Gowhere Hip Hop at Columbia's Non Fiction Week writing for music panel
2009-12-05 22:15:00 Watch me break it down at Columbia College here in Chicago, as I speak on writing for music with co-panelists that include Brian DiCrescenzo, Music Editor of Time Out Chicago, Laura Emerick, Chicago Sun-Times Arts Editor, memoirist and former frontwoman for Zuzu's Petals Laurie Lindeen, and Fiction Writing Department faculty member and Ray Bradbury biographer Sam Weller.Thanks to everyone that came out for this and asked questions, as it was a really interesting discussion about the past, present, and more importantly the future of writing for music. The panelists ranged from a wide variety of different publications and expertise, which made for a very nice comparison on the different types of music critics out there and their opinions on...
Fact Or Fiction? (Water On The Moon)
2009-09-23 06:07:00 It looks like news of the possibility of water on Earth’s little sister Luna is creating a lot of excitement amongst the space geeks community. NASA is scheduled to release the findings this Thursday, which should either boost the cause for lunar exploration at its most dismal period, or cause a collective yawn throughout the media. Previous ...
By: Colony Worlds
Postcard fiction challenge finals
2009-09-19 00:09:00 I issued a challenge, and that challenge was to write flash fiction based upon a very specific bottlecap photo. Readers dear, you are some talented folks, and picking top picks was positively painful. I recruited help, to keep things fair, and we still only narrowed it down to four entries. So, I'm turning to you! Please vote in the comments section and let's see who took this challenge....
Postcard fiction writing prompt: bottlecap
2009-09-16 12:45:00 Hemingway said a story could be written in a little as six words, and used the example "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." to make his case.In 100 words or less, write for us a postcard fiction story-- that is, a micro-flash fiction story, a very, very short story, but a whole story-- in the comments section. Your story must feature this particular bottlecap in some way, but otherwise can be about absolutely anything at all. The winner will be profiled in an upcoming post. Ready, set, go!...
Science Fiction – When is it Real?
2009-09-06 20:08:00 I love Sci-fi, but as I get older I know what I like and most commercial fiction doesn’t cut it. I suspect I was more flexible in my younger years, but again, maybe the authors were just a bit better. I love William Gibson, Greg Bear and Walter Jon Williams. But I usually ... No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
By: Nano Future 2030
Murders in the Rue Morgue: Play chess online
2009-09-01 20:32:00 I enjoy the precise prose, Marx-free themes, and sense of decency of the pre-modern writers, even though things can get stuffy at times. Murders in the Rue Morgue, sometimes called the "first detective story," begins with a somewhat lengthy and difficult-to-follow discourse (below the fold) on which mental faculties are best tested by checkers in contrast to chess. Poe seems to think that the more constrictive rules of checkers better tests a man's analytic ability than the more varied move options in chess, although comprehending the exact reasoning would require me to think, and it's Saturday. Murder in the Rue Morgue is odd because the focus of the story isn't necessarily the mystery at hand, as the characters involved are barely present, but the inductive/deductive powers of C. Auguste Dupin. The reader can't possibly participate in the story: he's merely along for the ride. Or, the reader isn't given the information or time necessary to make a problem-solving guess and ...
By: Asymmetric
Christian Community in Fiction
2009-08-31 01:10:00 Nathan Hobby, an Anabaptist Christian and fiction writer in Western Australia, posted some worthwhile reflections earlier this summer concerning what it means to write novels for the kingdom of God. In this essay, Nathan unpacks N.T. Wright's directive to write "a novel which grips people with the structure of Christian thought, and with Christian motivation set deep into the heart and structure of the narrative, so that people would read that and resonate with it and realize that that story can be my story." Nathan observes that a lot of popular fiction with the "Christian" label is unfortunately cheesy and simplistic. Brian McLaren's books, such as A New Kind of Christian, use a fictional narrative to put across some sophisticated ideas in an emotionally accessible way, but are not well-crafted as novels. The same might be said of The Shack, an unlikely bestseller about the Trinity, which I admit I enjoyed despite its clunky plot.In the modern naturalistic novel, it's a challen...
By: Reiter's Block
A floating body
2009-08-23 02:48:00 A SKETCH OF A STORY } You can?t really count the occasions of ?sometimes? in your life. It?s a trick, the thought. Because the truth could be that it was always there and not just sometimes. Yet, he could count some such occasions. One that he remembers was when he was in bed with his lower half raised, slanted on the wall. The rest of him in bed. He saw his toes and a day rushed into him when he remembered the shock of the whack on his back by his man. He was more struck by the shock of his... Continue to read at JoshCafe.com
By: Reportage
Healthcare Reform: Separating Fact from Fiction
2009-08-13 15:33:00 Fiction makes great story, doesn't it? I love a good beach read...suspense, colorful characters and drama. However, I don't care for it in my news and especially not when we're trying to make big decisions regarding the health of my patients, my family and myself. Dr. Tim Johnson on ABC has been doing a nice job of distinguishing the real facts. You've known him a lot longer than you've known me and I can't really do any better than what he's been broadcasting. So I'm going to refer you directly to this resource. This is the one to watch, folks. Some of what you're hearing is right up there with the legend of the Jackalope. Whee!!!!...
