orechtochilus orbisonorum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beetles, Roy Orbison on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
A new bug named after the Big O. (thanks to Joe in Cheese)
Archive for January, 2008
orbison redux
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roy Orbison on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a character, of sorts, named Orbison in my upcoming novel. Here’s a paragraph where we and Deluxe the cat meet him:
While we busied and entertained ourselves all week, Deluxe befriended the lovely Orbison, an elegant and vainglorious red and blue Siamese fighting fish who lived on the coffee table in a heated ten-gallon [...]
a thousand words
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bush, lies on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
today and tomorrow
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged democracy on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Voted this morning for Barack. Not that it means much since the Democratic Party has stripped Florida of its convention deegates. The party would rather have the white states decide for the rest of us. The poll worker tried three machines before he could find one that worked. Said it had been like that since [...]
how the dems can lose again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged politics on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Frank Rich on Hillary, Barack, and Bill. ”In a McCain vs. Billary race, the Democrats will sacrifice the most highly desired commodity by the entire electorate, change; the party will be mired in déjà 1990s all over again. Mrs. Clinton’s spiel about being “tested” by her “35 years of experience” won’t fly either. The moment she [...]
james wood on character
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fiction on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
“There is nothing harder than the creation of fictional character. . . . The unpracticed novelist cleaves to the static, because it is much easier to descrie than the mobile: it is getting these people out of the aspic of arrest and mobilised in a scene that is hard.”
gonzalo barr
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fiction on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
The Miami Herald has a nice piece on lawyer turned writer Gonzalo Barr. Barr does not have an agent or a publisher for his novel, and Leejay Kline, his mentor and creative-writing teacher, calls the move ”pretty ballsy.” But what Barr does have is an impressive debut to his credit. His first book, the critically [...]
naming the world
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged writing on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Bret Anthony Johnston has a new new book for the creative writer featuring exercises by dozens of fiction writers. The opening writng prompts are by me.
sex and drugs and you know what
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged rock and roll on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The Late Great Ian Dury.
my excuse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged flu on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve had the flu. I got my flu shot a couple of months ago. I should be happy it’s not worse. I’m on Tamiflu now. Hoping to get back on track.
