The tsunami that hit American Samoa a couple days ago has been very traumatic. It’s not because I’m shaken over the deaths or live near the coast and worry about people I know in California. Instead, the problem is that I can’t figure out how much patriotic sadness I’m supposed to express for an American [...]
Archive for September, 2009
What’s The Right Amount of Sadness For a Disaster on An Unincorporated American Territory?
September 30th, 2009
maxlance1 The Entire Purpose of the Valley Is For Hidden Camera MTV Shows. And That's Why We Need It
September 29th, 2009
maxlance1 When I moved to L.A., I wasn’t sure why the San Fernando Valley existed. I know it’s cheaper than living in L.A. and you can get a backyard and crappy neighbors, but can’t you do that anywhere without also having to deal with the traffic, heat, forest fires and having to tell people that you [...]
When John Travolta Plays a Bad Guy He Looks Like a 1990s Executive in a Midlife Crisis
September 22nd, 2009
maxlance1 Why is it that every time John Travolta plays a bad guy, instead of looking evil and menacing, he looks like he’s a mid-level executive in the mid- to late-1990s experiencing a textbook mid-life crisis? It’s always the standard play-by-play for how to enter your 50s in complete denial. He either shaves his head to [...]
Is Going Down On a Girl In the Shower The Same Feeling As Being Waterboarded?
September 10th, 2009
maxlance1 Everyone knows that sex in the shower is overrated as it is. Someone is always freezing, there’s too many soapy chemicals around that don’t have that Johnson & Johnson no-tears promise (unrelated to the sex), you can always slip and get into some Final Destination-type hilarity injury. But to compound that is if you make [...]
My Mom is in a Movie Trailer
September 4th, 2009
maxlance1 Check it out everyone. Very cool stuff. This is the new movie by Adam Goldberg (Untitled) and she plays his mother. She’s in it very briefly but you can see her at seconds 15 and 57 into the trailer. Very creepy, by the way, that the second after my mom appears on screen, his “son” [...]
Film Talk – The Pursuit of Happyness
September 3rd, 2009
maxlance1 We Could Put Out The Forest Fire While Promoting Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
September 2nd, 2009
maxlance1 By looking at the sky in Los Angeles the last couple days, either the world is about to end, or we are missing out on what could be the best integrated promotion in the history of cinema. Has anyone else noticed the exact parallels between the fiery red plumes of smoke caused by the San [...]
Fuck It, I Want to Brag For Once
September 1st, 2009
maxlance1 There’s like one day every few months where toiling away like a douchey L.A. stereotype by sitting in Insomnia Cafe writing on a pirated Final Draft 7, having no money, no social life, living in a worthless city and going back to undergrad when I’m uncomfortably old for it, can be slightly justified. So, fuck [...]

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Max Lance is a writer, producer and performer. He was nominated for a Student Emmy, Humanitas Fellowship and was a finalist for the Page Screenplay Award. He writes features, TV and syndicates his blog while hosting the travel show The Trip Next Door and working at Chernin Entertainment. A New York City native, Max graduated the USC film school and now lives in Los Angeles.