Words: 1,200 Music: Bach violin concertos I was thinking about this recently because of screenwriter Josh Olson’s blog in The Village Voice. Among Olson’s many pearls of wisdom there is this: It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you’re in the presence of someone who can write, Read more…
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls: I have commenced book 3. With TUMB off to the first readers and my week free of all other distraction except for sudoku, Facebook, Google, e-mail, various fora, and the backlog of New Yorkers, I have begun. It ain’t much, but I’ll take it. Read more…
This morning was the amazing sight of Venus hanging below the crescent moon as if it were a diamond on a very fancy necklace. I tried to get a picture but my settings were all wrong, and everything came out looking like two comets crashing into the planet, which was Read more…