Take off your work clothes, lay on the floor and try to remember everything fucking awesome that has happened to you. I did that once, here’s exactly how it went.
All posts filed under “spirituality”
Empowering Pathos
When animals are sad I know creatures who’d rather die before they wait, I don’t see them around anymore. I know of a bird whose soul got so sad, He lost his heart to open wings and soar. And you don’t know how painful pain… Read More
Parents for your Protagonista
This is some freewriting I once did for another unpublished novel manuscript I have. To get a sense of the protagonist Nirra’s parents, I wrote them without her, alone in their own home–and then in two moods: happy together, then irritated with each other. I… Read More
From DC to Hollywood and back
Have you seen Outsourced yet? The show isn’t just funny, it’s groundbreaking on many levels. Outsourced is opening doors, windows–and one also gets the sense that it may one day lower something of an iron-clad drawbridge for up-and-coming artists of my generation who have been… Read More
JBB, Message from a world of Fear, Insanity
Four: October 30, 2012 Gyra and Dansel sat patiently while the owner of that shack retold his favorite memory, from just before the Near-Revolution of October, 2010. There was tea for them, but it was cold. And the old man’s version of cookies was something… Read More
Paperclip Wisdom: An Essay
Anyone else notice that you can’t ever tell the age of a paper clip? Well, first you might think, ‘Um, new-paper-clip is shiny. And old ones get all dark and rusty, don’t they?’ Well, maybe. When I was a kid, I worked at the library… Read More
Pachacamac: Of Fertility and Death
A story crafted from three random words: Olmsted, feather headdress of a coastal Incan fertility and dealth god, M.G.H. You can thank the March 2005 National Geographic magazine for these randomly selected phrases that I will now turn into a witty story this morning… Doctor… Read More

