Staying in California
Why do California companies stay, despite the high costs of doing business in the state? Is it the sun, the surf? It's pretty much the workforce. Read it at Nevada Today
Creep Dream Automatic Writing, by B. Zedan
Based on a disturbingly cohesive and freaking weird and beat dream
The midweek critic wrangle: "Inland Empire."
Like the surrealist practice of automatic writing, the film feels as if it could have been made in a trance, dredged up from within. Then again, this is a filmmaker who probably doesn’t need to tap his unconscious to let loose his
Why do I never get to write a story like this?
From the Orlando Sentinel: LAKELAND -- A man who was attacked by an alligator this morning was naked and smoking crack at the time, Polk County deputies who rescued him said today
Sips redux
Both these guys sort of make me miss writing a weekly column, which I think was one of my great strengths. But I've decided I enjoy writing about booze and bars enough that I'm going to continue updating the Sips Blog column or no.
A Bottle Of Scotch Helps
"The use of automatic writing or scribbling to tap the subconscious was borrowed by the Surrealists from spiritualist mediums (particularly Helene Smith, Muse of Automatic Writing ). The objective of Automatism is to capture original
"The past is gone/but something might be found/to take its place"
I'm writing today and listening to the Gin Blossoms' breakthrough album, New Miserable Experience. Man, I always forget how much I really like this album. I know I'm turning into that guy who's always going on about how much he loves
Black moods, black eyes, black Friday
Braved the Black Friday crowds all night and into the morning. My first time ever. I was in the thick of it from 1 am at the Four Seasons Mall to standing in the cold outside Circuit City and Staples starting at 4 am
The sound of silence
This is going to be a hellacious work week. I'm coming down to the wire on some stories I've been writing, have the regular workload plus some weekly/bi-weekly things coming due. Very little bloggery this week. Very little sleep
What I've been up to
Rumsfeld was on his way out and Britney Spears had gotten rid of her no-good husband. Since then I've been trying to get back to two longer-form stories I've been writing. Which, with my shift beginning, is what I'll be doing today
automatic+writing: automatic+writing