I wanted a bed. You gave me air quotes.

Visit Greg around the world at the Bastard of Art and Commerce. Irony is sublime. It can be anyway. In film, in visual art, in fiction – in all those places, irony deftly applied can’t be beat. I EAT that shit up. But in a hotel, at 10:00, when you’re checking in after six hours […]

What is Greg “Buns” Mills up to?

I have this friend that I don't get to see as much as I would like. But through the beauty of facebook, I know what he is doing every second. You can also read him at the BastardofAANDC. Greg Buns Mills 's strategy for dealing with the hypercomplexity of late capitalism — eating corn nuts […]

Hookers attack!!!!! And a mild reassetment ,vis-a-vis St. Petersburg

Greg Mills can also be read at the Bastard of A and C This is what happened: I was have a late dinner at the St. Petersburg Marriott with two very nice people from the vendors I'm working with on this project, crappy bar food (bumpkin me) and osetra caviar (Deee-lish. Ordered by my more […]

Dirty Job

Conrad Romo can also be found here. His series on Scientology can be read here Before Gordon Gekko, the general public never heard of the The Art of War, by Sun Tzu. The movie Wall Street came out in ’87. I read the book in ’73 as part of my sales training. I was told […]

Bush Praises Father of The AIDS Crisis

“Jesse Helms was a kind, decent and humble man and a passionate defender of what he called ‘the Miracle of America.’ So it is fitting that this great patriot left us on the Fourth of July”- President Bush While we all know that this president doesn’t have the best grasp on history, does he not […]

Nothing makes me feel more like garbage than looking at casting tapes

Greg Mills can also be read at the Bastard of Art and Commerce . I'm working on a project for work — a series of comedy shorts — that required the watching of casting tapes. I hate casting. I hate casting because the miles of mildly okay actors thrown before a cheap video camera in […]

24 Things To Do On A Set

 Live and Proud from the Bastard of A and C   1). Wonder if directors chairs fulfill a need, other than historic continuity. 2). Roam for wireless coverage. 3). Pretend you are on a stakeout, a stakeout that requires a staff of 30, including a caterer.

Scientology: Why I Stayed

Conrad Romo can also be found here. His series on Scientology can be read here A fable answering the question: how’d you get in and why’d you stay?  What if, without reading any reviews or finding it in a guide, you just wandered into a little restaurant and the place seemed nice so you stayed? […]

The Frank Modesto Interview

  Members of the PPPM. Frank Modesto is on the far right. Frank Modesto, between 1969 and 1976, was the official spokesman of the Progressive People’s Peace Movement. The Progressive People’s Peace Movement was started on the college campus of San Francisco State University and wielded a great social impact on the San Francisco Bay […]

Scientology and The Apollo Stars

"The planet is ours is ours is ours is ours this planet We’re moving in we’re moving in we’re moving in we’re moving in we’re moving in" These are lyrics repeated on the Power of Source Apollo Stars album put out by L. Ron Hubbard in 1974. I played it often back then and absolutely […]