonard Maltin’s …
I like inventing futures. It’s fun to think of what humans will be like a thousand years from now. There are the “macro” factors, like economics, sexuality, art, politics, and starships (of course). But part of the fun is also thinking of the minutiae. Will we still drink coffee in the year 3000? Will schools and learning be drastically different? …
