Author Archives: geoffreylong

Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.

genre revivals

The genre I most want to see revived is the dance movie, ala Centerstage or Flashdance. Coyote ugly was a start what with the clogging on the bar and such. I’m putting all my hopes on Jessica Alba’s small shoulders. She’s coming out in a movie called “Honey” where she plays an aspiring choreogapher named […]

Aw, c’mon, it wasn’t that… OK, maybe it was.

I actually went to see “Alex and Emma” this summer with my friend Emily, a fact directly attributed to our both being total suckers for those kinds of movies. “Sleepless in Seattle,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” hell, even “Kate and Leopold” – I’ve seen ’em all. I’d even been looking forward to […]

On iPods.

I actually got one for Christmas a year or two ago, and it’s one of my favorite gizmos. It’s ridiculous how things like this change the way you perceive media — I was in Best Buy last night checking out CDs, and found myself putting stuff back until I made sure they weren’t available from […]

Always look on the bright side of life.

My most heartfelt condolences to the Californians, but the way I see it, at the very least this means a short reprieve from Terminator 4 and more crap like Eraser, The Sixth Day, End of Days, Batman and Robin… Good Lord, when was the last non-awful Ahhnuld movie? Was there one?

about myself…

Geoffrey suggested i tell folks a little about myself. Well, I’m a writer living in LA who makes a living writing for magazines like Movieline, TV Guide, The Advocate, Gotham, Glamour and Cosmopolitan. I’ve written two books, Misadventures in the 213 and Screening Party and have co-writtena movie called Testosterone, which recently premiered at the […]

My favorite part of the election…

Hi. Dennis Hensley here, author of Screening Party here on the third day of my Virtual Book Tour. I have a couple of other folks from the book, Ross and Lauren, and perhaps Tony who are going to chip in at some point. First off, I thought I’d mention that my favorite thing about the […]

The Virtual Book Tour returns: Please welcome Dennis Hensley and friends!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to once more open Inkblots’ door to a member of Kevin Smokler’s Virtual Book Tour. Today’s guest is Dennis Hensley, author of the new comic novel Screening Party, which, essentially, is the story of a group of old friends who sit around and rag on movies. As Publisher’s Weekly […]

Dreamsbay.com is back.

Oh, another quick note: dreamsbay.com is back and operational, so all email sent to that account should now be getting through as before. Thanks!

Brief aside.

Psst, hey, Shannon Gibson. Don’t get too attached to that idea – it doesn’t always work. 🙂

You didn’t hear this from me.

Shhh. Don’t tell, but I’ve posted a sneak peek gallery of the photos I took at Fray Day 7 DC. This is the raw batch, without titles, captions, or most of the blurry shots removed – torn straight from my camera, funnelled through Photoshop’s Web Gallery function, and FTPed onto the web. There will be […]