barrington99@gmail.com Second guessing at every turn. I guess it’s that time of year.I guess it’s that time of life.I guess it’s just me, doing that thing I do.Doo doo doo wop de doo. I think I have this vision of my life now, what I would like to be. Maybe.Exactly half of the time I want … Read more
via dogpossum who found it at Lapham’s Quarterly I like it because it validates my habit of working in bed at the beginning of the day. If it had good results for Edith Wharton…
I just submitted two scripts to a screenplay competition at $55 each. And truthfully, I don’t even think they are ready. It’s just grasping at straws at this point. “Please somebody read me, please somebody see something of value in me, print my name, give me free writing software, validate me.” I have an interview … Read more
After a LONG HIATUS from movies seen on the actual big screen, on Sunday I went to a preview of The Secret in Their Eyes, the winner of this years Oscar for best foreign picture. It was at USC and parking on Sunday was bad in a way I had not predicted, so I missed … Read more
April 8th was Paul’s and my nine-year anniversary. I, of course, forgot. But as I was puttering around the kitchen I looked over and saw this:I walked a little closer and saw this:Nine years, you see, is pottery. So he bought me a bowl. It is an inexpensive bowl that looks a lot like many … Read more
I think I mentioned a little while back, that I wanted a particular internship, but their production office was not yet open. Well, it opened, I called, and–probably mostly because the woman who was hiring was alumnus of my spelunking school and was already in the process of recruiting from there, I did get the … Read more
I know there is some contention about whether there is such a thing as monthly quotas for traffic tickets, but I will mention that it just happened to be March 31 this past Wednesday, when I took an ill-fated turn down a side street near school, erroneously thinking there was a chance the universe might … Read more
For future reference,Just switched to Pacific time today. Posts for last year written 2-3 hours later than noted…
Just woke up from a nightmare about, of all things, Voldemort. I think. He was inhabiting someone else’s body, but he had a vendetta against me–whoever I was… Anyway, I woke up with my heart pounding. Made me think about poeple who die in their sleep. How many have heart attacks as the result of … Read more
First, it is our Spring Break, and the weather is beautiful. It went up into the 80’s today. But my thesis script is due on the Monday we get back from Spring Break, so needless to say, I’m not doing too many things that are Spring Breaky. Instead, I’m sitting at my desk like one … Read more