News and Clues

My Bucket List
on Mar 27, 2012 05:00PM

I had the unpleasant experience of realizing just how quickly our plans for the future can be yanked away from us this past week. Fortunately I found this bucket list I made after watching The Bucket List, and it cheered me up. Read More >>
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Fairy Tales, Scary Movies and the Power of Virtue
on Feb 28, 2012 11:00PM

If you know me, you know I love horror movies. Any good movie will effect you viscerally—comedies will make you laugh, romances will make your heart swell and break—but none of that compares to the way a good horror film shakes you to your core. Even bad ones follow you to bed at night and into your dreams. But that isn't what really makes horror films great. What keeps us coming back, decade after decade, weekend after weekend to see the fifth and sixth installments of these franchises, is the same thing that keeps us coming back to fairy tales—Virtue. Read More >>
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Private Investigator's Journal
on Jan 31, 2012 11:00PM

Well, it’s official – people were way cooler back in the day than they are now. If you don’t believe me just check out this entry from a private investigator’s journal I ran across on a recent case. Man this guy could spit shine off a wagon wheel… yeah, I know, I need to work on my 1940’s jargon. Read More >>
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Fame
on Jan 24, 2012 06:00PM

There is fame and then there is fame. I have the former and I’m pretty happy about that. With fame, every week or so I’ll have someone come up to me and tell me how great I am, and about half those times they’ll insist on buying my coffee. With fame on the other hand, every day dozens of people clobber you in the streets, demanding to have your autograph. Fame—discount spa treatments. Fame—you forget what the night sky looks like without flashbulbs going off. See the difference? Read More >>
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Writing and Life Tip: Expect the Unexpected
on Jan 19, 2012 08:00PM

I have always considered myself a liar. It is my profession to deceive. Not only do I tell stories about events that did not happen featuring people who do not exist, I spend all of that time trying to throw you off. I want you to think things happened one way, when I know they happened another. I want you to think that the innocent are guilty and that the guilty are innocent. I want to lie directly to your face, and I want you to thank me for it. Read More >>
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