Archive for October, 2009
[flickr album=72157612046656473 num=24 size=Square] I use Photoshop on every photo I post to the web. Every damn one. I know that some feel that the manipulation of the photo takes it too far from “reality,” but that’s a hunk-a-dung. What the camera captures is never true, but it can be authentic. (That’s a post for [...]
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My hair is failing me. Everybody always said it was such “nice” hair. Hair-stylists would play with it. Ladies would run their fingers through it. “You have such nice hair!” they’d say. Nice hair. Pfff. It’s deserting me. Leaving me to twist, incomplete, in the wind. Like an asshole. My hair is thinning, which is [...]
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(Sorry, I have a cold, so that’s how I talk right now.) Hey, writers. Let’s talk about NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month. Let me be clear about this right up front: overall, I think it’s a pretty cool thing. I support it, and those who engage in this mad contest have the uttermost respect [...]
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I’ve sent off five query letters so far. That’s the goal. Five a day. Until I’ve reached some mysterious maximum and exhausted my sanity. True fact: submitting queries to agents makes me agitated. Butterflies in my stomach, for real. No idea why. I was able to fly to LA and pitch to various High-Level executives, [...]
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Bang! Splat! Stuff! Holy crap! Let’s just get the boring work shit out of the way early in this here list. Ready? Hey. You. Person who lives in the Tri-State area of PA-NJ-DE (pronounced pah-nuj-day). You play games. I know you play games. You make love to games when nobody’s looking. Don’t lie. You have [...]
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