Thinking About New Orleans #mojogce
Group creativity experiment: 1 – “Litanie des Saints,” Dr. John I’ve always felt a personal connection to New Orleans. My mother’s family lived in Baton Rouge for a long time, and I spent a few summers down there as a kid. I remember one summer coming back home with a slight accent that never fully
My Next Tattoo?
The 100 Greatest Movie Characters | Empire | 79. Boba Fett “Before his back story was rewritten, Boba Fett was the coolest thing in the Star Wars universe that wasn’t played by Harrison Ford.” I’ve been trying to decide what my next tattoo would be for about 3-4 years, and have wavered between text and
NaNoWriMo: Just Write. (This is where I fail.)
Third, what the hell was I waiting till November for? You want to want to be real boy, Pinocchio? Er, I mean, a real writer? Then don’t set 1/12th of the year aside to do it. Do it always, and do it unconditionally. You don’t have to write a novel between November 1st and 30th.
Every Writer Should Read Fool on the Hill
As for where the individual plot-threads came from: Stephen George is, pretty obviously, a semi-autobiographical character. The story of Luther and Blackjack comes from my childhood fascination with the “Dog” and “Cat” entries in the World Book Encyclopedia—World Book had these pictorial layouts showing all the different dog and cat breeds, and for some reason
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
via youtube.com This, Maya Azucena’s acoustic version of Hallelujah, and the entire Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions album, are the most haunting songs ever. That is all.
Feminista!’s List of 100 Best Works by Women Writers
I did so much better with the BBC top 100 list that included all those children’s books and titles by dead white men we were required to read in school. I’d only read 18 of the 100 best works by women. So, I’ve challenged myself to read all 100, including rereading the ones I’d read
Soda Pop Stop Lessons for Bookstores
“Thank you very much, Pepsi-Cola, for reminding me that I own my shelf space and I can do anything I want. So I immediately went out and found 25 little brands of soda that were still in glass bottles…” —John Nese, Galcos Soda Pop Stop John Nese, proprietor of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles, shows