The recently released HBO trailer of Bad Education (viewable on youtube.com) paralleled by a VitalThrills.com review of the promotional material by Mirke Parlevliet (April 7, 2020) demands a response. At the request of the community, I present a counterpoint to this upcoming movie. Let’s start by dispelling some misperceptions presented in both mediums. Parlevliet categorizes …
I found myself on the road again heading south to my adopted home Key West. I am dictating to the iPhone dangling from the dashboard, and the transcription spews out in fits and spurts, assisted by the omnipotent autocorrect. If our ability to communicate is not garbled enough as it is through direct contact (more about …
Are you looking for a journey through lilting language and lush landscapes of the mind? Janette Byron Stone’s Please Write brings a new perspective to the Vietnam War through the distant eyes of a young woman’s coming of age. For America, Nam was a war that took place on the other side of the world; …
To continue our discussion of the blog posting, Blog #2 The Incoming Tide, regarding the upcoming film written by a Roslyn High School graduate, the film entitled “Bad Education” (a very poorly thought out sobriquet, epithet, which is not only a rip off of an English television series from 2012-2014, but also casts an aspersion …
The Ridiculous Horny Snail has arrived Periodically, the Key West writers guild conducts a word flash writing exercise. Usually, words written on ragged pieces of paper are tossed into a straw hat. Three prompts are selected. All three must be used in either a poetic or prose form (no longer than 750 words). The object …