Dear Dad, I keep meaning to write to you. Sorry it’s been so long. Anyway, whatever, as they say. I woke up yesterday thinking about a question I meant to ask you when I was in kindergarten or first grade. The question, as I remember it, is this: When you’re looking at a blank piece [...]
I was devastated to learn this week that my pal, colleague, confidante and mentor Laurel Bowman passed away. Wait a minute – weren’t we supposed to grow old together and sit around the Old Ad Folks Home and talk about how kids know nothing anymore and how it was back in the day? Weren’t we [...]
Usually, NPR stimulates my ears in the morning in order to get me up and out the door for work. Often, it also stimulates my brain and I dash out thinking, “I should write about that”. No time, gotta catch that train. The case today is one such moment. I heard the NPR film critic [...]
Dear Quentin Tarantino, I recently saw your latest locally available DVD, “Death Proof”. I missed it in the theaters. Hey, for the price of admission, I can own it forever. Or at least for the next few years, until on-demand or BlueRay kill the DVD format for good. Lucky me. My reaction to your film: [...]