Stand and be counted!
I'm partial to Fauxhemians, Ironoclasts, Sigh-Borgs, Try-Hards, Doucheoisie, Trendsluts, and Trendizens, myself.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wow.
I'm pleased that Obama and company got the health care bill passed. Even though it's not nearly strong enough for what our country needs, it is an unqualified reform, and the politics of compassion, hope, and progress beat out the politics of fear, despair, and hate. The Republicans (and their assorted running dogs) have to be eating their hats right now -- they gambled politically on denying the Democrats (and most particularly, Obama) any kind of legislative success, but they lost. Now they're really going to be in a jam. Good. They deserve to be, the douchebags.
2300 words yesterday.
2300 words yesterday.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Daddy Likes
I like this tune by Surfer Blood. Give it a listen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh7WN7vrJ8s&feature=related
Banged out 5500 words last night -- longhand! I then transcribed it. First book, well underway. I'm gonna type more this weekend, so the output should be great, before being consigned to longhand via the notebook during the workweek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh7WN7vrJ8s&feature=related
Banged out 5500 words last night -- longhand! I then transcribed it. First book, well underway. I'm gonna type more this weekend, so the output should be great, before being consigned to longhand via the notebook during the workweek.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Alas, poor Enzo
They broke his heart! Found this on the way to work yesterday. I love the damage to the heart; not sure what happened to it. But it was a good find.
Freitag
Another sunny, mild day. False spring, served up Chicago-style. Yesterday was gorgeous, too. But don't be fooled. I'm certainly not. We're supposedly due for snow over the weekend, which is no surprise. It happens. But the past couple of days were very pleasant.
I calculated that at my standard writing pace (not even pushing it), I can get six novels done this year, so that's my project. I was originally going to bang out a short story a week, but I'm getting frustrated chasing down the ever-elusive markets for my short fiction, which have dried up in a lot of the areas where I write (it really is quite remarkable -- even six years ago, there were so many more speculative fiction outlets -- not sure if people are just increasingly e-publishing or what, but the old hard-copy publications are largely evaporating).
I know the Great Recession has bitchslapped the publishing industry as it has everything else, and the whole industry is taking a beating, but I think there remains a more vibrant market in long fiction relative to the short fiction market -- at least for what I write. So, I'm putting more emphasis on that, figuring that even if I can't find homes for the book drafts I have, I'll at least have them "in the can" and done.
So, I made my list of titles, the ones I'm going to do. Basically, there are two "literary" (i.e. adult contemporary and/or general fiction), one fantasy, two science fiction, and one thriller. That's a lot on my plate, but I can handle it, and without having to entertain Exene (and, indeed, with the Great March Forward [GMF] in progress, even more creative time opening up for me), it'll be actually doable.
I'm also going to work on a horror screenplay -- I was inspired when I stumbled across a link to the Oklahoma Horror Film Festival, and I had a ready-made idea for a horror screenplay that I can enter into that competition. A longshot, but anything that is profile-raising, so much the better.
Gonna be good, get those fucking taxes filed this weekend, and I'm going to look hard for another job -- I'd like to find something in the Loop. That would make so much far easier (including the GMF). I realize that I should have focused on finding that better job last year, to jumpstart the GMF last year -- I had a lot on my plate emotionally last year (both with Exene and beyond), but this year, I have much more clarity, and that heartbreak isn't in my mix -- it's all squarely in my head, what needs to be done. So I'm just getting it done and moving on. I gave Exene way, way more time than she deserved, but she can't fault me for that, can't say I sprung it on her, with 15 fucking months logged from point of outright emotional departure.
Did you notice that I've had 15 toe stubs since 3/10? (sidebar, below blogroll) I really, really need steel-toe slippers!
I calculated that at my standard writing pace (not even pushing it), I can get six novels done this year, so that's my project. I was originally going to bang out a short story a week, but I'm getting frustrated chasing down the ever-elusive markets for my short fiction, which have dried up in a lot of the areas where I write (it really is quite remarkable -- even six years ago, there were so many more speculative fiction outlets -- not sure if people are just increasingly e-publishing or what, but the old hard-copy publications are largely evaporating).
I know the Great Recession has bitchslapped the publishing industry as it has everything else, and the whole industry is taking a beating, but I think there remains a more vibrant market in long fiction relative to the short fiction market -- at least for what I write. So, I'm putting more emphasis on that, figuring that even if I can't find homes for the book drafts I have, I'll at least have them "in the can" and done.
So, I made my list of titles, the ones I'm going to do. Basically, there are two "literary" (i.e. adult contemporary and/or general fiction), one fantasy, two science fiction, and one thriller. That's a lot on my plate, but I can handle it, and without having to entertain Exene (and, indeed, with the Great March Forward [GMF] in progress, even more creative time opening up for me), it'll be actually doable.
