In a recent issue of Hampton Style, Andrew Lauren of Andrew Lauren Productions described THE YEAR OF FOG film, which ALP is producing along with Newmarket Films, as “a modern day Blow Up.” Read the interview, in which Lauren talks about why he makes movies, why he loves Montauk, and what it means to be…Continue reading Andrew Lauren on The Year of Fog
Category: Fun-o-rama
Belle graffiti
I found this photograph by J. Wilson while doing an internet search for JFG Coffee Company–a major olfactory memory from my days in Knoxville, TN, in the early nineties. The unsigned drawing, which appears on a yet-to-be-renovated building off Market Square in Knoxville’s Old City, takes graffiti art to a new level. . What is…Continue reading Belle graffiti
Eating Alabama
Through the Alabama Writers’ Forum newsletter, I just discovered a great blog called Eating Alabama. Yesterday at the Gustafer Yellowgold syphony performance in San Francisco, inspired music man Morgan Taylor (you gotta see the show if it’s in your town) joked about how all the kids in San Francisco probably count “quinoa noodles and soy…Continue reading Eating Alabama
2009 Northern California Book Awards
I’m popping the champagne cork today. (Okay, not yet, I’m at home alone at 10:00 in the morning, so champagne would be entirely inappropriate, right? Oh, but there’s the trusty mimosa: champagne delivered with just enough OJ to make it a bona fide breakfast item.) NO ONE YOU KNOW has been nominated for the Northern…Continue reading 2009 Northern California Book Awards
Nutcracker Buck Sings Yahtzee
Check out the latest in the land of Nutcracker Buck–“You and me and these five random cubes/Laughing off our asses while our lives go down the tubes.” Wade has this to say about the song: “The song is kind of a white trash love song and a prayer to the Yahtzee gods that a marriage…Continue reading Nutcracker Buck Sings Yahtzee