Aug 25, 2016
These are my friends on the way to work. They’re usually asleep. There’s about six more, and they all hang out around the food carts. I can’t imagine why, the frying oil smells like their butts. Oh, wait, that’s why… A short post tonight,...
Jun 24, 2016
I’m swimming in work but treading water as best I can. I can’t wait to leave for Madrid but in the meantime I’m going to pump out seven reports and annexes, probably 1500 pages of hard-hitting sociological analysis! BOOM! But I’m telling the...
May 2, 2016
From an interview with a literary agent in the fascinating online magazine Guernica, about the agent’s beliefs about talent. He says he means to provoke with the following statement: “I frankly think that initiatives like National Novel Writing Month are...
Apr 27, 2016
I’m a bit late getting to this piece of news, but I just read a story about Virginia Woolf’s suicide. I’ve never read any of her work. I need to catch up. (Pics from Getty, via the BBC article link.) Woolf and her husband criticized Victorian rules....
Apr 23, 2016
Survey results are in! Thanks to so many for participating! I thought you might want to know the outcome! Yep, it’s goats and AKs from Peshawar. Thanks to all who participated! Percentages of the top six qualifiers are below: One does not normally...
Apr 18, 2016
Hello word fans! Can you help me with a sentence? Just one little subject, predicate, object, some punctuation, and bingo! These are from my forthcoming novel, Spy Act. I’m keen to hook a particular agent. Here are a few of my faves: please vote for one you...
