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Yearly Archives: 2016

Inspiration

This is the best time. Writing. Well, maybe not writing. Some writing, pre-writing. Research. Jotting down ideas, startling plot twists, random thoughts. Imagining lists of songs on a phantom iphone. Plucking out interesting faces from the past, recalling scraps of conversations that never happened, creating families that have never existed, but were always there, waiting. The […]

October 25th, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

A Whiter Shade of Toon

Just saw Kubo and the Two Strings. It was created by Laika, an inventive, quality studio I have always loved (they also created the movies Coraline and Paranorman) It’s a gorgeous movie set in ancient Japan, with an imaginative plot, a few surprising twists, and and an emotional heft not usually found in your usual popcorn fare. It […]

August 21st, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

The Velocity of Stones

Sometime over the last week there has been a rustling of dark wings inside your chest, a presentiment, and you suddenly realize why: it will soon be your book’s first birthday.

August 15th, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

In the Room Where it Happens— Chicago Theater Auditions

Just when I thought I was out… I’m in Chicago, sitting in a frigid theater in the middle of the afternoon at the end of summer, watching a steady succession of actors strut and fret their way across the stage while their photographic counterparts smile beatifically up at me in stacks piled up in the aisle, and […]

August 11th, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

New York State of Mind

In just a couple of months, it will be the one-year birthday of Still Life Las Vegas, and what better way to celebrate that milestone (a little prematurely) than by a trip to New York City to see friends & family and attend the Lammy Awards? New  York obliged resplendently, gracing us with warm but breezy weather […]

June 10th, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

Monkey. Business.

The year of the Monkey has come scampering in. Good-bye, placid Sheep! A Monkey Year is supposed to be full of energy, innovation, and opportunity. It also involves a certain amount of chaos (hello, election year) and favors the nimble and the enterprising…

February 19th, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

Celebrate Lunar New Years with Miles!

Disney Jr.’s animated series “Miles from Tomorrowland” has a Lunar New Year episode airing tonight, just in time for the festivities! I play Gong Gong, Miles’ grandfather. It’s a very fun show!  

February 10th, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

Butthead

When Frank found out last year that I was about to start my book tour, he said, “Your biggest fear is the part I love the most! You’ll hate it!” But I think he might have been wrong. I didn’t hate it. In fact, my biggest fear is that I liked it. I liked it too much.

January 28th, 2016Still Life Las Vegas

Watching My Step in 2016

2016 hobbles in. Or, more accurately, I hobble in to 2016. Late last night, walking the dog after midnight, I started scrolling on my phone in the dark to see how people were celebrating the new year on Facebook, and twisted my ankle on a rut in the road. It was an apt admonishment to begin the year: be mindful. Be aware. Or you might make a misstep.

January 2nd, 2016Still Life Las Vegas