My Year Of Everything

The way you wrote about some of 2001’s clunkers made me think, “Oh dear God, the Twilight franchise must be killing this man.” Is it? Are your nieces and nephews struck with Twilight fever?

Several of my nieces love the book, fewer like the movies.  I’m actually loving the movies because they are perfect for Rifftrax.  It’s as if Margaret Dumont has risen from the grave.  

Finally, would you take on another one-year project?

I actually pitched another year-long experience to my publisher, but we couldn’t see eye to eye on the price tag.  I intended to survey the way Americans vacation, by taking twelve different popular American vacation experiences - a week in the Winnebago, the all-inclusive, the lake cottage, the cruise ship, and on.  They didn’t want to pay much more than beans, and I didn’t want to go broke.  Perhaps I’ll revisit it some day.

So yes I might, if I could assure that I don’t go broke doing it.  Diving deep into a subject like this has its benefits and allows one to decode all the bullshit surrounding the given subject and perhaps get to its heart.  That is, if one is honest and not just trying to sell books.  

Many thanks to Kevin Murphy for taking my questions! “A Year At The Movies” gets the My Year Of Everything Seal Of Approval*, and is available on Amazon. 

* I’m focus-grouping some designs for the My Year Of Everything Seal Of Approval. Right now “Julia Child asking Colin Beaven what he uses instead of toilet paper” is doing well.