Arne Starr is a comic book inker—and a very good one—and also an actor, which I didn’t realize until I just looked him up: IMDB, Memory...

Here I am on Wednesday after my Covid booster shot. I got a flu shot in the other arm at the same time. They gave me the cool red...

Yesterday was November 23rd. And it fell on a Tuesday. This rang a bell because it was on a Tuesday, November 23, 1993—28 years...

Hi folks, don’t be alarmed, but apparently our neighborhood squirrels have learned how to pick a slice of pizza out of the trash and...

There’s no dignified way to write a begging letter. And I should know, I’ve written a lot of them! Here’s my best attempt from a Screen...

I guess this is as good a time as any to see if anybody wants to watch these silly home movies that my brothers and I made circa 1989–91....

Yesterday I tweeted something which, by my standards, went viral. (I don’t have many Twitter followers.) Above is a screenshot, here’s...

I am going through a somewhat complicated reckoning with the fact that I’ve spent my whole life enamored with...stuff, for lack of a...

Happy Halloween, everybody! The above pic is from a few years ago. The kids are going as Cinderella and Hermione Granger this year. I’ll...

I am a lifelong Sox fan, but don’t hate me, I am from New England. I more than did my time watching them lose—especially as a little kid...

On December 1, 1993, I did a phone interview with Elliot Goldenthal, who I was excited to talk to because of his scores to Alien3 and...

Our social media overlord, Facebook, informed me that today is Andy Dursin’s 47th birthday. Happy birthday, Android! That’s a very old...

This week is the 25th anniversary of my move to Los Angeles. I had to ship out my 1995 Subaru Impreza, as I don’t have the constitution...

When I created this blog, I used a bunch of Wix templates without giving it much thought. As a result, there’s a view counter on each...

I graduated college in May 1996. I spent the summer at home on Martha’s Vineyard working on Film Score Monthly, and some time in August,...

This is the first script I ever wrote, a spec submission to Star Trek: The Next Generation circa 1991. I was 16. I think I found it in my...

I can’t say I’m proud of this, but apparently I drew this circa 1994 when we were covering Basil Poledouris’ score to the ludicrous...

Here’s an unhappy memory: taking Film Score Monthly overstock back issues to the recycling center. I always tried to print the FSM...

I love Mancini. My appreciation for him has only grown as I’ve gotten older, especially of his lesser-known dramatic scores. I was...

Here is the fundamental conflict in being an entertainment journalist: You can have honesty. You can have access. But you can’t have...