Saturday Jan 07, 2006

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I wrote the ending.

I never write endings. I gave up on prose because of endings. I've learned more about narrative and character in the last month than in all my years of studying literature.

It's not yet a coherent play. It may never become a good play. But by god, there's no doubt about it; it's a play.
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hapworth:
It seems that good karma you gained by wishing me a happy birthday, is helping your writing.

Well played.
radiofrank:
Endings are the worst, to be sure. It took me the better part of a year to come up with an ending for my book.

Your play may not be coherent yet, but finishing it is better than nothing.

It was a pleasure to meet you last Monday, and perhaps we will see each other again in the near future.

Saturday Dec 31, 2005

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I'm surprised to find that I never said out loud what my one big goal of 2005 was. I planned on getting the hell out of the store I was working at and knocking my income up a couple of pegs at the same time. I had no idea how I was going to do it, but I was going to keep a lookout for...
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lizfitts:
Whoever said you can't be smart AND vain? wink

Since you're my favorite lit guy........what do YOU think of the JT Leroy scandal? I called bullshit on 'Sarah' a long time ago.......struck me as, uh, phony. Oh how the worm begins to turn.........
mat8drb:
I was wondering about the SG:NHS - I've had a number or articles on the newswire here, and these two, one culture and one tech contain the most non quoted text, so I was wondering if they would be eligable. It is worth a shot.

Failing that, do you take journal or conference papers?

Saturday Dec 17, 2005

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Finished reading The Edible Woman. It didn't blow me away, but I will be back to Ms Atwood for more soon. This was my first full-fledged foray into her fiction.

Will probably begin something by Kapuscinski before bed. We've got a couple things on the shelf I've been meaning to read for some time. Shacking up, by the way, has proven a literary windfall....
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oryx:
so i attempted to both DEFROST and TOAST a bagel this morning. what wonders! not only was the bagel toasty on the outside, but it was warm and fluffy on the inside. a perfect vehicle for the homemade strawberry jam i snuck in my suitcase.

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siv:
dood! i have a jetblue credit which wuld make flying to ontario 62 bucks total. name your weekend!

Saturday Dec 03, 2005

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Finally started writing the play I've got to perform in February. A friend and I are working on it and will perform the whole thing, a Kaufmanesque adaptation of Ibsen's "Enemy of the People."

Yeah, right, like the world needs more Charlie Kaufman. But you've got to trust me on this. Months ago, when Julian first mentioned this to me, we both wanted to map...
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thistle:
There is nothing I enjoy more than deconstructing (and I mean this word in the layman's sense, not in reference to the school of theory) the ideas and artistic motivations of a piece, whether it be theatre, fine art, or literature. I wish I could see your play.
sprat:
How goes the playwrighting?

Wednesday Nov 23, 2005

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In my confused teenage years I went through a number of phases and adopted and dropped a number of tastes in an attempt I guess to find a person to be. I used to gel my hair. I read those fat Robert Jordan books. I owned a CD by Jewel. Horrific, tragic stuff, like the flailing of a dying animal.

One thing though held steady...
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superflea:
On the off chance you happen to see this in the next ten minutes or so (I have 11:07 Thursday evening over here), those White Stripe characters you're so fond of are playing on the Daily Show on the Comedy Network.

(It'll be on again at 12:05 on CTV.)
mk700c:
i know right! hilarity!

Monday Nov 21, 2005

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My brother's going to NY to see Brad Mehldau at the Village Vanguard this week. I would have thought that was enviable 6 months ago, but I've been to the Vanguard myself since then and I know for a fact that the surreally intimate performance space will cause his head will asplode before Mehldau opens up on "Paranoid Android."

And yet I wish it were...
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maike:
Can we request a former member be admitted, without prejudice, without being on the high commission? Kes
superflea:
I wanna know how to play SG Favourites Deathmatch.

I also wanna know how to play like Reeves Gabrels.

And I also wanna Bogner Uberschall so I can say I have a fancy pants amp, even if it's a fancy pants amp designed to sound like the Death Star.

Friday Nov 18, 2005

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Come on. You knew that was the only way it could end.
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mk700c:
ooOO i want to do it!
zaksmith:
you're the best mad-libber ever, hands down.

and yeah, you're clever--your stuck with clever--as far as I can tell you have no way out of clever. The ideal dogslife style will have to be built on a foundation of clever. there are way worse things to be.

Thursday Nov 17, 2005

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Apparently, you can make your favourite SGs duel to the death up there on the favourites bar.

Siv really beat the crap out of Drake and Oryx totally cleaned Twwly's clock. At some point Al left, probably to get a bazooka.

Who will still be standing when Al returns?!
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hapworth:
I'm an attention whore... what can I say? Today, a warrant... tomorrow, I'm robbing a bank. tongue
tadzi:
my money is on al, personally, in the long run i mean.

Friday Nov 11, 2005

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UPDATE: Done! Now I've got the complete works of Alice Munro to my left (along with damn near everything by Peter Carey, Leonard Cohen, and J M Coetzee), and to my right is the Concise OED and the OED of Etymology. The latter two were badly neglected in my pre-nook life. I'll be forever sorry, but I'll also make it up to them. For starters...
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obd:
soundslike me when I decide the cd rack has fallen out of order.

Have you read Walter Benjamin's essay Unpacking My Library? It might be good for a laugh when you're finished.
adjunct:
We had to buy extra bookshelves to segregate my books from my roomies' many copies of things like Annals of WWII: Vol IX. I hope you and Ginny have somewhat more simpatico tastes.

And judging from her pictures, you guys should become house painters! Did you collaborate on the choice of colors?

Thursday Nov 03, 2005

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It's been a while and I'm drunk on Polish porter.

In other words, it's time to update.

We moved into the new place on Sunday. Today we're pretty much unpacked. That is, we can perform day to day functions without any problems, though the pictures still need to be hung and there are pieces of furniture we still need to buy*. We're presently averaging $100/day...
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hellkitten:
So, let me get this straight... you get a book nook, yet Ginny doesn't get a sewing nook? I think you're hogging the nooks in that place eeek wink
hapworth:
I'm suffering from 'nook-envy'.

Wednesday Oct 26, 2005

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Thank you all for your kind words.

Wolf's passing hit me a lot harder than I thought it would. It didn't matter that I'd told myself all along that dying is what old dogs do; when I got the voicemail from Ginny Monday afternoon I was suddenly frozen and shot through full of holes. I had to rein my mind in all day to keep...
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siv:
I'm really sorry about Wolf. I never got to meet him, but I know that anything you love is eminently precious.
sprat:
No, you're right and not being a total Mr Downerpants (which has immediately become a favourite new expression of mine, thanks!) - academic employment requires a miracle.

But, at this stage, I'm just after an admin-y job (preferably with a theatre company or arts organisation). I missed out on a company I really liked but have another application for another company going in today.

Monday Oct 24, 2005

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sistermedusa:
Oh, man... I'm so sorry. Everyone's losing their pets lately. Hugs to you. frown
st_expedite:
I am so terribly sorry.
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