Archive for: March 2008

March 31, 2008

Crime Fiction Come To Life

Filed under: Crime - 31 Mar 2008

Wow. I started following the brouhaha over Chuck Philips’ recent LA Times story reporting new facts in Tupac Shakur’s shooting (as destroyed by The Smoking Gun when I followed a link to an old Rolling Stone article …

March 30, 2008

Whatever Happened To Sharks vs. Jets?

Filed under: WTF - 30 Mar 2008

My vote for Least Likely Story Of the Year: hundreds of punks and rockabillies are roaming Mexican cities, beating up emo kids.

When I first saw this, I really thought it was from The Onion or something (along the lines …

March 28, 2008

Hey Batter!

Filed under: Baseball - 28 Mar 2008

So my daughter had her second softball game yesterday. She got two hits and scored a run, and her team won big. I am already in midseason form, at least as far as shouted advice goes:

“Hit it like …

March 26, 2008

Begun, The Revolution Has

Filed under: Weather - 26 Mar 2008

A follow-up to my recent global warming post: apparently, an army of robots deployed throughout the world’s oceans have begun reporting back, and they’re saying that the oceans aren’t heating up as expected.

Sure. That’s what they’re saying. …

March 20, 2008

Hearing Voices

Filed under: Writing - 20 Mar 2008

Dave White wrote a post last week about voice. I recently had an interesting experience with voice and thought I’d share.

I completed the first draft of a new story, a story I was hoping would be a departure …

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