Learning Arabic, traveling, working working working, screenwriting and filmmaking, shopping till I drop, pissing off Ahmadinejad and Chavez. Doting on my pets including Muqtada al-Fish and Boutros Boutros-Snail.
Music
Whatever's on Sirius at the moment. I love it all: Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, grunge, punk, rap, opera, hair bands, hip-hop, ska, reggae -- and I know all the words to "American Pie."
Movies
"Lawrence of Arabia," "Pulp Fiction," "Life Is Beautiful," "Team America World Police," "Borat," "Amadeus," more. Am a total sucker for horror films.
Television
"South Park," Fox News, HBO and Showtime series ("Sex and the City" best ever; "Rome" and "The Tudors" are way up there), VH-1 reality and "Behind the Music" shows, the History Channel.
Books
"The World's Most Dangerous Places" by Robert Young Pelton; "The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression" by Stephane Courtois, et al; "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding; never giving up my classic Nancy Drews.
Heroes
The guy who stood in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square in 1989; Pope John Paul II; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Joan of Arc; Elie Wiesel; Bob Dylan; Father Nguyen Van Ly and all of the other journalists and bloggers (like Kareem Amer!) who are attacked or imprisoned for exercising free speech.
About me: I'm a nation/world op-ed columnist (libertarian-conservative bent) at a metropolitan newspaper, contributor to other national publications, guest radio and TV commentator, free-press advocate, and owner of or contributor to a total of six blogs.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008
Ok. This is getting ridiculous now! When can we chat?!! When do you leave? I can't believe our phone tag has lasted this long. I'm around Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Thursday I have an evening meeting. Are you free??? Miss you. Hope packing hasn't wiped you out.
I can't see The Sun covering Rocky Mountains, but I do go on walking holidays, I follow the St Louis Cardinals and I play chess, so there are three reasons I might end up in Denver one day!
Just wanted to wish you a slightly early Happy Birthday! I hope you have an absolutely amazing day tomorrow and get every single present your heart could possibly desire. Have lots of fun and don't forget to make a good wish when you blow out your birthday candles! :)
Hey you! Hope you're doing well! I have been working my booty off! UGH! Plus, I'm trying to plan my wedding. I hope you'll be able to make it. I'd love to see ya!
With the pungent aroma of fir resin filling our home and nostrils, our daughter is counting the days. Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas and spark one up for me, will ya?
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Sorry about that ridiculously long email. What did you think about Ahmadinejad's speech today? I hate to admit he said anything valid, but he had a point about the fact that the US media basically ignores the plight of the Palestinian people. Other than that, he basically spouted his usual talking points and avoided actually answering any of the questions posed to him. I do think it was inappropriate for the Columbia President to make the speech he did, before Ahmadinejad spoke, instead of after. It gave Ahmadinejad the high ground, instead of the lowest ground, which he deserved. I'm still amazed at the amount of applause he got throughout his speech. The only thing he got booed for was the remark about there being "no homosexuals in Iran". I don't think the audience got the point that he meant there were no homosexuals there because he's killed them all. It seemed that way from many of the post-speech interviews. Well, hope you're having a wonderful evening! :)
Hey Chris, thanks for the comment. Actually, the majority of my friends out here are liberal, but the majority of my Hollywood friends are conservative! How do those receiving your pitches know that you're politically conservative? It's usually not a topic that comes up unless it is obviously stated in your writing. Do your romance-movie characters meet and fall madly in love while volunteering for Newt Gingrich? :)
Thank you so much for adding me. I've read many of your terrific columns/blogs online, and was pleasantly surprised to find you were also on MySpace. As a conservative living in LA, I'm sure you can relate when I tell you what a struggle it is to meet people of like mind here in NJ. If this state was any more blue, it would be a smurf. The sad thing is, it didn't used to be that way when I was growing up here. I think the bigger problem I'm having is being a conservative, while trying to make it as a screenwriter. Let's just say about every literary/talent agent I've queried about representation has given large chunks of money to various democratic candidates or far far far left groups. It's amazing what things you can find out about people's/companies' donation preferences online, when that's not exactly the kind of info you're looking for.lol The chances of one of my "Walk to Remember/The Notebook" type of screenplays getting produced today, when studios are happy to make anti-American military fluff like Redacted and In The Valley Of Elah, aren't very good. Oh well, I'm not going to change my morals and ethics just to make it in this business. When the time is right, I'm sure things will work out. Well, thanks again for the add, and keep writing those great columns. I know I'll keep reading them. :)
