Victoria N. Alexander's Blog, page 12
July 1, 2018
Terrordise, semi-finalist in Austin Revolution Film Fest
My comedy screenplay about the surveillance state, set in the future, in Dallas, was just selected as a semi-finalist for Best Screenplay in the Austin Revolution Film Fest. Since the story is set in Texas, I am hoping that it will get picked up and produced by some hip Texans. Love my old home state. […]
June 24, 2018
I admired Vaclav Havel
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June 8, 2018
The Past Decade in Science and Certainty
A link to my essay on Lynn Margulis, “Evolutionary ‘Naturalism,’ Chance and Conspiracy,” was shared in this month’s Environmental Evolution newsletter. Also, watch the preview of Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution Advertisements
May 19, 2018
Terrordise in Park City Int’l Film Fest screenplay contest
The Equity Serve Foundation is proud to sponsor the Park City International Film Festival in order to promote the development of the arts as an increasingly influential vehicle for teaching values conducive to healthy families and an ethical society. The theme for the festival is “Elevating the Human Spirit.” Festival date: June 14 & 15, […]
Celebrating Humanities NY
I spent last week with fellow Public Scholars as our service (2015-2018) with Humanities New York comes to an end. Going forward, I may continue with my work, now acting as consultant on planning grants and action grants in art-science-humanities projects for any New York state based non-profit. Interested? Please apply here. From left to […]
May 12, 2018
Mother’s Day and the Anti-War Movement
Originally conceived of as a protest to war, Mother’s Day has become a marketing tool to boost consumer spending to give suck to the six or seven corporations that own practically everything. Now that Rosie the Riveter, maker of fighter planes and tanks, is the face of feminism, we tend to forget that the early […]
May 2, 2018
Lynn Margulis, Evolutionary ‘Naturalism,’ Chance and Conspiracy
“The endosymbiosis hypothesis is retrogressive in the sense that it avoids the difficult thought necessary to understand how mitochondria and chloroplasts have evolved as a series of small evolutionary steps.” -Thomas Uzzell and Christine Spolsky, 1974 The above old quote may make us chuckle now that Margulis’ theory has been vindicated by DNA analysis. Uzzell and […]
April 3, 2018
A Democracy is only as good as its Free Press.
Last week Professor Mark Crispin Miller invited me to speak to his culture in media class at NYU about my experiences as an author dealing with the problems of the shrinking book publishing industry and the loss of quality and increased (ensorshlp that followed as a result. I mostly talked about the problems. During my […]
March 31, 2018
Terrordise Semi-Finalist in Edinburgh International Screenwriting Competition
“Terrordise,” Screenplay by V. N. Alexander The Schwartz-Johnson family can’t wait to get to their new home in Paradise, a high-security gated community in Dallas, believing it will be worth sacrificing their privacy for the ultimate in safety against any kind of terror threat—-until Mr. & Mrs. Schwartz-Johnson are accused of terrorism themselves. Read more. […]
March 17, 2018
VN Alexander to speak about Art & Science at Schoharie River Center March 25
Schoharie River Center Sunday, March 25, 2018 from 2pm – 4pm Free. Supported in part by a Speaker’s Grant from NY State Council for the Humanities Please RSVP your attendance at (518) 875-6230 or at John.McKeeby@Schoharierivercenter.org 2025 Burtonville Road, Esperance NY 12066 Advertisements
