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Chuck Norris kept a roof over my head

In memoriam

For a little while in the early ‘90s, when I first got to Hollywood, apparently I was Chuck Norris’s  favorite script reader at Cannon Films.

It was the ‘legendary trash house’ of low budget action pictures. (Read The Rise And Fall of Cannon Films - there was also a 2014 documentary about it.)

Because Norris liked my harsh script coverage (I would point out “We’ve seen this before! Nothing new here!”) he kept requesting me to read scripts submitted to him. Another cool $40 for me.

If I actually liked a script it was worth looking at, I suppose he began to figure. That helped me make my rent.

Thanks Chuck, for all the memories.

Chuck Norris (3/10/40 - 3/19/26)

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It begins: Family of Mine research blog

Earlier this month I opened another blog channel here on my site. You can access it from the menu at the top of this page. It will focus solely on a new project I’m calling Family of Mine, and share pieces of that investigation.

I inherited a mystery. This is not a story that was passed down.

First post off my own site about this project, at LinkedIn.. Milestone! Anyway, I post it here too on my own blog because the fact of the matter is, something new is starting here, in a different blog on the same site.

The past few years I’ve been on a trail that started with some old family photos and interviews.

It grew into the research behind my new book-in-progress, Family of Mine, and led me into government archives, genealogy records, and parts of history I hadn’t expected to encounter.

If you enjoy family history or the research side of storytelling, you might like it.

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The bigger picture, in your words

With my KIP project to make sense in the social age and surface the best civic participators - or members of “the Fifth Estate”, - I’ve been collecting the contributions on Twitter.

For a couple years I made graphic images of quotes I spied. I put some of them together into a larger narrative of our time, and this moment. Take a look!

Below is a short version of the narrative in the video. See the video for quote credits or read the transcript with credits here.

“The Bigger Picture” In Snippets From Emergent News Contributors Curated By KIP

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