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Way to put my ideas to shame, Ted Conover.
One of my all-time literary heroes is Ted Conover, who's done things like hop freight trains and cross the Mexico-US border illegally several times over just so he could write about it. Here's a bit about his latest project, taken from a recent NYT interview.
What are you working on?There’s a moment in “Newjack” where I’m driving a prisoner from ( Read more... ) -
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I have this vision of myself that's helping me get through the last hectic days at this awful job. I am lying awake in the cabin of a truck, reading poetry by the light of a camping lantern. I'm in the middle of nowhere and it's dark outside, the kind of darkness you only get far from cities, Kerouac's Sad American Night, only a small truck stop's ( Read more... ) -
Refuge of the roads
One of my premises here is that in order to make the universe give you what you want, you have to step out of your comfort zone and be willing to receive it. Take a step into the unknown, let the world change you ( Read more... ) -
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Woolly mammoth! Woolly mammoth! Woolly mammoth!
That's just so cool. Srsly. Also, I have yet to tire of saying the words "woolly mammoth." -
Revisiting the WritingCrazy
I have once again signed my life over to literary demons for the month of November. Anyone else doing NaNoWriMo this year ( Read more... ) -
*cue dueling banjos*
Police track pumpkin pilferers
LATHROP - A wild night of pumpkin stealing turned into a corn maze chase for a group of teenagers Saturday ( Read more... ) -
Meh
I have a problem with social networking sites. My problem is that whenever I sign up for a new one, I obsessively seek out everyone I've ever met so I can stalk them, and spend hours and hours on the damn site. This is why it took me so long to sign up for Facebook, though many people I know have been telling me for a while to sign up. So far, I am ( Read more... )
