by Ira | Oct 31, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
It’s raining right now outside my window. It rained every Halloween night for like the first four years or so that I moved down here to LA. It was kind of the ushering in of the fall. Rain usually started late September or the first week or so of October up in...
by Ira | Oct 30, 2014 | Challenge, Film, Journal, Reviews
Not devoting an entire blog entry tonight to this early Oscar-contender, but I will give it a nod in the title because it was quite good. First off, I went into this movie knowing *literally* nothing about it. No idea what the premise was, who was even in it until it...
by Ira | Oct 30, 2014 | Books, Reviews, Sci-Fi, The Education of Ira
I’ve decided that after years of claiming to be a Sci Fi aficionado, it was time to face the cold hard reality that I am, in fact, a hack. There are literally a hundred so-called science fiction “classics” that I’ve simply never read. Well, this series “The Education...
by Ira | Oct 29, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
So, I decided to keep numbering my days, just like I have for the past year. Day 366 it is. But, it’s also day one. Day one of the second year of the daily blog. It’s the first day today of the home-stretch to the end of the year as well. I have to confess...
by Ira | Oct 28, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
It doesn’t feel like the end. It feels like the beginning. And yet, today is the end. Day 365 of whatever this journey of writing at the end of each of my days has been. It’s the end of the first year. Here I am. 365 days. It literally came as a surprise...
