Flash Fiction Friday: The Contest Moves to a New Day

by Staff March 7, 2014

Every Friday, we’ll be doing a series of collaborative competitions where an artist provides us with a photograph or a painting (or something else) and we will attach a short story of flash fiction that is 250 words or less. We ask you to do the same and give us your best flash fiction story […]

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Chronicles of the Underrated: WWE Wrestler

by Mike Monroe March 5, 2014

So you may be asking yourself “Are we really doing this?”  Wrestling’s fake, right?  So how could there possibly be a most underrated professional wrestler?  Like many as a child, I was one day confronted with the world-shattering news that Hulk Hogan wasn’t really beating anyone up.  It wasn’t quite as bad as when I […]

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Amanda Clothier: Microfiction Monday Winner

by Staff March 5, 2014

The return of Microfiction Monday saw  a number of entries. After careful consideration, Amanda Clothier is our big WINNER. Congratulations! Amanda writes a blog called Cooking Up a Book in which she shares some of her writing, her experiences in self-publishing, and the things which divert her from sticking to task! Like most of us, […]

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Postcards from Hollywood – Oscars Edition (PHOTOS)

by Tony Shea and Dan O'Day McClellan March 4, 2014

Ah, Hollywood! The Oscars! The festival of stars! Of course, I didn’t have access to any fabulous Oscar festivities this year. Not even a simple keg party invitation. So with nothing else to do, me and Dan O’Day McClellan  headed down to Hollywood Blvd to see what the common folk were doing. This is what we saw.

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My Oscar Picks 2014

by Tony Shea March 2, 2014

The Oscars are once again upon us. Below are my picks. BEST PICTURE “12 Years a Slave” WINNER “American Hustle” “Captain Phillips” “Dallas Buyers Club” “Gravity” “Her” “Nebraska” “Philomena” “The Wolf of Wall Street”

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Oscar Nominated Short Films Part 2: Live Action

by Jay Hood March 1, 2014

I find it hard to rank the Oscar Nominated Short films in the live action category. Between each short, a parade of talking heads ranging from Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) to Matthew Modine expounded upon how it is the job of the short film to serve a story by getting to the root […]

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Why Gravity Should Win Best Picture – But Probably Won’t

by Tony Shea February 28, 2014

A friend of mine whose opinion on matters of taste in films and books very closely mirrors my own told me, before I had seen the film, that Gravity would blow my mind.

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Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014 Part 1 – Animated

by Jay Hood February 28, 2014

We made our annual trip to the Charles Theater in Baltimore this past weekend for a marathon viewing of the Oscar Nominated short films of 2014. The day started with the Oscar Nominated short films in the animated category and followed later on with the live action shorts. Last year had a pretty strong lineup […]

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The Best of Harold Ramis – RIP

by Tony Shea February 24, 2014

image via The great Harold Ramis died today at the age of 69 from complications related to an autoimmune disease. I’m sorry too see him go, since he helped make a number of my absolutely favorite films that delighted me as child and continue to have resonance with me through the years. A multi-talented writer, […]

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Fiction: Afterlife (Chapter 10)

by Mike Monroe February 24, 2014

If you’ve never read Afterlife before, click here to go to the first chapter. Photo by Jay Hood Afterlife is a sci fi/western action serial published every other week. Join us in a post-apocalyptic journey through a future where life has become little more than a struggle for survival. However, where there’s life, there’s always […]

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Microfiction Monday: The Contest Returns

by Staff February 24, 2014

Today marks the return of Microfiction Monday. Every Monday, we’ll be doing a series of collaborative competitions where an artist provides us with a photograph or a painting (or something else) and we will attach a short story of 250 words or less. We ask you to do the same and give us your best […]

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Lights! Camera! Beardo!

by Nate "Chops" Johnson February 21, 2014

I was on set at Warner Bros. in Burbank working as a background actor on a show when my phone signaled that I had a message. The text was from my photographer friend, and author of The Beard Book, Mary Lou Sandler, and read “A casting director for a national Fiat commercial contacted us asking […]

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Pure Gonzo (The Life of Hunter S. Thompson)

by Tony Shea February 20, 2014

HUNTER S. THOMPSON DIED ON THIS DAY BACK IN 2005. THIS PIECE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JULY 18, 2013 TO COMMEMORATE HIS BIRTHDAY. The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. Hunter S. Thompson By all accounts, […]

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