Miriam Forster, of the charmingly monikered Dancing with Dragons is Hard on Your Shoes blog, has issued a challenge to writers (and readers!). It springs from an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association, called Banned Books Week. From the ALA site: Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the [...]
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Unbanning Books Month
September 1st, 2010 · 10 Comments
Tags: Book Reviews · Books as Books · In the News · Reading · The Online World
“Sometimes I Tie a Hair to a Piece of Lint and I Drag It Around”
August 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Some things are just too entertaining and… unclassifiable not to pass around. Hence: “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.” [Hat tip to Eileen of Speak Coffee to Me, temporarily coming out of... well, you know.]
Tags: Cartoons & Animation · Humor · Movies · The Online World
Monday Bounce
August 23rd, 2010 · 8 Comments
I’m pretty sure I posted a link to this on Facebook and/or Twitter a couple months ago, when I first encountered it. For some reason it’s found its way back into my head today, and has been positively ringing there for the last several hours. When a song will simply not leave me alone, my [...]
Tags: Everyday Life · Music · The Online World
BlogIt
August 16th, 2010 · 19 Comments
Every year around now, a large chunk of blogosphere real estate is turned over to posts, tweets, Facebook status updates, and Flickr albums about a gathering called BlogHer. As the conference title suggests, the focus in on women who blog — it’s apparently attended by a number of guys, as well — and for the [...]
Tags: Everyday Life · In the News · Ruminations · The Online World · Writing
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
August 14th, 2010 · 6 Comments
My review of this book is now up over at The Book Book. So is another reviewer’s, as of yesterday — and we’re just following on the heels of the first, from a year ago. Clearly a book that draws reviewers like flies! I liked the book very much although (as you can see from [...]
Tags: Book Reviews · Reading · Style and Craft · The Online World
What Takes You Back?
August 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments
Yesterday, Granta magazine kicked off a new collective-memory project called “Nostos Algos.” From a publicity release which just made its way to my Inbox: The word ‘nostalgia’ comes from the Greek words nostos (‘a homecoming’) and algos (‘pain, grief, distress’). We have all known the desire to return to another place or time, and the [...]
Tags: In the News · Looking Backward · Perfect Moments · The Online World · Writing
You Spoke from Midnight
July 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments
From whiskey river: Moonrise And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, [...]
Tags: Music · Poetry · Reading · Ruminations · Science & Medicine · The Online World · whiskey river Fridays
When Media Collide (to Quite Amusing Effect)
July 25th, 2010 · 9 Comments
(With apologies to site visitors who might be unfamiliar with one or the other work…) [via the reliable, insanely good taste of literary agent Janet Reid]
Tags: Humor · Movies · Reading · The Media · The Online World
Remotely Running After My Hat
June 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments
[Image of 18th-century dowser from Wikipedia... Wonder if it's sized to fit?] I’m going to be computerless much of this week. Which presents me with a convenient dilemma — to wit, how to do a whiskey river Friday post? You may be thinking: How, exactly, will this be “convenient”? Sounds rather like a pain, in [...]
Tags: Phones (Cellular and Otherwise) · Poetry · Running After My Hat · Tech · The Online World
Paying Attention (or Not) to Word Count
June 12th, 2010 · 6 Comments
So, bottom line: yes, at around 12:30 this afternoon I bounded across the 3,000-word mark in the 2010 Write Your A** Off Write-a-Thon. I’d gotten up around 6:30am, heated water in the teakettle, sat down at my desk and by 7:30 — after incidental stuff like selecting the day’s background music — begun to write. [...]
Tags: Paying Attention · Short Fiction · Style and Craft · The Online World · Writing






