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Here's Beth Wellington on Mamet. And Robert Hughes interviews Mamet in the Wall Street Journal. Mamet on plot: "I once worked for a summer laying sod. This is the only thing I've ever done that was harder than that. You've got to get over your own cleverness. You have to become extraordinary analytical, and throw out all the stuff you love to get there. Sometimes it doesn't make sense. You stare at that sheet of paper for years and know there's something hiding in there."
The Pogues do Cole Porter.
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Had lunch on Key Biscayne yesterday at the Lighthouse Cafe, place at the end of the island owned by the Gonzalez family. I ordered majuas because I'd never heard of it. Small whole fish lightly dredged in spicy flour and deep fried. Served with lime and tabasco--fabulous! David G. sent me this link to the little critters, jenkinsia majua.
A photo of my typewriter by Gary Lanier.
FIU MFA Ginny Rorby has one this year's Schneider Family Book Awards in the Teens category for her book Hurt Go Happy.
Kills a man with a Christmas tree.
"Anti-Castro Cuban exiles who have been linked to bombings and assassinations are living free in miami. Does the U.S. government have a double standard when it comes to terror?" The terrorist training camp in the neighborhood. (thanks to Mike in Miami Beach)
Cindy and I went to see our friend Mickey who was in town for a gig at the Hard Rock. We couldn't stay for the show, but we had lunch and then went to the tour bus and hung out a bit. Mickey burned a CD of some songs he'd written. During the visit, a storm blew in. We watched the Doppler radar on teh computer. Didn't look like it was getting any better. And we had to get home and get ready for a dinner with friends. We decided to brave the storm. B. made us trash bag ponchos and Mickey gave me his Carolina Mudcats ball cap, and we were ready. Mickey snapped the photo and we ran for it.
Cindy says Louis Prima is the go-to guy for happiness. With Keely Smith and Sam Butera and the Witnesses.
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My old friend Susan Lozoraitis has work in a new art show in Worcester.“As a graduate art student, I didn’t have a lot of money to purchase canvas,” said Lozoraitis, who graduated from Western Connecticut State University in May with a master of fine arts degree. “As an individual, I need to see evidence of the living green world everywhere as a reminder of all that nature provides for our lives. Then, I thought about how gowns are probably worn once and then sit in the closet. The result of putting these ideas together was an ecological vision, “Spring Apparel,” created from recycled clothing.”
My pal Don Bullens has won the Flick'r 1,000 Invitational photo contest. He took the picture on one of our Writing/Photography workshops.
Today's short story waiting to be written comes to us from Matt in Columbia: "A man walks into a brothel . . ."
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," the former Arkansas governor said. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973." --Mike Huckabee
I have avoided Microsoft Word for a decade now--but I've been forced to use it because of a compueter crash and because Norton dosen't have Word Perfect. Word is a miserable program, and I don't know why anyone would prefer it. I'm spending my days now trying to figure out why spaces come out of nowhere and some lines won't print and the fonts change whenever they feel like it, apparently. I'd rather be writing. I'm glad someone else agrees with me. A typwriter would be easier than this. So the rest of my day will be filled with trying to find a program that works. Scrivener looks good but isn't compatible with Windows-I'm shocked! Excuse me for venting.
Today's short story waiting to be written: Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets of New York in an office chair to a check cashing store in order to cash the corpse's Social Security check. (Thanks to Matt in Columbia)
Today's short story waiting to be written: "They obliged. The leg -- foot, ankle and most of the calf -- spent time in Wood's freezer until his electricity was cut off. Wood then hung it on a fence post in his front yard to dry." (Thanks to Bill in Cullowhee)
"Pleasure derived from the outrage of prominent conservative pundits over the rising poll numbers of Mike Huckabee."
Lyuba is the best preserved mammoth ever discovered. (Thanks to Jose en Queso)
My friend Merle Drown has a short story up on Meeting House. "First the bear destroyed Hank's hives. With wood from his portable mill, he built new ones. Then the mites killed his bees."
