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May.04.2010
For six months bartender Mike Zimmerman has been bringing together a small collective of Charles Bukowski enthuisiasts to read select poems at the Frolic Room in Hollywood, right next door to the Pantages theater, and right across the street from that celebrity party hangout, the W hotel.
This...
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Apr.26.2010
When I first walked into the sea of humanity I was struck: Do this many people still like books? This many people came out in celebration for reading? I felt reassured in spite of all the doomsday predictions that writing is dead...that no one is buying books...that it's all a niche thing nowadays...
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Apr.25.2010
When I first walked into the sea of humanity I was struck: Do this many people still like books? This many people came out in celebration for reading? I felt reassured in spite of all the doomsday predictions that writing is dead…that no one is buying books…that it’s all a niche thing nowadays. If...
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May.31.2009
Over the past several months I've found myself writing several short stories that are all tied together. Everything began as a kind of dark catharsis. In a very short span of time I watched my godmother Christine pass away from a long battle with cancer. Soon thereafter her father and my...
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May.27.2009
When I first moved to Los Angeles, a fellow writer, Christienne Miller, told me about people who were scared of success. These people, she claimed, would do anything they could to stop those around them from succeeding. I didn't believe her. How could such people be real? How would someone really...
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Dec.20.2008
So, with a tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes here, I have been kind of in a forced exile. Working retail during the holiday season can do that to the strongest of 'em, I hear. Even though my duties are more on the training-side of it all, there's been a struggle for me in my off...
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Nov.22.2008
Crossing the fifty-thousand word mark last night felt bittersweet. Sort of feels like getting a birthday gift early, and with no fanfare. Just that I couldn't help myself. I woke up yesterday thinking I'd get another thousand words in, but there was something magic in the air. The words flew. The...
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Nov.20.2008
Yesterday I woke to find my beloved PowerBook G4 laptop displaying nothing but a grey screen. My horror intensified as numerous restarts and tricks did nothing to revive the machine. I spent two hours typing into websites on my iPhone offering differing advice on how to remedy the situation....
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Nov.18.2008
This morning I inched over the 38,000 word line. This means I am perfectly set to hit the 50,000 word goal if I only do 1,000 a words a day until the 30th. Usually I'm tapping out at least 500 words a day on my iPhone in addition to my other work, so this seems like a drama-free ride to victory. ...
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Nov.14.2008
So here I am, having just crested 30,000 words in my nano book. This one's a really fun story for me. It's been gestating in my imagination for a few years now, so it's great to finally bring it to life. It's actually funnier than I thought, which is a nice surprise.
The tough part of NanoWrimO...
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Nov.11.2008
Okay, so wow, I cannot believe how quickly I've gotten to the middle point of my NanoWrimo Book. I'm at 26,006 after only ten days. This means I'm actually ahead of schedule. Not sure, but I think this is the first time in my life I've been this ahead of, well, of anything. Good stuff.
To be...
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Nov.09.2008
Greetings.
Nano is a fantastic resource. Of course, seeing this link to Red Room on the home page inspired me to head on over. What a gorgeous, comfortable place this seems to be. I'm looking forward to populating my areas here. After all, who gets tired of talking about themselves?
My Nano...
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About John
One evening when I was only a small boy, my father allowed me to stay up late with him and watch NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD on television. He fell asleep, but I waited for the end. I couldn’t believe they’d let the lead guy die after all that. I was horrified....
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