There’s been a lot of commotion lately about the new Erykah Badu music video Window Seat in which she strips naked as she walks down a street full of people in what appears to be a very 1960′s JFK inspired setting. Of course the commotion is about her being naked, even though it’s digitally blurred. [...]
Archive > March 2010
Live Readings at the TLE Writer’s Symposium in Second Life
For anyone who has been following my Facebook group for Underwater, you’ll know that I’ve been doing live reading every Monday evening at 5pm PST at the Writer’s Symposium in Second Life. I found this group, quite by accident, and started reading from the first draft of Underwater to get constructive feedback from another group [...]
Series and Trilogies – Why Batman 3 Will Be the Last
Director Christopher Nolan recently started talking about a possible third Batman movie. This is what he said: “I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters,” Nolan continued. “My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff. Unlike the comics, these thing don’t go on [...]
Transpoloitation – Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives
Recently it came to my attention that that GLAAD is spearheading a petition to get a new movie Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives removed from the Tribeca Film Festival. Now this puts me in an untenable position because I’m thoroughly against censorship, even of Brett Ratner movies, but I’m also a transgender woman and an activist. [...]
7 Days of Sam: Splinter Cell – Double Agent
Time for day 4 of my 7 Days of Sam. Today is the 4th and final entry in the series (so far) Splinter Cell – Double Agent. This game is quite a departure from the last one and even the rest of the series, choosing to go with a completely different type of storyline and [...]
David Mamet Knows Your Writing Sucks
I love David Mamet. No seriously, this guy is one of the great inspirations for my own writing and I think the man, while not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, has powerful command of the craft of writing and I find myself constantly learning from him. Mamet is the creator of the TV [...]
7 Days of Sam: Splinter Cell – Chaos Theory
The third Splinter Cell game starts innocuously enough, with you doing your thing chasing a suspected criminal through a guerilla camp and onto a freighter, but then it explodes into something much larger. This is the best way to think of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I consider Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory to be the quintessential [...]
My Favourite Scenes – Rules of Attraction
It’s no mystery to the people who know me that I suffer from feelings of depression and suicide. I actually explore it to great depth in my first novel Underwater. So as I reach low points, I always find myself thinking of this incredible scene from Roger Avery’s adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis’ Rules of [...]
Colbert For Captain America
The casting for the Captain America has been a huge mess. A veritable roulette of who’s that has been listed as contenders for this role as shooting rapidly approaches. Just recently we learned that The Office‘s John Krasinski is now out of the running. Still considered are Ryan Phillippe, Mike Vogel, Garret Hedlud, Chris Evans [...]
7 Days of Sam: Splinter Cell – Pandora Tomorrow
I finished playing through Pandora Tomorrow last night (when I should have been writing), the 2nd in the Splinter Cell games. Released in 2004, only a year after the original, Pandora Tomorrow fixed so many problems with the mechanics of the original. Not only are the graphics greatly improved, a must for a game that [...]
