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Films for Writers

Films for Writers: Write Better with These Literary-Themed Films

I have a soft spot for literary themed films, because I admire watching a movie that is able to entertain as well as inform. Films about writing are often fun ways to get writers out of a funk and back into writing. When pushing that…
Golden Globes 2013

Golden Globes Serve Up Golden Advice – PPC

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Last weekend was the Golden Globes Award Show, sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and famously the most unpredictable of award shows with its open bar and constant fountain of champagne. It’s worth noting that the Golden…
Blackwings in Castle

Blackwings, Movies, and Mystery – PPC

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Pencil Pushers, rejoice: There were Blackwings all over the pop culture scene as 2012 came to an end! Many cheers to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for FINALLY recognizing actor Dustin Hoffman for his sterling contributions to…
The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Timothy Green: Magic in the Movies…and in a Pencil – PPC

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green Sometimes I worry that I get a little too wrapped up in pencils. After all, it is an occupational hazard, and my belief that a pencil is the key to limitless possibility is pretty well documented. I'm always heartened,…
Cooking with Julia Child

Cooking with Julia Child Stirs Up Memories – PPC

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Cooking with Julia Child Stirs Up Memories There are two schools of thought when it comes to writing in your books. There are those who believe that pencil jottings in a book's margins are tantamount to sacreilige, and there are those who…
pencils and hope

Pencils and Pop Culture: You Can’t Erase Hope

Pencils and Pop Culture: You Can't Erase Hope I had a lot on my mind sitting down to write this week's "Pencil and Pop Culture," since frankly, it's not the happiest time in the pop culture world. You don't need my take on what happened…
Video Game Evolution

Video Game Changer: An Atari Kid in an Xbox 360 World

The Evolution of Video Games As you read this, some of you may or may not remember a time when video game controllers had one button and a joystick, a time when the now primitive graphics of Pac-Man were considered revolutionary. At the risk…
DIY crafts

Crafting Your Way to DIY Greatness – PPC

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Pencils and Pop-Culture: Crafting Your Way to DIY Greatness While channel-surfing the other night, I happened to stumble on TLC’s latest reality competition series, “Craft Wars.” Now, I’m not much of a DIY-er myself – I always seem…

Silence – the Ultimate Form of Expression? — PPC

Pencils and Pop-Culture: Silence - The Ultimate Form Of Expression? On this blog, we talk about expression - creative expression, expressing yourself, expressive gestures, expressions that have passed from the common vernacular. You name it,…

Bradbury lit the spark of imagination – PPC

Pencils and Pop-Culture: Bradbury Lit the Spark of Imagination The passing of Ray Bradbury yesterday at the age of 91 fills me with a certain kind of nostalgic sadness. His writings, from “Fahrenheit 451” to “The October Country” to…