barrington99@gmail.com And overall, not a bad week. The short film script of my short story “My Panda” adapted by Paul, was named second runner up in the CAPE digital shorts contest. Prize: $100 and a mentor. The mentor is the cool part. As a balance, my first rejection arrived (from Shenandoah) for an essay I recently … Read more
Paul and I have discussed it, and come to the conclusion that with the fast-approaching birthday, we’re going to stop our fertility related activities…not ALL of them, but the extracurricular ones. The monthly blood tests and ultrasounds, weekly acupuncture appointments and ceramic pots of Chinese herb teas. To be honest, we’ve only been doing a … Read more
“ABC is close to giving a pilot order to a modern version of the classic 1970s TV actioner “Charlie’s Angels.” When I read the opening line in this Variety article,my first instinct was to punch a wall. Like many others, I’m quickly feeling over-saturated by the seemingly constant stream of adaptations of properties that in … Read more
I so desperately love my little 12-inch Mac Powerbook. But I am not posting from it today. As of yesterday, whenever I try to access any internet-related applications, it provokes the spinning ball of death icon, and I am forced to do a hard shut down. I am going to the “Genius Bar” tomorrow to … Read more
I woke up this morning thinking about how soon after I was first diagnosed with cancer, I went to see a lecture by Buddhist teacher Soygal Rinpoche. He gave us a visualization to work with that was about a Buddha floating over your head, who poured a kind of golden elixir that would enter the … Read more
For the past few years, my sidebar has been populated by people I actually knew in the real world. For a while had even a ‘blog circle” of sorts, which was fun. But, time has passed, for various reasons, professional and personal, these folks have either given up blogging or “privatized” their blogs. I still … Read more
Today I took a look at my sidebar for the first time in a while, and discovered over half my links are defunct. That’s lame. Also noticed that for the year 2009, I have to date 70 posts, which is down from every year since I started this blog… Either of these things might be … Read more
This morning I was reading a blog and the author was talking about food porn– “There’s all this music and close ups of cutting and fingers wiping off knives, and it’s not for any real reason – it’s not to show a technique or anything, it’s just to get you all hyped up, if y’know … Read more
Ran into an old acquaintance today at the gym. She was the producer (I think) on a job where I was a P.A. over a decade ago. She has a kind of merry gleam to her eye that I remembered right away when I saw her, even though I didn’t recall her name. Seeing her … Read more
1) Most of the time I don’t think much about it, but then sometimes it just strikes me as crazy that I bleed on a monthly basis. The whole idea of “monthly” and cycles and ovulation etc makes a lot of sense on paper, but then, sometimes I just look down and think “fuck, I’m … Read more