A Proud Dad

I’m ecstatic to report that my son Jeff’s feature documentary “11/4/08″ will have its World Premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March. The film is what he calls a participatory documentary, in that many people contributed footage from around the world, and the film will exist as an ongoing project in which anyone can [...]

Bali High

From having read a little about the place, I knew that Bali was going to be a very different place than any I had ever visited. But there were a few things I hadn’t anticipated.
For one thing, I had completely forgotten that newly elected president-elect Obama had spent time in Indonesia…and was quite the local [...]

Anxious for news

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted, so I have a lot to catch up on. First I owe an election night report.
Beth and I boarded a Cathay Pacific flight to Bali via Hong Kong at 10pm on the night before the election. I knew we would have about 2 hours to catch [...]

Slinging Obama

14 days to go until the election, and from what I can see, everything is trending in the right direction. There’s a part of me that is beginning to allow myself to dream about the possibilities. If Obama does indeed manage to win, there’s no doubt in my mind that it’ll be a true game [...]