Permanent Retrograde

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What's Your Process?
“I read the first 15 pages of every script a writer sends me. Here’s the thing I say in panels: Writers are blessed because it doesn’t matter what you…
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EVERYONE LOVES TOTES
THE NUDE TOTE FOR SALE HERE Does this look enough like a Craigslist listing/Angelfire page, to be cool?
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Permanent Retrograde Episode 1 Part 2
Listen now (26 mins) | co-host: Bea Take 4 or 5
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Permanent Retrograde Pod. Episode 1 Part 1.
Listen now (9 mins) | I paused to fact-check and discovered there is no pause.
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HOLIDAY WEEKEND AMA
Someone asked if I would do this and I think it’s a fun running idea for a long weekend where we are trying to entertain ourselves for as little money…
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August 2023
But When I Can I Will
7am alarm 7:25am alarm 7:45am - 8:30am drive Bea to school. I dread it like I dreaded walking to school in Northern Canada. Especially after several…
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Have All The Writers Moved Home?
PINK SKIES AHEAD world premiere was scheduled on SXSW’s opening night, Friday at 9pm, directly after the premiere of Judd Apatow’s film, THE KING OF…
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The Romance of Tom Cruise
I moved to Los Angeles in 2012 when Obama was in office and this Tom Cruise dating story was circulating. I don’t think this story makes Tom look bad…
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Ambitious Girl
I can imagine a lot of ambitious women are reading this right now. A smart, ambitious girl born into a family without a trust fund, a family name, a…
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Face Lifts
When I recall myself with her, my Gram is a single woman in her fifties, one of the first female real estate agents in Canada. She is short, funny…
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High School
“You can smell these eucalyptus trees. Wait, can you smell that?” Beatrix walks ahead of me with her empty backpack, under the eucalyptus trees, nodding…
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I Quit
Crying doesn’t come naturally to me when I’m alone, because alone, the prospect of crying is the most terrifying idea. A completely alone person…
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