Uneasy Rhetoric

I was going back through my archives just now and came across a sonnet I wrote in response to a Valentine’s Day contest Rebecca MacKinnon was running. Unlike most of the sonnets I’ve written over the years, I still like this one. In fact, it grows on me by the day.
So, Narcissius like, [...]

Man does this feel good.

Verified at 50,230 words. And to think, just a week ago, I almost gave up.
A few brief observations:
1. Shutting off your inner editor is harder than you think. The easiest way to achieve a high word count is to play fast and loose with the script. [...]

Ray Bradbury visited the Directors Guild of America’s yearly Digital Day event and had this to say about contemporary cinema:

“We’ve been making a lot of lousy [films] lately. But I’m writing an article called ‘Better Silly Than Stupid,’ and anyone who’s seen Van Helsing knows what I’m talking about.”
Boy, do I ever.
(via BoingBoing)

In light of my not-quite-recent post about blogging and misunderstanding, I thought I should point to a Blork Blog post from today.
In “On Writing and Reading,” Blork wonders
does an extremely high volume of on-line consumption not reduce the process of reading down to a simple input function?
The danger I think, is that reading for input [...]

National poetry month has come and gone. Did anyone notice?
Anyone?
We have a Poet Laureate. His name is Ted Kooser. Too bad the Library of Congress’ official Poet Laureate site doesn’t bother with an example of his poetry (except by link). Oops.