Simple Displeasures

Once every four years, while the World Cup is happening, I make a point of saying that there is only one thing I am interested in wrting abo...

  NOTE: My upcoming novella (it's a quick 120 pages) Valparaiso will be out either late this year (2026) or at the very beginning of 20...

 From The Guardian: "The elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has told a court that a major filing it made in a high prof...

  Movie Pizza Love is a VERY low budget film we shot in 2006 (happy 20th anniversay to everyone who was involved). It took a couple years of...

Before we get started, The Cannes film Awards will be first to point out that they are NOT The Fesitval De Cannes, the big Cannes film Festi...

 I was involved in a conversation, recently, about kids. "We protect our kids too much these days,"a friend was saying. "When...

Valparaiso is a beautiful city in Chile, on the coast, about 75 miles from the capital city of Santiago. It is renowned for its street art, ...