Paul Matthew Carr

When I met with the funeral home people they spoke in low tones and stood stooping slightly forward like old English butlers do in movies.  I assumed this was meant to give me a sense of ease and comfort. This [...]

I did not cry. I hadn’t realized this until I stood over my father’s grave, staring down onto his coffin covered with single flowers and a light dusting of snow that had just begun to fall. Not one tear. It [...]

Ever wondered what the process was behind those bizarre and wonderful animations on Monty Python? Terry Gilliam of explains the method behind his famous cut-out animations on Bob Godfrey’s Do-It-Yourself Film Animation Show, May 5, 1974.

So, there has not been a post in a couple of weeks. No original in several more. Why is this? Well, it seems I have taken an unplanned hiatus from the website. There are several reasons for this or as [...]

Got 10 minutes? ‘Cuz this is awesome. Beck reimagines David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” features over 160 musicians, including: The Dap-Kings, a string orchestra, a gamelan ensemble, members of the USC marching band, a Peruvian charango group, choirs, guitarists, a [...]

Okay this has been one of my pet peeves/borderline obsessions for quite a while now. The History Channel no longer plays anything even remotely close to actual history. This is a shame as history is one of my favorite things, [...]

It is time to bid farewell to an old friend. Through thick and thin, good times and bad she was always there. She was always reliable, always available when I needed her but now she is gone. The old green [...]

The fabulous Katy Craig, author extraordinaire and improv genius (she’s the one in the middle looking like she will indeed take an eye out with that thing), will be staring in a new “adventure.” It is highly recommended that if [...]

Sidney Keyes is considered one of the great poets of WWII. Keyes was something of a prodigy writing more than 110 poems in his short lifetime {...}

Query Letters for book-length manuscripts and/or agent representation The last in our ‘How to Get Published’ series. This time the focus is on getting representation and writing a great query letter. As always special thanks go out to David Hicks [...]