Several years ago, I started having not-quite-epiphanies: Moments of realization in which something I already knew becomes consciously absorbed. I was not having giant light bulb moments; these weren’t sudden ideas that popped into my brain out of nowhere. Rather, I experienced flashes of clarity on subjects not foreign to me. I wasn’t exclaiming, “A-Ha!Continue reading “Jumping back into the pool: Writing is hard — an “Uh-Huh” moment”
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The seventh annual birthday post (and my first Jack Benny Birthday!): Happy World Peace Day!
Over the past six-and-a-half years, I have filled this space with plenty of thoughts, rants and ramblings, and over those same six-and-a-half years, I have also allowed this corner of the interwebs to sit dormant for extended periods of time. However, I’ve remained (somewhat ironically) consistent with one feature: I have never missed a birthdayContinue reading “The seventh annual birthday post (and my first Jack Benny Birthday!): Happy World Peace Day!”
Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1
I’m still hedging my bets. This habit stuff is hard. (That’s been my motto all year: THSIH. It rolls off the tongue.) As I mentioned yesterday, barely a day passes that I don’t encounter at least one thing prompting my internal voices to say, “I’m going to write about that.” In fact, I generally keepContinue reading “Miscellaneous Miscellany: Don’t call it a comeback; but here’s an abstract – Part 1”
Shana Tova — New Year’s revisited; Back in focus (yet again, for reals, etc)
Late last year, amidst all the media attention on the concluding decade coupled with the annual exercise in breaking the best-and-worst of life and culture into 365-day chapters, I wrote about the camel-back-breaking-straw to my 2009 and Aughts. Over the ensuing three weeks, I patiently waited for the new year and decade to arrive. InContinue reading “Shana Tova — New Year’s revisited; Back in focus (yet again, for reals, etc)”
Blurring focus once again: Let the lists begin to roll
After a week filled with cramming and catch-up, I finally finished the first of my own lists. Best of the year. Best of the decade. My deadline was set by indieWIRE, and I’m a person who tends to do better with deadlines set by others. So … I got it done. It’s a fascinating exerciseContinue reading “Blurring focus once again: Let the lists begin to roll”
Happy 2009 – Resolved to Be a Better Focus Puller
I had a pretty low-key New Year’s. I was invited to a couple parties, but I realized that I simply wasn’t that into going to any of them, which in its own way, made perfect sense in terms of how I felt about much of 2008. I decided to stay home and get to workContinue reading “Happy 2009 – Resolved to Be a Better Focus Puller”
Random Thoughts Upon a Return
I recently came out of my own PTSD (that’s Post-Tribeca Stress Disorder) and have been trying to get back to “work.” What that means — since I do not only refer to job-related activities — has been a bit complicated. I’ve definitely had this hardcore writer’s block, in the sense that whenever I’ve been inspiredContinue reading “Random Thoughts Upon a Return”
Happy New Year! Tardy Resolutions Due to Figuring Out How to Drink Your Milkshake! DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINAGE!
What’s 11 days between friends? Who’s to say that all new year challenges/resolutions/goals/what-have-you need to start on January 1? Sure, that’s the easy way out, but just think how much more fun it could be to hold off on all those resolutions until, say, oh, I don’t know … the end of the second weekContinue reading “Happy New Year! Tardy Resolutions Due to Figuring Out How to Drink Your Milkshake! DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINAGE!”
Out of Focus Up-to-Date
I feel like a month just flat out disappeared. Is that what happened? I mean, last thing I know, I’m back from Toronto, preparing to move apartments, trying to get to New York Film Festival press screenings, and suddenly … it’s November 1. I suppose moving, buying a bunch of stuff for the new apartment,Continue reading “Out of Focus Up-to-Date”
NOTES FROM TRIBECA: IT SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY I WATCHED KING OF KONG AS A SUBMISSION
Wow, how a week as jusdt flown by. Now I’m way behind again with posts backing up just waiting to be written. But I have a relatively decent excuse. If you’ve happened to swing by here and paid any attention to my Twitterisms in the column to the left, you would have noticed a fewContinue reading “NOTES FROM TRIBECA: IT SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY I WATCHED KING OF KONG AS A SUBMISSION”
Out of Focus 