Writing

Your DFW moment for the night

03.29.2012
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The new volume from University of Mississippi press arrived today, “Conversations with David Foster Wallace.” You can expect a slew of quotations in the next few days. Here’s one from 1993: … managing to be a really alive human being, and also do good work and be as obsessed as you have to be, is [...]

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Live Poetry from Barb Fant

03.05.2012
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I saw Barb’s performance at TEDxColumbus this year. There are two pieces and the second, starting at 2:30, shook me to my soul. I remember throwing my hat on the ground and shouting “DAMN” when she was done. People around me must have thought I was crazy.”

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One of the better things I’ve ever written…

03.05.2012
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One of the better things I’ve ever written is this review of Van Halen’s new album for The Agit Reader.

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Kevin Huizenga’s lyric comics essays

05.07.2010

Kevin Huizenga is one of my 3 favorite makers of comics these days. His methods mix accessible pictures, science, philosophy, history, and autobiography all together in a form much like David (Reality Hunger) Shields describes here: The lyric essay asks what happens when an essay begins to behave less like an essay and more like [...]

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Thema Golden on art’s purpose at TED

04.17.2010

From the website: Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The “post-black” artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture — and about the meaning of art itself.

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I Like Writing on the Computer

04.14.2010

Not all the time, and not for everything. But for one particular reason, I really do like writing on the computer. I can easily back it up. Sometimes I wish I had everything backed-up.

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Resistance Loves a Day Like This

03.23.2010

Resistance loves a day like this. It’s unexpectedly cold, rainy, grey, dull. I didn’t sleep well and my brain feels like mush. It’s 10am, but it feels like 8am, or maybe 8pm. There’s no appointment forcing me to get-up. I really need to do laundry. I hate searching for matching socks. My most weather-appropriate clothes [...]

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Finally, This is For You

01.20.2010

I should’ve put this up before, huh? Anyway, here it is, my TedXColumbus performance.

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Ralph Bakshi says “Don’t Wait!”

01.19.2010

Are you an artist, entrepreneur, start-up dude, or anyone just trying to start something? You need to watch this Ralph Bakshi video. Be forewarned, he might destroy you.

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Story Idea:Deja Vu

01.16.2010

guy gets deja vu fairly regularly, and in very intense, specific way. Suddenly, he realizes that he’s in a sequence of actions and impressions, images, and viewpoints that he’s experienced before. Sometimes there are even associated memories of bits of knowledge. He’ll set a book down and feel it. Deja vu.

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