Saturday, September 29, 2007
Since before this year even started, everyone and their mother started writing about the 50th anniversary of Kerouac’s On the Road, and the traveling exhibition of the scrolled manuscript. Good stuff over at friend Xark’s, for example.
Remember that 10,000 Maniacs song: Hey Jack Kerouac, I think of your mother, And all the tears she cried… [...]
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
–RWE
Friday, September 14, 2007
The entry title is another googlism (see link from previous entry). I’ve got my book back, so about reading. The book, Gail Sher’s One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers, has appeared here before, linked (use search function to your right for ease, if you like; please do not email me about tags and [...]
Thursday, September 13, 2007
This is a googlism.
Which may give you an idea about how this day went. At least.
There was an auction up the street, next block. The auctioneer had a microphone. No, I wouldn’t, couldn’t shut the windows: I want every moment of this weather, and this light. Had a phone call and thought it necessary to [...]
Thursday, September 6, 2007
This is what shows of a spam in my gmail account, registering just as I clicked on the “spam” button to forever remove it. Not forever gone, we see.
Last night we went to Brock Clarke’s reading of his new novel, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England. It was filled, the Joseph-Beth’s reading [...]
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
All last week I was somewhere in upstate SC in a hotel room miserable and sick; no idea really what was wrong exactly, as I spent the first two - three days sleeping nearly the whole time (C. was off on work-related business, the reason for our being there). I improved as the week wore [...]