archives for Tuesday 8 July 2008

screenplays I will never write (so I might as well blab all about them online)

Tuesday 8 July 2008 | someone left a cookie

• O’KEEFFE. Yep, a biopic, starring…okay, well, I don’t know who; but it sure as heck won’t be Linda Fiorentino. (Though Sir Ben was born to play Steiglitz.) I know, I know, it sounds played, and O’Keeffe was just a regional artist anyway; but here’s the cool part—it starts out at the Art Institute in [...]

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“practice the way as though saving your head from fire” [dogen zenji]

Tuesday 8 July 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

At the end of June, California began its annual burning; and, as happens every ten or twenty years, the national forest surrounding the Beautiful Trench began to burn as well. [Here WordPress ate my original post.] Mandarin was among those evacuated during a sudden fiery surge in 1999; this summer, her ex is one of [...]

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