Tantalizing

I have been quite silent of late. Life is busy, and there are two new writing projects (or three, depending on how you count them) and one theatre project that I am being a trifle circumspect in mentioning. Why? Because until I have a contract in hand, I don't...

Muppet Shakespeare

I get a lot of hits by people Googling "Muppet Shakespeare", thanks to my two casting calls for MUPPET ADO ABOUT NOTHING and MUPPET KING LEAR. For those people, I now present this. (I got this thanks to the ever-amazing Shakespeare Geek, but rather than link...

The Evil Big Blue Jet

Okay, I have a dark turn of mind. I’m aware of this, and most often I can keep it away from the brighter parts of my life. But today I am convinced that the evil Big Blue Jet is controlled by Annie, the Little Einstein. My son Dash adores two TV shows –...

Christmas Cheer

While Dash has fallen in love with A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (probably because I play Vince Guaraldi music through the year), I’ve been doing a marathon of Christmas films that aren’t really about Christmas. You know what I mean – DIE HARD, THE THIN...

WGA Strike, Unions, and My True Colours

If I haven’t been blogging this week, it’s because there’s some interesting family stuff going on, even as I finished three chapters of Book 3 and started my revisions on Book 2. But in all honesty, all my internet time this week has been spent...

Dexter

Today the boxed set for DEXTER arrives on DVD. For anyone who hasn’t seen this Showtime original series, go out and pick it up. Grisly? Yes. Disturbing? Yes. Funny? Yes. Michael C. Hall is the most sympathetic, cuddly, and moving serial killer in history....