Category: Juan Carlos Hernandez
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On Writing & Storytelling: ‘Sunny in the Village of Crickets’
Hi, everyone! I hope you are all well on this late summer Sunday in August. Well, I have good news for you guys today! Popcorn Sky Productions, the small indie film production company that I’m affiliated with as a screenwriter, completed postproduction on the new short film by actor-director Juan Carlos Hernandez, Sunny in the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, March 2, 2023, or: Countdown to the Big Six-Oh: ‘And the Clock is Running….’
With slightly less than three days before I leave my 50s behind and enter the twilight zone of my 60s, I received my first birthday present this afternoon. No, it was not a “birthday present from me to me.” If you wish to label any of my nonessential purchases at Amazon in March as such,…
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‘Ronnie and the Pursuit of the Elusive Bliss’ Inspires a Twitter Poet!
Hi again, Dear Reader. As you know, actor-director Juan Carlos Hernandez, his wife Adria, their son Anthony, and Yours Truly collaborated on a short film – “about today,” Juan likes to say – titled Ronnie and the Pursuit of the Elusive Bliss. The Hernandez family did most of the heavy lifting (acting, revising, editing, mixing…
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Parody Song: ‘The Nursing Home Song’
I don’t know if you remember, but one of the projects I worked on with my friend and collaborator Juan Carlos Hernandez was a comedy review called El Grande de Corona, which was a collection of skits – some musical, some not – loosely connected to the COVID-19 pandemic and other stuff that went on…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, April 12, 2021: Seeking Inspiration from Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning on Monday, April 12, 2021 here in New Hometown, Florida, and it is a nice spring day, at least by Florida standards. The current temperature is 72˚F (22˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 90% and the wind blowing from the north-northwest at 6 MPH (9 KM/H), the…
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Adventures in Filmmaking: Progress Report on Our Movie’s GoFundMe Campaign & Other Related Topics
Hi, everyone! I’m taking a break from working on “The Big Screenplay” – I officially started the first draft today after I posted my Star Wars Collectibles & Toy Review sometime before noon today – just to do a quick update on our GoFundMe Campaign. Since my friends Juan Carlos and Adria Hernandez set up…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 4, 2021, or: Status Update on Our New Popcorn Sky Project
Hey, Dear Reader! It’s early afternoon on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, and it’s a crisp cool day here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, the temperature is 75˚F (24˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. With humidity at 45% and the wind blowing from the east-southeast at 2 MPH (4 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 74˚F (23˚C).…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, April 3, 2021, or: Update on Popcorn Sky Productions’ New Film Project
Hello, Dear Reader. It’s late afternoon on Saturday, April 3, 2021. Here in New Hometown, Florida the temperature is 73˚F (23˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. With the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 13 MPH (20 KM/H) and humidity at 39%, the feels-like temperature is 73˚F (23˚C). We are at the forecast high temperature, and…
A Certain Point of View, Too 