The Jerk Store Never Runs Out: A Christmas Play in One Act
The Setting: Early afternoon. The local Post Office.
The Players: YUPPIE WOMAN. POSTAL CLERK DUDE. HOBGOBLIN. Assorted postal customers.
The line is shorter than it was yesterday, when Hobgoblin had to mail a Christmas package to his mother in [...]
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The Jerk Store Never Runs Out
Posted in writing on December 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
What Happened?
Posted in writing on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just spent half an hour writing a post about my new book project and WordPress deleted it. I am very annoyed. Anyway, I have a new book project. It’s academic. It’s about ecofeminism. I’m hoping to have a contract within the next month. The book will be due in about a year. My editor [...]
I Love Umberto Eco
Posted in writing on May 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last night Dorothy and I went to Manhattan to see the Return of the Three Musketeers at the 92nd Street Y. this was a reunion of Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, and Mario Vargas Llosa, who had appeared together at another literary gathering a few years ago and took to calling themselves the Three Musketeers, at [...]
Tagged and Time
Posted in memes, writing on February 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I haven’t had much time to think about blogging or reading or writing or anything else, really. To give you an idea of what’s going on, I have three meetings this week and at least six next week and four the following week, one of them an all-day thing. Plus, I’m leaving for El Salvador [...]
Stephen King Plagiarized Me!
Posted in Books, writing on February 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In 1992 or ‘93 I wrote a poem called “Lanakila Homecoming,” in which I described some storm clouds looking like “brains thinking bad thoughts.” In Stephen King’s Duma Key, published in 2008, he says:
The thunderheads stacked up, huge flatboats black on the bottom and bruise-purplish through the middle. Every know and then lightning would flash [...]
Identity Crisis
Posted in writing on January 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I haven’t written here much lately, largely because my blogging persona is facing an identity crisis. I do not know at all what I want this blog to be. Do I want to be light and funny and social? I can do that, but my dark moods lately seem to make that a Sisyphean task. [...]
Food, Sex
Posted in publishing, writing on December 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Here is the article on food writing. I hope Martha’s people don’t read it or I’m in trouble.
I Love It When a Plan Comes Together
Posted in memes, writing on December 4, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Bloglily tagged several people to explain how they plan, especially how they plan their writing lives. I can make this very simple: Plan? I need a plan? Who said anything about a plan?
For a while when I was little, my mom worked while my dad was trying to go to school, so my dad also [...]
More Whining
Posted in Books, cycling, teaching, writing on November 5, 2007 | 12 Comments »
My writing is gasping. My teaching is imploding. My cycling is flatting. My reading is lacking in adventure. Essentially, nothing has gone at all well for the last three months.
Deep breath. I took everyone’s advice and did what I knew needed to be done. I gave up, perhaps temporarily, on book #2 and started book [...]
Blah-ging
Posted in writing on November 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My writing is dead. I’m hoping this is a temporary condition, as I have to write as part of my profession, but for the moment, my writing is just lying there in a corner, not moving, and I see some big old vultures circling overhead. I haven’t touched this blog in over a [...]
