Connections

Stumbled across the special effects climate disaster spectacle The Day After Tomorrow. Doesn't seem as far-fetched as when it first came out. Switched to see the news and the top three stories were about climate disasters. Not as extreme but extreme enough and all in the family. Tick tock tick tock.

O boy

An email from an actor friend -- are you going to make any more movies? -- got me thinking that, actually, a film adaptation of the recent novel would be doable. Small cast. All local settings. Challenges to find ways to do News and Heavy Reading in the film narrative ... this could be done. For starters, I invited the actor to read the novel and see what he thought. He'd be a good CJ.  His wife would have a role. Hmm. HMM.

Blue Muse Escapes Paparazzi

Recent work by Tom Strah. He's on a roll. Here is his drawing that I call "CJ" after my recent protagonist.

Attitude

Best thing about feeling better is a better attitude. Almost human again ha ha. Now for energy and stamina to get work done around here.

Was New American Review the best literary magazine ever? - Slate Magazine

Was New American Review the best literary magazine ever? - Slate Magazine:

"I dare you to name a better one."

So do I. And a regular contributor was M. F. Beal, one of the great short story writers to come out of Oregon. She wrote a novel, Amazon One, long out of print. She lived in Seal Rock for years and may still. She, her husband at the time David Shetzline, and myself were all at the U of O at the same time, getting grad degrees in writing (we already had better publications than some of our professors!). Beal and Shetzline both need to be rediscovered for their fine literary work.

Thomas Mann Said

Thomas Mann Said

How true

Slug city

I can't believe it. 2 weeks into my summer and I've gotten no planned chores done. Well, yeah, I've been sick, more or less bedridden for two weeks, these viruses always knock me out for a couple weeks, but it's gone now, I feel, leaving me weak and exhausted but on the mend. I need to get right and get to work.

Having fun with a comic story idea. Ah, me.