Mark Pritchard at Too Beautiful has started a fun new feature in which he interviews writers and editors about their current projects. It’s called what are you working on. Go on and read it.
The Book of Laney
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Happy 7th Anniversary to…
riley dog — a site I visit daily for inspiration.
Listen to Bat Segundo #18 is Chris Elliot (which I am really excited about because Chris Elliot makes me laugh): Subjects Discussed: Lack of sleep from both parties, the lure of money, the Chris Elliott persona vs. the real Chris Elliott, Jack the Ripper, parodies, Alan Moore’s From Hell, research, trying to read while acting, on being declared an idiot, Get a Life, on … Read More
quote of the day
Made by Miss Snark in response to a question about using 37¢ stamps w/ 2¢ stamps instead of using 39¢ stamps: Stamps are not shoes. FONTS are shoes. So is double spacing, printing on one side of the page and correct margins. Stamps however are like your underpants. I don’t care what they are as long as you’ve got them ON.
Happy Birthday to Darby!
We don’t really know when Darby’s birthday is, but four years ago today we brought him home from an animal rescue and so consider this to be his day. So please join me (and indulge me) in wishing Darby a happy birthday!
I was moved by Gary Fincke‘s Flannery O’Connor Award winning collection Sorry I Worried You. The protagonists of these stories are not lightweights–that’s for sure. Often they are unreliable or even menacing and they are not afraid to show the reader their dark hearts, their secret places. So, too, the stories within are neither light nor easy–they are dark, complex, often funny, but more … Read More
What a tragic, fascinating, and haunting (for me anyway) news item–Elderly Widow, Her Caretaker Found Dead: A 106-year-old widow and her 30-year-old caretaker died together in an apparent suicide pact at the home they shared, authorities said. There are so many unanswered questions and I’m left to wonder if this was a Harold and Maude relationship or merely platonic or mother/son or what. And … Read More
Last night I watched the first part of the three part documentary Country Boys on PBS (if you missed it, you can watch it online). It broke my heart and also made me homesick. I did not grow up in the Appalachians where this film takes place, but I grew in an area quite similar socio-economically–farming and mining country, though the mines were all … Read More
Check it out–the amazing Joseph Young has redesigned his web site: http://www.josephyoung.net. Make sure you click on all of the links in the sidebar because each contains a treat or many.
When I was in grade school I got a novel out of the school library that scared the bejesus out of me. It was about a marauding pack of feral cats that were terrorizing a community (killing people, doing damage, etc). I believe the protagonist was a young girl about my age at the time (11) who was trying to help figure out what … Read More
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