An Ideal Husband

I admit to not being much of a movie watcher in the past few years, and though I’ve been involved on a board level with a small theater festival for a while it’s been years and years since I’ve seen classic theater. So the other day I was flipping through the television channels I happened across a movie that I found interesting. I didn’t know whether it was a relatively […]

Inside, outside?

I’ve read some very nice stuff from Alice Gray lately. No, that’s not quite right; it’s not stuff that came into existence lately, rather I only discovered her recently and have been reading some of her writing. Reading her writing makes me aware of the fact that I tend to write from the inside, meaning that a character will be thinking or feeling something as they do something, as opposed […]

#badkiddybooks

If you’re on Twitter you know how this works. The “#” indicates a theme that people quote if they want to participate in the discussion. In this case a literary agent, going by the username of @SlushPileHell started a contest. To enter the contest, you tweet a title using the #badkiddybooks tag. To vote, you re-tweet someone’s entry. I went there, thinking of entering, but the ones that I read […]

Review: Digital Fortress

Just finished reading an old Dan Brown novel, Digital Fortress: A Thriller. For those who don’t know, Dan Brown is the author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons which spawned the  movies of the same names. Some months back I had read another of his earlier books (of which “Digital Fortress” is another, lest you rush out hoping it’s a new Dan Brown novel) all of which […]

Hello world ver. 2

I like to not delete the default Hello world post, just to be silly. So this is my official hello world. Gradually I’ll transfer all the private postings that I’ve been maintaining elsewhere now that I have a semi-permanent home for them.