: About Me

Tom Gunn is a freelance writer that specializes in website copy, blogging, and journalism. His achievements include the third place award for the Seattle Stranger's 2000 Minor Fiction Contest for his short story "Old Man," and is a 2008 winner of the National Novel Writing Month Contest for his novel Dream Kingdom. His interests include animation, politics, history, literature, and baseball.

He currently lives in Fairview, Utah with is wife and dog.

My passion is ...

none of your business.

I know too much about ...

stuff that doesn't matter.

My parents always told me ...

to "stop doing that."

My childhood ambition ...

was to be either Superman or Luke Skywalker.

My favorite memory ...

is yet to be selected.

Why I write ...

Because I hope that something I'm thinking is something worth reading. I want to write that book I'll never find on the shelf.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: War and Peace, Watching: the usual rubbish (Star Trek), Listening to: copious amounts of Low, Okkervill River, Classic Rock, and Josh Ritter, and the Beatles with some Christmas tunes sprinkled in.

My first job ...

was at McDonalds. I was 17.

My best moment ...

hasn't happened, I hope.

My inspiration ...

is clearly not sufficient. I'd willingly trade some of it for some get-up-and-go.

Entertainment > Hollywood & Movie Industry Movie sequels and remakes: Is Hollywood out of ideas?

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Trailers still have a certain magic for me. I like sequels. Sometimes I even like remakes. I love a good story. All these things combine to create a little tickle in the center of my chest in looking forward to something new . . . but reliably good. When something ostensibly fresh and promising pokes out it's head after my wife has made one last trip to the ladies room a million questions come to mind. These, I'm sure, are nothing less than solid gold to Hollywood marketing departments so listen up folks. As a conservative film goer I wonder "yeah the subject looks interesting, but would I...

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