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Deep Thoughts, SF Metblogs Meet-up
“You can’t shoot a great poet.” – Samuel Hynes, New Yorker June 12, 2006 “Meeting E.P.” on how they couldn’t try Ezra Pound for treason for broadcasting for Mussolini. It’s true, you just can’t shoot a great poet. It’s like a visceral, innate impulse not to kill, great poets, that is. I am thinking of…
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Book Idea
I had a masterful book idea this morning, out of the blue. I’m going to start working on it. I know I’m supposed to be doing rewrites for the screenplay. I just finished a friend’s contract, so now with my real, free writing days- Wed and Thurs- I can focus entirely on writing. This new…
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Bach and Pushkin
I’m watching a very colorful database performance monitor historograph that is telling me: “Your database is moving very slowly,” and all I can do is try to harmonize with the lines of flowing, colorful data points. It sounds kind of baroque, which isn’t odd when you think that Bach was a good mathematician. And from…
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Dot Com Style
Dot Com Style I sit here, 7PM on a Friday, trapped in Emery-Bored, as a A’s vs. Giants’ game is clogging up my Bay Bridge. I’m faithfully reading Boing Boing, and this article in particular. notes by Paul De Filipp0 (taken from Boing Boing link) regarding the editorial style of Wired: * All references to…
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Social Muse
credit to: phreddy When you’re not working, are you still working? I mean, could the interaction with interesting people and great artists and thinkers be “work” in itself? I don’t pretend to have a bunch of fascinating things in my head erupting in a stead stream of brilliance: it’s collaborative, or a pastiche, or something.…
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Movie Update: Information Kills
Movie Update: Information Kills One of the actors told me, “you need to figure out what this is about.” Another friend who read a bunch of male parts for me, despite being a woman, and that is an irrelevant fact anyways, she said: “You have so much going on, if you chose one thing and…
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Movie Update: Bilingual Screenplays
Bilingual Screenplays Trying to find the screenplay to Pushing Hands online. I did get this interview with James Schamus, which is quite good. He’s the producer of two Lee movies, and works/owns Good Machine. He discusses working with Ang Lee on the Chinese and English movie screenplay. It went back and forth a lot, I…
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Jarndyce vs. Jaundice, Take That
The infamous Naps, black dive bar owned by Napoleon Urbino, of Naps II and Naps III fame. I wish I was in this trial. It has all the makings of a true Greek tragedy, a long Dickens novel, what have you. And yes, that is an intentional misspelling of a Dickens’ character’s name.
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Locations
Locations Scouted a location today. I had planned to meet the guy who is my connection to this bar, but he flaked. No problem, talked to the owner myself. There’s going to be some tough issues: lighting, and dealing with the public. I wanted to get the entire place to ourselves for filming, but he…
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Sunny Days So Long Ago. Los Gatos Trail. Not Writing
This photo reminds me that there are sunny days, or were, in January Sunny Days, So Long Ago The rain: all the radio stations talk about it, and everyone you talk to talks about it. Not so long ago, the days were sunny, and we had tons of droughts no less. Just putting things into…