Naming your book *or* Oh, those kids in marketing! |
So I come up with the perfect name for my upcoming book: Massacre of Innocence: The Bath Michigan School Bombing of 1927. I really like the title because it accurately describes what happened on May ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:36:00 GMT |
In which we learn how pathetic I really am |
We are in Arizona at the moment, visiting my lovely and charming parents who hightailed it out of cold Chicago weather into the three-digit climes of the Scottsdale deserts.Today we went to a Diamondb...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:10:00 GMT |
Take your stinking paws off of me, you damn dirty ape! or Behold God's Mighty Hand! |
Maybe having admiration for Charlton Heston isn’t the politically correct thing in the channels I normally swim through; personally, I think his "from my cold, dead fingers" philosophy as NRA pr...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:07:00 GMT |
Vagaries of Blocking Software @ the library |
So there I am, typing away on my laptop, working on my book (oy!) at a suburban library when I try to access a certain video site we’ll call Tou Yube. I don’t get to the site; instead I g...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:04:00 GMT |
Fuck cigarettes |
Well, Cheryl's Uncle Bob is on his last breaths. Smoked himself to death; even after he was diagnosed with cancer he couldn't stop smoking. Last summer my cousin Alan died; smoked himself to death t...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:42:00 GMT |
Northern Illinois University shooting |
One of my students lost a couple of friends in the shooting on Thursday, and her boyfriend was in the room as well. He helped carry out some of the wounded. On Friday, my student came to class in a b...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:54:00 GMT |
Reagan on Torture |
Go figure I'd ever agree with Ronald Reagan, one of my least favorite presidents. Yet when it came to torture, he is most assuredly in opposition to the wink-and-nod approach taken by the Bush Admini...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:49:00 GMT |
Happy Birthday to a great Republican |
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 199th birthday, let's revisit the words from my favorite Republican, as delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:54:00 GMT |
Sic transit Norman Mailer |
"Writing is spooky. There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.From "The Spooky Art: ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:09:00 GMT |
