Comedy is hard.
(see below) Writing comedy and being funny are two separate things. I’m now officially spending several evenings each week working on the spec pilot I’ve been wanting to write for over a year and it’s very clear that writing is hard enough on its own – writing something truly funny is feeling impossible. But that’s...
I changed my mind.
In a given year, I might hope to have maybe one magical moment during which I can step outside myself long enough to see myself – see what’s REALLY real. I might catch a glimpse of what’s behind what’s going on with me – and hopefully, in that instant, even re-see the whole world with...
From the Sketchbook (Volume 3)
I’ve been wanting to post the last of the scans I made from the purple sketchbook, but this has been the first chance in awhile. The wife is sick with a fever – in bed since before I got home at 4 today. Ida and Mae are asleep in their new bunkbed – complete with...
From the Sketchbook (Volume 2)
Here are some more scans from my purple sketchbook. I’m starting to get excited about starting a new one – a feeling I haven’t had in awhile. Writing these posts, I’ve decided on the need for two simultaneous sketchbooks: a hardbound book for “free” drawing; experimental stuff to keep my brain and hand loose and...
From the Sketchbook (Volume 1)
I haven’t kept a sketchbook consistently for a very long time. In college, they were like little illuminated pamphlets shared between friends – packed with different styles, trying out new things on every page. The year after I graduated from college, I started a company with friends, started calling myself a “Creative Director” and all...
I love magazines. And TV.
I love magazines. I don’t have time to read them, but I deeply enjoy holding their shiny little booklet pages, looking at the big pictures, the advertisements. Since I skip most TV commercials, seeing magazine ads are sometimes the only way I can keep tabs on what’s being dumped on consumers at any given moment....
Wife, the magic dragon.
For the record, I really actually believe magic is real. Supernatural forces exist in some forms, for sure. I don’t know if there are aliens or ghosts or psychic things, but I know there’s more to it all than what I perceive with my eyes and can manipulate in my physical world. How do I...
