When I'm not pretending to be a giant rabbit who writes fiction on the Internet, I work at a services company where I deal with customers all day. The nature of our business is such that people often mistakenly believe we're responsible for things that we aren't, so it's not uncommon for me to get … Continue reading Combatting Mindlessness with Personal Myth
Month: March 2013
The AFI Top 100 Films: The Best Years of Our Lives (#37)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Starring Frederic March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell and Teresa Wright Written by Robert E. Sherwood (screenplay) and MacKinlay Kantor (novel) Directed by William Wyler This is a great surprise for a number of reasons. Unlike most of the other films on the Top 100 list, I … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: The Best Years of Our Lives (#37)
Thursday Prompt: The Collector
(It's been a while since I've done one of these, and I really wanted to get back into it. It helps me quite a bit with writing to be able to just bang something out between short stories or blog entries or whatever. Sort of a palate cleanser, or a chance to try something new. … Continue reading Thursday Prompt: The Collector
An Outrageous Deconstruction of Shocking Comedy
In my opinion the best comedy is almost always surprising. A really great joke takes a well-worn premise and drives it off a cliff when we're least expecting it, or connects two places we never knew were even close to each other. I'm not a psychologist or anything, but I think we like to have … Continue reading An Outrageous Deconstruction of Shocking Comedy
The AFI Top 100 Films: Double Indemnity (#38)
Double Indemnity (1944) Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson Written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler Directed by Billy Wilder Holy cats, do the two main characters in this movie do terrible things. That's actually what makes it so fascinating -- this is a film noir that's actually more Fargo than The … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Double Indemnity (#38)
The AFI Top 100 Films: Doctor Zhivago (#39)
Doctor Zhivago (1965) Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin and Rod Steiger Written by Boris Pasternak (novel) and Robert Bolt (screenplay) Directed by David Lean After watching Doctor Zhivago, I found it easy to imagine why people were freaked out about communism. The movie, adapted from the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak, details the … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Doctor Zhivago (#39)
30 Days of Plants and Animals
Today is the last day of my Whole 30 culinary "reset," and it's hard to argue with the results. In the past month I've lost nearly 15 pounds, my stomach no longer resembles a beach-ball, and -- I can't lie about this -- I feel better overall than I've felt in a little while. My … Continue reading 30 Days of Plants and Animals
The Writing Plan for March 2013
You might have noticed that I didn't post a blog entry detailing how I did with my goals in February. That's because I really didn't make any progress towards them, whatsoever. I joined a few friends on their Whole30 adventure last month (it ends on Wednesday), and my priorities suddenly shifted from writing to making … Continue reading The Writing Plan for March 2013
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 