Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph.
-Gustave Flaubert, letter to Maxime Du Camp (October 1847)
Are You of Legal Drinking Age? Cold River Editions: Music for the Tongue Come Hell of High Water, I Hope They Serve Cold River Vodka in Heaven
Women and elephants never forget ...
--Dorothy Parker, Lauren Rossiter and Minna MANnerhovi ;-)
Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
Urban activist, Jane Jacobs, has died In many of her email, spppeeches, articles and books, the key with Jane was that she believed that the world was a complex place. It was not a simple place, it was a complex place, and you couldn't just think in straight lines. You had to think about context, Allen!
I’ll have some of that Vodka, Bohemian Iva ;-( Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Lit'ry flavour: No Straight Lines or Rivers: Finding the Flow Good thing this would never happen in 2006 AD. Well, almost never. Rarely. Practically nil. Hardly at all?
I hate spin. Really, really hate it, with an Orwellian passion. I bristle whenever I see it in print or hear it on TV:
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases—bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder—one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy
• I claim we took a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, and go back and retake it
Hm. Amen. Sort of [Drawing on sources such as Media Dragons, chatrooms, newspapers, magazines and fiction, the Oxford English Corpus spots emerging trends in language usage to help guide lexicographers when composing the most recent editions of dictionaries
Wordly Riches. English language hits 1 billion words ; If you’re an actor, New York is the perfect place to be a waiter. As anyone who lives here knows, the old joke is as true now as it ever was.
Get a life—somewhere else; Encouraging young lebanese bookworms: As mad as the proverbial cut snake, and as wonderful
as a Lebanese army of Simons ]
• · Paul Brown and Stuart Wheatman formed Tonto Press in 2005 with the aim of offering new writers more opportunities and a fairer deal than traditional publishers
Sidekick showcase ; One of the contributors to the first collection is
Jolene Hui, of San Diego, an 'actress and model' who seems alarmingly photogenic;
I am a poet. I write good poetry. I derive great joy from expressing myself this way. But there is a place for it. And it's not in a screenplay. A screenplay is not a place for you to hear yourself write. Your description can have wit and life and spirit, but it must not dazzle in and of itself
The Heart and Soul of Screenwriting: Writing Good Dialogue and Description• · ·
Why high rollers think they'll hit it big. Nando Pelusi, Ph.D., says we'd bet the farm for a shot at the jackpot. One more roll, and I'll get it a l back ... Everyone gets mildly addicted to something
Fallen god of small gambling things; Curtis Zimmerman’s idea was to downsize and set up a quaint little ad shop. But things turned out quite differently.
Transcending the Rat Race ;
How Successful People Remain Successful • · · · You have a lifelong dream of making a movie. You decide it’s high time you made good that dream. So you hire your friends to act. You rent equipment. You wake up earlier than you’ve ever waked up in your life.
To Succeed You Have to Fail ;
• · · · · Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. via V
Not Your Ordinary Escape ; Prague is passe. Barranqueros! It is Thirroul and Buenos Aires that rocks:
Expatriate Games Communism was a humor machine. Its economic theories and system of repression created inherently funny situations, and every joke was a tiny revolution
Hammer and Tickle ; David Maister shares useful lessons
Are some people natural managers? • · · · · ·
Uses of Blogs Goes to the Printer ; Robert Scoble: This is a broad, but deep look at the social, political, business, and academic effects that blogging is having on our society
Uses of Blogs Goes to the Printer Powell's Books - What's sexier than an overflowing book bag and a knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System? Booze makes everyone look hotter, especially the one who's pouring it
A load of hot air
