The legendary auteur returns to the closet, the first person who has been allowed to visit for a second time, and it is as charming as you would expect it to be. He selects new editions of favorite films like Down by Law and Wanda, talks about Kurosawa’s genius for recreating weather on-screen, and shouts… Continue reading Wim Wenders’ Closet Picks from The Criterion Collection
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a public commonplace book
I have always loved the idea of commonplace books, a writers sketch book, more or less. Digital versions in things like tickler files have tempted me down the path into many failed or abandoned organizational systems. I have tried to keep physical ones, digital ones, even have a magical one as part of a novel.… Continue reading a public commonplace book
Brushing off the dust, this thing on?
Inspired to update this thing by a number of post about different reasons to start blogging again. Kind of a chance to show my work, on what ever I am working on. “Working with the garage door up” one post called it. Which is really a great idea. So, here is to working with the… Continue reading Brushing off the dust, this thing on?
Last Chance Salon Podcast
The Last Chance Salon Podcast is live! My friend Shiri (@SWSondheimer) and I had been talking about doing a podcast for a while now, and we finally decided to get off our duffs and get it recorded. The first episode has been posted and we have more in the can. We will be posting new episodes every… Continue reading Last Chance Salon Podcast
Information Overloaded Meaning and why this blog?
My brother told me that he stopped using a rss feed reader. I can understand why he would do this. Some days I find myself reading through a set of feeds, or at least marking a series of feeds read, with no memory of what I just read. Other days, I close the feed reader… Continue reading Information Overloaded Meaning and why this blog?