Letter to the Editor, NY Daily News: re: No to #3 In opposing Proposal #3, I find it ironic that the major party leaders on the City Council would stand together to proclaim that non-partisan elections “would make party labels meaningless and, more important, make choices much more difficult for voters.” I’d argue that it
YES to Proposal #3
Tomorrow’s Election Day and I’ve been hard-pressed to find any pro-“YES to Proposal #3” media coverage. There’s a solid, well-reasoned piece in last week’s Village Voice that includes this interesting counter to the argument that non-partisan voting harms minorities: Unlike most major American cities with nonwhite and female voting age majorities, New York has elected
Times when it’s okay to lie to your kids: #17: Because you can’t go to Chuck E. Cheese every day! #31: If you don’t, they will eat all of the candy. Then, demand more. Halloween was fun, though, as expected, no Hollywood insanity broke out. There were some insane parents, though, as well as some
Is there a sillier “holiday” than Halloween? Knocking on strangers doors for candy? Or a trick? (What exactly constitutes a “trick,” anyway?) Makes the belated celebration of the birth of “the son of God” by going into debt look sensible! Does anyone actually go trick-or-treating anymore? Here in the City, at least? Rumors – urban
On your mark, get set…
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. -Gene Fowler If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing. -Kingsley Amis
Which Survivor of the Impending Nuclear Apocalypse Are You?A Rum and Monkey joint.
NaNoWriMo 2003: Oniat
To help me commit to NaNoWriMo, I’m going public with it: http://loudpoet.com/tags/oniat/ Disclaimer: I will be cheating a little bit by including the couple of pages I’ve already written of my previously mentioned “fantasy” project.
National Novel Writing Month
Opportunity knocking…? National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel
Pumpkin Seeds: 10/29/2003
1. Last night at Acentos was one of those rare transcendent moments that puts a smile on your face and a spring in your step. I was so jazzed, I played Jordan Knight’s Give it to You all the way home, complete with in-your-seat choreography! Mahina Movement, with a new-to-me lineup, was simply amazing. A
In the end, Breath, Eyes, Memory turns out to be one of those disappointing books that is much less than the sum of its parts. I suspect much of the praise it received stemmed more from American fascination with youth and “exotic” cultures than from its modest artistic merits. Danticat is talented, without a doubt,