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Fong Lee and the Dylan Thomas Stories
A few nights ago I woke up from a dream with the words "Fong Lee and the Dylan Thomas Stories" repeating in my head. In the dream I was writing a book, a little homemade thing I put together myself and illustrated. Fong Lee was a Buddhist penguin in the book and his best friend was a little boy named Dylan Thomas. The book was an offering to this ( Read more... ) -
It's good to say hi to your past sometimes.
I just sent an email to a special woman I haven't thought of for quite some time. I knew her back in college. In secret, she exploded my heart everyday. A true secret though? How could she have not known? Here is what I wrote her.
Greetings from afar.
Well, not that far assuming you're still in Colorado. Hello C_______! How are you? As for me, life ( Read more... ) -
Mulling
When I moved to New Mexico I had a plan: Live modestly, work just enough to live modestly, finish book, start on next book, go fishing a lot. That was pretty much it and that's what was happening for about the first six months. Living off the grid in a tiny solar-powered cabin with jd was perfect. But then we moved to town and life got really ( Read more... ) -
A geek-out christmas
Christmas was nice but the real highlight of my week was geeking out with my phone. I've got the entire Google mobile suite on my Pearl (gmail, calendar, docs, notebook, picasa, search, maps, reader, news). Here are some other cyborgish things I've been doing:- I migrated from iCal to Google calendar (they are pretty much the same) so now I can sync ( Read more... )
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buddhas, blackberrys(tm) and barthelme
I finished reading The Buddha of Suburbia last week. It wasn't bad. A good, fast read if you're in that kind of mood. The classism stuff in London during the 60s was the most interesting, however the protagonist was kind of an asshole who never redeemed himself. That bugged. There are enough of those in the real world.
Currently on a big Barthelme ( Read more... ) -
Good words for good works.
Belief & Technique for Modern Prose
by Jack Kerouac (first 5 of 30)
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
