Living the Liminal

From yesterday’s NY Times:
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — After white parents in this racially mixed city
complained about school overcrowding, school authorities set out to
draw up a sweeping rezoning plan. The results: all but a handful of the
hundreds of students required to move this fall were black — and many
were sent to virtually all-black, low-performing schools. (Link)
Sometimes I [...]

Been working on a new short story, working title “Subway Voices.”
Am at slightly over 5000 words and probably have about 5000 more to go for the scope that I’m planning.
I’m not ready to share it yet, but I am feeling good about getting back into the swing of fiction writing.

Is it just me or is the retail experience in large stores getting worse and worse? I was in Target & Best Buy today and just found myself annoyed by the entire process - the staff seemed bored and annoyed, they seemed poorly stocked compared to the variety I am used to online, the technology [...]

I just finished reading George Turner’s Down There In Darkness and felt vaguely unsatisfied by the novel as a whole. It was his last book, published posthumously, and hailed by some of the reviewers as a classic. There was some interesting ideas posited about morphic resonance and the concept of Dreamtime but the structure of [...]

First review of the current show:
Being transported to the dismal, quiet bottom of the sea is the first thing one experiences during Invisible City Theatre Company’s production of Purple Hearts by Burgess Clark. With wonderful sound effects by Peter Wood that mimic the groaning of a ship to Elisha Schaefer’s
stark, gray set, conjuring the swimming [...]

Last night before going to see The Secret Life of Eskimos (which wasn’t half-bad as a theatrical production, but the script left a little, well actually quite a lot to be desired), I stopped by an actual, physical music store and bought those old, archaic things called “cds.” I refrained from buying vinyl. This time [...]

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I’ve been wanting to make the site a bit cleaner for a while now, and have looked at a number of themes that were close, but not quite there. This one is the closest to what I was thinking and I really need to start designing my own themes if I’m going to want to [...]

I find it ironic that the whole brouhaha over drastic price cuts on the iPhone has occurred on the heels of Labor Day. In all the whining and grumbling about consumer rights, and that consumers can no longer trust a company (as if companies care about their customers as people rather than as perpetual consumers), [...]

Seems like Bush is having trouble talking and walking.
Anyone want to set some wagering terms?
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