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The Games People Play
American/Yankee Roulette I think I came up with it in Junior High (so like 1987) when a group of my friends and I were walking down the street and goofing off. Pushing around is fairly common around boys that age – I guess and so we would. I came up with the idea that when…
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The Interrogation
Do all criminals have an unfinished basement on their houses? Do all interrogations take place in a military bunker filled with all of the tricks of the torture trade? Scene opens: In the empty dining room of a McDonald’s fast food restaurant. The restaurant has been cleared out of customers. Unfinished food still sits on…
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Virtual Reality
Why is virtual reality so unreal? Why are people escaping to online worlds which are never anything like the real world? Virtual reality should be along the lines of real life, no? With its shares of disappointments, pitfalls, bad choices, all of the ramifications of those choices, etc. I’m sure that “Ball & Chain” would…
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Movie Trailers
Why are there never any trailers in movie trailers? Scene opens, posters plastered against a metal wall… for a movie, perhaps. Some metal noises, maybe creaking brakes. Then some dust, then a little more. Without pulling back, the camera starts sliding horizontally and more posters.. seemingly all about same movie. Eventually, the camera slides off…