Posted in Uncategorized, tagged quotidian on 31 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Saturday and Sunday we got over two feet of snow in our little town. Everything was covered in clean whiteness. Our car looked like a giant marshmallow. Most of the snow is still here, although some of it has melted. On Monday morning I shoveled a path down our steps to the street. It [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cool stuff on 30 January 2008 | No Comments »
When I was very young I thought the phone company could tell when you had too much going on in your house to answer the phone. That’s when they sent a busy signal to whoever was trying to call you. I also believed that clouds came from the smokestacks at the smelter near the Northern [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged shameless self promotion on 29 January 2008 | No Comments »
I have always been interested in odd literary forms. Show me a short story in the form of an index to a non-existent book, and I will be deliriously happy. Or an entire novel that does not use the letter “e.” Or how about a book written in a completely made up language that neither [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged borges, cool stuff on 28 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
When he was a teenager Borges used to write stories and poems, print them up as chapbooks, then take them around his town and slip them into the pockets of coats he found hanging on coat racks at restaurants, barber shops, stores, and other establishments. I have always found this image of the young Borges [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged the writing life on 27 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hello to my faithful readers from “Conditional Reality,” “Marcel et Moi,” and “Terrastina and mazolli.” I have decided to consolidate all my blogging activities here. I’ll leave my other blogs up for historical and archival purposes, but I don’t expect to add anything more to them.
My current project is a novel about a couple of [...]
