barrington99@gmail.com This Bible and Signs of Generational AnxietyOld bible. Post cards, newspaper clippings and copied (or written?) poems circa early 1920s. And this random piece of paper with the recounting of a bad dream. I dreamed last night of drinking some poison, perhaps carbolic acid, something that looked like blood, in milk. It seems as though … Read more
Grandma’s dance cards. My grandma was born in 1902-ish. She went to three colleges, Purdue University, Indiana University and Michigan…something. She didn’t graduate from any of them. My mom thinks they just sent her off to whichever college one of her brothers was attending. She seemed to really enjoy going to college–she had this awesome … Read more
Guns.Four old rifles. The oldest one was from 1896.My brother vaguely remembers learning how to shoot targets once in Boy Scouts. No one taught me how to shoot anything in Brownies,I don’t recall ever shooting a gun. In fact, I don’t recall ever holding a real gun. But holding a heavy rifle made me wish … Read more
Here is a story I wrote at the age of ten, called I WISH I WERE A DOG. I had completely forgotten this, and I have to say seeing it fresh, I was pretty impressed with my ten-year-old self. One sunny day a dog named Arto walked up the steps of the house he lived … Read more
I might have mentioned once or twice, that my father’s dream from a young age, was to be a comic strip artist. The story goes that when he was in his early teens, he went to New York with his father. While there they visited “the syndicate” where he spoke to someone, who looked at … Read more
The lawn outside my Mom’s house in Indiana. The last rain was on her birthday, June 4–so over a month ago. There is a chance of rain as well a possible “cooling off’ (down into the 80s) tomorrow, though apparently recent potential rains have been hours of lightning with nothing wet. We shall see. Regardless, … Read more
This is the weather forecast for Terre Haute, Indiana this week. Living in one of the few areas of the country where every day has been 75 degrees, I’ve been vaguely aware of a heat wave, but this image shocked me a little. Growing up in Terre Haute, I remember weather in the 90s, even … Read more
Hey all, Just writing…er, outlining. This script is seeing some BIG changes–has me back to the cork board with index cards. In other news–heading to Indiana to touch home base for a week. July 5-12. Looking forward to some humidity. (That’s not sarcastic, I really am.)
You may remember that last weekend I was excited to see Prometheus. I saw it. I became less excited. I could tell you why–but I could not tell you why as articulately and entertainingly as does the Hinx Minx in her review. I was also excited to see Safety Not Guaranteed, by the Duplass brothers, … Read more
Forget movies, too, the Hollywood trash in which nothing happened though they were loud and fast, and when they were overtime had passed, which was a blessing in itself. O blessed is Wong Kar Wai and his cities of blue and rain.Blessed is David Lynch, his Polish prostitutes juking to Locomotion in … Read more