The world debut of LOST is only one day away. It will be posted tomorrow morning at 7:30. You might want to get in line early because it will be a sold out event. People are calling it the most anticipated internet movie of the summer. To add to this weeks festivities of the movie [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 30, 2008
Movie Debut of LOST Delayed Because of Earthquake — Watch the Preview
Because of the earthquake in L.A. the world debut of LOST will be on Friday. I actually did not feel the earthquake because I was sleeping. I have a lot of fans excited about the debut so today we will feature the movie preview to give you a taste of the most anticipated internet movie [...]
July 29, 2008
Movie Debut of “LOST” Pushed Back Because of Paparazzi
The world debut of “LOST on Joni and Friends Island” has been pushed back a day or two because of the paparazzi. I was unable to finish the final adjustments because I was busy eluding the paparazzi chasing me through the streets of L.A. while they tried to get my picture. My afternoon at the Santa [...]
July 28, 2008
Premiere of “Lost” at Joni and Friends Retreat in Murrieta, Ca
I spent the past week with my family in Murrieta, California, at the Joni and Friends Retreat. It’s something that my brother KC has done for the past ten years and always looks forward to. This was my third or fourth year. For the talent show my sister Hannah and I wanted to make a [...]
July 26, 2008
As Close as We’ll Ever Be
The poet and philosopher Rubem Alves writes about the idea of writing a story or a novel with just one word. Could it be done? What word would he choose? Which words has the power to tell the whole story? Of a singular word Emily Dickinson wrote, “I know nothing in the world that has [...]
July 25, 2008
For Writers Readers and Everyone — Friday Edition
(from XKCD via TEV) • Why Mary thinks multitasking is bad for writing and anything else (here). • “Stories give us resources for thinking and for acting.” Here’s more from the Don Taylor video on how stories shape people. I don’t agree with everything he says, but there are a lot of interesting videos from [...]
July 24, 2008
Why I Pluck — My Eyebrows Are Sisters Not Twins
I am afraid of having a unibrow and not realizing it until someone points at me and says in a loud voice near a large group of people, “You have a unibrow.” And I imagine this large crowd of people laughing at me. There are movie stars among the crowd and they are laughing too. [...]
July 22, 2008
The Place Where They Meet
It’s the first day of vacation Bible school (why are school and vacation together in the same phrase?) and we’re sitting in a circle and I’m counting to ten while the third and fourth graders reach down to touch their toes and I notice a puddle forming under one of the boys. When I stand [...]
July 21, 2008
This is Madness
One of my favorite parts of the movie 300 is at the beginning when the Persian messenger rides into Sparta asking for “Earth and water,” representing their submission to the god-king Xerxes. When Leonidas pulls a sword on the messenger, the Persian yells, “This is madness,” to which Leonidas states, “This is Sparta!” and then [...]
