The View From Lower Down

 Why do one task well when you can do 5 tasks badly ? That's a pretty long post (although it's actually short by my standards!), so here's just a list of the projects I have on the go atm: The Blog ;  Tangents: Interactive ; The Mystery Play ; The Podcast Here's how they're going: The Blog : You're reading it; you decide. Tangents: Interactive : Dead in the water The Mystery Play : Writing sessions every week, with 2 co-writers. The Podcast : Dead on dry land. So what's the most logical thing to do? Obviously, start another project! So I'm writing a Murder Mystery movie. But the thing is, it's deliberately bad. Imagine if Clue and The Murder at Haversham Manor had a baby and it was directed by Jason Friedman and Aaron Seltzberg (The guys who wrote/directed Disaster Movie; Epic Movie; Meet the Spartans and more) I originally planned on writing a movie with all the movie tropes and calling it Tropes , but that would be a gargantuan task due to the shee

This post isn't cooked yet, but read it anyway. Recently I went on a YouTube Rabbit-hole dive of talk show interviews with former First Lady Michelle Obama and Former President Barack Obama. This has nothing to do with my political views of them or their successors Donald and Melania Trump. I have views on the matter, but they have no place here on my blog. Some of you may recall my previous post on voting , and although I cannot vote in the US election, my political party the Voter Party is also not running in America and the policies are the same. DISCLAIMER: NONE of the links in the above post apply to American elections, but much of the general information is the same. You can find out more at https://www.vote.org/ Given the current lockdown situation, in most cases I would suggest postal voting, but that's up to you (and your local lockdown laws; CHECK THESE) For Musical Theatre fans (which, let's face it, is probably a significant portion of my readership), the cast o

Some people (No one. Literally no one.) have been asking where my podcast is. It's nowhere. I'm a professional procrastinator, so don't wait up. I'll let you know when it's up, and what it's available on. In the meantime, lockdown is still a great time for being creative , and Netflix is maddeningly low on Steve Martin movies (I recommend Roxanne , a more modern take on the story of Cyrano de Bergerac (Netflix); or the two Cheaper by the Dozen movies (Disney+)). After we discovered this, we tried looking for Father of the Bride (FotB)