“I’ve been to university and though I studied history I’ve found my heart to truly be in men’s ties & socks, glass figurines and the discount shoe industry.“
Whenever I go on a job interview, I think of Meryn Cadell. Specifically, that monologue. Then, of course, I think about “The Sweater.” So even if I don’t [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 29, 2008
“I really have the skills you see”
July 25, 2008
Blurred person singular
That subject line will be the title of a story someday, I think. In the meantime, it describes how I’m feeling after rewriting the first and half of the second chapter of the book, shifting from third to first person. I probably have to work on more of it, but already I’m having second thoughts. [...]
July 22, 2008
P.U.
Some people are like Slinkies…
Not really good for anything,
but they still bring a smile to your face…
when you push them down a flight of stairs….
(Today’s words of wisdom come courtesy of Plus One, who offered them because they sum up how I feel about a certain colleague precisely. )
July 15, 2008
Something Like Heaven, part two
(Part One is here.)
Tom, the pilot, was the first person who saw it.
He was flying his two-seater, single engine over the foothills where Martha was planting her flowers. Beyond the foothills a range of mountains rises up that no one I met had attempted to traverse. Then along came Tom with the largest artifact from [...]
July 11, 2008
“Come in, come out of the rain”
It started raining here a little while ago, about the same time that “Waterfront” came on the random play. This is probably my favorite Simple Minds song, in a close three-way tie with “All the Things She Said” (oh, that ’80s hair) and “I Travel.”
Wow, it’s really pouring now.
I saw them live in concert once, [...]
July 5, 2008
I say I say I say
I don’t know if this is going to work, but I’ve started writing the third revision of the book in first person instead of third person. One of the things I worried about during the first and second drafts was that the protagonist was too distant. At the same time, if he started speaking through [...]
July 4, 2008
An Independence Day gift
Ex-Sen. Jesse Helms dead at 86
Good riddance to a racist, homophobic son of a bitch. It’s only a pity it didn’t happen sooner.
Let freedom ring!
July 4, 2008
Britain’s favourite alien (and mine too)
“Yet wherever he came from, and whichever human actor he resembled, the fundamentals were the same: a bright, eccentric traveller pitches up in some far-flung place, accompanied by a robot dog, or curious teenager, or Bonnie Langford.”
Me, I couldn’t resist and wait for SciFi to broadcast the most recent episodes. (I blame you, Bob.) I [...]
