Season 2 of The Walking Dead on AMC has reached its half-way point. On November 27, 2011 the mid-season finale, “Pretty Much Dead Already” aired and its final moment provided a chilling turning point for a group still clinging to the hope of a normal life and happy future. As a writing fan, I thought it wrapped up many aspects of this season so well that I couldn’t help but laud it here.
This past weekend we watched G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra on Netflix, a movie that started to make me feel weird, then anxious, then totally detached. Why? Because, it was popcorn action movie that I shouldn’t take at all seriously? No. Because it, like several films previously, tripped my Star Wars alarm. What is [...]
I used to drive a lot. To and from work 45 minutes and before that to and from university about the same. I didn’t mind so much, I used to do a lot of thinking while I drove and, while still being an active sketch comedy writer and performer, used to generate a lot of [...]
During my university career, I received six credits for yoga. You may be asking yourself a couple of reasonable questions: first, how is one graded for downward dog? And second, why would that be part of any curriculum? I am a systems engineer by training and trade. But I also studied theatre acting in university, [...]
In my previous post about Dropbox, I talked about Dropbox as a tool for writers to backup their work and move projects across multiple devices. It is absolutely a great tool for this and with a “free” price tag for 2GB of cloud storage, it’s a no brainer to try. But Dropbox can also prove [...]