smokingpen | February 25, 2009
Tobias Buckell updated his blog with a post dealing with the lawless elite. These are (often) the protagonists in action movies that get away with a lot. Think John McClane from Die Hard or Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon or (more recently) Bryan Mills from Taken or a whole host of other characters from movies [...]
smokingpen | February 24, 2009
I create a new page, you should be able to see it in the links at the top of the site. This is my todo’s page. Now that I’ve put that up I am thinking of recreating the calendar for the website… though, honestly, there isn’t as much going on in my life now that [...]
smokingpen | February 23, 2009
I applied to some places last week. Or was it two weeks ago? This partially caused a crisis in my life as the places I applied required me to do two things: first, ignore the fact that I’ve worked for a lot of places since, oh, I don’t know, I turned 16; and second, realize [...]
smokingpen | February 20, 2009
Updating has been a bit of a chore for me the past few days. Well, couple of weeks, really. Life is still up in the air and as such, I don’t really make it a priority to update. As I stated, I did go and speak to the director of a MFA-Writing program I will [...]
smokingpen | February 17, 2009
I got up this morning and sat with Camper. We sat and Erin sat with us. 24 this week was okay. Not great. Kind of slow, though one of the (I am sure) many moles has now been revealed. Regardless, it is what it is.
Then, after a shower and a shave, I drove 2.5 hours [...]
smokingpen | February 16, 2009
I have to say, in line with what the numbers show, that Dollhouse, by Joss Whedon, is not worth watching. I watched the pilot and Erin’s comment to me that Eliza Dushku can’t pull off what is required for that show is pretty much spot on. I have to tell you the episode was boring, [...]
smokingpen | February 16, 2009
Well, I don’t know if that is an entirely true statement on my part. If kind of feels like it, at the moment.
What does it mean? Clementine is the main female chicka in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind played by Kate Winslet. (You can (probably) read my comments on the movie by clicking on [...]
smokingpen | February 14, 2009
I have not updated in a couple of days. My fault. Not sure I want to update today and am anyway.
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Story is something that is designed to attract the reader to some aspect of what the author is trying to share. More specifically, as a reader I should be able to relate to and empathize [...]
