I just got an e-mail from Sister #3 that included a link to a story about a man who dropped dead moments after bowling a perfect 300 game. For those of you who are familiar…
Date Archives October 2008
Confessions to Philip Roth
Forgive me Philip Roth, for I have sinned. First of all, I’m confessing as though I was that kind of Catholic and according to that weird guy at Barnes & Noble you’re an atheist. So…
Hello Gideon, goodbye Jed
I will not tell you how much time I spent chatting with Wolfdogg this morning about computer names. I will also not tell you how many times I said fuck, fuck, motherfuckfuck while trying to…
Our hearts were really thumping
I have to admit that today’s victory dance looked quite a bit like the red-shorts girls from John Cougar Mellencamp’s Cherry Bomb video. You know what I’m talking about, right?
I think this means I win
Nolan and Liam are using chalk to draw bats on the front stoop. An emergency vehicle is passes by (probably going to the hospital that is two blocks away) with sirens blaring, somwhere we can…
Drama on the set
Nolan and Liam have fashioned a sort of puppet stage using a dining room chair, the table, and a dry-erase board. The set also includes cobwebs that were drawn on notebook paper with a blue-green…
Preoccupied, a list
I haven’t yet gotten an offer from the Dream Job, if you ask me about it I will bite you in the face (I am supposed to hear something “early” this week, which we all…
Sometimes I just can’t understand what the universe is trying to tell me
I have to tell you that I started writing about this earlier in the morning, say around 10 a.m. But then I grew frustrated and quit. However after spending the night at Grumpy’s with The…
Today is Sylvia Plath’s birthday, she would have been 76
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath
What fiction ought to be
“He and Franzen talked a lot about what writing should be for. “We had this feeling that fiction ought to be good for something,” Franzen says. “Basically, we decided it was to combat loneliness.” This…