The notebook she kept was a gift for her son,
the explicit descriptions of drugs and sex
a sort of how-to manual for how to do it right.
She wanted to save him the embarassment
of not knowing what tossed salad meant,
or how to raise a vein properly.
She wanted him to be the kid who already knew,
who had it on good authority on how to do it,
where to stick it, when to touch it,
she wanted him to be the kid who laughed at others
and would never, ever be fooled.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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