For every devil in my life I seem to have ten angels who share the most soulful stories and meals with me. June and Richard and their family are like a extended family dream come true ...
Every night over Easter I stared at different colour moons one evening the moon was like a ball of fire hanging in the air - On Friday I had to pinch myself to absorb the reddest and yellowest moon ever. And then I thought, How insignificant I am! Of course, I thought that last weekend, too, and there was no moon in sight;-) Lucky, lucky me as every morning over breakfast, I get to talk about the beauty of Tammarrama beach and how the web is making all kinds of research possible. Without the web I would have no clue as which exotic Spannish school or church my next character, Margareta Barranquerro, went to. The theme of my novel keeps coming back and asking how do you enjoy something that doesn't enjoy you back or how do you love something that dislikes you? Forget regret / Or life is yours to miss. / No other road / No other way / No day but today.
Everyone over Easter wanted to know how my film script was doing (long way to go yet). A couple dozen people want to know how the Iceberg club did on the weekend (busy). And two Finnish people wanted to know what the hell is going on with the Barranqueros; That Margareta is a woman doesn't matter. That she has four children doesn't matter. That her husband is a workoholic with a fondness for older women — none of this matters. What matters is that she is like a flower young and beautiful and peppered with poetry - I have a heroine in my next book: A Foley, Coffey, and Barranquero etc Families of sore losers like no other
[My mates Christopher and Steve tell me I have good-looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheated on me ;-)]
There's nothing like sitting alone in a room for hours, staring at a blank page on a computer screen, to get one thinking about why writing can be so difficult. Fitzgerald compared the process to holding one's breath under water. And almost every writer has a well-developed procrastination strategy to put off the unpleasantness as long as possible. Drop That! Now Write or even Better Read. National Drop Everything and Read Day Million-Dollar Mountains and Oceans: Eastern European Literature needs a good drink
Question: Have your sexual adventures ever interfered with your writing?
Answer: I think most bloggers are people with very strong appetites for food, booze, sex, pleasure and art. The Bohemians call people who don’t like those things small-natured — petite nature. I guess I aspire to be the opposite of that.
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Gregory K. writes "April is National Poetry Month (and, it turns out, Math Awareness Month), and on my blog, I decided to get people writing poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence. The poems are six lines, 20 syllables long with the syllable pattern 1/1/2/3/5/8, though they can go longer, obviously. I've been calling 'em Fib
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• Let Me Finish [ Human beings are cheap dates; One of the great tragedies of the Sydney pub scene was the demise of the Century Tavern. A dingy, dank pub above the Burger King in George St it was a place of legend. Anyone, goths, students, geeks, blue collar and white collar workers could hang out, have a few drinks and not feel out of place. It was a lovely place and I vaguely remember a few evenings in the old world, beer stained environs. Blogger Farewell The Good Old Sydney Local ; Yet the friendly Sydney pub does not seem endangered not at Bondi anyway! Breaking ice ... ]
• · More diversity is needed to encourage the uptake of digital TV, according to Jason Bosland, Andrew Kenyon and Robin Wright Will viewers like the digital challenge? ; Vaughn Ververs wonders if we're entering an age where anonymous leaks are considered half-truths that aren't to be trusted. Unfortunately, in a typical Washington display of pure hypocrisy, the answer is most probably no The Tangled Webs We’ve Weaved
• · · Tom Fiedler's memo on changes at the Herald contains these phrases, which are trotted out in one form or another whenever anyone announces moving additional resources to online: "But we didn't fall in love with journalism because of ink and paper. We fell in love with it because it had the power to change lives for the better -- and we can do that on paper, on the web and over the airwaves with equal devotion." Some do fall in love with news biz because of ink and paper ; The real story here is the collaboration of the businessman, his private henchmen, and their federal prosecutor and FBI allies to try to set up a sleazy but not criminal gossip columnist for a federal bust NYT wrong to treat P6 scandal as a criminal case: Sleazy? Yes. Criminal? Probably not.
• · · · Boston University's Bob Zelnick believes it's time to give thought to "divorcing" the journalism department from its advertising and public-relations cousins within the College of Communications. The two should be raised as adversaries Prof wants to split PR off from program ; Clarion-Ledger executive editor Ronnie Agnew says this is "just the latest in a string of bizarre incidents involving the city's top executive." Last month, Jackson Mayor Frank Melton warned reporter Kathleen Baydala not to write a story looking into his use of two city detectives as his private security detail, adding, "I will cream you, personally" if the story is published. Mayor kicks 'C-L' out of news conference
• · · · · "It takes more to make a scandal in Hollywood than Jared Paul Stern," says LA-based blogger Mickey Kaus. "Hollywood has looser ethical guidelines. People get gratuitous [movie] producer contracts just to keep relationships going and they don't pretend there are no conflicts of interest. Nobody makes any bones that it's a mad scramble for sex, power and money." Why LA media observers don't care about Page Six scandal ; Where does the political reporter end and the political operative begin?" Yellow Peril
• · · · · · Whether you are on the right or the left, take off the media conspiracy goggles," writes Steve Blow. "They distort everything. The same reporters and editors are on the job today as when [President] Bush had some of the highest approval ratings in history. There wasn't a conspiracy to pump him up then. There's no conspiracy to bring him down now." We need thoughtful criticism, not knee-jerk media bashing ; Snarkmarket, Anyone? ; Cin-o-matic
