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10 Cities I Wouldn’t Mind Living In

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 25, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

Okay, Jeremiah. Name the top ten places you could see yourself living in the next ten years. You can’t include Los Angeles, since that is where you currently live. These should be places that appeal to you on an emotional basis, or would have benefits for your career, or would be a comfortable compromise between [...]

Life Smack – A Story Of Life and Excitement

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 11, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

Counting up the exciting moments in my life is easily accomplished on one or two hands, though I don’t expect a satisfactory agreement on what “exciting” entails. However, I do experience the occasional event in which the daily grind, which everyone experiences–even soldiers, is interrupted by the smacking sound of life hitting you upside your [...]

In Celebration of Cookouts

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The best part of the 4th of July is undoubtedly the food. Culinary training for the event is not entirely unmerited, as it’s extremely easy to screw up the making and grilling of Independence Day’s most sacred food–hamburgers. As I’ve stated here before, I believe hamburgers are the staple of America and July 4th, though [...]

The Gordian Knot

By jelewis8 ⋅ June 12, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

In Greek mythology, there is the story of Alexander the Great who was faced with the challenge of untying the Gordian Knot, a fiendish knot of such intricacy that the very attempt to untie it usually caused people to go insane, or at least give up and pop a beer with their buddies instead. It's [...]

A Reading Recommendation

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

How cool is this? Karl Edwards, a stranger to me up to a few weeks ago, recently walked by my table at Starbucks one early morning whilst I was drinking coffee and attempting to wrangle my way through a few finishing scenes in my latest feature script. I noticed he was carrying a book by [...]

It’s Not Personal, It’s Business

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 28, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

As you know, I recently took the first step in what I hope will be a running stream of non-invasive and unobtrusive advertising that will help augment Fringe’s existence as a more networked, widely-read site. There comes a point in every blogger’s life when he sells his soul in order to keep doing the thing [...]

The Face That Launched A Thousand Projects

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 17, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

As you can see, Fringe is undergoing a bit of change, most notably in the use of Adsense to augment site costs (I’m about to up my monthly hosting plan due to bandwidth and space issues). It’s a bit of a gamble, a calculated risk that I trust will not alienate too many people. The [...]

What Sheryl Crow Wants

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 24, 2007 ⋅ 2 comments

Life goes on. A week later, we have all made a move toward not reliving last week, but it isn’t something that happens in a day or a week. It’s different for everyone. It’s taken me a bit longer than I’d expect. It’s a sign of optimism in me, I think. Three years ago, I’d [...]

Pondering Hate And Love In The Wake of Destruction

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 17, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

As a species, we are the most terrible, the most wanton, the most cruel. Because we have knowledge. Because we have power. And because we understand that to wage violence is to become God for a day. The shooter, who had a name once, lived out his powerful dream, and now more than thirty are dead in my town.

A Prayer For VT

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 16, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

After something like today’s events at Blacksburg, you need some time to figure things out, to process and calculate. And then you throw all that math stuff out the window because it doesn’t mean much when weighed against the utter sadness and emotion that wells up in the wake of tragedy. I’m still out of [...]

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