[Apologies for the sporadic posts the past few weeks. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends—writing & reading my heart out, just not doing much of it online.] Waiting to hear back from: [...]
I’ve been receiving positive feedback on my explorations of war through fiction and wanted to share several links with everyone. First, the Main Street Rag annual fiction anthology (ed. Schultz) [...]
I can get an episode of TOUR OF DUTY in during lunch. Depending on evening commitments, another short documentary on Iraq or Afghanistan that evening. That’s 40-120 minutes of war television [...]
The campus is a-buzz with blue uniforms, color-coded socks, and several thousand visitors almost every evening for one performance or another. I’ve already seen Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussein, Edgar [...]
In the past 72 hours I have walked 7 miles, stretched for an hour, done 90 minutes of martial arts training, written 1 press release, written 1 article for exhibition content, emailed 7 queries [...]
There’s something missing and I think it’s the lakes. With the lakes come long walks, the wind, water foul, and footprints in the sand. Weekend homework: GET O-U-T-S-I-D-E!
[The Hofbrau this winter] [The Hofbrau this spring…] It’s not even five ‘o clock, but Leon Hammerhead and I are on our second round at The Hofbrau and he’s telling me to keep doing exactly [...]
It’s open clay studio and I make my way to the Dow Visual Arts Building to participate in an Interlochen offering, for the first time, as a student. I met this summer’s ceramics instructor at the [...]
One night, there are 5 performances in 5 separate locations on campus. The next night, 7,000 people are on campus to see Bela Fleck. I get to sit dead-center, twenty rows back. The faculty’s [...]
I’m putting several hours a day into this war stuff. I call it “stuff” because I don’t really know what else to call it—it doesn’t feel quite official enough to be “research.” I watch lots of [...]
