Category Archives: animal savagery
On Writing This Blog As An Unfinished Book
When Kyle Minor at HTMLGiant wrote about reading this blog as a book two weeks ago, I decided to do a little of it myself to see what I could see. What I saw, interestingly, was not what I thought … Continue reading
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New World, Again
1. Oh horrifying new world, where every site I visit wants me to have a profile and to receive mailings. I have over 600 messages from them unread in my gmail account, and this is because I resent the time … Continue reading
Using Ford Madox Ford to Fix Wolverine
This last summer, at the same time that I was thinking about Ford Madox Ford’s theory of fiction writing, I went to go see maybe the most disappointing of the summer films, X-Man Origins: Wolverine. It’s just come out on … Continue reading
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I’m Not Done
[Press play, then read] The silence was full. The old monk let himself float down the river on the current, staring at the sky, anxious to be alone. He waited until he made out the old mine’s shadows. He paddled … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, fiction break, fox demons, meme
This Is Not The Superhero Film You Were Looking For
In retrospect, the sturm und drang over whether the Watchmen was any good or not (as a film based on the graphic novel) made us lose sight of what it actually was—a story that’s at least meant to satirize the … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, comics, film, gossip, graphic novels, manga, what is right with us, what is wrong with us
1 Thing About Marriage Equality
I live in a country where you can be straight and get married at the end of a game show after having met just a few weeks before, and be gay and know each other for 20 years and not … Continue reading
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Deconditioned
Because my therapist and I concluded that much of my recent lethargy and even depression began when I stopped using yoga to talk to myself, I find myself in the second floor yoga room of my gym at 7AM this … Continue reading
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The Money Quote
From Sam J. Miller’s essay on the Short Story, over at The Quarterly Conversation: Many, including me, see a lot of positives in the digitization of art, don’t have a lot of sympathy for the RIAA when it complains about … Continue reading
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Your Questions Answered: Why Don’t The Fake Memoir Writers Write Novels?
Q: Why would someone like Margaret Seltzer try to publish a fictional story as a memoir? A: The novel in the West owes a great deal to the fake memoir, dating back to such classics as Moll Flanders. It was … Continue reading
MSNBC: The Hate Channel
Tragically, the post that was going to appear here was wiped out in an internet snafu. While I weep, make breakfast, etc., live my life, here’s an excerpt I was reading on one of my many open pages, from this … Continue reading
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