Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1897) - Earth astronomers are surprised by a series of violent explosions on the surface of Mars. All too soon they will discover the cause of the disturbance as spaceships slam into the quiet English country side near London. The Martians have landed and their intent is to... Continue Reading →
Phantom of the Opera (1925) - The classic silent movie version, starring Lon Chaney as the disfigured genius behind the mirror at the Paris Opera who becomes obsessed with a young singer. It's easy to assume that movie making back in the early days of the art was much simpler, with a less compex visual... Continue Reading →
NaNoWriMo update: I am just slightly behind the goal at the moment. I started off very well, getting as much as 3,000 words ahead of the timeline (we call it "the curve" in my family). Then I had a couple of things get in the way - The Kid got sick for a day, meetings,... Continue Reading →
(Best of the Web is an occasional series of posts where I highlight websites that I think bring out the best of what the web can be. The choices and the standards upon which they are made are entirely my own) Welcome to Night Vale (podcasts) is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates... Continue Reading →
Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio (1991) - Ken Burns delves into the stories of the three men most central to the development of radio and eventually television - Lee de Forest, E.H. Armstrong and David Sarnoff. The growth of Radio into the first electronic, broadcast medium and its dominance of the American... Continue Reading →
It's November. And once again I have dedicated myself to a month long ordeal and creative experiment. It's NaNoWriMo. That's National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words of a novel in the 30 days of November. This is one of the great passions of The Kid. She is, of course, an... Continue Reading →
What Follows - Edited by April Steenburgh and C. Lennox (2014) - How would an Immortal deal with the End Times? The world will inevitably come stumbling into apocalypse, and They will be there to witness it. Dryads, demi-gods, deities of every pantheon- is it possible for the Eternal to handle an ending with grace? Should it come... Continue Reading →
HappyThankYouMorePlease (2010) - A group of 20-something friends struggle with the realities of actually having to grow up. Each of them has to find their way out of their old understanding of love into something new. Ten minutes into this movie I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like it. Thirty minutes in I... Continue Reading →
"My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night, But ah, my foes and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light." -Edna St. Vincent Millay It has been almost six months since we moved to RVA. In that time we have gone a little crazy with all the options of places... Continue Reading →
The Great Escape (1963) - A group of Allied soldiers with long records of trying to escape from German POW camps are transferred to a camp specifically designed to contain them. They begin to plan the largest prisoner escape of the war. Based on a true story. Welcome to another "spot the stars" movie. The... Continue Reading →
