I was talking with a friend the other day, and he admitted that since our last conversation I had blown his mind. What, I wondered, was this amazing thing that I had done? Earlier in the year he had read my first book: The book with the missing first page. That hadn’t blown his mind, [...]
Archive for November, 2009
The Writer’s Prerogative
Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Half
Posted in Fiction on November 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
He is sitting on his high bar stool, supping. Reading his newspaper that he has folded in half, drinking his half pint of beer. He looks the most self-assured man in the world, because he doesn’t need anyone, or anything. And he’s just about arrogant enough to believe it. Years ago, he made a choice [...]
What are you spending your social capital on?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a recent podcast, Joel Spolsky made a very valid economic point about new media (you can listen to it here). He was talking about the decline of print journalism which you may or may not see as a bad thing. He suggested that the new media will find it much harder to support in-depth [...]
