A Very Monkey Christmas
Cindy is a GINORMOUS fan of PBS and has been ever since they were helping her learn to read with Sesame Street, one of the only television shows she was permitted to watch during her entire childhood. Both our children adore Curious George, so it was with barely a flinch that I agreed to accept [...]
10 Years Later: The Unforgivable Sins of Episode One
Something happened a few weeks back that I’ve been waiting for ever since first becoming a father… my children have fallen in love with Star Wars. They’ve only seen two of the films so far, the original (Episode IV) and the worst (Episode I). The Empire Strikes Back is a bit too dark for our [...]
Pixar – Short and Sweet
Pixar Shorts Partly because I received a lot of comments and emails wondering why I made no mention of Pixar’s spectacular collection of shorts, and partly because I was looking for another excuse to wax poetic about Pixar, today I’m going to discuss their shorts. I’m not going to rank them by preference, but by [...]
Pixar in Order
In case anyone missed it, I was discussing the creative genius of Pixar yesterday over at the Inkwell. Two things happened after I finished the post. First, my creative partner Dave said the artist in him would have liked to have seen some concrete examples of the things I was talking about. This got me [...]
Christian Bale and I Are Done Professionally
If you’re not sure what the headline refers to, check this out (be aware, it isn’t safe for work, and our favorite dark knight does have quite the potty mouth). When you’re done, and if you’re still in the mood, check this. It’s my favorite of the parodies so far. Christian Bale and I aren’t [...]
The Perfection of Pixar
“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.” ~Stephen Leacock Last week’s Deja Vuesday presented no decisive winner, though several posts swung single votes. Tara chose A Billion Pixels and None of Them Wasted, and I’m going with her selection because it also has a tiebreaker which ties nicely [...]
A Good Year
“We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.” ~ Jimmy Gator, Magnolia This is not at all what I had planned, but then, so goes life. I had so much fun yesterday talking about movies, it’s all I wanted to do today. Every other email brought to my mind [...]
M. Night
“Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with “scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” or “forbidden” in the title.” ~From Scooby-Doo My daughter sometimes says, “Am I?” instead of, “Right?.” Example: I’m really good at making jokes, am I? This habit has faded; now it’s nearly gone. I know she’s not your daughter, and so that’s probably pretty boring, [...]
I Heart DVD’s
“Do not discourage your children from hoarding.” ~Samuel Johnson Have you ever been driving, fully engaged with your passenger, and you just fly past your exit? This happened to me yesterday; except I was alone, and I wasn’t driving. “I Heart Movies,” wasn’t supposed to be about my parents’ wildly disparate styles of parenting. It [...]
I Heart Movies
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” ~Walt Disney I love the movies. Great films are best, but I’ll settle for good. I’m even willing to watch bad, once… or twice. My childhood was full of great cinema from a range of [...]
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Hi, I'm Sean Platt - author, father, and Creative Director at Rev Media Marketing. Writer Dad is my life as it unfolds. This chapter of my journey began two years back when I took a chance on myself by closing a successful business to pursue my dream of writing for a living. It was the craziest, riskiest and most wonderful thing I've ever done. Well, except for becoming a dad.
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