Summer rally: Fact or fiction?
2009-08-06 14:00:00 "While the Summer Rally is one of the oldest, and most popular truisms on Wall Street, it is also one of the most erroneous," says Jim Stack, who looks at "fact vs. fiction" in summer rally forecasts. Adding credence to his forecast, the market historian, money manager and editor of InvesTech Market Analyst not only successfully forecast the recent bear market but also moved to a 97% invested position just after the March bottom."Although it can be said that the stock market often rallies sometime during the summer months, from a recent low, the same could be said for any month out of the year."And here’s the clincher… Such rallies during the early summer months of May, June and July have historically shown the smallest potential gains for all 12 months of the year! "We analyzed the average DJIA gain from each month’s low to a subsequent rally high over the next 3 months -- based on data that has been compiled from the past ...
Theocratic Demagogues United Against Democracy: 2012 Pt 3 (fiction)
2009-08-04 13:48:00 Part One | Part Two | Part Three GimmelI?m not sure how long it?s been now. I lost track, sleeping in the first cell. There, I curled up in a ball near ten or twelve other women held there, i...
Theocratic Demagogues United Against Democracy: 2012 Pt 2 (fiction)
2009-07-30 04:04:00 Part One | Part Two | Part Three BetI don?t know if anyone will read this. I suppose that I must trust that my words will be read. I might be writing to myself, or to my captors, should they fi...
Fact or Fiction: Jerry Reinsdorf is cheap
2009-07-03 18:29:00 A common perception of Jerry Reinsdorf, chairman of the board of the Bulls ownership group, is that he's cheap. That the Bulls are simply a cash cow where winning titles isn't important, and only the bottom line is. In order to discuss whether this is true or not I've focused on Forbes' Business of Basketball series of articles and Business of Baseball series of articles to test Reinsdorf's spending patterns versus his peers....
Woman - Fiction 55
2009-05-19 09:32:00 Born a child and celebrated as Goddess, she was a woman. Clad in pink, frills and bows, she was a woman. Taking care of brothers and sisters, she was a woman. Crawling, crying, caring, bleeding, and with glass ceilings, she was a woman. Exhausted, her newborn child in her arms, she was again a woman.
A woman - fiction 55
2009-05-19 09:25:00 Born a child and celebrated as godess, she was a Woman. Clad in pink, frills and bows, she was a woman. Taking care of brothers and sisters, she was a woman. Crawling, crying, caring, bleeding, and with glass ceilings, she was a woman. Exhausted, her newborn child in her arms, she was again a woman.
A woman - fiction 55
2009-05-19 07:10:00 Born a child and celebrated as goddess, she was a Woman. Clad in pink,frills and bows, she was a woman. Taking care of brothers and sisters,she was a woman. Crawling, crying, caring, bleeding, and with glassceilings, she was a woman. Exhausted, her newborn child in her arms,she was again a woman.
The look - fiction 55
2009-05-14 07:07:00 Across the room, he saw her, wildly, as if seeing her for the last time. Startled, she looked back at him, as if for the first time. Then they wheeled her to the operation theater. As the glass doors shut, he turned away from his reflection, violently, as if never wanting to see himself again.
More "Bad Blogger" BS And Fourth Estate Fiction
2009-05-07 23:04:00 (I also posted here.)I guess I should be a bit sympathetic to Lindsay Graham, but I really don?t feel like it.You see, the Repug senator from South Carolina found out here that Tom Ridge won?t run in a PA primary against Pat Toomey after all (would have been tough sledding for the former PA gov, but who knows), so he must?ve been feeling bad about that. Also, he incorrectly stated here that all GITMO detainees could be held indefinitely (wrong again ? as Think Progress tells us, 17 Chinese Muslim prisoners, among others, were no longer to be regarded as such).But I guess what really got me stoked about Graham today was when he said the following from here??If we?re going to let the bloggers run the country, then the country?s best days are behind us.?(I should note that those ?bad bloggers? had the effrontery to actually hold Graham?s little Repug Senate play mate Jeff Sessions, who took Snarlin? Arlen?s seat on the Judiciary Committee as ranking Repug, accountable for his past raci...
Tea of life - Fiction 55
2009-05-05 08:28:00 Why couldn't life be like drinking tea, he wondered. Relaxing , Simple and without any complications. People could be like Marie biscuit, he thought - there to add taste and substance to life. Why couldn't ... He muttered an oath as the soggy buscuit broke off and disappeared into his hot tea, splashing his fingers.'PS : previous fiction55 here.
