Hi there! If you don't know much about what I've done or who I am, here are some pieces from recent years I’d love you to check out. First up, here are handy links to the work I've done for Vanity Fair (where
Hi! I'm updating my online presence, and as part of that effort, I'm republishing this compendium of coverage of my first book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity and a Call for Change in Hollywood, which came out June 6, 2023. Burn It Down is my reaction
Hello! I hope you are doing OK and taking care of yourself. That’s a pretty tall order at the moment and if you are taking on even more — i.e., trying to help others and your communities — I’m grateful to you. I’ve got a roster of good
Hello, everyone. Just a few things I wanted to share with you. First up, a professional announcement: I will once again be the emcee, host and moderator at the three-day Battlestar Galactica convention that Creation has put together. The first one, as I wrote in this post, was a blast.
Oh, this one hurts. This hurts a lot. A lot of things in the world are terrible, so it takes something major to burst through and occupy the center of my mind. No one could do that like David Lynch. With the death of Lynch, we’ve lost one of
Would you like a bit of good news? I would! This past weekend, Creation Entertainment put on a convention paying tribute to Battlestar Galactica. Many members of the show’s acting troupe and creative team were on hand, and I had the honor of being the MC and also moderating
Countless times, when people in the entertainment industry needed help, I’ve answered the call. I’ve done things behind the scenes and helped however I could more times than I can count. I’ve listened to folks’ stories and told them they weren’t wrong to feel the way
Hello! Chicago folks, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m., I’ll be in conversation with my friend Steve Darnall at The Book Cellar in Chicago. The occasion is the reissue of Uncle Sam, a brilliant graphic novel by Steve and Alex Ross. It’s about a lot of
Politics is, to some degree, a game of symbolism. But the phrase “political theater” isn’t an inherently negative one: We all respond to symbols and images that are brilliantly arranged. Under the right conditions, we create real meaning from those building blocks. That is all to say, if I
Hello! First up, a couple of interviews (and an event) I’d like to draw your attention to. Then I’m going to share a few thoughts on one year of Burn It Down (now out in paperback!) existing in the world. A number of folks asked me during the
Hello! It’s been a while. One big reason is that it’s now gardening season and I spend every spare minute doing dirt-based outdoor therapy in my yard. I'm having a lot of fun with it, while also dodging a massive brood of dazed cicadas, who are
I’d been writing about popular culture for some time when The O.C. premiered in 2003, but what I didn’t know about the entertainment industry back then could fill several books. And that’s one of the many benefits of time, growth and perspective: Looking back at the