Did Texting Ruin Storytelling?
I’m going with yes
I Still Got It
Yesterday I took a break from our beautiful Northern California fall weather to address my nemesis — the garage, and as I was consolidating a few old boxes into newer boxes I stumbled upon the tiny hand-held invention shown above.
Intrepid eyes may recognize another rarity — the since discontinued but forever iconic Super 8mm Kodachrome Film — which is another story altogether.
2002 was already strange
A close friend had died, another had gotten married, and less than one year removed from 9/11 I found myself back in daunting Los Angeles, to try college for the second time, at the ripe old age of 30.
And I worked on my first movie.
I sat behind Leo in a scene and met a nice red-haired girl named Amy Adams at the coffee cart as an old car driver on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can (me and my Gold ’66 Newport appear a few times — at :59 in this scene if you don’t blink).
Yes — I was able to answer all the casting calls and show up on time at multiple locations around the entire Los…
