Category Archives: writing

HANG UP Tagline

July 29, 2014 – 10:34 am

The other afternoon at a 8th Street bar I was drinking with several friends discussing the reasons for my movie script not having found a home. “BET ON CRAZY has it all, a diamond heist, love, violence.” “Yes, but that doesn’t says anything.” Jason came from Malibu. He had movie star friends. He had helped […]

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EVERYDAY DRINKING by Kingsley Amis

March 27, 2014 – 11:45 am

Not everyone is cut out to be a drinker. It’s an exacting devotion. Appreciation and dedication are not to be found at TGIFs or mall beer joints, unless the serious drinker has no other choice, since everyone knows that drinking alone is a serious indication of alcoholism. As long as there’s one other living person […]

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On Writing – Patrick Dennis

November 24, 2013 – 11:38 am

“I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.” – Patrick Dennis, author of AUNTIE MAME.

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Gore Vidal RIP

August 4, 2012 – 2:33 am

Gore Vidal passed away at the tender age of 86. The provocative novelist wrote twenty-five novels on social and historical issues. My favorite book was 1876 about the stolen election between Samuel Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, which harbingered the flawed 2000 election between GW Bush and Al Gore, whom was a distant […]

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Up Country Blackout

July 31, 2012 – 10:20 pm

I’m upcountry in the Western Forests of Thailand. There are no farangs on the mountainous border on Burma. Just me and that’s more than enough for me, so please excuse the absence on Mangozeen, but I’ve been re-writing my hitchhiking novel BACK AND FORTH I’ll be back in civilization this evening. Have the London Olympics […]

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