Archive for May, 2009
You go to the store. You buy a can of soup. Or a pack of Tastykakes. Or a bag of apples. Do you know what you’re eating? Really eating? No. And neither do I. First, the ingredients list can be puzzling. Look deep and you’ll find ingredients that will clean rust off metal or are [...]
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Left yesterday at 7:00 AM to head down to Doylestown. Picked up Lance by 8:00 AM. To the train in Princeton. Then, New York City, which is much shinier than last I saw it. I haven’t been to Manhattan in… I dunno, eight years? And it was, even then, even after its Giuliani sanitization, possessing [...]
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(Upfront: this blogpost might just be an excuse to include the phrase “Monkey Taint.” Moving on.) Writers, you might have heard this piece of advice, but just in case you haven’t, I’ll give it to you for free: start the story as late as possible. Which is to say, don’t begin at the beginning. Lately, [...]
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(Prologue: I just wrote 6,000 words. I should not be writing more words. And yet, I am. My sanity is barely intact, and my brain has turned into a clayey smear, so take my words here with a giant salt lick. Don’t judge me, monkey.) (Prologue II, The Wrath of Epilogue: Just in case anybody [...]
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Just saw Star Trek, the ’09 “reboot.” And I figured, hey, I have a website. I can make type-type on my blogbook! Right? What better way to entertain you gibbbering gibbons than with a review of the new Star Trek movie? … Except, I don’t know what to say. “I liked it.” That’s it. That’s [...]
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