Novelist. Editor. Journalist. Filmmaker. Screenwriter. Chaotic neutral.
You’re familiar with the line. Uttered by Bill Duke’s sardonic detective in the 1992 hood classic Menace II Society. “You know you done fucked up, right?” Or perhaps I should use a variation on a popular Dave Chappelle line: “They never should’ve gave you niggas cameras!” 🤣🤣🤣 I finally got my hands on the Canon…
I’m finally going to do it. It’s June 2020, the year of the pandemic, racial justice uprising, and murder hornets, and I’ve finally amassed the majority of the tools I need to get my next big idea done. I’m going to make a movie. Of sorts. It’s going to be a talking head-style documentary about…
Last week, it was announced that Los Angeles County officials mandated that stay-at-home would be extended through May 15. Of course, I predicted this in my Rona Diary. And hey, to be honest, I am A-OK with this. Whatever it takes to flatten the curve and decrease my chances of becoming infected. When it comes…
Like everyone else in the world, I have been sheltering in place (or self-isolating or quarantining, whichever term you prefer) since about mid-March. In fact, I holed up in my tiny studio apartment a week before it was officially mandated that we, for the most part, stay at home. And I’ve been doing just that….