January 2011
15 posts
Video Hutch: Advice, like youth, probably just... →
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Baz, Baz, Baz. I sincerely thank you for The Red Curtain Trilogy. (Especially Moulin Rouge) However, you are on thin ice in my book for having the boorish audacity to remake The Great Gatsby. Baz humbug! But so be it. I’m skeptical, but I won’t pre-hate too much. In the mean time, I was…
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Chance Encounter At Breakfast
A chance conversation at breakfast.
Daughter: Excuse me, do you mind if my mother sits with you while I go get the car?
Me: No, not at all, please.
Her: (silent)
[daughter leaves and her elderly mother sits silently]
M: How are you today?
[long pause]
H: Just fine.
M: Did you have a nice breakfast?
H: Yes, it’s very nice here.
[long pause] M: What are your plans for the...
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No Escape
“The first option was rational and reliable, but I chose the second one, because I hoped it would buy me some time to figure out a way to do something closer to my dreams. I knew that if I found a stable job as an accountant or some such, there would be no escape.”
~Lara Vapnyar, I Hate Brighton Beach
The thing that strikes me about this passage is that both options end up being...
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“Once in an almanac I saw a figure with the words beneath: “L’homme sauvage...”
– Calvino, “The Baron in the Trees”
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Are you asking if the story must be "true"?
This from the NonoSpot junk drawer of broken toys and partial prose. The context of why I wrote it and to whom I was asking the question has been completely lost to me now but it seemed to stand on its own well enough that I would dust it off for you.
There is a very wide, grey, gradient, no man’s land between telling a truth and telling a lie. I venture to say that as artists we are...
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