Oct 28, 2008 

Dark Dark Story


Dark, Dark Story from shookfoil on Vimeo.

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Oct 22, 2008 

English Major-y Geek-Out Experiment

First read Hemingway's magisterial "Hills Like White Elephants," required reading in nearly every college creative writing class.

Then read the late David Foster Wallace's gorgeous and meditative "Good People" which seems to me obviously intended as a riff on Hemingway's much earlier story.

Which is better? They cover the same ground. Hemingway's story was always held up in my classes as the ideal form of writing: conveying iceberg depths with minimum surface language and description. And Hemingway's story is certainly a model of that approach. But Wallace's story tackles the interior life with a power and skill that is more deeply moving (to me, at least) than Hemingway's. A fun experiment, either way.

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Oct 1, 2008 

My 'hood


This video has a few of my favorite places in the blocks around my house.

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