Missed it by that much...

So, there's a theater group that's interested in putting on one of my 10-minute plays... Whee! They invited me to check them out on April 20th so I could see how they work. So of course, I showed up on April 21st. Why?

Shut up, that's why.

I was in a daze from work, moving, etc. Which is becoming a running theme in my life, and seriously needs to change. Anyway, the good news is, they have another show this coming Wednesday. May 18th. At the Complex Theater on Melrose Ave. This is not so much a plug for them as a reminder for me to get over there on the proper day. But while you're at it, if you're in the Los Angeles area, why not go check them out? Because if you do, and you see me there, then I'll know you read my blog, and I'll give you a prize! Wheee (again!).

You ever get the feeling that there's something really cool happening just up the street, but you're stuck at your job, forced to watch it from six stories up through poorly tinted glass?

Yeah. Me too.

A bit of advice...

I'm not sure when the best time is to plan a redesign of a website. But it's certainly not when you're also cleaning a new apartment, finishing a battle with a cockroach tribe, and planning a wedding. With all of this going on, I'm still trying to pick up a few hints about Dreamweaver so that my site will be a little crisper, a little cleaner, easier to navigate, etc. I plan to get excerpts up by the end of the week, but well, you know how that goes.

I've been searching for another wacky picture to keep viewers occupied (and distracted from my slloooowww update). I thought I wouldn't be able to find it, and then I found this: a little movie clip making the rounds online about a haunted car commercial... (everyone loves a ghost story). So these producers, they're making a car commercial, and it ends up that the footage is unusable. Why? About thirty seconds or so into it, a weird haze drifts across the screen, obscuring the car as it approaches the camera. Every time they try to re-shoot, same thing happens. So they give up. Some enterprising young PA took some of the footage and put it online. I think the creepiest part is the sound... you have to listen closely... and watch as the car drifts around the curve.

Click here to experience the paranormal!
http://oxalic.net/temp/classic_auto_1.mpeg

Cross your fingers...

I just finished updating and reformatting a one act play called Holding Patterns into a short screenplay. Some old comrades from SIU are moving to Los Angeles and looking for a short to shoot as a demo, so here's hoping that they like it. It's sort of my little comment on deeply depressed, homicidal people get the way they are, and how society doesn't help much. Actually, it's about a suicidal man, a homicidal man, and a valium-addicted space cadet at the mercy of an egomaniacal phone operator. With any luck, it will be shooting in June or July. As for other things, the book (Hit and Run) is awaiting word from a couple of agents, and I'm well into my new book which I'll tell you about when I'm done. Which will be soon. I hope.