Not sure if Danny Trejo was talking about his friend, Tom Sizemore, or my lack of blog updates this year…

It would be easy to blame Twitter or my unfounded distrust of Tumblr and Posterous, but I’ve just been busy elsewhere. Another script in the bag last month and two more this month with a little luck. Just bouncing from one jumble of words to the next and neglecting the blog as I go. Sorry about that.

So what’s new?

Well, with a little luck I’m seeing TRON: LEGACY later today. It’s around 7am now and my sleep pattern has been pretty non existent this month, but I still managed to miss a bunch of preview screenings. I used to put this down to bad time management on my part, but actually the more I write the more thinking I have to do and before you know it a week had skipped by while I’ve been considering the thermosphere or how to steal a spaceship.

Serenity by Pekthong

Today I’m actually looking to take a rare day off, catch up with an old friend and (hopefully) watch Jeff Bridges do his thing. Which should keep me going until TRUE GRIT (which I’m told is near damn perfect).

So it’s all good.

2011 is already shaping up to be a fun year. For fun read ‘even busier than 2010′ so I’ll have to find some kind of blogging solution if this is going to get back to anything but a very slow Twitter feed.

Bear with me while I figure that out.

I think the coffee shop just opened…

Just look at me.

Regular blogging will be resumed today. You lucky fuckers.

Meant to get back to blogging sooner than this, but as predicted 2010 is a busy year.

Just worked out my schedule for the next month or so and blocked off some time for writing. You know, to give me a break from all the other writing.

First step is to pull the covers off this place…

Happy twenty ten.

We’re in limbo.

Moving old site to new server.

New skin job to follow.

Home.

First day back in the saddle. New York was a lot of fun – finally got to met some folk I’ve known only online for a couple of years. Lots of photos to throw at Flickr and some stuff to blog about, but for now it’s enough to be back in my office and writing again.

Lots to catch up on – we’re almost ready to start shooting the Slingers sizzle, the pilot has a new second act and the other shows are starting to take shape… I mentioned we have Steve Barron on board as director now, right? But more about all that later.

I’m moving this blog to another hosting service and will amp up my output here once I’m settled in again. Also moving to my new iPhone 3GS and ditching my old mobile number. If you need the new number drop me an email or DM me on Twitter.

Right… back to it.

Now with added Hobo Women.

LOTS to catch up on so I’ll be popping back into your RSS reader of choice with annoying regularity.

So far this year I’ve been doing most of my writing offline. Things have moved forward considerably with the TV show(s), but nearly all the cool stuff I can’t talk about just yet. I’m about to go into another research phase so it seemed a good idea to kick some life back into the site.

However, the gremlins that knocked me offline last year have had a few repercussions – namely that I got unindexed by Google. No big deal really as I haven’t been using the blog half as much anyway. But after talking to Nik (who now looks after the guts of the blog and a few others I have floating around) we decided it was a good opportunity to pull everything down and restructure.

This is an old blog. When I first started I had no idea what I was doing and once you look under the hood it’s in quite a state. So we’re gonna fix up the internal organs and then relaunch the thing properly. Not sure how much of the old stuff I’ll reconnect – that may just become a hobby for rainy afternoons, rifling through the last seven years of posts and revisiting the better ones – we’ll see.

In the meantime I’ll start the research dump here and then we’ll see what the new site looks like once Nik and I have the time to dismantle the thing properly.

So yeah, watch this space, but keep a closer eye on Twitter for the time being.

PS My first trip to L.A. as a TV writer went way better than I expected…

Back in the saddle tomorrow.

Oh, and this is new.

Had a lot of questions about the new theme so here are a few answers.

It’s a variation on a pro theme called Sketch’d. I say variation when I actually mean ‘broken’. Straight out of the box the theme does some very nifty stuff that creates a blog somewhere between the traditional kind and more magazine-style blogs that seem to be in vogue just now. Being old fashioned and a moron I took it apart, snapped off the cool bits and kind of blu-tacked it together again.

All the bleeding and badly stitched code is down to me and not the guys who built it.

It’s the first WP theme I’ve paid money for after years of swapping out and tinkering with some very cool free ones. The inspiration came from Christian. It just never occurred to me to pay for something until he did. I’m easily lead.

I’m not sure what the blog is called anymore. It’s been Visible Monsters for the longest time (but I’ve also got that space to do something with at some point). I guess Sizemore covers it for now. I have older posts, not archived here, that date back to 2002. I’m still mulling over whether it’s worth importing all that stuff here.

The line I’m not a field agent, I read books is from one of the best movies of the 70′s: Three Days of the Condor. It’s been a tag-line here for a while, ever since Saying The Wrong Thing Since 1972 picked up a life of its own out in the real world.

The Hunter S Thompson quote is from a letter he wrote to Keith Stroup about the lawyers who got him out of some jams back in the 90′s. It’s republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream. It just jumped out at me as something important given the social media world I now find myself a part of. I’ll be writing about that gang aspect quite a bit I expect.

The line This won’t hurt is the final line of Hunter’s suicide note. It’s something I aim to do something else with too.

Categories need an overhaul as does most of the sidebar content. I’ll get to that. Also gonna have a few standalone pages built under those tabs at the top and yeah the About page is also out of date. The fact that Max Rockatansky is looking after my 404 page makes up for this.

And then there’s the bunny. Go track down Pani Poni Dash.