Friday, September 23

Brotherhood of Tight Pants

I’m a fan of tight jeans on women!

My high school years were during the nineties, and my friends and I often talk about how we got ripped off… every generation but ours had a tight jean phase.

We had the TLC phase, where the ladies were wearing baggy Gerbards and loose overalls with one-strap. Which, you know, is not without its charms. But we certainly never got that supertight, high-cut shorts, Dazed and Confused look.

– Andy Samberg -

Wednesday, September 7

Author Possibilities

I’ve been asked to do it. Heck, people assume that I already do! It’s time though – I need to WRITE again. An English degree was fairly easy for me because I like to read. Creative Writing was a class that I excelled in, but my writing pursuits have hardly progressed since.

Well, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to get starting on something. Baby steps toward a book series, perhaps? Here it is September, and I have done absolutely nothing. To get started, I sought inspiration from the great author Flannery O’Conner. Here are some quotable gems…

  • Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  • It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

  • Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

(sigh) Alright. Okay then. I think that’s a good enough start for now!