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The Miseducamaction of Honey Boo Boo
I put on a profile, as a joke, that I was writing the libretto for a musical called THE MISEDUCAMACTION OF HONEY BOO BOO. I got a response from a person who was interested in producing the final musical and wished me luck for my endeavors. -
On Doctor Who (Mild Spoilers)
The last two episodes of the new season of Dr. Who were kind of disappointing. It's like they jammed too much information and various subplots into a too-short one hour time frame. This was particularly true during last's episode. There were a bunch of extraneous, under-used characters and the frenetic, frantic pacing didn't help. Nefrititi! A ( Read more... ) -
Labor Day Weekend
Not much to report. Still working on the novel. I've created an Amazon Author Page during my "downtime" (aka procrastination). This weekend, I'm looking forward to seeing the new Doctor Who tonight, and then going to the Julia Holter concert tomorrow.
I got a weird email from a writer yesterday that kind of looks spammy:
Hello Craig
I am a writer. My ( Read more... ) -
The dancing dead
Dead Can Dance played last night at Wolf Trap in Virginia, an outdoor venue. Under a waxing moon, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry sang their world music influenced tunes backed two keyboardists, and two percussionists. Lisa wore a sea foam gown with a golden priest's shawl, while Brendan wore grey trousers and a slightly rumpled buttondown shirt. ( Read more... ) -
A link to Alex Ulrich's work
Hellbent is the name of the sacred/profane art photography service that the late Alex Ulrich (known as 13thofnever on Livejournal) set up. Do yourself a favor and visit it, and you will get a sense of the person he was, and his artwork. -
The Teapot Lady
The memorial service for my Aunt Lou (4.24.47 - 7.9.12),a beloved fixture of my childhood, was perfect. Lou hated funerals; when she was a child, she was dragged to one, a 'wailer' as she called it, one of those funerals that are typhoon-like outpourings of grief, full of fainting, screaming, halleluiahs and hosannas and gnashing of teeth and ( Read more... ) -
My YA novella Bereft has a cover and can be pre-ordered
Here's the blurb:
Rafael Fannen is a 13-year old boy who has won a minority scholarship to Our Lady of the Woods, an all male Catholic college preparatory school. He lives with his mother who is chronically ill with an undiagnosed illness and also suffers from mental illness, which no one will discuss. Winning the scholarship quickly turns into a ( Read more... ) -
Aunt Lou ( ? - July 9, 2012)
My aunt Lou died today. This will be a post about her.
The standing joke is, everyone in my family is a Black Sheep. We're all outsiders, in one way or another. Aunt Lou definitely marched to the beat of her own drum. She was fiercely independent and never married. Once, she took a trip to Egypt by herself on a whim, and when she took early ( Read more... ) -
Today, in People Suck. (And heat index)
1.1. A possibly transgender woman gets coffee in the workplace cafeteria. She radiates warmth and grace. When she leaves the coffee station, a bunch of middle-aged dudes start cracking up like she's the funniest thing they ever saw, turn into hissing, chortling junior high kids. She gets referred as "it ( Read more... )
