Jadine gets married

I wrote before about shooting what you love. In this case, it’s my lovely sister Jadine and her new husband David on their wedding day. Here’s my collection of snapshots from their wedding, in video form! The soundtrack is a song called “Happy”...

Crazy times

Well, it seems that I don’t use this blog much anymore. I’ll probably reserve it for traveling. Who knows. I am posting most of my personal thoughts on Twitter: Tweets by kevinthom I’m writing little stories there too: Tweets by microprose The good...

Getting attention: some advice from the pros

Promoting a show can seem a bit like black magic. If you’ve never done it before, it can be mysterious and frustrating. You can put up the greatest production on the planet, but if there’s nobody in the audience to see it, it can all feel a bit pointless....

Totally floored

The new floor is done, thus completing the final large component of my renovations this year. I can’t say enough good things about End of the Roll and their installer, Jean Paul. The flooring itself was about $1-2 per square foot cheaper than equivalent stuff at...

Reno progress

Well, I’ve finally got my furniture moved around. It helped enormously that some university students found my Craigslist ad for my old desk and picked that up for $25. I also sold them the Couch From Hell, my 200 lbs of pull out bed from the 70s. That was a...

The Joy Luck Club sucks

I found this old essay online today, titled Why the Joy Luck Club Sucks. I was happy to find it, because for years I’ve had the same opinion, yet whenever I’d tell people that I hated this film, they would say, “Why? It’s such a great...