Cowboy Bebop
I promise, I promise: the next post will be about a book. I’ve never cared for anime. I ate lunch with a bunch of IT/CompSci guys during my first year…
Selling some guitar pickups
I'm cleaning out my parts closet and these need to go to a good home. These are small enough to ship easily, unlike some of the gear I'm selling locally…
Read this
Candide's Garden: A Parable Great, very short story by Helen DeWitt in the Fall issue of Dissent: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/candides-garden-a-parable
Physical Fitness
I recognize that this may seem a bit off topic, but bear with me. It’s been my experience that most creative people (writers, musicians, visual artist, etc.) rarely have a…
Writing, Word Counts, NaNoWriMo and Productivity
First off, I’m not doing NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. I have no problems with it, but it’s not for me, or in line with what I’m trying to…
Tape Recorder 2014
My good friend Zeke gave me this a little while ago. I found a power supply in storage and as soon as I can get my hands on some blank tapes…
Music for Writing
I usually listen to some kind of background music while I’m writing. Since I play music myself I have to be somewhat particular about what I listen to or I’ll…
Used book haul
My latest haul from Bookhounds, all between 0.75 and 1.99. Some gifts, some for me, including a back issue of The Paris Review with some interesting short stories and nonfiction.
John Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist
I’m generally extremely shy about craft-based books on writing. I have yet to read Stephen King’s On Writing, and ever Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer was picked up rather…
Camus’s “The Stranger” and novels as masks for ideology
Camus’s “The Stranger” is a short and easy read, but there’s plenty to ponder. Considered purely as a novel it’s mediocre at best, but it’s a philosophical text wearing fiction…