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Celluloid Heroes Part IX: The Long Lonesome Highway*

My fourth and final year of film school was quite the different beast from the three years preceding. Whereas before our schedules were loaded with classes on film theory, film history, art history, business, design, film technology, storyboarding and more, … Continue reading →

Changes

I miss the internet. The old internet. That weird wild west of flying toaster screen savers, dancing babies, 56k modems, the screechy dial-up sounds, and landfills full of AOL internet CDs (okay maybe not that part). I miss the highly … Continue reading →

Walking the Nightmare

This is an old paperback. The cover is creased and separating from the spine, the spine has been bent many times over. It’s been with me for what seems forever, accompanying me through ten different moves between cities, provinces, states, … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes Part VIII: The Drug Of A Nation

My summer Celluloid Heroes series concludes this month with this piece written for the book version of Celluloid Heroes that didn’t make the editorial cut. I present it here for your late-summer reading pleasure, and you can catch up with … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes Part VII: Heavy Metal

Welcome to Part Seven of my Celluloid Heroes series. What began as a website-only project has since bloomed into a massive 140,000 WIP non-fiction book currently being revised. And revised. And revised. Did I mention it’s still being revised? Of … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes Part VI: In The Pale Moonlight

35 years ago the summer of 1989 became the Summer of the Bat. Continue reading →

Begging Bowl Blues

Back in 2010 I was a still freshly-minted New Yorker, still adjusting to my new life in the Big Apple. While I’d visited the city extensively in the eight or so years previous, this was now my home. Because of … Continue reading →

Infinite Content (or: Boredom: A Defense)

In January of 2000 I was sitting pretty high. RoboCop Prime Directives was nearing the end of its production cycle and I was living my life as a screenwriter with a bright future. I had money in the bank, I … Continue reading →

Celluloid Heroes Part V: All Out Of Bubblegum

[This is part five in an ongoing series titled Celluloid Heroes. You may read parts One, Two, Three, and Four at the links] The Parkedale Cinema in Brockville, Ontario was one of those small, independent theaters that today is a … Continue reading →

I Think We’re Alone Now

The Carolina Circle Shopping Center opened in 1976. Situated in the northeastern section of Greensboro, North Carolina, it survived in one form or another until 2002. For the year and a bit that I lived in Greensboro from 1985 through … Continue reading →