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I ain’t seen the new Hawaii Five-O series on CBS yet, but I bet it’s got nothing on what my lifelong best friend Chad Austin did when he visited the Aloha State a few months ago! Turns out that he’s been holding back on me and has been doing some filmmaking of his own: witness this AWESOME spoof of the opening credits from the original Hawaii Five-O series!

Speaking of Chad, I’ve heard that people who’ve seen The People vs. George Lucas have really enjoyed his portrayal of George Lucas from our film Forcery (clips of which appear in the award-winning documentary). And Chad swears that he’s going to start blogging again soon. Maybe we are witnessing a new cinematographer in the making? 🙂...

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Ten years ago this summer I went to work as a full-time reporter. It was with a… well let’s just say they don’t make outfits like this anymore. Probably one of the last of the newspapers with that old-school journalistic ‘tude. Anyhoo, my very first assignment was to investigate the budget that the General Assembly had proposed for North Carolina’s next fiscal term.

A full decade later and I still get fits of anger just thinking about the crap I found in those hundreds of pages of monetary monstrosity that I picked through line by agonizing line.

(A space shuttle launch complex for North Carolina? Really? And how much money did we spend trying to put that here when there’s already a good working one in Florida?)

Even if it’s a long drive and a fair swim away from the Tarheel State, what fellow journalist/blogger and friend of The ...

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First things first: The proprietor of this blog extends his own thoughts and prayers to the very many that are going out to our friends down Chile way today, in the aftermath of the 8.8 earthquake that rocked that country in the wee hours this morning.

And by the way, it’s a great testament to that country about how on the ball the folks are about this. I’ve heard only great things about Chile over the years and the speed and diligence that they have exerted in dealing with this disaster, makes me compelled to tip my hat to ’em.

If you haven’t already today, it would – not to put too fine a point on it – be extremely recommended that you tune in right now to CNN or Fox News or whatever, and check out the live feed coming from Hawaii, which looks to have dodged the proverbial ...

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