July 2010
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June 2010
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You're not a writer who doesn't write, though....
Presumptuous and out-of-line.
I write every night in my closet.
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What does a writer who doesn't write do?
Writers who don’t write tend to be readers, but very energetic, critical readers. I draw myself out of every great or bad moment in a text and think to myself, “Oh, I would have done that differently.”
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Years ago, when I read Cold Mountain by Charles...
I want to say, “The Internet! I threw the Internet against the wall in anger!” But the Internet is something you can only ignore, rather than throw, which is too bad.
I have thrown a book away. It was ‘Zombie’ by Joyce Carol Oates, and I was a teenager. I wasn’t angry at the book, and I think I even liked it, but my reaction was absolutely visceral, and I wanted the...
“Prepare 2 cups of beef bouillon. While it’s boiling, put the barley meal...”
– Edouard de Pomiane, French Cooking in Ten Minutes, or Adapting to the Rhythm of Modern Life (1930)
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If you had the chance to find out how and when you...
There’s a fundamental question here about “open time” versus “determinism” and fated ends, but also about how reading your horoscope every morning will totally fuck with you.
Alexander Pushkin, who wrote the short story “The Queen of Spades” which I really liked as a kid, was I think pretty obsessed with fate and fortune and games of chance and playing...
I talk to Josh L. every day
“Hey, hey,” I said to Josh L., “ummm, with that beard and in that plaid, you look like you might flip out at any moment and go join Iron & Wine.”
Josh beamed, then started giggling, then clapped his hands. He clapped and grinned and tee-hee-hee’d.
“I meant that to be good,” I said nervously, wanting suddenly to renegotiate my joke. “I hope...
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Motion controls...what do we do with them?
Here’s some trivia: Right before Nintendo’s Wii came out, a little company called Splitfish insisted they had already invented a similar controller, and it was sort of true. I’m not impressed by overblown controllers, but I do actually think Splitfish’s 3D goggles for the PlayStation 2 are amazing. (Then again, my pair was free, which goes a long way.)
Motion controls are...
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I'm just a guy who likes the cut of your jib....
you should see the shape of my moxie
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With regard to the "worm-hand" question below......
Obviously there are the “your teeth are falling out” and the “where are your pants” and the “you are decomposing and you don’t even know” nightmares. I have these recurring nightmares about my adopto-parents dying and I don’t find out for months because I am a terrible, emotionally unavailable daughter. Oh! I have a recurring nightmare about being...
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What's your most memorable caper from before you...
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Would you give a shark mouth-to-mouth to save...
WHAT. No way, bro. I’d punch him in the nose and recommend that he suck it.
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