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The Once and Future Post
Way back in ye olde 1977, a book mobile swerved to avoid a dinosaur crossing the street and collided with a semi-truck full of camera equipment. Jack Shoegazer sprouted fully-formed from the resulting toxic inferno. Since then, he has been haunted by his dual nature of writer and photographer and is ruled by his misguided attempts to unite this ( Read more... ) -
I dunnno, shit. Just shit.
Primarily my summer writing projects have been editing and submitting stories from earlier this year and last year. Most of the markets for literary fiction are closed during the summer, so my options for submission are limited until September. Which is good if I'm trying to avoid rejection letters, like yesterday's Paris Review form letter. I send ( Read more... ) -
Culling the herd.
I did my first culling. If I've accidentally defriended you, speak up so I can add you back. LJ's friend manager is not the most user-friendly thing ever. -
Japanese joinery.
A friend of mine is starting a company designing and producing Japanese joinery shelving units. Check out his Kickstarter, it's a great project and I'm a proud supporter. The shelves are beautiful!
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Tell me how great I am.
I had my first workshop of my graduate career. It went well. They liked my story. A lot. And the only issues people found were ones that I knew it had and some of them were kind of purposeful. Which is a danger when you experiment with story structure and expectation. I am content. Except now I need to write another new story in the next ( Read more... ) -
For the first time in my collegiate career, I'm living in a dorm.
Well, it's a grad student dorm, so I have a room to myself, but it's a tiny cinderblock room. It's big enough to write and sleep in, so it's really all I need.
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Every once in a while I pop in here.
Hey kids ( Read more... ) -
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Hey kids, it is official: I've accepted a slot in the University of New Hampshire's MFA fiction program.
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Updates of miscellany-or-Yes, I still think about LJ sometimes.
Thanks to being a poetry editor for a literary magazine, I now know that some people use Crisco as lube.
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The only problem I have with Doctor Who is its time travel rules. They seem inconsistent and arbitrary to me. For instance, when certain characters get sent back but the angels, I don’t see why they can’t be rescued or visited again. Just ( Read more... ) -
The GRE rendered me impecunious.
I took the GRE. I did well. Quite well. Very well. In verbal. I figured after all this time, I’d know how to read, and it turns out I do. Booyah, motherfuckers.
My quant score was decent though I don’t expect be invited to study at MIT any time soon.
While procrastinating, I found this old picture of me from 1996.
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