Having worked my way through various careers (i.e., advertising copywriting, TV writing, acting, graphic design), it’s become clear to me what I am not (copywriter, screen/TV writer, actor, designer). And, having spent a fair amount of time now writing (on this here bloggity-blog, among other places) and speaking (at my Toastmasters club, although I’m happy [...]
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Three years ago today. Hard to believe that much time has passed. Also hard to look at some of the old passages. It is definitely true, that old saw about writing writing writing to find your voice. Thank you for sticking it out with me these past 36 months. Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere. [...]
Believe it or not, it’s been over a year since I’ve been on a stage. Yup, one whole year (and a summer) since Shane Nickerson organized the first L.A. blogger performance thingy I’d ever heard of, “Subject Line Here.” Since then, Leah Peterson of LeahPeah has taken on the heinous task of riding nerd herd [...]
Here’s the contest. Here’s what I won it with. Why the excitement, you might well ask? Well… as I told the fair (pun intended) contest holder, I have not won anything since Michelle Glatzer and I called in to WLS our freshman year and won The Beach Boys’ Endless Summer exactly So I have no [...]
I’ve been working on a super-secret web project for an interesting, celebrity client who is using her high profile in the real world for, as I like to say, the powers of Good and not Evil, something I always try to support here at communicatrix-dot-com. Hell, that’s kind of my modus operandi for life in [...]
I’ve been AWOL, I know, with both good and bad reasons. First, the good. I saw Uma for the first time in weeks and she is doing so amazingly, astonishingly well, I almost did a cartwheel. It is good that I restrained myself, as people might then have to visit me in the hospital, and [...]
As Professor Tom Leykis says, I can advise on mistakes because I’ve made almost all of them. One of my big lessons this spin around seems to be about ego: specifically, keeping it the hell out of the way. Pride has kept me in more foolish situations for more years than it’s comfortable to remember, [...]
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Future Uma
You’re a savvy Internet hound. You know all about Uma, all about FutureMe.org. The time has come to combine the two. For the fun. For the juju. For Uma… xxx c My original Uma summary on blogging.la, here. Updates from Uma’s friend, Erik, here. Give, here. Buy a tee and give, here. Write to FutureUma, [...]
There is nothing to kill a crush like meeting them in person. In the case of Brandon, he of the now-retired BBE (Best Blog Ever!), he of the mysterious, undisclosed location in the PacNW, he of the curly poet locks and genius pen (and no, that’s not code for anything), my crush crashed hard. Not [...]
