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Across Pittsburgh: A Site About the Place I Call Home
Some websites begin with a business plan. Across Pittsburgh began because I kept finding things about Pittsburgh that I wanted to write about.
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Productions: Where the Experiments Become Something
For most of my creative life, the basic equation was pretty simple: I had an idea, I wrote it down, and eventually it became something somebody could read. Scratch Writing Productions is where that equation gets considerably messier.
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About Scratch Writing Studio
I started Scratch Writing because I wanted a place for my writing. Somewhere along the way, apparently writing books wasn't enough. I started building websites. Then came graphics, book trailers, live video, animation experiments, voice work, short-form video, AI tools, and an increasingly dangerous tendency to look at some new piece of technology and think, I wonder if I could make something with that.
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The Funny Newz: Officials Frustrated as Mojave Alien Monolith Cleanup Enters Second Year With No Progress
MOJAVE DESERT — Local officials say they have had enough of extraterrestrial developers dropping cheap black monoliths in the desert and calling it a civilization.
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Cool Filmz: Stargate (1994) – A Great Idea Lost in Space
Some movies are better ideas than they are movies. Stargate may be the perfect example. When I reviewed it for CoverUps.com in 2007, I was fascinated by its premise and frustrated by what it did with it. Revisiting that review now, I still feel much the same way: the portal remains irresistible, but the adventure waiting on the other side is not nearly as imaginative as the doorway.
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Cool Filmz: Wag the Dog (1997): Because It Says So on TV
Some old movies age. Others sit patiently until the real world catches up with them. Wag the Dog belongs to the second group. Barry Levinson's political black comedy came out in late 1997, but when I reviewed it for CoverUps.com in 2007, it already felt less like a farce than a field manual for manufacturing reality. Revisiting that review now, the machinery looks dated. The idea behind it does not.
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Quantum Soup: Did We Just Hear Dark Matter Knock?
One strange particle interaction is not a discovery. It might, however, be the most interesting knock on the door in a century-long search.
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Bingham's Notebook: Midas Protocol - Chapter 5 - "Book Lovers"
“Book Lovers” begins with Hank trying to decide how to spend a New Year’s weekend he does not particularly want to spend at a party. He considers Seven Springs with Sam Friday, a neighborhood bar for the Steelers playoff game, his brother Jeremy’s keg party, or simply a Blockbuster video and a six-pack. Instead, he wanders into a downtown Waldenbooks looking for a Dean Koontz novel and a quiet way to pass the time.
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The Scratching Post: The Joy Is in the Doing
This past weekend reminded me why I build any of this in the first place. It was the kind of weekend where there were never enough hours in the day, but somehow that did not feel exhausting. It felt energizing. I bounced from football to old friends, from Across Pittsburgh to Scratch Writing, from tinkering with editorial workflows to sitting down behind a microphone and reading another chapter of The Midas Protocol. None of those things, taken by themselves, qualifies as some monumental life event. Put them together, though, and they reminded me of something I have probably known for a long time and occasionally forget: the joy is in the doing.
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The Funny Newz: Claude to Add "Skidmarks" to AI Slop Videos
New AI quality-control system will stamp a literal poop stain on obnoxious, poorly made content so viewers know when they're about to waste 45 seconds of their lives
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