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Personal Posturings: Yahoos as Bloggers
Before I begin this howl, I’ll define Yahoo as a lout, brute and coarse human being, the term itself derived from Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. I vaguely recall reading this fabulous book in the early years of college, thinking it was written for kids. Was I wrong! For the past year I tried to market my book by going to “literary” blogs, reading up a little on the blogger, scanning some of the books read in order to get a sense of the blogspot as a reasonable market for my book. I have seen hundreds of blogs, having sent my book…
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Free Associations
I have no particular theme to write about. I have no jawbone of an ass as Samson had to fight off the Philistines. A series of mental quarks come to mind and why fight them off. I saw Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” last evening surrounded by a gray-haired audience, including me, who laughed at all the one-liners in the script, often throwaway lines. I felt as if I was on the conveyor belt of soylent green, except the person next to me was a living cracker. Clintwood is an icon, I suppose, and his performance here was good. His direction is precise and…
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I Am With Child And Worry About Its Health
Sojourner is the present manuscript I am enmeshed with, and it is not going well because I have lost faith in it. The second half of the book moves quickly, the first half seems too slow paced, although I have cut here and there. I lack the editing skills to reformulate, to shift chapters here or there, or to delete them entirely. I have let the book “rest” and when I picked it up again, it still did not move itself. Perhaps it is a book I should no longer work on and give it up. When I wrote this…