LB: Speaking of Herbie J Pilato…

by Larry Brody

…Here’s the best pic of him I’ve ever seen.

Per Herbie J’s email to me: read article

LB: Spooning [with]? Gwen the Beautiful

by Larry Brody

Thanks to master craftsman and fiction podcaster supreme Bob Tinsley for bestowing this honor upon my most deserving superhero (her hobby is quantum physics!) wife!

via Facebook, but what can you do?

LB: For all my dreamer friends…(Take 2)

by Larry Brody

…And I know I have a lot of you because my life has always been about dreaming-fantasizing-leaving-this-world-for-another-one-just-around-the bend.

Which leads me to this daily segment of Stephan Pastis’ comic strip, Pearls Before Swine from about a week ago:

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LB: Writing and the Unreliable Narrator

by Larry Brody

I’d be worried about the headline here giving away the punchline, but this isn’t really that kind of comic, is it?

Just between us, I think we’re all unreliable narrators, and not only on the page. And science seems to agree. read article

LB: IATSE Negotiations with AMPT Settled!

by Larry Brody

…And it looks like the kind of deal that bodes well for other guilds in the future.

Not that it’s completely settled yet. As IndieWire.Com’s Chris O’Falt points out,

Negotiations still continue over the Area Standards Agreement, governing production in major production hubs like New Mexico, Georgia, and Louisiana. read article