You gotta find someone who says something like the following interesting: I find almost every novel overwritten and padded. I mean, almost every novel over three-hundred pages, I find, I would have edited—a little bit. I don’t like artificial devices pulling you through [novels] like a dead body on the first page… and hit hasn’t changed much from the nineteenth-century, when you’ve got just about something like a dead body on the first page of every bestseller you’ve got… or a dead body with no face, or a nun! I get tired of what sells, that way. I’m not interested …
Month: May 2004
Over at Liminality
O’er the way there, at Liminality, La Shure has written a good post about writing and blogging, and being open to the outer world as a writer/photographer/person… Reminds me to get back to work on my damned novel, now that my fingers are all functional. And yeah, I had the sam experience with my digital camera that he describes regarding his. He just put it better than I would have.
Thank You, America.
Thank you, America, for being a bastion of freedom and goodness. Thank you, America, for we would not know what to do without you making the world safe for us. Thank you, America, for working to ensure the dignity of all human beings. Thank you, America, for your kindness and decency. Thank you, America, for believing in more than lip service to your God. Thank you, America, for fighting the good fight and not hitting below the belt. For all you have done, America, the world would like to thank you so very, very much. CNN. Riverbend. The beginning of …
Poll Time Again
My finger is out of the splint, and functional (enough to be used in typing and for enough for me to be going to Seoul Wednesday for recording work). The last poll is therefore now officially closed with the following results: the top two votes claiming my broken finger was a blessing gave the following reasons: that (a) I could give the finger with impunity, and that (b) I could get away with more typos. These two options took up 50% of the 12 votes received. You can see the fine details here. My next poll is all about eclexys, …
Half Assed War?
Adam posted a link to this absurdity just the other day. Yes, it seems as if, in this new complicated and heavily economic form of war between “terrorists” and the American government, the US government isn’t paying a hell of a lot of attention to bin Laden and Hussein’s financial workings. Which isn’t too bright. What’s funnier is how closely they’re watching little old Cuba. Ha ha ha. You don’t actually wanna win this war, do you? No, not when you can profitably keep it going.