I am publicy drafting a five-part short called “The Hang Man,” in which a practiced executioner – called “the dangler” or “the stringer” – loses his grip. He’s too old for his high office. He has been pragmatic, but his mind has largely become abstract. I am being a little liberal with grammar, and I’ve [...]
Archive for December, 2008
[Draft] “The Hang Man” I (Son of the Widow James)
Posted in My Writing, tagged Existential, Hang Man, Peer Review, Short Story, Son of the Widow James, Western on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[Skinnies] real:imagine Plums bandy angry candy
Posted in Excessively Diverting, Other Writers on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bored on the job, you see; the tail-end is vacuous, and I get a little wayward sometimes. Mind’s starting to go where the mishelved go – and socks. Lots of socks there.
“somewhere itis Spring and sometimes
people are in real:imagine
somewhere real flowers, but
I can’t imagine real flowers for if I
could, they would somehow
not Be real”
(so he [...]
ELFs – Dante, Dali, Dore & Austen
Posted in Austenolatry, Excessively Diverting, Jane Austen, Other Writers, tagged Dante's Inferno, Gustave Dore, Jane Austen, Salvador Dali on December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For one reason or another, I am feeling mortal.
112 Therefore I think and judge it for thy best
113 Thou follow me, and I will be thy guide,
114 And lead thee hence through the eternal place,
115 Where thou shalt hear the desperate lamentations,
116 Shalt see the [...]
“D” for Dignitas
Posted in Excessively Diverting, tagged Dignitas, Suicide Tourism, USA Today on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alfonso Cuarón was dead on. I haven’t more an intellectual reaction to this article in USA Today than my non-verbal wow.
Drawn by Switzerland’s reputation as a trouble-free place for foreigners to end their lives, more than 100 Germans, Britons, French, Americans and others come to this small commuter town each year to lie down on a [...]
See You in the Bronx (GIE Conf. at FordhamU) and Other Stuff
Posted in Bradford Library, Excessively Diverting, Northern Florida, Oops! Writing, The Graphic Classroom, tagged Batman RIP, Cory Doctorow, Diamond Bookshelf, FLYP, Graphic Classroom, Graphica in Education on December 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At the tail end of January, I am meeting up with my editor Chris Wilson somewhere in the Bronx at Fordham University. Our proposal (“Making a Case for Comics in the Classroom”) was just accepted as a 70-odd-minute workshop – yow. Here is what Diamond Bookshelf has to say about the GIE Conference:
On January 31st, FordhamUniversity’s [...]
[December] YAs & Graphic Novels
Posted in Bradford Library on December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The latest batch of YAs & Graphic Novels arrived last week. Check it out:
Absolute Bofriend 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Age of Bronze 1, 2, 3
Angel Diary 1, 2, 3, 6
Bleaches 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Boys Over Flowers 13, 26, 27, 30, 32
Castlevania 1
Code Geass 2
Fushigi Yogi 1, 2, 3, 4
Hellsing 9
Here, [...]
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