I started this website a year ago because I read somewhere that there were upwards of 400 million English blogs in the world and I wondered why I wasn’t one of them. (Actually, that’s not true – it had nothing to do with the number of blogs and I’m sure there are something like 450 […]
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A Vision of the New World
For those who couldn’t make last week’s Shindig, here are two screenshots from the event. The first one shows me and some extremely bored looking people waiting around for the reading to start. (My kid is in the screenshot along the bottom.) The second one shows a screenshot from the Q&A session, really toward the […]
The Virtual Fan
Last night, after much promotion, I held a virtual reading at a site called Shindig. Kind of like a mix between a group Skype or a G+ hangout, Shindig allows writers (or anyone for that matter) to talk to a lot of people from different places at the same time. It also allows them to […]
Two Very Different Books, One Recommendation
Two books by two friends. I met Steve way, way back – he was in my first creative writing class. Steve, myself, and Dave McGimpsey were kind of like the three outliers in a class that was populated by the kind of earnest students dipping their pens into the philosophy de jour. I won’t say […]
Except Not Sold at Hallmark
Two years ago, or even three, when I first started out on Twitter, my first agent saw a book of Tweets. I wasn’t sure but he was – and he was a real old school agent, specializing in business, tech and pop culture. His client list was phenomenal – and he was a good friend’s […]
Premature Sense of Redemption
My agent passed along a rejection note this morning, his only comment being “argh.” I read the email. By page 50 the editor admitted the novel was getting hard to read. That’s fine. You don’t have to like it. So why was it getting hard to read? Because it was getting “darker” and because he […]
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Kissing Sisters
I would rather not win than be a finalist and not win. Those shots of actors as they lose their Oscars are priceless because sometimes they don’t act. You can see the disappointment on their faces. Only the winners act like themselves. When you win something, it’s like having an orgasm – you are yourself […]
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Tagged K-Tel, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Oscars, Richard Nash, Sidney Prize, Storyville, Usain Bolt
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This is What Busy Looks Like
Nothing. It looks like nothing because you don’t get anything done. It’s an empty box, sunshine without light, warmth without heat. Plans get demolished, not by anything sinister, but by life, by the forward progress of time, by the inevitable bullshit of living, the accretion of layers of stuff, things we have to climb over […]
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Tagged Back to the Future, bagel, books, dogs, Facebook, families, Jonathan Franzen, Montreal, New Urbanism, Nicholson Baker, nothing, science fair, time machine, Twitter, writing
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The President’s Campaign Staff Has Too Much Time On Its Hands (apparently)
Now here’s the odd thing. I’m not even American. I do hope I can provide some entertainment. But if Obama loses, it’s not my fault. I do not have that kind of power. (now I have to figure out if this thing is even legit… or run by the Romney people. Pretty sure the Santorum […]
