In Joel Stein’s L.A. Times piece this morning, “Imitating L.A.’s Mr. October,” he describes a video he made for the website actober.com. As a former Dodger fan, I loved it, but worried that he wouldn’t give his pitcher her due. I shouldn’t have been concerned. Here’s the video, “Joel Stein’s actober”:
In honor of my son [...]
After months and months and months and more months of “research” (i.e. watching episodes of my latest favorite television show, “Dead Like Me,” on DVD), I finally wrote something which might actually be useable.
I realized that, to get myself to write, I better simplify, simplify, simplify (thank you H.D. Thoreau). I decided to use the [...]
If you truly mean to dedicate yourself to a life of procrastination, you must develop fetishes. These will consume lots of time while making you feel like you’re doing something constructive.
One of my fetishes is, of course, pie. I just started re-reading Pascale Le Draoulec’s transcendant American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America’s [...]
“we commenced wrighting &c.” — so wrote Captain Clark on September 26, 1806, marking the end of one leg of his journey and the beginning of another. I hope to officially begin wrighting on the 201st anniversary of Clark’s start.
In the mean time, as I studiously avoid putting pen to paper to work on [...]
