RSSSammy was cold when I found her this morning on the couch. There wasn’t shock or surprise…she’d been dying hard for the better part of a week. Mainly there was relief: I was thankful she was no longer suffering; I was grateful I didn’t have to watch her waste away any more; glad that I [...]
Read it all...I work a full-time gig putting in plenty of extra hours. I’m not saying this to whine, only to point out that it takes time and effort to do a job as well as you can, and jobs are what pay the mortgage. I also turn out a script or two, squeezing in time at [...]
Read it all...The hearth killed more poets than alcohol, according to William B. Yeats. But like Jim Harrison, I prefer intense domesticity. Or maybe that’s just what I say because that’s what I have and I’m of no mind to change it.
I fully believe that any writer has to master the skill of capturing a sense of [...]
How do you make money telling stories? Thousands of MFA students ask themselves that question, usually starting a few weeks after graduation when reality sets in and you find out the world isn’t really that much different than it was when you were sitting in a circle reading from a fistful of laser paper. You’ve [...]
Read it all...I’m mulling over a pair of films I watched this weekend, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, which I saw all the way through for the first time, and Sean Penn’s version of the Krakauer book Into the Wild.
Both were brilliant films for different reasons, and too much has been written about La Dolce Vita for me [...]
Friend and satirist Lein Shory of Irate Savant fame is back in form with a new blog. Funny stuff. If the publishing industry weren’t all aflutter with self-pity and panic, they would have snapped up his darkly comic first novel months ago. As far as I know it’s still available.
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