HeyJaredCarl Kurlander
It all began with a short story I wrote about a waitress I met working as a bellhop at the St. Elmo Hotel. Stories have changed my life. With this publication I hope to share them — and pass them along.
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Off The Hook: Fishing with the Real-Life Man in Motion—and Letting Go of Some “St. Elmo’s Fire” Baggage (opens the original)
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Tonight is Kol Nidre, the solemn evening service that begins Yom Kippur—a time when we seek forgiveness for the ways we have fallen short and hope for the possibility of a clean slate. It is the year 5787 on the Hebrew calendar, and with another birthday approaching, I find myself in an even more reflective mood.It all goes so fast. I have spent far too much time living in the past—which I am even more aware of when I consider that, on my twenty-fifth birthday, I sat on a soundstage in Burbank w
Vaudevillians and Mundanes (opens the original)
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My most vivid memory of my childhood in Pittsburgh was sitting on the floor in my mother’s bedroom with a large bowl of Quisp cereal, doing my homework, watching television in a smoke-filled room while my mother lay on her bed playing four-handed bridge, waiting for my stepfather Richard to call. She would reshuffle her well-worn red deck of cards, take a drag from a Salem that she deposited in the porcelain ashtray with the naked woman on its side, and then deal the cards to her imaginary bridg
Reinventing Learning: Why Everyone Should be a Film Major in a Post-AI World. (opens the original)
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There are many reasons as this school year begins that this year is not like others. Recently, Arizona State University announced a content creation major and suffered the predictable slings and arrows about training the “next generation of influencers.” Meanwhile, “Chloe Vs. History,” an AI-generated vlogger created by a 32-year-old influencer, has over 610K followers on Instagram and 15 million views on YouTube watching this AI-generated vlogger go back to places like Ancient Rome. All this is
How Fishing with St. Elmo's Fire's Real-Life “Man in Motion” Showed Me Anything Is Possible (opens the original)
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My wife Natalie thought I was crazy for getting on a plane to Vancouver to go fishing for sturgeon with a man who I had never met or spoken to. But it wasn’t like I hadn’t thought of Rick Hansen for the past forty years every time I got in an elevator or was in a CVS and the song “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)” played.For those who have seen that movie I co-wrote with director Joel Schumacher about a group of friends out of college navigating their freshman year of life, the lyric “all I need
Louise Lasser, my mother, and everyone's mother in the 1970s (opens the original)
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