Posts Tagged ‘debate’
Cancer’s a real motherfucker.
As you may know, my aunt passed away from cancer the other day. Colon cancer in particular. I wasn’t particularly close with this aunt, though my mother was, and that’s the hardest, seeing my mother deal with it. Further, notions of mortality once more trouble us all. I had a favorite aunt [...]
As it stands, the only thing I know right now about The Olympics is that the mascots are pretty goddamn adorable.
I mean, c’mon. The lumbering sasquatch, Quatchi? The “sea bear” (which I assume translates to “seal”), Miga? The ambiguous animal mash-up that is the “animal spirit,” Sumi? Then you have the poor little bastard, Mukmuk [...]
I am ever on a quest to understand the dichotomy of plot versus story. Which is which? Which serves what purpose? Who stole my Girl Scout cookies? Was it you? Did you take my fucking cookies? I’ll stab you in the gills, Aquaman!
*shakes it off*
At present, this is the definition to which I’m cleaving:
Your manuscript [...]
I had a lovely little review for Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch planned (short review: love!), but now I can’t get a bunch of questions and thoughts out of my head about this whole Amazon Macmillan iPad Kindle Apple Crapsplosion. These thoughts are wildly unformed; they are amoebic, just blobs of gel ill-contained in a quivering skin. [...]
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I’ve grown uncomfortable with the ideas of “Best Of” lists for the year, because… well, what the fuck is best, anyway? Don’t get me wrong. I used to do “top ten” lists and shit, but over time, you realize that it’s only so valuable a metric when every schmoe with a blog can tell you [...]
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