06
January
2013
What the moon told me the serpent told Eve when she fell to earth.
Reified thought is the enemy of humanity. The chaos of heaven is within you. Play.
Matter Notes:
Matter Notes: A lawyer's private notes on a legal matter; considered inviolate and non-disclosable.
By metaphor and game, my occasional blog posts on the war on the humanities and other cultural atrocities;
with frequent diversions into creative matters.
In both cases, a form of work product. Scribere est agere.
30
December
2012
Don’t read this blog post. Read this: Linds Redding. “A Short Lesson in Perspective.”
You’ve probably never heard of Linds Redding. He was an art director who spent his life creating advertisements for other people’s products. Then he died. He was 52. Shortly before his death from esophageal cancer, he wrote a blog piece called “A Short Lesson in Perspective.” If you aspire to work in a creative industry […]
23
December
2012
Only Another Writer Will Get This (and, yes, that is a pun)
Why is it, whenever I hear Tony Banks’s keyboard riff at 9:09 – 9:16 on “Supper’s Ready” on Genesis’s Foxtrot (released UK Charisma 1972), I get an image of Dam Square and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam (Paleis op de Dam) back when it was the city hall? De Dam in Amsterdam (c. 1670-75) Gerrit […]
15
December
2012
The Dream of the Rood: This is a joke, right?
So I’m reading The Dream of the Rood. I don’t do it a lot. It’s the late seventh century. It’s possibly late enough to be the early eighth, but at this remove who knows? It’s also possibly somewhere in the Kingdom of Northumbria, near Dumfries. There’s a stone cross up there on which somebody carved […]
30
November
2012
Do you sport a fake British accent? If so, why?
Over the past month, several people have mentioned to me their annoyance with Americans who rock a British accent. I’m talking about people who don’t know each other, bringing this up in entirely different contexts. I had no idea that faking an accent was the latest form of pretension, so I obviously need to get […]
11
July
2012
Make Yourself Holy
To write fiction, you must make yourself holy. This is how. Immerse your heart in the dirty world. Crawl in its decay. Shout out its meager glories. Then leave. Then write. Then put down your pen and make dinner. It’s an odd pastime, fiction writing. First you must know the world intimately. Then you must […]