Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
What do burlesque boobs, booze, board games and brains have in common?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
They were all a part of this past weekend’s Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Regional Gathering. (My brother always teases me that we had to add “Greater”…otherwise we’d just be lame). ;-/ But Mensa events and people are not at all what most prejudge. (If [...]
Tags: acceptance, Alan Rachins, all-female improv troupe, April, astrology, atheists, big bang theory, Billy, boyfriend, branding, broken arrows, burlesque, conservatives, contagion, Cubs, current events, Daniel Kinno, Dharma & Greg, Dizzy Von Damn!, dominatrix, e-publishing, endorphins, feng shui, financial, Fred & Ginger, Fruit of the Loom leaf, geeks, Gene Steichen, ghosts, GLAAM, God, Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Regional Gathering, Griffith Park observatory, Hollywood, hormonal connection, kink, LA Law, Leif Ganvort, liberals, LOLA, Mensa, Mensa Mind Games, Mensa RG, Mr. Snapper & Mr. Buddy, mythology, nametag stickers, nerds, oxytocin, personal space GPS, pleasure and pain, pub crawl, real estate strategies, Red Snapper, RG, Screenwriting, scuba diving deaths in the Mojave Desert, Sheldon, ShowBiz Mensans, skeptics, smoke jumpers, space shuttle, St Louis, striptease, Sudoku, sustainable economic systems, The Amazing Spider-Man, thermonuclear missiles, top 2% of IQs, UFOs, vaudeville, welcome, werewolf games
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GATE 2 – What an Amazing Event! ;-)
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
GATE (the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) is a nonprofit 501c(6) membership trade association that strives to inspire and empower professionals in the media, entertainment and arts to consciously create and distribute transformational content. Founded by visionary Chairman and CEO, John Raatz, last night’s “coming out” event brought “the tribe” together to activate and catalyze [...]
Tags: 12/22/12, 196 countries of the world in alphabetical order, Amish Grace, Annie Lennox, Ash Ruiz, Baba Oyadare Ranson III, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Damien Rose, Dara Marks, Didgeridoo, Don Miguel Ruiz, Drew Dellinger, Eckhart Tolle, Edward James Olmos, Faith Rivera, Frances Fisher, Fred Alan Wolf, Funkamentalz, Gary Zukav, GATE, Gate Community, Gate2, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, Hieroglyphic Stairway, Inside Story, It's 3:23 in the morning, Jahan Raymond, Jean Houston, Jim Carrey, John Raatz, Kate McCallum, Kyle Cease, Lili Hadyn, Louie Anderson, Marianne Williamson, Marta Mobley, my great great grandchildren, NOW, only a new seed can yield a new crop, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Quantum Physics, Rafael Bejarano, SuperBowl XLVI, The Four Agreements, Tibetan Bowl, violin, Wade Colwell-Sandoval, what did you do, Worldside
Posted in Art, Book Mentions, Books, Career Development, Craft, Directing, Drama, Events, Favorites, In Development, PowerNetworking, Projects, Public Speaking, Reviews, Screenwriting, Travel, Writing for TV | 1 Comment »
California Christmas
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
The Marina Del Rey Boat Parade – complete with fireworks – what fun!
Tags: Boat Parade, Christmas in California, Marina del Rey, Mariner's Village, NW Passage, Parade of Lights
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Flash Forward is Back! :)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
I’m really excited and truly honored to be coaching the first big Flash Forward in years. I’m thrilled to be joining a dozen terrific alumni coaches (see list below), all of us volunteering our time to mentor and support the 80 actors, directors, TV and film screenwriters, playwrights, producers, composers, singers, musicians, magicians, comedians, Dept [...]
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Which Show Should I Spec?
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Writers are unfortunately often perceived to be at the bottom of the food chain in the feature world. But in the world of TV, it’s a very different story. TV Writers are some of Hollywood’s best-paid and most respected professionals. But the odds of breaking in (or back in) to that coveted writer’s room seem [...]
Tags: 30 Rock, 90210, Aaron Spelling, All is Lost, big bang theory, Breaking Bad, cable, Castle, CBS Diversity Program, character’s point of view, Charmed, close-ended, Comedies, Community, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, CSI:NY, Dexter, dilemma, episode, feature, Girlfriends, Glee, goal, Hollywood, How I Met Your Mother, irony, Jen Grisanti, Mad Men, Medium, Melrose Place, modern family, multi-camera, NBC Writer’s on the Verge, NCIS, network, Numbers, Nurse Jackie, one act play, Parenthood, pilot, procedural, screenplays, serial, series, single camera, sophomore shows, Spec, speculative, subtext, Supernatural, The 4400, the closer, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, The Walking Dead, three camera, Tracking Board, True Blood, TV Writers, Two and a Half Men, unique voice, United States of Tara, White Collar, writing portfolio
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