Loading ...I am a man of few hobbies. They include writing, and playing music. Each of these hobbies, aside from being monumentally fun to partake in, is a valued asset in my life. This is because, when I feel that one practice is stale I can always fall back on the other for emotional support. As [...]
At this moment, the Jeff Mueller part of the Chicago chapter is half done. My notes are a disgusting mess with X’s and strikethroughs and all that jazz. Will Chatham from Crain sent me back some of his interview answers today, and he’s working the rest of them. Rich Fessler and Tim Midgett will be [...]
Remember several months ago when I talked about the plight of the impending college graduate who is constantly faced with “What are you going to do next year?” questions? Well, to no one’s surprise, he’s now being constantly asked, “How’s the book coming along?” questions. Sometimes I wonder if, had I not told anyone I [...]
An evening in photographs, audio (eight-track, dvd, super) betamax, pictograph and spirogyro.
AUDIO 1: “For the Modern Lovers in the Audience”
AUDIO 2: “Girls Love Being Degraded”
Don Delillo writes in White Noise, “Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.” I was clicking around on the horseless information box (that’s a computer, in modern lingo) last night, and I came across some hilarious photographs and sound/video files from the early [...]
The writing continues. I’m about 3/4 through the Jeff Mueller interview that I conducted at that last bastion of Chicago dive bars, Tuman’s Alcohol Abuse Center. It’s been difficult, trying to take longwinded responses and make them engaging. Every paragraph I stop myself and ask, “Am I putting my reader there?” Ever the self-conscious writer, [...]
A routine is emerging. Wake up between 10 and 12. Shower. Eat a bagel. Drink diet soda. Work on the book. The sample chapter is coming along, there will be many edits. Try to make a skeletal version of the Chicago section in order, and then enable it to grow, expand, and [hopefully] become a [...]
