Complications Ensue

Let's suppose two characters are talking. We go in close on their hands. One character speaks. Is that line of dialog O.S. (offscreen...

Ingrid Sundberg has posted a nifty color thesaurus on her Wordpress blog. Here are her colors of red: ῥοδο-δάκτυλος Ἠώς? Find it here....

I've noted before how valuable it is for writers to play poker. Not anything to do with writing, but everything to do with learning how...

We saw GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, which was an odd combination of mild goofy humor and an epic save-the-galaxy story. It was in 3D and D-Box....

Is it fair to review the first five minutes of a TV show? Well, why not? We had high hopes for DOMINION. It looked cool. And: angels. I h...

On NPR, a Chinese playwright was talking about going to see a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera THE MIKADO. Her iss...

I've been playing a couple of neat iOS games. UsTwo's  Monument Valley is a beautiful puzzle platformer inspired by the works of...

Friend of the Blog Mauricio Fernandes interviewed me for his blog. Since he translated me into Portuguese, I reprint it here, in English. ...