Writing about writing and reading
Dumb thoughts from yours truly
I was reading this article about the origins of multi-cellular life, and remembered a thought I had a while back. I was thinking about why we make mistakes. It seems strange, for example, when I'm typing this post out, that I several times hit wrong keys by mistake. Why do I do this? Why don't …
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It's here, the end of another year. They fly by faster and faster, so fast it seems that soon I wont even notice. I'll start missing holidays in my distraction, and become one of those old people asking what month it is. But for now I have my wits, and I have goals! I completed …
I don't read a lot of (or any, really) literary fiction. But I was recommended this book, or, trilogy of novellas, I guess, by a friend and was impressed by its strangeness. It grabbed my attention right from the start by being about a writer who seems to be confusing himself with his characters. Then …
I'm not usually very interested in war movies. In fact war is the least interesting genre of any entertainment to me. But AV Club had this movie near the top of their best of 2015 list, so I checked it out on a whim. Phoenix is about a woman who escaped from a concentration camp …
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are all having a great evening and have big plans for the next year! Do something for yourself! Do something for those around you! I don't know what... but do something! Make a plan, have a goal... Create something! I've had a great year and have high hopes for …
Jonas David 