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Of Dollhouses and Dress Socks 6 Jul 2013 | 06:20 pm
I like to think that I'm mostly immune to the American addiction to buying stuff, but once in a while something happens to remind me that I'm as sucked into this consumer culture as everyone else. La...
DOMA, Prop 8 & SCOTUS 8 Apr 2013 | 01:58 am
A couple of weeks ago the Supreme Court heard arguments for and against California's Proposition 8, a voter-initiated law banning gay marriage, and the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the fed...
A Story in Pictures 4 Mar 2013 | 03:26 am
This is the switch that stays off. This is the ceiling fan controlled by the switch that stays off. This is the bucket that caught the water that cascaded through the ceiling fan controlled by the s...
Fiction Friday: The ABC's of Structure 19 Jan 2013 | 06:16 am
This term, my writing class is on structure. There are several classic structures used in storytelling: Linear--most common. Chronological, escalating tension. Used for most screenplays and novels. ...
Party Time at Grandma's 31 Dec 2012 | 07:03 pm
Tonight, seven of my grandkids, ranging from age four to age 10, will be here for a party/sleepover. It's a little insane to have that many kids running up and down the stairs, slamming doors and arg...
Christmas Songs 20 Dec 2012 | 06:03 am
(From XKCD.com.) A Facebook friend posted this last week and it made me laugh, but it also made me wonder which Gen X and Y Christmas songs were being ignored. After some research, I came up with th...
Comedy and Anger 8 Dec 2012 | 06:01 pm
So I was reading McKee's Story last night: "Comedy is at heart an angry, antisocial art. To solve the problem of weak comedy, therefore, the writer first asks: What am I angry about? He finds that asp...
The Only State That Matters 28 Oct 2012 | 09:10 pm
According to the pundits, the only state that matters in the upcoming presidential election is Ohio. If you wonder what it's like to live in the eye of the electoral storm: Your phone rings 10 times...
The Game of Life 16 Oct 2012 | 05:26 am
When I play a game of FreeCell, the first thing I do is make all the easy moves. Red nine? Black ten? There's a move. Red King? Black queen? There's another. To be honest, this is not an approach tha...
Grad School Update #2: Subtext 30 Sep 2012 | 04:10 pm
As you have no doubt inferred by now, grad school is Kicking. My. Butt. Sorry I've been so absent lately (and am about to disappear again). So far, I've had one major epiphany. It's about subtext. O...
