Overnight Success
It’s been a while since I’ve written in this online journal. Over two months. Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to post anything meaningful here due to a condition that I’ve been battling with… a...
View ArticleThe Road Less Traveled
I read a statistic that over fifty percent of adult Americans never move further than fifty miles from the house they grew up in. While I’m not amongst the report’s majority, this lifelong residential...
View Article2013: Shadow(Cast) Takes All
As 2013 winds to an end, it’s tempting to reflect on all the things we’d hoped to have accomplished this year, but didn’t. Broken New Year’s resolutions. Career stalemates. Neglected relationships. As...
View ArticleCan You Picture That?
This blog post cost me $200. In the spring of last year, I received a letter from the legal department at Getty Images. It was regarding the use of a photograph featured in my blog some six months...
View ArticleOdometers and Moveable Feasts
Last month, a good friend celebrated his 40th birthday at a cabin on a lake. Thirteen adventurous souls—including yours truly—ventured some 250 miles to spend a weekend at a vacation rental near...
View ArticleSpell Sexy
I prefer a woman with sexy syntax, a voluptuous command of language, and a mature tongue and hand(writing). Bring that buxom spelling bee brain over here… ’cause I’ve been a bad, bad speller. Is...
View ArticleObsessive-Compulsive Customs
This is what happens when you haven’t shaved since Christmas. Yes, my face has all but disaBEARD. Aside from causing occasional difficulty when eating mess-prone foods, my evolving jaw fur has been...
View ArticleBigmouth Strikes Again
Last month I had the opportunity to speak to a class of acting students about my work. Dean Armstrong—dear friend, colleague, and founding director of Armstrong Acting Studios—thought insight into my...
View ArticleHard Bodies
There’s a bizarre marketing trend happening amongst small businesses in my neighborhood: recently, a string of shops have stationed life-sized, motorized mannequins outside their storefronts in...
View ArticleHolding Patterns
If you’ve done much traveling by plane, chances are you’ve experienced flight delays. And not just long turns sitting at airports, waiting for tardy jets to arrive, but also protracted stretches aboard...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Carnival 2 is Green-Lit!
“The train whistle blows and the carnival goes ’til there’s only the tickets and crows here” ~Tom Waits
View ArticleSome Have Razors
We’re weeks away from principal photography on The Devil’s Carnival 2. This being my third musical movie, I’ve learned a thing or two about filmmaking: 1) no matter how well you budget, there is never...
View ArticleThe Fable of The Cockroach, The Grasshopper, & The Devil
After a delirium-inducing night shoot on The Devil’s Carnival 2: Alleluia, where production raced against the slow-rising sun to complete the day’s final shots, I crept home, bleary-eyed, to a horror...
View ArticleTalented Friends – SIX-LEGGED COLLABORATORS
Scientists have recently uncovered that cockroaches are a far more social species than previously believed. They make friends, recognize kin, and collaborate to survive… but, unlike bees, ants, and...
View ArticleThe Devil’s Carnival: Alleluia (Official Teaser Trailer)
At long last, The Devil’s Carnival 2 teaser trailer has arrived. Spread the word!
View ArticleThe Long Side Of The Road
Show business is brutal. You spend years in labor trying to get a project off the ground with the false hope that cigars and giant cardboard checks will be waiting for you at the finish line. Instead,...
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