Reviews
Ankle deep mud notwithstanding…
Just back from Jazz Fest. More in a bit, but first, "The World That Made New Orleans," Ned Sublette's wonderful new book.
Yikes! I am TAGGED!
Yikes! Linda L. Richards has tagged me! The deal, she says, is that those tagged must:1. Pick up the nearest book.2. Open to page 123.3. Find the fifth sentence.4. Post the next three sentences.5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged YOU.So... here goes: Lucky...
Reprise….
Because I just can't watch this too often. Dance, kitties, dance!Have a great week, everyone!
Art and the muse
One of the wonderful things that happens when the writing has gone well is that on re-reading you discover you were writing more than you knew. To explain, as I'm re-reading "Probable Claws," which is simply intended as a fun mystery, I'm realizing that the theme of...
How big is too big?
I've finished – at least I think I've finished – the first draft of Probable Claws. It's a little over 85,000 words. Is that too big?Tomorrow I start reading it through to see if it makes sense.
The Gossip
The band, not the dirt, that is. But for any reader out there who wonders what Violet Hayes's band sounds like, well, if this guitarist were a short woman with purple hair, this would be it:
Slightly overstuffed, but fun
"A Carrion Death," Michael Stanley's debut, resembles its protagonist, Detective Kubu. Sensory overload, but in a good way.Speaking of... I just had one of those marvelous moments that you writers will recognize. Partly, it's that I was coming back from the gym and...
Can we make Musetta a saint?
OK, it's sort of old news, but according to Galleycat, the "I Can Haz Cheezburger" guy, Martin Grodin, has a book deal. What is new is that he's created an open source site for people who want to create a LOLCats Bible and publish it. For all those scholarly LOL...
Amphibimania, part 2!
Another cool frog story! You know I love my frogs and toads!So, if this dude (Barbourula kalimantanensis) had a fight with the giant toad (Beelzebufo), who would win? What if the fight was in the water, so Beelzebufo couldn't come up for air?
David Simon on the birth of “The Wire”
From the same Boston Phoenix blog, or "phlog," this tidbit from Kafka's letters, about housebreaking his cat:“How hard it is to arrive at an understanding with an animal on this question. There seem to be only misunderstandings, for the cat knows, through blows and...