I have no lack of blog entries in the works, but these
depend, as always, on everyday circumstances in my life, and to some extent on the
emotional associations with certain themes determining (1) my willingness to
work on them and (2) how suitable or timely I see them to release, with respect
to likely audience reactions. In general I try to alternate “significant”/emotionally
resonating ones with more-shallow, easy-to-do ones, partly for my own sake.
Here is my tentative plan:
A personal-reminiscence
piece
The next one to come out is on an Arkansas woodworker (his
home state offers some thematic resonances with my Winter’s Bone blog entry) whose instructions for projects I helped
get published in 1990-91, but the entry has greater focus on the unlikely
editor who was more in charge of this, a young woman who was historically
significant (as she may not have appreciated) to my own editing career and who
in retrospect poses some useful lessons for today, especially as she was one of
the more respectable “learning naifs” I have worked with.
Among “Movie breaks”
Hopefully to come out before the Memorial Day weekend will
be two entries, each on a movie that allows easier digestion (during a “let’s
hang out” holiday weekend) by readers because the movies lend themselves to shallow enjoyment, appreciation, and
relevant discussion. They could be offered under the thematic umbrella, “Heeding
the call of the marketing ape” or something like that: The French Connection (1971) and Fatal Attraction (1987).
I also am putting together an entry, which threatens to be
too involved (but whose subject inspires this sort of thing), on the
documentary Hearts of Darkness: A
Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991), on Francis Ford Coppola and the making of Apocalypse Now (1979). This may seem as
if it’s only for fans of Coppola or Apocalypse
Now, but actually it has surprising resonance outside those two areas of
interest; for example, it lends itself to a discussion of bipolar disorder in
the high-level manager of a creative project. This entry most likely won’t come
out until after Memorial Day.
Also, I am putting together an entry on a multi-film look at
director Martin Scorsese, which is in a pretty formative stage right now, so
don’t expect it for a while.
Career-related
