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a short meditation…

iv’e already said my piece on how important observaton is for writers…the small details i capture during a day…the wayy a womans skirt folds into the crease of her ass…the bit of ground coffee on the floor…the way the little girl resembels her mother…the body language of two men leaning into a latop computer…the burn marks on the tweakers finger…the way the purse strap rests in the woman’s cleavage…the way the smoker holds her cigarette and watches the smoke curl away from her…the jittery leg of the woman staring intently at her compputer…

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Johnny Cash Loves You!

first person, third person…

recent road trip allowed me to finish three books long on my to be read list…shopgirl…hey nostradamus…forever…goood books all…of the three…coupland’s is tops…to be honest, i went into this book only knowing that it dealt with a columbine like incident…it goes so much further than that…as a writer, i enjoyed the mutiple first person perspectives…it could have been stunt writing, but it wasn’t…it felt genuine…in comparison…martin’s shoipgirl is written in the third person…i don’t know if it was because oof the language he used, or if it was just a by roduct of his outlook…but it just felt like he held his characters…in disdain…maybe it’s because he uses twenty dollar words…words no one uses on a daily basis…not at the bus stop…not in the coffeeshop…and certainly not in the bar…his new book is supposed to be first person…maybe…we’ll see…

Johnny Cash Loves You!

remaindered…

i’m standing in a huge box of a retail store…it used to be a shoe outlet store…today it filled…with books…two thousand square feet…wall to wall…discounted…these are what they call remainders…this is what happens to books after consumers have gorged themselves on the bestseller list…christmast gifts…summer resding…i was so happy…i was paralyzed…something i read earlier flashed through my head…tens of thousands of books are published every year…most of them end up here…hardcover and aperback…after this place…what’s next…a landfill…do i really want to add to this pile…and it’s not all crap…there has got to be another way…

Johnny Cash Loves You!

"I'm so happy you're here…"

it is truely wonderful to wake up to the sound of a kind voice…expressing simply…without sentimentality…without being sappy…a sincere appriceiation for the simple facvt…that i am alive on planet earth today…on a day…my birthday…that i have allowed to become…just like any other day…

Johnny Cash Loves You!