Brave New World

  So let’s start with something Rashida put out there last week: IMHO, the most salient issue in the next decade will be privacy. EVERYONE'S: Man, woman, celeb, not celeb. No question about that… — Rashida Jones (@iamrashidajones) September 2, 2014 We’ve all been talking about this and debating the issue of ‘privacy’ for the […]

Song of the Day – ‘Whip Appeal’

  I don’t know what the young people call it these days, but when I was a young pup, the term we used when someone went into ‘playing yourself’ mode was ‘caking’. You all know me here.  I’m a big believer in love.  I write love. I preach love.  I act love.  I produce love […]

American Muslims in Public Service @USC

  This Friday, the USC Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice is sponsoring a conference on campus where the subject is American Muslims in Public Service.  The all day event is free and open to the public, the keynote speaker will be (debatably) the highest profile American Muslim in public service today, Congressman Keith […]

Song of the Day – ‘Voodoo Child’

  What’s up gang?  Hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend. I have a lot on my mind truthfully, with the state of the world.  But can’t properly find the words for it at this moment.  So I’ll stick to my fictional writing for now, and give you some music today. One thing 3000’s new […]

Song of the Day – ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’

  Making the transition from ‘writing a short’ to ‘producing a short and writing a feature.’ Which means I’m in more of a romantic mood than a purely lustful mood, thus this choice for Song of the Day (or Week in this case). I’ve said this before with this live version and my mind hasn’t […]

‘Ladies and Gentlemen, My Name is Paul Heyman’

  To the current generation of wrestling fans, he’s the ‘advocate’ for the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar.  To my generation, he’s the mind behind Extreme Championship Wrestling.  And those who came along before me probably got their first taste of him as Paul E. Dangerously, the loudmouth manager whose first great rivalry […]

‘H.I.G.H.’

  My friends over at Dangerbang Productions put out a new skit this weekend, and I thought I’d share it today. Wait a minute…is that? No, can’t be?  Can it?  It sounds like… Hm. Well, all I know, is WHOEVER that is doing the narration… He sounds really handsome…  

Song of the Day – ‘The Star Spangled Banner’

  So last week, one of the homies hits me up and says ‘Hey Mr. Actor, I need someone to sing the anthem for my event.  What do you think?’ Now, as with many things, once I committed (through professional necessity if nothing else) to get myself up to being a ‘competent singer’, I’m not […]

Goodfellas

  ‘You know, we always called each other good fellas.  Like you said to, uh, somebody, You’re gonna like this guy.  He’s alright.  He’s a good fella. He’s one of us.  You understand?’ I know more than once I’ve publicly stated my somewhat ‘necessary evil’ attitude toward networking.  Having said that, I just spent the […]