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Only One Left

October 23rd, 2012 · No Comments

Next time: a safety monocle.

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Tags: fiction · Twitter

Greetings from 17-E

September 1st, 2011 · No Comments

Here is a short piece of mine that was recently published at Postcard Shorts (“As much as you could more or less fit on a postcard,” according to the online journal’s submissions guidelines.).

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Tags: writing

2010 Listage

December 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Lists! And none of them are in ranked order. Also, none of the lists include the couple of handfuls of things that I forgot. Here goes: My favorite music of 2010 (the source material for this coming Sunday’s playlist): Mandelring Quartett / Schumann: Piano Quintet Josh Rouse / El Turista I disliked this album at first, […]

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Tags: books · fiction · film · music · Screenings · TV

NaNoWriMo word cloud

December 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments

Can you get an idea about what is happening in this work-in-progress by reading its word cloud?

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Tags: fiction · history · ideas · language · writing

Brian Wilson Says

October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

I’m dreaming in over-saturated colors again.

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Tags: fiction · music

Banned Books

September 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Specifically, these are the books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course’s “Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century” that have been criticized for language, sexual references, violence, or for just being, well, too imaginative.

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Tags: books · language

Fred FM playlist: 8 August 2010 “Floating Away”

August 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Approxmiate playing time: 76 minutes.

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Tags: Fred FM · music

Richard to Alice: 20 March 1945

August 7th, 2010 · No Comments

You don’t know how much it means to me to know beyond a doubt that you are waiting waiting for me, trusting me and loving me. I feel sorry for those who have no one waiting for them – those that have no one to love.

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Tags: fiction · food · Richard & Alice

Literary Scale: highfalutin > less falutin

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments

Shakespeare > Dickens > Twain > Jane Austen > Dr. Seuss > JK Rowling > Stephenie Meyer > mommy tweets

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Tags: books · fiction

Screenings: The Bostonians

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Ugh. Is Henry James unfilmable?

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Tags: books · film · Screenings