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The Shape Of Things To Come
By this coming Monday I will make a pleasant announcement about a writing contest I won; it is a good start for the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. I will have more to say about that next week. Ironically, I submit stories and prose pieces to the Society of Southwesterm Author’s yearly contest. I won first place in 2005 for an essay. Since then fiction and essays have been rejected. However, whenever I lose this contest I win big time elsewhere; I am thinking of submitting work here on a regular basis, for it has become a lucky charm. Two short…
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I Have Nothing To Write Today But There’s Always Something
If you want to see a “performance” by an actor right up there with Daniel Day-Lewis in TWBB, rent “M” by Fritz Lang, starring Peter Lorre. Watch the last ten minutes of screen time in which he breaks down portraying a pedophile. He was a student of Freud’s for awhile, Mr. Lowenstein. A great actor like Day-Lewis, although consigned to character roles for much of his career. Memorable in “The Maltese Falcon” and “Casablanca.” Rarely did he ever give a bad performance. Like Edward G. Robinson, he grabbed you by the lapels. . .The days of the character actors are long since…
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Malcolm Campbell And Other Commentary
Malcolm Campbell, writer and reviewer, at http://www.campbelleditorial.com/advice.html has composed a splended review of The i Tetralogy, saying that”The unrelenting power of Freese’s writing skills calls to mind the gritty horror and hopelessness of Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front and the grim insanity of Dalton Trumbo’s story about a wounded soldier in Johnny Got His Gun.” Read the rest if you will. So, since 2005 “i” has become a sleeper, so sound asleep that it is rarely prodded to wake up. I am sitting on what Campbell calls a “masterpiece.” Indeed, a conundrum…
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Palindrome (Ex: Sarah Palin)
No matter how you look at Ms. Beehive she reads the same backward or forward. What is it in this culture that spews out such cartoon figures? And why is it that we take these caricatures to heart, pumping formaldehyde into their veins, standing them up and having them run for office? Here is a person who believes in Creationism, believes the Iraq war is god destined, refuses to read a book on homosexuality because it might bring conflict to that “brain” of hers and yet requests it be dropped from the library. I’ve come across this type of mentality…