He strides in w/a deep blue canvas bag over his Hemingway shoulder, thoroughly muscled. My age. And when the black (jovial) male nurse calls us pre-ops I overhear that he came by cab and has no relatives to contact. He moves better than the rest of us, the bile of fear rising in my throat [...]

The flickering morning bus to my right (passing the Rite-Aid at Beverly and La Cienega) proclaims from her metal flanks that the joyful black boy billboard prince wants a bajillion McDonald’s McNuggets. And a head turns. I spot it (the guy in the Caddy in front of me, dawn sun across his retrogressive bow just [...]

And just to keep things interesting, here’s some clips on another camera the Canon EOS 5D Mark II around which there’s now a lot of talk. It costs less than three K, looks beautiful – we saw it projected at the Director’s Guild. There are definitely problems with blowing it up to 35mm, serious problems, [...]