She actually rolls Necron. She’s infiltrating.

This Halloween, Lex and I are getting married. At an arcade. The biggest arcade. You can read about it here.

If you wonder why this might be happening – the marriage – please review the photo above. Again. Yes. Yes, that’s right. Look. Looooook.

GAZE UPON IT.

When I was a kid, E.T. scared the living shit out of me. I’d seen all manner of age inappropriate film at that point and none of it really put the weird into me. E.T., though, damaged me.

E.T. is pure evil. The interwebx0rz agrees.

Lex, Samori and I went to a midnight showing of Super 8. Though previously an Abrams detractor, his treatment of Star Trek set me up to drop a few bones on his next outing. How the guy who brought you LOST managed to artfully, kindly and carefully ride the popular culture/NERD RAGE line for Trek remains a mystery to me. He likes those, Abrams does. Mysteries.

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Just a quick update:

About a year ago, I formed up with my two closest friends and out came Imagos Films.
A few months later, we begun production of our first feature film, Motivational Growth.

A typical day on the set of Motivational Growth

Production wrapped in January, and has since been in post production at a local Chicago post house.

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I volunteer as a tutor at 826 Chicago. It is a pretty wild gig with kids running all over the place all ready to learn whatever I can teach them. The gig is ostensibly a creative writing program, but we work on homework and art and all manner of cool stuff.

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Lex, Edward and I saw Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” a few days ago and were each of us stunned by the piece. I could be called an Aronofsky detractor in any other circumstance, his earlier work like fingernails on the chalkboard of my brightest hopes. The Wrestler, however, delivers.

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