"Hunter Thompson is the most creatively crazy and vulnerable of the new journalists. His books are brilliant and honorable and valuable…the literary equivalent of cubism: all rules are broken." Kurt Vonnegut — reading fear and loathing on the campaign trail. Vulnerable. That's the interesting part of the quote to me. I don't think most people think of hunter being Vulnerable. I… Continue reading rule for the day is the joke of the day
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Two Shorts, A Novel Break (Fall Notebook Page 12)
"Humanity is mad. It must be mad to do what it is doing. What a massacre! What scenes of horror and carnage! I cannot find words to translate my impressions. Hell cannot be so terrible. Men are mad!" Words that, A French lieutenant at Verdun who was later killed by an artillery shell wrote in… Continue reading Two Shorts, A Novel Break (Fall Notebook Page 12)
I Remember That Day #2
There are two people that I will never meet who I remember most about that day... There are late nights after a short adventures. You hit your bed, you open your eyes, and the people back there are gone and you wish they were here. Old friends and old pals and girls who you said… Continue reading I Remember That Day #2
Kittens do not belong in Microwaves (and some other Saturday thoughts)
(An Entry without a number or even a letter in the series, Wanderings of a writer in the digital age) On Summer Music Gatherings… So it's a nice summer night. Sitting in lawn chair after what just happened last hour and I’m happy. So my hometown really knows how to set the mood. So they're… Continue reading Kittens do not belong in Microwaves (and some other Saturday thoughts)
WANDERING AND WONDERING WITH PLASTIC KEYS (An Entry)
FIRST... WHAT ARE WE TALKING BOUT HERE? It's got to change. No. It doesn't have to do anything I was told, and I'm going to make a mess of this blog for a while and write whenever I want. Once I get my first book done and the summer is over, When I'm moved and… Continue reading WANDERING AND WONDERING WITH PLASTIC KEYS (An Entry)
Adventures In American Writing 