Roy Orbison sings “Pretty Woman” as the man by the window, white earplugs delivering his preferred white noise, ruffles the paper, sets it down, and stands up to leave, almost as if he can feel me observing, writing about him. A buddy and he walk out the door, into the rain, calling back over their [...]
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September 27, 2008
“Tell It To Him”
I watched about 40 minutes of the presidential debate last night and walked away shaking my head over the state of discourse and the odd role of media. Seems to me the differences in the candidates are pretty large and become pretty clear the more you hear them talk about what’s important to them and [...]
July 23, 2008
Twenty Years
Twenty years ago today, my father died. Jimmy Joe Berryman died of leukemia on July 23rd, 1988, one month before my first child was born. Amy will be twenty on August 26th. This will not be a long remembrance, but I should at least say that Dad has traveled with me a lot over the [...]
October 3, 2007
The Integrity of Calvin And Hobbes
Came across an article (What You Can Learn From Calvin and Hobbes About the Medium and the Message, by Fred Hunt) a few minutes ago that’s worth reading. Bill Watterson’s refusal to cave in to the millions offered him for the commercialization of his characters Calvin and Hobbes is a rare witness to integrity. The [...]
April 25, 2007
Just working…
No, I haven’t fallen off the planet…just been working. I have a video shoot coming up at Willow Creek in Chicago next week that I’ve been writing scripts for and that I’ll be directing actors on. It’s an exciting project in many ways, a bit of a new adventure for me and though the scripts [...]
March 26, 2007
St. Pauls’ Ten-Page Play Festival
Yesterday afternoon, between 75 and 100 people spent some four hours watching and participating in readings of plays in a surprisingly happy event: St. Paul’s first Ten-Page Play Festival was an absolute joy. Plays by John Longenbaugh, Robert Neblett, La’Chris Jordan, Julie Newberry, Sean Patrick Leonard, and yours truly, as well as by another half [...]
March 24, 2007
Wrongly Imprisoned
A friend of mine sent this to me yesterday. A man named Eric Volz, a friend of a friend, has been wrongfully imprisoned in Nicaragua for a crime he didn’t commit. After reading through the various pieces posted about this event, it seems overwhelmingly obvious that this man is innocent of everything except being American. [...]
March 22, 2007
My Photoblog
I’m moving everything to WordPress, and since I’ve taken up photography as a hobby, I’ve decided to create a place to put my photos. I needed a blog so I could comment on the whys and wherefores of what I’m doing with them. Just FYI… Here’s the link. It will also be permanently linked under [...]