I'm also going to work on a horror screenplay -- I was inspired when I stumbled across a link to the Oklahoma Horror Film Festival, and I had a ready-made idea for a horror screenplay that I can enter into that competition. A longshot, but anything that is profile-raising, so much the better.
Gonna be good, get those fucking taxes filed this weekend, and I'm going to look hard for another job -- I'd like to find something in the Loop. That would make so much far easier (including the GMF). I realize that I should have focused on finding that better job last year, to jumpstart the GMF last year -- I had a lot on my plate emotionally last year (both with Exene and beyond), but this year, I have much more clarity, and that heartbreak isn't in my mix -- it's all squarely in my head, what needs to be done. So I'm just getting it done and moving on. I gave Exene way, way more time than she deserved, but she can't fault me for that, can't say I sprung it on her, with 15 fucking months logged from point of outright emotional departure.
Did you notice that I've had 15 toe stubs since 3/10? (sidebar, below blogroll) I really, really need steel-toe slippers!
Texass
The reactionary gorilla in the room, Texas, thumping its chest. This is problematic -- the politicizing of history for the ideological ends of the Republican Party.
Judging from the updated social studies curriculum, conservatives want students to come away from a Texas education with a favorable impression of: women who adhere to traditional gender roles, the Confederacy, some parts of the Constitution, capitalism, the military and religion. They do not think students should learn about women who demanded greater equality; other parts of the Constitution; slavery, Reconstruction and the unequal treatment of nonwhites generally; environmentalists; labor unions; federal economic regulation; or foreigners.Thanks to the movement reactionaries, this skewed view of history will be spread into textbooks around the country. Infuriating.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Thighs Have It
I realize that I'm a thigh man, in addition to other things -- there's something very compelling about a nicely-turned woman's thigh. A smooth line. I find I notice a woman's thighs -- she's got to have'em. I'm no fan of the anorexic matchstick legs you see on fashion models and various eating disordered sorts in the city. If a woman's thighs are skinnier than my upper arms, it just looks sickly to me. I'm sure that's the subconscious mating cue, there, like health vs. sickness. Gimme some thigh! I need something to hold onto!
I'm sure watching ANTM makes me more conscious of that, seeing those half-starved, half-mad models doing their thing on the show -- all of them waifs, even the obligatory "plus size model" (What is she, a size 6? A fashion model zeppelin?) is too skinny. There's fit and attractive, and then there's starvation, and all of the ANTM models are like that -- just way too skinny. And they say the camera adds 10 pounds to you, so it makes me wonder just how much worse they look in real-life.
They did two eliminations last night -- Gabrielle "I Look Like Matt from 'Nip/Tuck'" and Naduah "I have a shaved head and grew up in a cult." Most of the gals this season are particularly crazy -- not all, but most. Amazing to think this show's been on for so many years!
I still don't really have a favorite, yet. The one with the eyebrows did a good job last night, but I don't particularly like her. Jessica, the Arkansas Baby Daddy Girl, did well, too -- she seems nice enough, and is very pretty, but I haven't cottoned to her, yet. Ren, the wild card, was so whiny, she was annoying me a great deal -- and Tyra, to her credit, commented on her whining on the set by pointing out her tattoos, said "You clearly have endured pain and discomfort before...." I loved that.
Here they all are. Stick Chicks on parade. Of course, I'm busy trying to find their astrological signs, to see whether the annoying ones are annoying me especially because they're particular signs that invariably annoy me.
I'm sure watching ANTM makes me more conscious of that, seeing those half-starved, half-mad models doing their thing on the show -- all of them waifs, even the obligatory "plus size model" (What is she, a size 6? A fashion model zeppelin?) is too skinny. There's fit and attractive, and then there's starvation, and all of the ANTM models are like that -- just way too skinny. And they say the camera adds 10 pounds to you, so it makes me wonder just how much worse they look in real-life.
They did two eliminations last night -- Gabrielle "I Look Like Matt from 'Nip/Tuck'" and Naduah "I have a shaved head and grew up in a cult." Most of the gals this season are particularly crazy -- not all, but most. Amazing to think this show's been on for so many years!
I still don't really have a favorite, yet. The one with the eyebrows did a good job last night, but I don't particularly like her. Jessica, the Arkansas Baby Daddy Girl, did well, too -- she seems nice enough, and is very pretty, but I haven't cottoned to her, yet. Ren, the wild card, was so whiny, she was annoying me a great deal -- and Tyra, to her credit, commented on her whining on the set by pointing out her tattoos, said "You clearly have endured pain and discomfort before...." I loved that.
Here they all are. Stick Chicks on parade. Of course, I'm busy trying to find their astrological signs, to see whether the annoying ones are annoying me especially because they're particular signs that invariably annoy me.
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