Posted in Books, Celine Dion, Music on January 29th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve finally finished reading Carl Wilson’s “Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the end of Taste” (link on the right) and it’s the best book about music I’ve read in years (not that I’ve read a lot … but more about that later). Although the book uses Celine Dion and her 1997 release, “Let’s […]
Posted in Fiction, Novels, Writing on November 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Geez … It’s November 1, the day is almost half over in my part of the world and I have yet to begin on my 50,000 words for National Novel Writing Month (which I said I would do, fool that I am).
Actually, I don’t find the writing daunting. I will, but not yet. No, my […]
Posted in Books, Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize, Novels, Writers on October 11th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve read something by Doris Lessing but some time back (1970’s and 1980’s?) I read quite a bit. She was and still is a favourite writer for me. So I was quite happy to see she’s received the Nobel prize for literature.
Let’s see … I’ve read The Golden Notebook (that […]
Posted in Fiction, Tom Waits on October 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Tom Waits, from an interview on Pitchfork:
There is no such thing as nonfiction. There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren’t talking. And the people who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up.
I concur.
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Posted in Creativity, Fiction, Novels, Writing on October 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Have I lost all sense? Probably. But despite logic, history, and common sense, I signed up for NaNoWriMo. What’s that? Well, it’s an acronym of sorts for National Novel Writing Month. And, you repeat, what is that? Well, according to their about page:
“National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants […]
Posted in Blogs, Books, Business, Career, Reading, Work on May 9th, 2007 No Comments »
There is a Jim Cuddy song (Pull Me Through) where the lyrics go something like, “There are letters left unopened here, there never is the time; there are messages I should return …”
Well, I can certainly relate to that these days. There are emails I need to reply to and blog posts I should write […]
Posted in Books, Kurt Vonnegut, People, Writers, Writing on April 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
Listen to this: Kurt Vonnegut has died. He vamoosed at the same age as Kilgore Trout, 84.
Hi ho.
He’s gone to meet his sister. She’s been waiting a while. Though I can’t swear to this (it may not be true), I have heard that she told him recently, “Hey, bring your cigarettes. They’re lighting up all […]
Posted in Blogs, Books, Education, Movies, Reading, Technology, Web, Work on April 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Good grief. It’s already April. Where’ve I been?
Well, as the photo on the right suggests, I’ve been feeding squirrels. (Not really, actually. But a friend put the corn out in the backyard to see what the squirrels would do. Being logical creatures, they ate it.)
I’ve been up to several things: work, education, new house and […]
Posted in Books, Communication, Language, Poetry, Reading on December 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Apparently Shakespeare’s use of language is good for your head. It gets it all excited and twitchy as it’s forced to do engage in that unusual process of thinking.
In particular, Shakespeare’s use of a linguistic technique known as a functional shift, where a part of speech is employed in an unusual way — a noun […]
Posted in Books, Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Writers, Writing on July 15th, 2006 No Comments »
This is an anniversary year. Mind you, every year is an anniversary year of something. Every day could be used to celebrate an event – public or private, births, deaths, weddings and so on. (Today, for example, The History Channel tells us, “The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden on July […]
