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Fans of Game of Thrones – Where Do They Shoot?
A NY Times Video takes you to some of the locations that show up in the Game of Thrones series. Go here. Or check out the related content below. Thanks for stopping by. Please comment below or post this entry on your favorite social media website. Sign-up via the email or RSS option in the sidebar to receive […]
As Jargon Goes — So Goes Cred. Say What?
David Carr and AO Scott used to do a series of trenchant videos at the NY Times. They called the series The Sweet Spot. Back on July 19, 2013 the subject was jargon. In the video Scott reads from a Carr tech article: ” “You can’t scale your way out of a paradym shift.” Come […]
“That Part Where…” An Exciting Excerpt From “A Bridge to Treachery”
Ben Wallace in his blog ” That Part Where” is offering a chance to publicize my thriller novel by highlighting an unforgettable scene from the work. The idea is that readers often take away a single scene from books they read. The scene I’ve chosen is when Lou Christopher and his beautiful accomplice […]
The Ghosts of October – Doug Glanville’s Baseball
Doug Glanville who first played for the Phillies as a fleet footed center fielder now pens periodic thoughtful and brilliant articles in the NY Times. I find all of them connecting with my thoughts and memories of baseball. Here is another. The Ghosts of October http://nyti.ms/1heqiHh Another Doug Glanville masterpiece. Baseball, I love it. Thanks for […]
Where Have All the Monarch Butterflies Gone To?
Our fields here on the coast of Maine were alive with Monarch Butterflies at this time of the year as recently as 2011 as they migrated down to Central America. But suddenly, they’re few and far between. Here’s an article in the Boothbay Register on the subject: Where are all the monarchs? – Boothbay Register […]
A Smart New Twist In The Playwright’s Bag of Tricks Is Coming
I got an email yesterday outlining an interesting approach to short play production that’s completely new to me and probably to you as well. It seems The Improvised Puppet Project is looking for playwrights to write the first 2-4 pages of a full-length play in any genre (comedy, drama, tragedy, tragicomedy, absurdist, postmodern existentialist […]
Very Sad Day for me – Cubs great Andy Pafko is dead.
Andy Pafko, 4-time MLB All-Star, dies at 92 http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/andy-pafko-4-time-mlb-photo-184352849–mlb.html … via @YahooSports As a kid in the Chicago area, Andy was my favorite player. My first game ever at Wrigley had the Cubs playing the Cardinals with Musial, Schoendienst, Slaughter et al. In the ninth inning the Cubs were down 3-1, 2 on, 2 outs and […]
Submitting Work to the National Playwrights Conference – A Diary
The National Playwrights Conference is the preeminent laboratory for development of new plays. It is daunting to even think about the prospect of being one of 7 or so playwrights who will stay at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT for a month in the summer working on their baby, their play. Each […]
Apocalypse Now, The Great Gatsby, and the House of the Dead
House of the Dead In an article in the NY Times entitled My Home, the House of the Dead, by William G. Thomas III, a professor of history at the University of Nebraska, he tells of his family lore making their homestead in Virginia a hospital during the Civil War. Even more important to a […]