Sunday, January 03, 2010

Mysterious Cities of Gold

hen I was a kid, this short-lived cartoon was one of my fleeting addictions:

That theme!  I can’t remember the show, but that theme….

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Coast to Coast

’ve been a terrible blogger this month.  It’s a busy time of year, and my free time has been claimed by scriptwriting and planning for 2010, which promises to be an eventful year.

30 days’ worth of delightful milestones, condensed:

• Finished a spec script for 30 Rock, hopefully demonstrating my chameleon-like ability to write in other people’s voices.  Hopefully 30 Rock will stay relevant for another season or two.
• Obsessively read the comments for our Hard Left Choose Your Own Adventure sketch (see previous entry).  Not a lot of helpful feedback from the YouTube crowd, but lots of fun and affirmation.
• Brought Code Duello to the UCB for our first UCB show outside the Del Close Marathon.  New Yorkers turned out in spades, and we had a very enthusiastic and welcoming full house.  We’re headed back there in early January.  Matt and I are also reinventing the show itself, retaining some superficial elements of our structure while drilling deeper into the characters.
• Submitted Unbalanced to the ITVFest in LA, one of the few festivals on which I hang a lot of my hopes for the pilot.
• Watched far too much (good) television and read too few books.
• Helped Sarah build the framework for her own website.  Outlined a plan for filling it with content.
• Launched my next screenwriting project.
• Experienced Sleep No More for the first time.  Obsessed with going again.

On top of all this, I’m cautiously approaching 2010’s biggest project: moving to Los Angeles.  Sarah and I have been dancing with the specter of LA for a year, and every month it becomes more of a real thing, a plan with shape and purpose.  The latest date that we will move is July 31st, but it may be earlier depending on what opportunities we discover in the next six months.  Every snowfall may be “our last in Boston.”  It’s an exciting time.

For example: the cost of moving all of our scrappy, utilitarian furniture to LA is equal to the cost of buying all new furnishings in our new home.  Can we really sell most of our belongings in the next six months?  It’s liberating to think so.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Ghosts Are Gross

’m proud to help unveil the newest Hard Left Productions YouTube sketch, an interactive Choose Your Own Adventure!  Thanks to Robert and Taylor for the invitation to write, direct, and edit this piece.  We shot it in a single day.

If you share it with friends and family (please do), make sure YouTube annotations are on… that’s the interactive part!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Inca Trail, Sunset on Day 3

s the sun sets behind our ruins, it hits only the highest peaks in the distance, setting them on fire.  The Eye of Sauron watches.

Monday, November 09, 2009

The Inca Trail, Day 2