Two of the happiest days in one’s life are the day one gets a boat… Mary had a sailboat. The storms during the winter had reduced the number of functional cleats to one. During Mary’s ownership, it sank twice (Note the black tube on the starboard side–this is connected to a bilge pump). If itContinue reading “We Don't Own a Boat”
Monthly Archives: October 2007
We Don’t Own a Boat
Two of the happiest days in one’s life are the day one gets a boat… Mary had a sailboat. The storms during the winter had reduced the number of functional cleats to one. During Mary’s ownership, it sank twice (Note the black tube on the starboard side–this is connected to a bilge pump). If itContinue reading “We Don’t Own a Boat”
There's something you don't see everyday, Edgar
For reasons known only to sociologists and writers (fiction writers are free to make stuff up as long as it sounds plausible), Memorial and Labor Day Weekends provide the bookends to summer for Americans. In that time that we Americans define as summer, Clear Lake squeals (see my previous discussion in Anthropology 101), throbs withContinue reading “There's something you don't see everyday, Edgar”
There’s something you don’t see everyday, Edgar
For reasons known only to sociologists and writers (fiction writers are free to make stuff up as long as it sounds plausible), Memorial and Labor Day Weekends provide the bookends to summer for Americans. In that time that we Americans define as summer, Clear Lake squeals (see my previous discussion in Anthropology 101), throbs withContinue reading “There’s something you don’t see everyday, Edgar”
So, what happens next?
In Poetics, Aristotle called plot the “arrangement of incidents.” More informally, plot is “one damn thing after another.” It’s the answer to “what happens next?” In order for a story not to feel episodic, this has to be answered satisfactorily. Even if the next event is thirty years in the future, it has to feelContinue reading “So, what happens next?”
Harry Splutter & the Lure of Hollyweird
“When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.” (Raymond Chandler) Epi-soda 14 “Look out!” shouted Hermione shrilly while pointing and hopping from foot to foot. “Wha?” said Harry and Weasel unanimously and also stupidly thinking that she might need to use the little witch’s room again. “Mmmmph”Continue reading “Harry Splutter & the Lure of Hollyweird”
Harry Splutter & the Lure of Hollyweird
Episodah 13 (I hope you don’t have triskaidekaphobia) is from Alan Hutcheson. Drop by and see his Sketches by Plumboz. “Do you think you might do that again?” Bumblebore said nonchalantly to Hermione. “Do what?” Hermione said perplexedly. “That little, you know,” said Bumblebore. He made a kicking motion and then tipped his head back.Continue reading “Harry Splutter & the Lure of Hollyweird”
Nullius in Verba 