To get you in the mood for Halloween, here’s a half-hour documentary I produced almost twenty years ago: The Time Between. It was one in the holiday series (A Gathering of Days: An American Holiday Sampler) that I did with Adi with funding from CPB. As always, enjoy the opening theme music written and performed by Hot Combo, featuring the inimitable Sue Schardt.
Read moreMonth: October 2008
The Bright Side of Life
One of the good things about having a famous brother is you get free cookies when he does a book-signing, and in the Q&A session you get to ask him probing questions that he has no choice but to answer. Did you know there are people whose job it is to drive visiting writers around to signings? Laura, the delightful woman who was guiding Jay tonight, does this for a living when she’s not in […]
Read moreAnxiety Dream #2
I had just remodeled my living room when lava started seeping in through the base of the front wall. Within seconds a grey, steaming, bubbling skin had covered the floor leaving only tiny bare patches of oak. Suddenly I realized: Damn, I shouldn’t have turned on that lava machine!, which I guess was a feature of my remodel — maybe a cutting-edge, green way to heat my floors? I went to flip off the switch […]
Read moreToo Many Viruses
Sorry to do this to you, but there’s just too much amazing political stuff whizzing around out there for me to let it all fade into my memory. There’s the exceptional Don’t Vote video that Lulu forwarded me (which Sarah Silverman hopes will go viral, “rampant… like herpes— but for… positive”) and another that Lulu found at boingboing.net about Palin’s brain: Here’s one my second exhusband scooped me on. Matt Groening just gets more brilliant, […]
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