the Cutting Edge
(52% dark, 47% spontaneous, 16% vulgar) your humor style:
CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | DARK

Your humor's mostly innocent and off-the-cuff, but somehow there's ( Read more... )

Only once have a gifted a personal copy of a book to someone. That was Duras' The Lover and it was given to my cousin. I did it again. One thing I (can't say never since I've done it twice) rarely do is give as gifts my personal copies of books. If I like a book and I think you should read it I go out and buy it for you. Twice now.

The sadness of the world is so much that sometimes you just have to laugh. Comedy is only twin to tragedy, laughing a twin to crying. When words strike back I wish to strike. And what of the scabs, the picket line-crossing scabs? I don't know what to do with the things I say, I could hardly bare the weight of each new utterance, each like an ( Read more... )

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"Life never labels the last time you will do something." After reading and completing _Number9Dream_ I can assure that I will read David Mitchell again. There is a bounty of superb, beautiful language to be found nestled between the 400 pages that make up the book; a huge number of words, each taken independant from its neighbors, as if each a ( Read more... )

All the good things of Murakami, combined with new and fresh language, come together in David Mitchell, a young writer from the UK. I'm currently working my way through _number9dream_. Check it out and be delighted.

I'm nearing the end of Murakami's newest novel, _Kafka on the Shore_. The writing, the language, the story(ies) are perfectly placed in between its 436 pages. It isn't a throwback to anything I've come to like in the past years, but it's nice in it's very own way. It's interesting though, I must admit, that it seems that the Murakami of the ( Read more... )

There's something to be said about the routine that is life. Even the unexpected surprise becomes routine after so long. In a long enough flight (maybe a 13 hour one from L.A. to London) even sudden turbulence comes to be expected intermittently.

There hasn't been anything to say. When there is I will post.

After tommorow my application process to UEA Norwhich will step into the wait-by-the-mailbox phase; I will submit my writing sample and transcripts for consideration.