Favorite Song of 2006: “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth”, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Even though this song came out in 2005, it was still the one I rocked out to the most in 2006. Favorite TV Show of 2006: “Mythbusters” — I love science and I love beards. Favorite Video Game [...]

I got a lot of toys for Christmas this year: A Nerf dart launcher, a Robosapien, and some monkey-headed slippers. And then I got a box of this: Giant Pocky. It was from Rick. When I unwrapped it I experienced a sense of vertigo similar to what Alice must have felt when she ate the [...]

Chainsmokin’ Chimp. Put him in front of a typewriter and a page of Hemingway will pop out. Put him in front of a waiter and said waiter will be clubbed to death by drunken fists. No matter what anybody says, I’m filing this one under cuteness.

I watched Good Night and Good Luck again recently — it’s such a simple and effective movie. Each sequence is an actor’s delight — tight, well-designed scenes full of great dialogue and confrontation. Plus everyone’s under hot, hot lights required for black and white film. Also people smoke a heckuva lot in that movie. Even [...]

Vancouver: Land of Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files, and Expo ’86. Cowboy Versus Samurai will be landing there in July of 2007, at almost the exact same time it activates in San Francisco. I’m pretty excited about this production because it will be the first showing of my work outside the United States — unless you [...]

My dad, being a master of efficiency, keeps his socks in a drawer in the garage. This is so that on the way out he can take off his slippers, put on a pair of fresh socks, and then head right to the car. I asked him what he does with his dirty socks, and [...]