A What The Hell po-purree
A few tidbits I’ve collected to share with my weekly readers: What she said Joyce Carol Oates live-tweeted the Mad Men finale and found it severely lacking. One cogent example: … Continue reading
The numbers racket: What The Hell going weekly
I’m the anal-obsessive type. When I wear a watch, I’m constantly checking the time. When I got a car that tells me the outside air temperature, I became obsessed with … Continue reading
Three lasses & one guitar
Sure, this is an ad for a camera, but it is mighty cool nonetheless. Just goes to show, if you can’t manage something on your own, get a couple of … Continue reading
A sweet eulogy of B. B. King by Eric Clapton
Who better to say farewell to the last of the Three Kings Of The Blues? (Albert, Freddie, and B.B.) King is one of those performers, like Pete Seeger, who … Continue reading
Screwed: sex education then and now
A piece on sex ed came across my screen yesterday — touching mainly on how bad we are at teaching our children about sex. This sent me on a nostalgic … Continue reading
Today I think I’ll use… Hyperbaton
It’s fun to use obscure literary and rhetorical terms that nobody knows for techniques that we use all the time. All hyperbaton really is is messing with the typical order … Continue reading
Let’s review
One of the things I hoped for when I gave away 3250 copies of Occasional Soulmates last weekend was a spate of new reviews on Amazon. Books with lots of … Continue reading
When we were young: David Bowie edition
Here’s Ziggy Stardust before he had even thought up Ziggy Stardust, winning some kind of pop music award for creativity and originality. They liked “Space Oddity” enough to give its … Continue reading
John Maynard Keynes has it just about right
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. (I cribbed this from Paul Krugman’s column today, but the idea seems universal, … Continue reading
Hysterical accuracy
I mean, historical accuracy. Sorry. As I edit my next novel (have I mentioned that it’s called Town Father and is set in 1880s California?), I’m getting the occasional shudder … Continue reading
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