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Feral Toddler teaches me about writing
I’m fine with stories that break the rules of reality. But it does bug me when a writer creates an alternate world with its own rules, and then breaks those — just to make the story easier to write....
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How To Buy A Wolf Shirt
Reblogged from Shut Up Dad: As most of you know, purchasing a new wolf shirt can be an important and painstaking process. As difficult or even more so than buying a new car, a new home, or adopting a...
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Reblogged below: How To Buy A Wolf Shirt
Writers and even real people would do well to connect with/tap into the spirit power of the animal world around us – or far from us, in many cases. But how to begin? Andrew from the “Shut Up Dad” blog...
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Public Signage
Reblogged from Shit I Heart: This must have been some copywriter's dream job - by the guys over at Partners+Napier. While I'm not saying that I'd ever steal public signage, I'd like to have one of...
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Unwelcome Distractions
Reblogged from Write Despite: So tonight I'm sitting here with a laptop waiting for my daughter to finish her piano class. And this man asks me what I'm working on. "You're not writing a novel, are...
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Not usually my bag of tea
“Spoken word” poetry is not something I have appreciated much, with the possible exception of William Shatner. But “To This Day” by Shane Koyczan is a powerful bit about bullying. The spoken word part...
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This is your brain on cartoons…
A New Yorker article explores why we laugh at cartoons — using New Yorker cartoons for illustration. Nice concept. But if you think too hard about what makes humor, do you destroy it? I must admit that...
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Semi-Literary Trivia Question of the Week #1
Homer Simpson is the name of: A farmer who joins the Army after he loses his father’s Oklahoma land during the Dust Bowl, in James Jones’ From Here to Eternity. A plumber who is drafted to serve as a...
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Fun Shower Activities – Another Winning Blog Entry from Shut Up Dad
Fun Shower Activities With a Partner, to be exact. Be careful in there! But enjoy yourself. Plus: just what were those sounds?
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Semi-Literary Trivia Question of the Week #2
Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturitions are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath bitled out, Its earted jurtles… …is an example of what? An early attempt at...
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Semi-Literary Trivia Question of the Week #3
photo from mararie (http://bit.ly/14Tt1Bk) Which of the following is NOT a real of example of food or drink in an artistic title? (Click the link below to take the quiz in a pop-up window) Take Our...
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Semi-Literary Trivia Question of the Week #4
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood To research the book that would become the “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood, Truman Capote traveled to Kansas before the murderers were even caught. He was accompanied by...
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Awww, how sweet!
Click photo to see full-sized at “Random Funny Picture” Tunnels face many negative stereotypes in the popular culture. We can blame that mostly on movies and TV shows. Take the one in this photo...
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Semi-Literary Trivia Question of the Week #5
A rayograph was: An early version of the x-ray machine that was placed in stores by the J.W. Bass shoe company, and offered free “skeletal images” to show correctable defects in customers’ feet. A...
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Semi-Literary Trivia of the Week – Number 6
The 1925 book cover for The Great Gatsby F. Scott Ftizgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Was a surprise success, being made into one of the last silent movies. Was based on movie scripts that Fitzgerald had...
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Finding inspiration to write
Not my hometown, but in a similar vein. Photo courtesy of webduckie, http://www.flickr.com/photos/webduck/2488694454/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Two weeks of pecking away at a short story that “should”...
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Taco Tuesday Haiku
Reblogged from Shut Up Dad: It's Tuesday, which is short for Taco Tuesday. The most holy of days. Like the Sabbath, but spicier. Where tacos are only a dollar, and margaritas are well, cheaper than...
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Drink Beer for Big Ideas, Coffee to Get Them Done…
At least that’s what this item at lifehacker says. I haven’t had coffee since early afternoon, so I don’t have the mental chops to properly evaluate these claims. And I haven’t had a beer today, so I...
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Semi-Literary Trivia #7 – Rod Serling
“You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up...
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If you really, really want to live in the ‘Friends’ apartment, or at the...
… thanks to the Internet, Etsy and an interior designer with a possibly unhealthy obsession with TV, you can. Well, as long as you have the money, time and energy. It’s up to you to remodel the inside...
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