Whenever you get people together, even in a virtual world, they will form a community.
I’m at level 21 now (been playing the game like I’d play Diablo — solo and grinding), and I kept getting invites to join guilds. A guild is essentially an organization of players in the game with its own [...]

The thing about writing is that if you do your job well, you create situations in which everyone wins.
Actors see potential in the material and want to attach themselves; great roles make them look good.
Great material allows a director’s vision to coalesce; it gives them the blueprint or [...]

I spent yesterday afternoon in Powell Library writing. It’s nice to be surrounded by books while you work. Makes you feel like a wizard surrounded by dusty tomes or a hunter surrounded by taxidermied deer heads.
The next project is about to begin. I usually select a work place for a project [...]

Because I’m still on that Lynch kick (just saw Mulholland Drive again, then Lost Highway, then the first disc of Twin Peaks…) I checked out Dune: The Extended Edition. This 3+ hour long version is an “Alan Smithee” cut.
For extra hoots and hollers I also watched the Sci Fi Channel’s Dune Miniseries to [...]