What along train strip ich bin. So I've just randomly decided that it's time for me to start writing on a daily basis again. And while I would greatly prefer for such an exercise to be focused toward a larger work -- perhaps that mostly-unwritten screenplay for Honkey, a multiracial tale of star-crossed lovers who discover it is not their ( Read more... )

The following interchange is the result of an NPR story that aired a few years back about a gentleman who wrote a book charging that contemporary American authors such as Cormac McCarthy and Don DeLillo should not be rewarded with literary prizes for what he considers difficult and confusing prose. The link was sent to me by a friend and is ( Read more... )

Does anybody care that I haven't updated my journal in 6 months? If so, reply with a comment and I will consider filling in the gap.

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Any of us with half a brain who have been through the US higher education system in the last twenty years have been exposed to postmodernist thought and have been trained to be good little deconstructionists ( Read more... )

"The Democratic left wants it to be 1968 in perpetuity; the Democratic center wishes for 1992 to repeat itself over and over again. History, however, doesn’t oblige such wishes -- it rewards those who recognize new moments as they arise." So begins the conclusion to Michael Tomasky's article "Party in Search of a Notion" in this month's American ( Read more... )

Okay, am I the only one who finds it really fucking odd that Lionel Richie headlined a concert in Libya commemorating the 20th anniversary of Reagan's bombing?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/arts/17arts.html

I bought some drums. It is the first large item expenditure I've allowed myself in quite some time and perhaps the timing isn't quite right, but it's something I've been thinking about since I left the old Hyde Park place. Although I never really got past very basic drumming rhythms, I discovered something within me that really likes drumming and ( Read more... )

There is something soul cleansing that accompanies the arrival of spring. While we do not suffer from particularly brutal winters here in Austin, we are subjected to the invernal loss of foliage and enough freezes to kill off any perishable plants ( Read more... )