The Great Big Theory Of Everything

With today being the kickoff of long weekends both north and south of the border, the entire continent is getting ready for a few days of beer, BBQ’s and bacchanalia, all in the name of nationalistic pride. Yet given what the Independence Day and Canada Day holidays represent – freedom from England by might and by right, respectively – there’s a not-so-subtle irony about a people...

Hollywood Piracy

The thing you have to understand about Los Angeles is that it is, in many ways, a microcosmic representation of the entire universe. There are heavenly bodies, more stars than you can count and – unfortunately – a ton of moons, typically courtesy of crazy people as they shout at you from street corners. The county’s most striking similarity to the cosmos at large, however, is its...

Cop + Cup = Victory!

The final round of judging has come to a close and I’m proud to announce that COP AND CUP! has been chosen as Grand Prize winner in the Boston Market Homemade Movie Contest! This means that along with the satisfaction of a job well done, we’re taking home a few dollars to put toward the next project, enough free chicken to cater our sets for a year and a trip for two to...

Summer Soulstice

Days are getting longer, skirts are inching shorter and temperatures are climbing higher, rendering my sweet snowmobile virtually useless. What could all this mean, aside from Al Gore’s successful prediction of our hot, sweaty deaths?* That’s right – today’s the first day of summer! For kids, that is. For the rest of us, it’s the beginning of three months of work in slightly...

Big In Europe

In the short time this site’s been active, I’ve started to realize just how small the world (or the “wide web” part of it, at any rate) really is. First the cool kids over at Screenhead decided to give us a link, then Shortsville decided to give THE SILVER BULLET a new home and now – thanks to a hot tip from Avi – I’ve just learned that an Italian blog has linked to THE...