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Mar.20.2013
Last year I joined the Community Film Studio of Santa Barbara -- the world's first not-for-profit, community-operated, feature motion picture production studio. They said they were going to make a movie called "The Bet" and wanted crew members. Getting all caught up in the emotion of the thing...
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Mar.20.2013
Last year I joined the Community Film Studio of Santa Barbara -- the world's first not-for-profit, community-operated, feature motion picture production studio. They said they were going to make a movie called "The Bet" and wanted crew members. Getting all caught up in the emotion of the thing...
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Aug.20.2012
Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen more examples of culture than an ear, nose and throat specialist.
First we went to Los Angeles to see “Levitated Mass” the largest thing ever moved by man (second largest if you count Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts).
Levitated Mass is a work of art, according to...
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Mar.24.2012
I am a registered Independent. I registered this way when I first moved to Santa Barbara almost thirty-five years ago, partially because I knew nothing about California politics.
“Who’s this Moonbeam guy?”
“He’s the new eccentric Governor, Jerry Brown.”
“Is he an astronaut?”
“Nope. Environmentalist...
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Dec.31.2011
A few years ago we bought a co-op Christmas tree. The idea was that one year it would be at our house and the next year it would be at Carl, Christy, Leila and Charlie’s house. It was pretty expensive and I probably would have objected had I known anything about it. But I didn’t find out about it...
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Dec.15.2011
It started when we moved from Michigan to California. I was seven and found friends for the first time (my only pal before this was the 72 year old neighbor who let me play with her sock monkey while we sat on the porch and drank tea). And with friends came an awareness that our house was not...
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Jul.03.2011
Recently, I found myself at a wine and cheese party held beside the beautiful Hotel Mar Monte pool on Cabrillo Boulevard, mingling with dozens of Santa Barbara Writers Conference students, workshop leaders and agents. Some were gathered in small groups talking about recent workshops.
“What’...
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Jan.14.2011
I think I figured out the problem with the stalled economic recovery. Me.
I hate to shop. And I’m not always sure when I need things, like haircuts or gym shorts or underwear. Fortunately, I’m married...
“You need to do something about those,” my wife said pointing at my athletic shoes.
“Seriously...
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Dec.16.2010
Meg Pokrass is a fiction writer (her story collection DAMN SURE RIGHT is out this coming February) and an editor at BLIP (formerly The Mississippi Review), but I first noticed her through her animation that was showing up all over the internet. She has a point-of-view that is hilarious, unique,...
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Dec.04.2010
Not so long ago when we went to the movies I would insist on getting the unlimited refills popcorn, which came in a bucket large enough to attempt going over Niagara Falls in, along with a drink the size of four human bladders. Plus of course I got the mandatory two-pound carton of Junior Mints for...
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