What's new in the Red Room
Jul.17.2008 - 10:20 am
Francis Ford Coppola winning Oscar for Godfather Part II
Jul.17.2008 - 9:50 am
Welcome
I'm so excited about being a member of the Red Room. I found out about this site from a fellow author who taught me a lot about promotion.
I am currently published in short stories only but I hope to spread my wings, so to speak, in the near future. I'm still learning so much about being an...
Jul.17.2008 - 9:42 am
Implements of Faith
A pen. But not just any pen. A Uni-ball GEL Impact 1.0 mm. Black. Or a pencil, if the medium is hard, if the writing is to occur on a table or a desk, if the medium is paper, which is pulverized trees. Lined or graphed and in a notebook without a spiral. Not loose. Not blank. The medium must be...
Jul.17.2008 - 9:30 am
Pepe Le Moko and The Battle of Algiers: The two best films about The Casbah also are two of the best films ever made.
Pépé Le Moko and The Battle of Algiers make such similar use of the fabled old Algiers neighborhood of The Casbah that there are a few exterior rooftop shots in both films that seemed to me to have been taken from almost the same place. Each of the films has a gritty black and white graininess that...
Jul.17.2008 - 9:22 am
Dinner at Chez Panisse with the Coppolas
I just finished a bio about Chez Panisse, the la-di-da restaurant in Berkeley. Right near my bed is a copy of Eleanor Coppola's book that a friend gave me for my birthday. I opened it up this morning and I read a passage how Coppola went to a luncheon honoring Alice Waters, the woman...
Jul.17.2008 - 9:18 am
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Night
GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN NIGHT
DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY 80S STYLE
&
FIGHT BREAST CANCER
Celebrate the crazy 80s as it rains men on ladies night when girls just want to have fun. Breast Cancer Campaign and Canongate/Grove Atlantic present a fun, sexy, dance-happy charity extravaganza unlike any...
Jul.17.2008 - 9:10 am
Quick Blog, Awesome Graphic Essay
by Ericka Lutz
Got Reading Guilt? Books you you know you shoulda read? Books your parents made you read? This graphic essay by cartoonist Alison Bechdel of Dykes to Watch Out For made me laugh and nod all the way through. (Thanks, Luan, for the heads up.)
http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/compulsory-reading
As...
Jul.17.2008 - 9:05 am
Master of Ceremonies: A True Story
The year was 1985. Smack dab in the middle of the cash happy/coke crazy, when it was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on ladies night, that’s when David Henry Sterry became the Master of Ceremonies at Chippendales, the hottest show in the city that never sleeps. And he did it all in...
Jul.17.2008 - 9:05 am
Master of Ceremonies: A True Story
The year was 1985. Smack dab in the middle of the cash happy/coke crazy, when it was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on ladies night, that’s when David Henry Sterry became the Master of Ceremonies at Chippendales, the hottest show in the city that never sleeps. And he did it all in...
Jul.17.2008 - 8:58 am
California Poet, Kay Ryan: New Poet Laureate
California Poet, Kay Ryan: New Poet Laureate: July 17, 2008 article from TNYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/17poet.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
