Working on the 35mm chain gang.
One more “good” story before the fun ones. My dad worked for a while as a deckhand on a riverboat. It wasn’t 1920, just the midwest. That was the cool job in his life. Mine was in the projection booth. AMC has always been a massive thing, with resources...
Just one word. Are you listening?
Plastics. I took my car into the shop yesterday, 2/22/22. The odometer had 155,555 miles on it. I’d like to think that would translate into some good fortune on the repair bill, but I’m not that kind of lucky. So I decided to point that luck somewhere else and...
AMC Stories: The Regulars
I didn’t get the writing job, but that’s not so bad. It would have required a move to Minnesota, and Minnesota sucks. Instead circumstances have pointed me in a different direction entirely. Tenure’s only useful if it’s useful, after all. Two bright sides though- I helped save a bunch...
The best bridges deserve a good burning, baby.
I have any number of bones to pick with my theater years, which gets professionally tricky. Bad press starts to read like mere sour grapes, and I become the bad guy for having a bad attitude. And it’s a tough sell anyway, because everyone loves the movies. But movie...