Thursday, June 30, 2011
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Getting Back to Basics
I've been negligent in regards to my blog lately, no actual writing from me, only posts and re-posts of items I find interesting and or helpful. I haven't tagged anything in my blog for a long time. I wish there was some kind of auto-hash tag thingie that will take key words from my posts or a couple of words from the title and create hash tags. If anybody knows of any Google apps, or new software that hash tags automatically, please let me know. My novel is approaching the final stages. I'm transcribing the final section in the last notebook right now. This damn thing has taken forever but I have to finish it, even if heaven forbid, it doesn't amount to anything, at least I know I finished it. After the novel is printed out, I'm going to take a month or two away from it (if I can) and finish writing another novel, finish a play and complete two graphic novel scripts. The first graphic novel is called, A Done Deal it is a twist on Faust with a new type of artistic medium conglomerate
The second graphic novel is a twisted Science Fiction Romance called Man in the Box.
I cannot go into any detail for either project yet, but I will break the news as soon as one of them are complete and ready for consumption.
And now, a couple hours of sleep before I go back to Grub Street.
L
The second graphic novel is a twisted Science Fiction Romance called Man in the Box.
I cannot go into any detail for either project yet, but I will break the news as soon as one of them are complete and ready for consumption.
And now, a couple hours of sleep before I go back to Grub Street.
L
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
6.6 billion $ theft
http://m.npr.org/story/137151762?url=/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/13/137151762/report-6-6b-meant-for-iraq-may-be-largest-theft-in-u-s-history&ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Sent from my iPhone
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
For awhile in her life, she wrote comic books between 1942-1948. See the link below.
"Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short-story writer most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. In addition to her acclaimed series about murderer Tom Ripley, she wrote many short stories, often macabre, satirical or tinged with black humor. Although she wrote specifically in the genre of crime fiction, her books have been lauded by various writers and critics as being artistic and thoughtful enough to rival mainstream literature.Michael Dirda observed that, "Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist, part of anexistentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers, in particular Dostoevsky, Conrad,Kafka, Gide, and Camus.."
" The young Highsmith had an intense, complicated relationship with her mother and resented her stepfather and in later years she sometimes tried to win him over to her side of the argument in her confrontations with her mother. According to Highsmith, her mother once told her that she had tried to abort her by drinkingturpentine. Highsmith never resolved this love-hate relationship, which haunted her for the rest of her life, and which she fictionalized in her short story"The Terrapin", about a young boy who stabs his mother to
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THE PLAY WITHIN THE PLAY AND THE PLAY AND BEYOND
parisreview: We talk about the play within the play: there is also a play without the play-which contains everything. - Archibald MacLeish
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ARTHUR MILLER QUOTE
parisreview: Somewhere in the blood you have a play, and you wait until it passes behind the eyes. - Arthur Miller
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David Mamet's conversion to Conservatism
"At the risk of biting the hand that feeds him, acclaimed playwrightDavid Mamet has written a new book likely to enflame the liberal audience that has embraced him since his rise to fame with 1984's "Glengarry Glen Ross."
On the cover of "The Secret Knowledge On the Dismantling of American Culture," Mamet proclaims: "The struggle of the Left to rationalize its positions is an intolerable Sisyphean burden. I speak as a reformed Liberal."
Mamet, 63, who grew up the son of liberal Jewish immigrants in Chicago, came to his conversion late in life -- he says he spoke to his first conservatives at age 60 -- and got his schooling from folks like Shelby Steele and Glenn Beck.
"I didn't think about the world before," Mamet told ABC News.com. "I just didn't and I started to think about it. Where does money come from? What's free trade? Capitalism? How do people do business? The understanding that I came up with is we get money from fulfilling the needs of others."
For years, Mamet has entertained us. After earning a place as one of the country's top dramatists for plays "American Buffalo,""Speed the Plow" and the Pulitizer-Prize-winning "Glengarry Glen Ross," Mamet began writing screenplays ("The Untouchables," "The Verdict") and directing features ("Homicide," "State and Main") for Hollywood.
Now he's taking on Hollywood in his new book. "Less and less movies are made every year," he said. "California has taxed the movie businesses away. And it's a damn shame. It's a great biz."
Mamet isn't worried about alienating some of his audience with his new beliefs.
"My responsiblity is to entertain them," he said. "It's not my job to manipulate them, even if I knew how by catering to a political belief..."
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
QUANTUM MECHANICS RULES BENT
Quantum mechanics rule 'bent' in classic experiment
Light can interfere with itself just as water ripples can add to or cancel one another"Researchers have bent one of the most basic rules of quantum mechanics, a counterintuitive branch of physics that deals with atomic-scale interactions.
Its "complementarity" rule asserts that it is impossible to observe light behaving as both a wave and a particle, though it is strictly both.
In an experiment reported in Science, researchers have now done exactly that.
They say the feat "pulls back the veil" on quantum reality in a way that was thought to be prohibited by theory.
Quantum mechanics has spawned and continues to fuel spirited debates about the nature of what we can see and measure, and what nature keeps hidden - debates that often straddle the divide between the physical and the philosophical.
For instance, a well-known rule called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle maintains that for some pairs of measurements, high precision in one necessarily reduces the precision that can be achieved in the other.
One embodiment of this idea lies in a "two-slit interferometer", in which light can pass through one of two slits and is viewed on a screen.
Let a number of the units of light called photons through the slits, and an interference pattern develops, like waves overlapping in a pond. However, keeping a close eye on which photons went through which slits - what may be termed a "strong measurement" - destroys the pattern..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13626587
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Monday, June 6, 2011
YouTube - Ivan Neville - Not Just Another Girl
I'VE LOVED THIS SONG SINCE THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT IN 1988, DRIVING TOWARDS SOME LIFE CHANGING STUFF I COULD NEVER HAD ANTICIPATED.
YouTube - Ivan Neville - Not Just Another Girl
YouTube - Ivan Neville - Not Just Another Girl
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
UPDIKE'S THOUGHTS ON DEVELOPING A WORK ETHIC
Try to Develop Actual Work Habits
"To the young writers, I would merely say, "Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour say—or more—a day to write." Some very good things have been written on an hour a day. . . . So, take it seriously, you know, just set a quota. Try to think of communicating with some ideal reader somewhere. Try to think of getting into print. Don't be content just to call yourself a writer and then bitch about the crass publishing world that won't run your stuff. We're still a capitalist country, and writing to some degree is a capitalist enterprise, when it's not a total sin to try to make a living and court an audience. "Read what excites you," would be advice, and even if you don't imitate it you will learn from it. . . . I would like to think that in a country this large—and a language even larger—that there ought to be a living in it for somebody who cares, and wants to entertain and instruct a reader."
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