worms in my novel
the worms in my novel are about to meet the ants on a mobius…
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Franzen-centricity
I’m not interested in whether Jonathan Franzen hates Twitter, or bashes Oprah and Rushdie, and I could do without knowing about his blue-balled boner and coin-tossing rage, and financial status: but nearly fifty years after Marshall McLuhan wrote “the medium is the message,” after who knows how many gazillion downloads of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 … Continue reading Franzen-centricity
Hong Kong’s other ear
In 2001 when I spoke Mandarin in Hong Kong the people ignored me or replied in Cantonese. In 2003 when I spoke Mandarin in Hong Kong they replied in Mandarin. China’s economic boom had turned the bumpkin next door into a rich relative. I thought everyone had just gone to language school. My HK friend … Continue reading Hong Kong’s other ear
geek out
my mom, in between taking me to assorted rock concerts as a kid, also taught me how to sew, knit, and crochet. sometimes she combined the two: i came home from a Rush concert once and drew her a picture of the black/white seersucker jacket Geddy Lee had worn, and she made me one. kick … Continue reading geek out
the name of the thing
i’m working on a new title for the novel, so here it is.
tiddlywinks
this year there’s a debate that cooking has supplanted knitting as the “new yoga.” but most of this cooking stuff is really about High Chefery. we have Chefs with Designer Footwear, Chefs Undercover (writing “tales from the trade” novelettes, with titles such as “Under Hot Water,” “Hung High and Dry Like a Cold Cut,” “Kept … Continue reading tiddlywinks
i told you so
ever since the Northridge earthquake in 1994 i have had the fear of being inside a porta pottie, peeing into the plastic echo… and then along comes an aftershock, a giant gust of wind, or shockwaves from an asteroid crashing into the moon and BOOM! down goes the porta pottie on its side. and that’s … Continue reading i told you so
sunny and hot
i’ve been noodling about the idea of whether or not to start a Tumblr account. if i could only figure out when i’m serious and when i’m a jackass i could probably separate my blogging from my tumbling but until then… the thing i like about blogging is that i actually “own” it. it’s mine, … Continue reading sunny and hot
anyone say “pizza?”
“The new tenants crammed the insides full of Unified Desires workstations and littered the back with cable crimpers, pitted track balls, carcasses of old CRT monitors, liberated ‘esc’ keys, twisty-tied clumps of twisty ties, pink puffy packs nested inside of manila puffy packs, unlabeled male-to-male flow-through enhancers, outdated small capacity RAM chips, ditto hard drives, … Continue reading anyone say “pizza?”