The lakes were not good enough for us, so we squared them off and made them bite-sized. We charged admission.

We devised constructions, contraptions, and potions to keep the unwanted animals and bugs at bay.

We raised deck umbrellas to keep the sun present but not, you know, too present ( Read more... )

“When you look at the history of film, there have been to date two great revolutions-sound and color,” Jeffrey Katzenberg, the head of Dreamworks Animation and a tireless promoter of 3-D, told me. “This will be the third great revolution.”
-The New Yorker, 10/26/2009

Here’s why 3-D never took off.Movie theatres were skeptical. “The projectors are ( Read more... )

“All Sacrificed for a Passion”

(The Lover; the Object of a Fatal Passion; the Person or Thing Sacrificed)

The room was a smorgasbord of voices ( Read more... )

"Obstacles to Love"

(Two Lovers; an Obstacle)

I knew I’d find her there, rooted to the same spot. She didn’t see me yet. I stayed at a distance, hovering a couple feet off the ground, level with her, and I glared at her ( Read more... )

"Involuntary Crimes of Love."

(The Lover; the Beloved; the Revealer)

I've been contributing to a little project called Sketch War. There are six or seven writers, and each week we take a topic, and each of us posts a sketch based on it ( Read more... )

(The game show set of “Danielle Steel or Steely Dan.” The host, ZACK HICKS, grins at the camera.)ZACK ( Read more... )

God joined Facebook.

God changed his Profile Picture.

God is now friends with Lucifer.
Lucifer: ’Sup! Welcome! (Careful, it’s addictive!)

God joined the group Heaven and Earth.

God is letting there be light.

God is separating the land from the sea.
Lucifer: Nice work. I hate when it’s all soggy.
God: I know, right? I can’t have cake and ( Read more... )