I made another video from footage taken Thanksgiving night in front of a COMPUSA in Tukwilia, Wa. These people were going to stand out all night in the cold (40 degree) weather to be early to shop for easily breakable computers. It made my heart hurt. When I was a kid, Thanksgiving night we would often sit around and play cards or talk with the ( Read more... )

The thoughts in my head keep flowing, but every once and a while they snag on some rocks of memory or floating debris and piles of thought waste in my head. The noises of random pine needles and raindrops striking the window are a distraction, albeit a peaceful one. I'm watching the dog as he sits on the futon and looks out the window. He's so ( Read more... )

A Helpful Yet Rambling List of Random Blockpoints and Remedies ( Read more... )

I've been in bed every day pretty much for the last two weeks. I have read all the email in my inbox, even the old messages, at least 4 times. I've written four "chapters" of a short story that I've been working on. I've come up with a new word describing these. I call them Chapeterettes! Festive,no ( Read more... )

I think perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of being a writer is all the people that you meet who also think they are writers. I am reading a book on gaining confidence in my writing right now, (the book is also full of quite wonderful little writing excercises as well) and I find myself amused at a few of the ideas proposed on the ( Read more... )

So I have been doing some exploring this afternoon...I was originally doing research for a piece I'm writing that involves information on sex offenders, so I was looking up state sex offender registries and the like. Being that I'm far more familiar with Kansas and the people there than I am with the great state of Washington right now, I looked a ( Read more... )

Let me just put this out there. Women only use men's razors when they can't find their own. We use razors to shave our legs and armpits and other places because MEN complain if we don't. That scene from Jerry Maguire where the sister tells Renee Z. character not to shave so that she won't be tempted to have sex... yeah, that's pretty much on par ( Read more... )

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Wow... okay. So I got up this morning when Alan did and was doing some housework and I decided to turn on the television for background noise. Some random People's Court rip-off show was on... Judge Mathis, I think was the name of it. I looked at it objectively at first, thinking that I wouldn't judge it on the fact that it's weekday TV alone... ( Read more... )