I tend to hoard the Moth Podcast for when I work out at the gym. It is almost integral to my health regimen because it so artfully takes over my mind so I can plod on the treadmill. Which really isn't what I am trying to do, incidentally, I am trying to *connect* my body and mind, but instead my first instinct is to take it even further and find something so delicious to put in my ears so that I don't even notice my health march on the rubber rat wheel.Today I was listening to Ed Gavagan's "Drowning on Sullivan Street" and "Victim's Impact" and literally started crying. Not from a … [Read more...]
Favorite new spam.
Wake up your hot monster Star KaleidoscopeThink You Know Much About "Intimacy"?Unbelievably healthy living, come to our site to claim it.Pretty nice huh? A little gem hanging out in my spam filter. Maybe I should meditate on this for a while. … [Read more...]
My lists of things that will hopefully go away, or return due to the recession.
Things that will hopefully go away with the recession:1) Space TourismWhy do we need a bunch of rich assholes in space? So that they can stand or float or whatever they do, above the Earth and scream, I am king of the world? Yuck. Stay home. 2) Children with Cell PhonesWhen I was kid, my parents would say "go out in the yard and play." Every time I see a kid with a screen attached to their face I feel nauseous. I mean I know you have to keep track of your kids and it is scary out there, but please there has got to be a better way to do it. Can't some things just be for adults? Like … [Read more...]
Bail Out the Writers or It’s the Marketplace, Stupid
The New York Times had an essay by Paul Greenberg "Bail out the Writers" comparing how the government plans on bailing out banks and insurance companies with how writers could be bailed out as an industry. It was written in jest, but I had an issue with some of the points because of his tone, which is as weary as a man who has spent too much time with words, and bad ones at that. He decries the overabundance of MFA students, multiple "Ann Beatties" (both the critically acclaimed author and the self-published author), and the mediocrity of it all. As someone who worked in the book publishing … [Read more...]
Notes for CCA Career Symposium 08
COPY WRITING 101I started out in book publishing in New York City at St. Martin’s Press and then moved into new media at Hearst. I did copy writing in many jobs, but after getting my MFA in Creative Writing I have been working as a freelance writer for the last year.KEY POINTS:Usually you will work with advertising companies, marketing departments, individuals and small businesses.SAMPLE PROJECTS:Advertising CopyNewslettersPress ReleasesProduct PackagingBrochuresWeb CopyBusiness PlansArticlesPresentationsTranslating or Translating to colloquial or “everyday” EnglishGrant Writing for … [Read more...]
Rest in Peace David Foster Wallace
I went to see David Foster Wallace read in San Francisco in 2006 and wrote this post about the experience here: David Foster Wallace in Stereo.He seemed slightly tortured even then, but I thought his great humor and success would see him through. I half-considered it might have been an act, perhaps it was just his schtick and way of expressing his literary persona. His hall of mirrors type performance editing and responding to his own conversation. Nothing was simple, no thought stayed still for even a millisecond, the world moved to quickly to be understood. The thoughts, words and … [Read more...]
Sunset Junction, The Modern Carnies Are in The Crowd
The Semi was at Sunset Junction last night, the local music faire in Silver Lake. It started out strangely. I was in line to get my pre-paid bracelet to get in and the guy behind me was frothing at the mouth like someone had injected steroids directly into his larynx. He was scary and freaking out because his friend had inconvenienced him by going to the visit the latrine. He pushed his friend, and he bounced off me, and I suddenly wished I had guns for arms like some sort of Transformers character. But it mellowed out, I headed through the crowd, with other polite people mouthing "sorry!" … [Read more...]
Porn and Kittens: the Yin and Yang of the Internet
Or is it Porn and Kittens: the Yang and Yin of the internet? Since I have finished up my contract at Google I am no longer in the stormy seas of the information superhighway. Or to be specific, I am not online all day constantly being IM'ed the good, the bad and the ugly of the internet. There are things I have seen I wish I could go back and erase, but yet I am a realist and I always knew those things were there. I just didn't think it would be my job to find them. Many of them. Sometimes over and over in different iterations that would make your toes curl and you would scream, "eww that is … [Read more...]
Poem for Djerassi
THE SUN IS MY HALO, I SHALL NOT WANTFor Djerassioh my little lifemy petite soulslight in the face of it allone in a chorus of miraclesin cricket songin an army of heroesto live to be 1200 years oldto have a space inside, a knotnot a flame but an altara promise, in the burned outhollow of reda scrimshaw of branchesa canopy of nature-tatted laceroot systems enough for a million dreamsthe unconscious in soila dream over spilling in fogthe sun is a halo brighta divine aureole, circlingeach and every life … [Read more...]
San Gregorio Beach Photos
Moody photos from the beach at San Gregorio. Really fantastic lighting, and the structures are eerie. A bit like children's jungle gyms gone sinister. Sky over the beach and algae.Another one, the colors came out fantastic.White cliff of some sort of porous, chalky stone. … [Read more...]
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