January 2012
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Writerlife, Day One
-1,400ish words of fiction in two sit-downs—not stellar, but multiply that daily tally and add and divide by the math mathematics math…and draft one of the novel should be finished before the end of March -some fun nocturnal posts for my favorite blog -new dinner creation gone not-awry -zero naps (!) -one fortuitous trip to the library -a long call to an olde friend in Italy -no sense of...
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Project: Find a good remix to every Bon Iver song.
Or at least enough of them to make an album-length listening experience. Don’t worry guys I’ll share when it’s done. Also, please pass along any remixes (of his stuff) you dig. Usually I find the remixing-things-that-don’t-need-remixing trend lame and redundant, but when a guy this brilliant only has like two dozen songs and you’ve listened to them all two dozen...
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One of the most important and heartwrenching parts...
“But I see two kids [males], they were obviously together, they were dating…. And I looked at them, and I went—I never thought this, and I’m not boo-hooing me—I went, I never got to fuckin’ do that [as a kid], because some fuck decided that what I was was wrong. And they were wrong. And they were wrong, there’s no doubt about it they were wrong…. And I do...
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Europe - “The Final Countdown”
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"The Boss' music has been the soundtrack of my...
-A delightful Florida mailman over at NPR.
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Paul Rudd Will Be Back for at Least Three More... →
Yes!
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Ben Affleck Has a Screenwriter for 'The Stand' |... →
And it’s David Kajganich, who also just re-adapted It for BIG-TIME HOLLYWOOD.
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Say it ain't so, Hov. →
Jay-Z is supposedly finished using the word “bitch.”
[Vulture]
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“Like many a genre writer, Stephen King has gotten a bad rap for much of his...”
– The LA Times’ David L. Ulin expertly articulates what I, in my eternal fanboyishness, routinely manage to botch/dumb down. Nice piece about reading Stephen King.
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THE HUNDRED-INGREDIENT STIR FRY
-red beans -zucchini -yellow zucchini-like squash (is it just zucchini?) -apple -potato -asparagus -raisins -cashews -sesame seeds -a red pepper -an orange pepper -carrots -garlic -ginger -red onion -white onion -pineapple -noodles -those little corncobs from Big
Didn’t actually count, but I know that’s at least 100 things.
In actuality, yes, it was too many things. But the...
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Two of Stephen King's best books turn 30 this year
The Gunslinger and Different Seasons. I sense a piece I have to write. But what is it?
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Van Halen Played to 250 People in Greenwich... →
popculturebrain:
Live reports from the scene at Cafe Wha? delivered by our good friend Zach Dionne. Wha?
AGGREGATED by your good friend Zach Dionne. But I had a blast with this. Thanks for the link, Alejandro.
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Switching to full-time writerdom in two weeks
Details forthcoming, but the basic gist is I’m leaving the day job as editor at PureVolume to work on being just a writer. Nonstop freelance and fiction work.
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December 2011
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FRANZEN Q, PLZ FOR TO ANSWER
I’m handful of pages away from finishing The Corrections for the first time. (Hot damn, what an incredible thing it is.)
THE QUERY: Do I go straight on to Freedom, or cleanse my palate first?
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25 Days of Christmas Jams: Otis Redding -...
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