Category: Popcorn Sky Productions
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On Books & Reading, or: Reading Habits, the TBR Stack Got Bigger, and a Quick Life Update
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in Adults-Only Games, Amazon, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, Books, Computer and Video Games, Family History, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, James D. Hornfischer, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad, MicroProse Software, Movie Magic Screenwriter 6, Popcorn Sky Productions, Regiments (2022), Screenwriting, Screenwriting & Producing, Star Wars Books, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Life and Times of Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle: Stories and Tips from Thirteen Years with a Leonberger, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, Thomas Wikman, Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson I love books. I love to read. I learned to read at an early age. I don’t remember when I started to read, but my mom used to tell me (and anyone else, for that matter) that Tata, my maternal grandmother, taught me to read before…
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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 Friday, May 21, 2021, or: On Weekends, Writing, and Goalposts
Hi, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon on Friday, May 21, 2021. Here in New Hometown, Florida it is a warm, almost summery day; the temperature is 85˚F (30˚C) under partly cloudy skies. With humidity at 35% and the wind blowing from the east at 17 MPH (28 KM/H), the feels-like factor is 85˚F (30˚C). We…
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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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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, April 7, 2021, or: A Day in the Life of a Mad Screenwriter
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. As I write this, the temperature outside is 74˚F (24˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 69% and the wind blowing from the south-southeast at 7 MPH (12 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 72˚F (22˚C). Today we can…
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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).…
A Certain Point of View, Too 