Category: Storytelling

  • Gang stories calls it quits

    It’s easy to understand why the author of gangstories has found dredging up his past to be too painful to continue, but it’s sort of a shame. You don’t often get this kind of clear-eyed gripping depiction of life in poor neighborhoods, let alone honest portrayal of gangbanging without all the “gangsta” glamour shoveled on…

  • A hummer used to be a good thing

    Back from the Edge tells a little story about being trapped behind a Hummer in traffic. Yesterday I was reading about Steve Wozniak’s new venture* with his Wheels of Zeus (WoZ) company, a GPS-chip based tracking system for children, pets, and other things that tend to go missing. Totally opt in, I’m sure, so no…

  • Light posting…

    Been on a semivacation in New York and can barely keep up with one weblog let alone six. I wish there were something like the MTrssfeed plugin available here so I could list headlines from my other blogs in my TypePad sidebar. Just posted a little note about seeing Greg Osby at Birdland and encountering…

  • Writers who inspire me today.

    If my host (and hence MT server) weren’t down for maintenance and upgrade today, I’d post the following to (arts)flow or Infinite Work over at ezone. Instead, I’ll save it here because damn I wish I had Susannah’s balls: Why I Like to Smoke Crack. Today, I wrote up a two-page proposal for my novel…

  • It's a simple matter

    “…a simple matter of implementing the algorithms,” said the British-accented voice on NPR as I turned my radio off. Sure, I said, “and of algomenting the implerithms.”

  • Dutch Uncles. Steve – beard,

    Dutch Uncles. Steve – beard, jesus, Monokokolokis Doug – saab, Eames chair Dale – elusive godparents real uncles