Human Life Was Made Of These
In filmmaking the edict is to show, not tell. That's why I won't summarize conversations here on the blog and merely tell you about them while...
Six Good Seconds
My notes are simply a diagram of a triangle with labels at each point for the three people who made it all happen. Race doesn't play...
Tropic Of
I couldn't quite make out what variety he specified, but I somehow knew his next word would be cancer. Him and his pet rabbit,...
It Means Something At Nighttime
I didn't know him. But I wanted to talk to him. Most homeless folks are white men between thirty and sixty, and he was just...
Saints Of All Colors
Later that same night the trio from this story came back. The shortest of the group was now wearing a mask.
"Hey again!"
"Hey! I got my...
Black Lives
It all started somewhere northbound on Tenth Avenue East, as we drifted past Saint Mark's Cathedral. There's never any traffic here, but there was...
My Side Of Town
Some actors just radiate intelligence. You feel it in their eyes, their bearing, their enunciation. Think of Max von Sydow or Juliette Binoche. Natalie...
Islamofriendlia
What I like
What you like
Why can't we both be right?
-Brittany Howard, Alabama Shakes
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I'm wandering around outside my bus at the Rainier and Henderson terminal....