I Give In
Wednesday April 27th 2005, 12:19 pm
So, my brother has moved down here, and part of his new gig is a company car. This means he is now leasing his car to me. After almost four months of taking the bus to work, I’m going to become another solo-driving jackass.
On the one hand, I no longer have that built-in time to write. It’s been great these past months to sit on the number 3 and get cracking. I’ll have to maintain that discipline and make sure that I write when I get up and when I get home.
On the other hand, it’s tough to beat getting home early enough that I can cook and sit down to eat with Anne like a regular person. That rocks. Plus the car is fun to drive.
We’re still going to dump Anne’s beast and get her a hybrid, and I might give the bus another shot when the express 3 starts up in June. But in the meantime, I’m hanging up the bus pass and getting behind the wheel.
No, the Pope isn’t Polish anymore…
Tuesday April 19th 2005, 10:20 am
Well, hell.
What’s in The Hatch?
Monday April 18th 2005, 4:20 pm
Lost is good television. Yes, it’s got a formula, and those hurlting-trombones-down-the-staircase riff the show uses right before cutting to commercial is just on the safe side from annoying, but I don’t wish for the characters to get eaten by wandering monsters. I keep watching the show and asking myself:
What’s up with the polar bears?
Where are the freaky survivor people?
And, dude, what the hell is in The Hatch?
That’s good storytelling, when an author has the audience wanting more. I just hope the whole thing isn’t going to be someone’s dream. That would suck and put JJ Abrams right into the David Kelly Home for Hacks.
Are you the Judean People’s Front?
Friday April 15th 2005, 10:08 am
Sweet!
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Sibling Jackhammer of Patience.
Get yours.
The recent playlist
Thursday April 14th 2005, 2:15 pm
Holy pants, but I can see the end in sight for “Making Twenty,” a story about career counseling and transhumanism. I think it’s got two cool things going for it:
1) It’s going to clock in under 13K, which means if I can trim it to 10K, it’ll be a lot more publishable.
2) It’s open-ended enough to be the first part of a novel.
These are things that make me very happy.
Fueling this has been stuff from the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack and podcasts from Indiefeed, which was nice enough to introduce me to The Postal Service. Give ‘em a listen.
Notes for the future HBO production of “The Right People”
Tuesday April 12th 2005, 3:27 pm
Sandra Oh and Bill Pullman as Gene’s parents
Burnsie as Ms. Derosa (she’d get the voice and mannerisms down pat)
William Petersen as the Principal (’cause I think, deep down, he’d want to show his comedic side. All while wearing a fat suit and lots of horrific makeup, of course)
Complete unknowns as the kids
Music by Ben Folds
People to keep away: Ashton Kutcher, that dude who played Stifler, the cast of the OC.
This man is a teacher
Thursday April 07th 2005, 5:28 pm
