January 2011 Movies
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (Niels Arden Oplev) "Party Down: Season 1" (Rob Thomas) "Eureka: Season One" (Jefery Levy) "7 Days To Live" (Sebastian Niemann)
January 2011 Books
"The Magicians: A Novel" (Lev Grossman) "Hijikata: Revolt of the Body (Solar Books – Solar East)" (Stephen Barber) "Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Critical Perspectives On The Past)" (Sam Wineburg) "Theory of the Modern Drama (Theory and History of Literature)" (Peter Szondi) "La Bete and Wrong Mountain: …
Some New Rules
A few new rules in place for this semester:
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I get up as close to 6am as I can and continue with my 100 pushups program (this is week 2 of the 6 week program.
I follow the pushups with increasing time on my step machine and my rowing machine.
I follow that exercise with creative writing for at least 300 words.
Throughout this, I do not check email, Twitter, Facebook, or my RSS feeds until AFTER I have completed my writing and I listen to either birdsong radio or instrumental music until after writing.
December 2010 Movies
"Gavin And Stacey – Series 1-3 And 2008 Christmas Special [2007] / REGION 2 PAL DVD / 6 discs edition / Audio: English / Actors: James Corden, Matthew Horne, Joanna Page, Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon / Director: Christine Gernon / 570 minutes" (Christine Gernon) "After.Life" (Starz / Anchor Bay) "Metropia" (Tribeca Film in Association with …
December 2010 Books
"Michael Tolliver Lives: A Novel" (Armistead Maupin) "King Henry VIII (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)" (William Shakespeare) "Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale" (Leonid Korogodski) "Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel" (Armistead Maupin) "Breathless: A Novel of Suspense" (Dean Koontz) "Realware" (Rudy Rucker) "The Room With No Doors (Doctor Who: The New Adventures)" …
Reflections on the Notion of Home
It’s a grey day in Providence. Lightly snowing, cold but not excessively so. I’ve been staying in the apartment I lived in before moving to Pittsburgh. Empty but for a futon sofa, a small folding table, a microwave cart, and an a.c. that I had left behind when I moved. There is still an internet …
November 2010 Movies
"Quantum of Solace" (Marc Forster) "Red" (Robert Schwentke) "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" (David Yates) "Janeane Garofalo: If You Will – Live in Seattle" (IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT) "Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story" (Sarah Townsend) "Batman: Under the Red Hood (Single-Disc Edition)" (Brandon Vietti) "The Descent (Original Unrated Cut) [Widescreen Edition]" (Neil Marshall) "George …
November 2010 Books
"The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)" (William Shakespeare) "Pericles (Folger Shakespeare Library)" (William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine) "Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage" (Ilan Stavans) "Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness: The Tempest and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)" (John G. Demaray) "Cymbeline (Folger Shakespeare Library)" (William Shakespeare) "Trestle At Pope Lick …
My Debut as a Reader on Podcastle
I’ve been doing the audio production on Podcastle for nearly a year now. I was asked by the editors to read the winning entry from a flash fiction contest that we had and I hope you enjoy:
This Song is Dedicated to the TSA
You sexy, sexy organization you! I’m flying on Thursday and am looking forward to our “date.”