James D. Best

NYU teaches a class in storytelling the Tisch School of the Arts. On the first day of class, Professor Liotti invited Trey Parker and Matt S...

                    "And by the way, you know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea - have a P...

Will Rogers died at fifty-five in an airplane crash 80 years ago (August 15, 1935). A real Oklahoma cowboy who parlayed dead pan humor i...

I like  Quentin Tarantino films, especially the Kill Bill  duple. I wasn't over-enthusiastic for Django Unchained (I prefer my  ...

Scripts guidelines help storytelling. First Loony Tunes , now Pixar. The animated world has rules. Perhaps it's related to Walt Dis...

Chuck Jones created 9 Golden rules for the Road Runner cartoons . These famous rules insured that fans received exactly what they exp...

Kurt Vonnegut I'm collecting writing tips from famous author's. You can read them here . In this post, I'm adding Kurt Vo...

James Best (1926-2015) This makes me sad. Although I never met the man, I always felt connected with him, especially during the time I l...

My best birthday gift. Click here to see the full video .

My wife and I just returned home from  seeing our son’s family  in New York City. He and his wife have three young kids and because they gr...

Five actors and a ham.

Now, this is fun.

George Carlin was one of my favorite comedians. This is so old, he's almost unrecognizable. On the other hand, the style and humor is im...

As a Western writer, I keep an eye on Hollywood Westerns. Last night I saw A Million Ways to Die in the West . I wish I could say the movi...

This short video was posted on YouTube and has nearly 24 million hits. Well deserved, I might add. I posted it on my blog because I enjoyed...

Although recently posted on Youtube, this John Cleese speech on creativity was given before his hair turned gray and thin. Like everything ...

I've always identified poker with the old west.  Jenny’s Revenge starts in Denver, Colorado at the renown Inter-Ocean Hotel. Steve D...