Hello, inhabitants of planet Earth.
You never imagined alien life would arrive via snowflakes, did you? Well, the joke is on you. Ha ha ha.
Already we have appropriated one of your primary news sources and we will begin broadcasting out our demands as soon as our Limb Acquisition Engineers find implements more useful than these [...]
(Because I’m determined to pretend I haven’t seen snow before.)
You know, it’s been kind of fun running around acting like a snow neophyte. In our age of irony, or post-irony, or whatever it is we do with ourselves now, it seems more important to place oneself on the wrong side of simple things. You’re not [...]
Though I was born in Minnesota, I didn’t hang around long enough to learn to accept snow as a fact of life. It still feels special. A day off from school, maybe, or simply a day or two a year with magical flakes falling from the sky. That might be happening today in Nashville…rumor has [...]
Tagged MFA, WordsA short Thursday post, with two links.
First, here’s a site called RainyMood.com. Visit the site, click on the giant Play button, and you’ll get a 15-minute loop of rainstorm noises. If you listen closely you’ll hear some music in the background. I think. It’s creepy. When I write I like to have music on, usually [...]
I’ve been hyper-aware of how fast time is moving ever since I got to Nashville. Every day I think, I’m in a two-year program…that’s gonna go fast! And I might be wrong about a lot of things in this great wide world, but I nailed that one. Everything has been a blur. I feel like [...]
Tagged Ain't That America, MFA, TravelHere’s a new poll to re-start a MoodyTunes feature from days gone by. As you can see, we’re going to confront some important topics in Monday Polls. Mainstream news outlets can waste time on issues like The Economy, Brad and Angelina, or Feeling Sorry for Late Night Hosts Who Get $45 Million in Severance Packages; [...]
Tagged PollsA random site update — comments on yesterday’s post reminded me to back up all the files related to this site. As a former IT professional I should know better than to go long periods of time without backing stuff up.
Thesis Time also means Procrastinating Time so I upgraded WordPress, too. That’s the software [...]
I haven’t been incredibly active submitting short stories until recently. The stuff I wrote during my first year as a graduate student didn’t feel quite right. Everything was too loose, or thin, or maybe it was a series of stories I had to get out of the way. Now, as I revise stories for my [...]
Tagged Ain't That America, MFA