Comic Book Wednesday
Nothing like the joys of Comic Book Wednesday to take the edge off of a tough hangover. Even better is when your Midtown Comics $20 rebate kicks in the same week 75% of the comics you usually buy unexpectedly come out at once. Yay! Tuesday’s Acentos was another great one with Willie Perdomo doing what
Pumpkin Seeds: 11/10/03
1. Finished The Glass Mountain on Friday. Rydill’s hit another home run with this one. Where Children of the Shaman was a line drive over the left field fence, Mountain‘s more of a moonshot into the farthest reaches of McCovey Cove! Totally worth the lopsided exchange rate of the pound:dollar. 2. NaNoWriMo is kicking my
Teaching in the Bronx, but no MFA!
Had the pleasure of doing a reading/Q&A at the Riverdale Neighborhood House last night for a group of teens from a workshop run by Corie Feiner (fka Corie Herman) as part of a residency she’s had since 2000, thanks to Poets & Writers. One of the coolest gigs I could imagine, teaching kids writing in
Everyone’s waiting for someone else to stand up…
I can’t believe how pissed I am over this whole political thing! Like throw-your-hands-in-the-air kind of fed up and I can’t get it off my mind! While I can understand the apathy to some degree, I can’t understand how people don’t see that apathy is the very reason nothing will change. It’s like everyone’s waiting
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
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
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
Pumpkin Seeds: 10/15/2003
350 pages into AMERICAN GODS and I’m thinking of Stephen King’s NEEDFUL THINGS. As in somebody desperately needs a good editor. The first two episodes of Smallville this season have been as good as anything on TV in the past decade. George Clooney has Parkinson’s. Look for the announcement within a year. There’s absolutely nothing