Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) - The quiet retirement hotel in India faces the problem of only one remaining room and two potential customers. Sonny (Dev Patel) wants to expand to a second hotel, even as he struggles with the difficulties of his love life. The permanent residents have their own romantic issues... Continue Reading →
I'm not sure how this plan thing is supposed to work. It feels like there should be more planning, stuff in writing, signatures appended. Whatever. Instead the plan has been - watch what you eat and try to exercise more. That second part involved the bicycle. Which blew a tire on the first ride. Then... Continue Reading →
With my last post, I included a picture of a typewriter. You may have thought it was just a visual metaphor for writing in general. In fact, it has a much more personal meaning than that. The model shown, a Remington Quiet-Riter, is the typewriter on which I learned to type. It was my father's,... Continue Reading →
Entrapment (1999) - An insurance investigator (Catherine Zeta-Jones) wants to bring the legendary art thief (Sean Connery) that has evaded every law enforcement agency for decades. She decides to go undercover as a thief to lure him in. She tempts him with the information he needs to not only pull off his dream theft but... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
Once upon a time, the short story was king. Published in newspapers and magazines, short fiction could be found everywhere. All the great writers could handle the form. Today, short fiction is considered a bit of a sideshow. We've taken it to the extreme of flash fiction, even Twitter stories, where an entire story is... Continue Reading →
The Kid (1921) Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece about a tramp who finds an abandoned baby and raises the boy himself. As time goes by, the boys past will resurface, threatening the life they have created together. Directed by Charlie Chaplin ... Continue Reading →
A note about the upcoming week. I will be on a service project trip with my youth group next week. I will not get back until mid-day on Saturday, so next week's post will be late. Just so you know. So I'm trying to be better organized about this whole thing. You know, a... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday around 7:30 AM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract words at a moment's notice. WRFA-LP is... Continue Reading →
