I haven’t been posting lately, sorry.
I just finished my teaching semester last week and this week I started teaching summer school, so I had about, umm, three days off in between. They call that a weekend.
On top of that i’ve got a cold, that feels to me like bronchitis, and I even lost my [...]

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I think I just like putting the words “Electric Boogaloo” after anything that has a 2.
So, tonight is the 2nd Photobooth reading. You might remember the first.
Or maybe you were there? In any case, tonight will be more of the same: a bunch of people (well, 5 to be exact) responding through readings to various [...]

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Amen to that. (did you know Jeff Goldblum was in this movie?)
It’s been such a long week; i’m so glad it’s Friday.
Last night was another function for the Literary Arts Festival that i’m a part of at the college where I teach. The readers were all local/San Diego writers and included:
Jim Miller read [...]

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I’m so digging on The Believer Magazine’s 2008 Film Issue.
This is the first time i’ve ever bought a copy. I’ve read it at friends’ houses, i’ve been to the website– i’ve long been a fan of Heidi Julavitz (In grad-school I studied for a couple of semester’s under her hubby Ben Marcus). But for [...]

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I’m a bit swamped this week, what with working on my book/chapters
and grading and preparing for this Literary Arts Festival at one of the colleges where I teach Creative Writing (i’m giving a talk for their “Writer as Activist” Festival Theme–but more on that another time).
In the meantime, here is one of my latest finds/purchases [...]

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ok ok, another quick movie review…
last night Ted and I watched Margot at the Wedding.
Ooof. I loved Noah Baumbach’s last movie, The Squid and the Whale, and this one is pretty genius as well but SO SO SO twisted. I may be twisted myself, though, because I like how Baumbach puts it all out [...]

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After taking care of my 8 month old neice yesterday (yes! I fed the baby! mashed sweet potatoes!) I decided I needed to go see The Ruins. (how’s that for a segue/non sequitur?).
If you haven’t seen the commercials, The Ruins is the new horror film about the group of young, attractive people who find themselves [...]

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My Canadian pal, Lola, turned me on to this cool weblog by writer JA Konrath– called
A Newbie’s Guide To Publishing. He has some pretty sage advice and words of wisdom, for example:
There’s a word for a writer who never gives up… published
and
Write when you can. Finish what your start. Edit what you finish. Submit what [...]

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*contrary to popular belief, this is not what Sally Field said when she won the Academy Award in 1985 (her second) for “Places in the Heart.” She actually said: “…I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
In any case, somebody out there likes me. Or, likes my writing project. [...]

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I’m a baby. I’m a mess when i’m sick. I hate being sick.
<–remember Sniffles?!
I’m not really that sick but I have a bad code cold. I’m all congested, my head feels
like it’s going to expwode explode. I’m sniffling, sneezing. Blowing my nobe nose all day.
Thankfully, i’m not really feeling too terrible, just stuffed up, [...]

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