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…
Date Archives October 2008
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…
Missing the mark
Good God Almighty! I wish I could make sweet, sweet love to Lionel Shriver’s WSJ piece about the lack of proper quotation marks in a lot of literary fiction’s dialog. Sing it, Sister! I hate…
Two whole hands
Today my favorite future evil-scientist Maxwell turns ten. 10! That’s two whole hands. Incidentally, if anyone knows what the name of that Threadless t-shirt he’s wearing in the bottom picture please please tell me. He…