The other day I was sitting at my desk, flabbergasted that we, as a people, haven’t yet trained birds to bring us everything we need. There are so many birds out there, and they’ve been there forever, and there are so many things that we use on a daily basis that are bird carry-able, that…
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All around Menolo Park, California, the Ducati and Ferrari dealerships are preparing themselves for the Facebook IPO. Managers of jewelry stores and walk-in-humidor companies and purveyors of gold plated toilets are all rubbing their hands together and grinning like villains because a lot of young people are about the get very rich. At the risk…
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If you want someone to read your work, you need to call attention to yourself. In other news: the sky is blue, water is wet, writers are broke, and editors like Advil. I’m amazed at how often people forget the attention bit. The one thing tabloids do very well, aside from find unflattering pictures of…
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Sometime over the last fifteen years something big happened in writing, a huge change that occurred so gradually that nobody realized it. Like frogs in pots of slowly warming water, we all enjoyed the bath until the cook came into the kitchen, and now it’s too late. People have stopped deleting things. I’ve seen it…
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This week we were welcomed over to have a chat with the fine folks at Civilian Reader. This week’s post, a rather hilarious opining on the nature of inspiration, can be found here: http://civilian-reader.blogspot.com/2012/01/guest-post-inspiration-by-brad-griffith.html So come on by!