Category Archives: meme
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
Messenger Bag Contents Also A Guide To My Blog
My friend Jane made up a blog meme and then tagged me. She asked us to take everything out of our bags right when she emailed us, and to put the contents list on our blogs. The bag is a … Continue reading
I Am Either Where You Think I Am, Or, Not
It snowed this morning. It’s the first snow of the year. I woke up and there was the beautiful light off the snow in the kitchen as I came downstairs. I felt released from the fall. I took a break … Continue reading
Filed under blogs, books, fiction, fiction prompts, graphic novels, letters to you, meme, politics, what I am working on, writers, writing, writing exercises
8 Things About Me, part 2
It’s the oldest meme in all the internet, but it was still hard. I grew up in Maine, mostly. I lived there 12 years. New York, for 11. So I feel fairly split between them. Having done another kind of … Continue reading
Every Time It Happens, They Say It’s The First Time
One of the really puzzling phenomena, for example, has been the habitual reference to Clinton’s run as “the first serious campaign for president by a woman.” That is how I heard it described on a cable news program half an … Continue reading
The Writers Guild Strike Explained, Even Better Than Ever
From Dana Goodyear’s blog at the New Yorker.
Filed under media, meme, what is right with us, what is wrong with us, writers, writing
18% Winner, 82% Loser
You might wonder how [Chris] Matthews could simultaneously argue that John McCain would be a big winner if he got 18 percent of the vote and that if Hillary Clinton finished with more than 30 percent, it would mean she … Continue reading
Filed under meme, political art, politics, product
The Silent Majority Is Reading
The New York Times ran this piece Sunday about the pretentiousness of buying something like Herodotus for someone for Christmas. Let’s read along and translate it, shall we? Feel free to add your own translations in the comments. YOU would … Continue reading
