The Photobooth Reading was awesome. Such a blast. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and special thanks to those who
sent in photostrips (they all flashed on the screen before and after the reading) . I’ll blog more about it later, but here’s a photostrip of me and Ted and our friend Jen from last night.
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  I’m reading two short pieces, and then a longer piece about my mother.
It should be a blast– i’m very excited– we’ve got a DJ, a movie screen showing hundreds of photobooth strips, and an actual photobooth set up (courtesy of Photoboof) so that those in the crowd can take their own photobooth strips.
Hope to [...]

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Surely everyone has seen the blog posts about Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, right? The ones with the really amazing clips of current actors recreating scenes from classic Hitchcock films?
Well, I finally got to see the actual magazine issue and I love it. I always do, i’m such a film nut. But what I really love [...]

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Remember Grant Goodeve? He played the oldest son, David Bradford, on Eight Is Enough. (photo courtesy of becoming.net).
He also sang the title song.
Well, this post has nothing to do with Grant Goodeve, but it does have to do with Grants.
I spent just about the entire weekend working on a Writing Grant.
The website for the grant [...]

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I’m giving a reading in mid-March at The Whistlestop Bar in South Park, San Diego.
I read there a few months ago (my essay from Pindeldyboz, “Son of Kong”). This time i’ll be reading (with three other people) about Photobooth photo strips. You know those booths that they have at malls, and stores, and fairs where [...]

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I’ve got to finish Julia Glass’ Three Junes by this week as I have Felicia Sullivan’s The Sky Isn’t Visible From Here next on the queue. I’m assigning an excerpt from Felicia’s book (the first chapter) for this weekend’s reading (from a packet that includes an essay by Alice Walker, an excerpt from Alison Bechdel’s [...]

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I’m back teaching now– two classes that I absolutely love: Advanced Composition and Introduction to Creative Writing. Thus i’ve been a bit lax on posting the last few days, sorry! But i’ll get back into the swing of it by the end of the week.
Just some quick notes for now.
Joined Goodreads– so cool to see [...]

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I just got an email from my brother in law that stated, Did you know that the first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer?
This came with a bunch of “Did You Know” questions (like “The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred [...]

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*B. Manilow (special nod to Lola)
HAPPY NEW YEAR
I know, i’m a little late. We got back this morning at 12:30 a.m. from Cincinnati.
We had a nice time.
Ate too much (Ted’s mom is a fabulous cook). Not to mention she had the best gifts for us. My stocking was stuffed with books (JM Coetzee’s new [...]

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**Wrote two pages at the coffee shop today. Starting to feel like the coffee shop might not be the best place for me to write. Maybe to revise or edit, but not when I really need my brain and my concentration. I’ll try the library at UCSD again next week after our mini-vay-cay. 
We’re going to [...]

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