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This is a long post. If you’re not interested in filmmaking, or 72 hour film shootouts, or not interested in me, Dave, as a person, then you may want to skip this and go eat Crisco or something.
 
We’re in the Asian American Film Lab’s 4th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout (Team HEAD ON [apply directly [...]

A bunch of us are teaming up to tackle the 72 Hour Film Shootout this weekend. 72 hours to write, plan, produce, and edit a short film.
Will let you know how it goes…

Two meaningless observations from the day job:
1.) There is a very particular type of stress that is unique to unmarried, middle-aged women.
and (regarding a completely different person)
2.) You know what throws me off? When an otherwise intelligent person severely over explains something that is incredibly simple. It makes me start doubting my original assumption, and [...]

Mike G. set up a communal Tumblr account for a bunch of us to post random shit on. For the first few weeks of Spacemonkey’s existence, people were posting almost nothing but LOLcats. Now that things have settled down a bit, the postings are getting at little more diverse. 
Tumblr blogs are amazingly quick and easy [...]

So as a belated birthday party, I rented out an ice rink for Broomball this past Friday night. Played my ass off and couldn’t move all Saturday. Started getting better on Sunday, but ended up doing stunt-work for a friend’s short film, and now it’s Monday and I’m hobbling around like an old man again.
Here’re [...]

Mike G scored Kimmie and myself tix to the LA production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Wadsworth Theater. It is a most excellent show, but the run is ending soon, I think.  
I participated in one spelling bee as a child. Within several minutes of the start of competition, I [...]

…new blog setup is almost done. 
Somewhere along way, I ended up migrating all my posts (like, since 2003) and I even managed to find a way to salvage a lot of my old haloscan comments. I’ve ended up working on this a lot more than I had originally expected to. 
One of the major reasons that [...]