I run a home-grown Pathfinder game about twice a month that I've been having quite a bit of fun with. Through 18 games, I've taken my players up to level 7 (about a third of the way through their progression) and get this -- they're still with me. I've had pretty bad luck before with running … Continue reading Friday Fiction: A Primer of Oak’s Home
The AFI Top 100 Films: Midnight Cowboy (#36)
Midnight Cowboy (1969) Starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman Written by Waldo Salt (screenplay) and James Leo Herlihy (novel) Directed by John Schlesinger I have to admit it took me a little while to puzzle this one out. At the end of the Midnight Cowboy you get the sense of closure that comes when a … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Midnight Cowboy (#36)
The State of the Rabbit – April 2013
I'm not very good at those April Fools' Day pranks that tend to make the rounds on the blogosphere today, so I encourage you to imagine that I did something appropriately awesome and/or crazy and you're amused or annoyed by it. I'm sure that whatever you could come up with would be better than what … Continue reading The State of the Rabbit – April 2013
Combatting Mindlessness with Personal Myth
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
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
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 