Archive for the 'Travel' Category

  • 07.25.08 Packing light

    I’m headed to Seattle tonight for a quick screening of The Nines. I’m packing almost nothing: my iPhone, my Kindle, toiletries and a change of undies. Over the past year, I’ve found I am packing less and less, to the point that it’s become a sport to see how little I can get by with. [...]

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  • 07.23.08 Zombies, Bridesmaids and Assassins

    A quick trip to London over the weekend gave me 20+ hours of plane time to catch up on reading. I finished three books. The first two had been sitting on my Kindle1, while the last is dead-tree-only at the moment. As I’ve mentioned before, screenwriters spend an inordinate amount of time thinking and talking [...]

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  • 04.10.08 Northeaster

    I spent five days in Maine, writing and researching my next project. A few observations, in bullet point form: Part of my motivation for visiting Maine was that I’ve always claimed to have visited all 48 contiguous states, thanks to endless summer roadtrips with my family growing up. But my mom recently told me that we’d [...]

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  • 10.24.07 Mis-pinned

    I’m in New York for the second time in a week. This trip is for a director meeting on the studio’s dime. While no one will confuse me for a native, I’ve become a lot more comfortable with the city in the past few years. When people give me cross-streets, I generally have some idea what [...]

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