“We tend to overestimate what we can do in one year, and underestimate what we can do in ten.” Richard Foster (Quote often attributed to Bill Gates, but I believe Foster wrote the line years before Gates wrote or said it.) Screenwriter Dana Fox was 2 for 2 when she followed her career trajectory question to Rob […]
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“I never saw myself as a sitcom person, but I was waiting tables and I was like I have to figure out something and I wrote this script that was super dark, but when I put it into Charlie’s [Charlie Day] hands or Glenn’s [Glenn Howerton] they made it funny and I realized this could […]
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“Locations can be another character in a movie, and St. Petersburg was a character in ours.” Cocoon producer Lili Zanuck When Ron Howard was directing the movie Cocoon back in 1984-85 he called St. Petersburg, Florida “Burbank by the sea.” It wasn’t a slam. Howard, who grew up in Burbank, was just noticing the similarities […]
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“I’m a take your grandpa’s style, I’m a take your grandpa’s style.” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/Thrift Shop I don’t know if writer Jack Kerouac ever visited the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club when he lived at 5169 10th Ave. N. in St. Petersburg. But the last year of his life he lived less than five miles away. […]
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” Jack Kerouac Some of the Dharma
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Note: I’ve been on a run of posts about St. Petersburg , Florida and since today they’re having a Jack Kerouac Celebration at The Dali Museum—not far from where he lived and drank in his later years, and where the On the Road writer died in 1969— I thought this was a fitting time to […]
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Yesterday I was the guest speaker at a production workshop at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg (USFSP). The campus is located in downtown St. Pete next to Tampa Bay. These boats are used by the USFSP (often nationally ranked) men and women’s sailing teams. The university also has a close ties with the […]
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When I’m on the road I’m always attracted to the right lighting hit the right building, and that was the case of Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Petersburg, Florida. Driving by it’s impossible to miss those beautifully framed red doors beaming in the late afternoon light. Scott W. Smith Tagged: Florida, St. Petersburg
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The Avalon Hotel is advertised as, “A boutique hotel in the heart of St Petersburg. A hip place to lay your head.” I don’t know if the inside is as cool as the outside, but it’s a touch of Art Deco South Beach in the Tampa Bay area. Scott W. Smith Tagged: Avalon Hotel, Florida, […]
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I took this photo on Friday as I drove through Tampa. The sun and clouds did their job to light and frame a the classic building and sign of the Pinarama Bowling Center. And here are three bowling-centric movies to go along with this post: Scott W. Smith
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