Science Fiction and Device Trials
2009-04-30 15:27:00 A sting operation conducted by the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) documented lax screening by an institutional review board (IRB), which may now result in stricter regulation of medical groups that monitor clinical trials. The GAO successfully registered a fictitious company and a fake medi
A ?Re-Pete? Of Winger Torture Fiction
2009-04-23 20:45:00 Leave it to the Murdoch Street Journal to jump to the defense of the deposed Bushco regime now that the Obama Administration has released details of the ?enhanced interrogations? that took place during their predecessor?s watch, with House Repug Pete Hoekstra of Michigan ?doing the honors? here?Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used against senior al Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003, are demonstrating how little President Barack Obama and some Democratic members of Congress understand the dire threats to our nation.Nothing like a little ?red meat? for the faithful (give me a break)?Last week, (Director of National Intelligence Dennis) Blair made a similar statement (about ?enhanced interrogations? allegedly saving lives) in an internal memo to his staff when he wrote that "[h]igh value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country."Nice of Hoekstra ...
Protein Power: Fact or Fiction?
2009-04-20 15:00:00 For the past three years, I've been an exercise junkie. Most of that time has been spent on cardio activities such as running, biking, and kickboxing. Because I'm also an avid reader, I've purchased many books on the subject of exercise. All of them assert that weight training is an integral part
Fiction 55 - The cobbler
2009-04-15 19:20:00 He slipped on the shoe that the cobbler gave back."It will break?" She asked"No madam, my gaurentee." Said the cobbler."How much?""What you feel sir.""No you tell.""I can say twenty-five, but you give what you think is right.""Okay take ten."walking away, she said, "... should have given only five."PS : My first attempt at Fiction 55 , inspired by Vinnie.
What Are The Top Ten Science Fiction Books?
2009-03-26 05:10:00 What works of Science Fiction are foundational reading for anyone, scientist or general reader? What works of Science Fiction are as good as anything written by anyone about anything? What works of Science Fiction are Literature? My top ten must be fiction based on hard science with t
Spiders and Conkers - Fact or Fiction?
2009-03-20 11:38:00 I read that spiders are repelled by conkers. Does anyone know if this is true? A guy has done an interesting experiment on this: http://www.athelstanscave.com/c-aveblog/spiders-vs-conkers/
The dogbones from my search
2009-03-18 05:21:00 ETGAR KERET } Like a mosquito in its flight of search for the easily penetrable skin over the softest flesh for its needle, I keep searching for idioms that suit my writing. Privately. In my diaries, that is. Idioms as a characteristic mode of expression, you know. One of those sketchy entries in which I tried to breathe ... Continue to read at JoshCafe.com
By: Reportage
Marshwiggle23 wrote a new blog post: flash fiction -2
2009-02-12 01:00:00 Marshwiggle23 wrote a new blog post: flash fiction -2 cass was in the centre of the raging storm in the black licorice interstellar chat room the bots were on the rampage a million windows kept opening up the faster he tried to beat them closing them the faster they popped up they flooded his screen and looked terrifying till he felt he was falling through an endless vortex of ...
By: BackBeat
Fact or Fiction? Uncommon Uses for Household Items (Part 2)
2009-02-09 23:10:00 What do you get if you mix horseradish and olive oil? How about vinegar and honey? In Part 1 of this series, we examined some unconventional uses for cooking oil, dishwashing liquid, dryer sheets, sports drinks, toothpaste, and peppermint. So let's continue this series by examining some additi
Fact or Fiction? Uncommon Uses for Household Items (Part 1)
2009-02-09 17:30:00 Who knew? That was subject line of a mysterious message that landed in my Inbox this morning. The sender of the email was no stranger to me, but the claims in this message were bizarre. Some household items, it seems, have chemical and material properties that make them useful for all sorts of
Ride for Free, Fact or Fiction?
2009-02-06 00:17:00 In today's day and age, is it possible for those of us who work in the science world and are are sports enthusiasts to snowboard for free? I am a Ski Patroller and a Snowboard Instructor. Check out my blog for the whole story, then let me know what you think. www.photonicgirl.blogspot.com Jule
Rithy Panh | From Documentary to Fiction
2009-01-29 19:25:00 i hated Rithy Panh when i first saw the poster of “Un soir après la guerre” in Paris. It was completely disturbing me when i saw people buying the ticket and see a sad movie from my country. since that day, there is no strange for me when i see people crying in the cinema. i ...
By: Khmerbird
On Writing Fantasy Fiction
2009-01-18 23:36:00 I have all these ideas related to the transition that I’d like to write about before the inauguration, thoughts on the outgoing president and his successor, yet my mind constantly wanders to other topics, my interests in world history, my love for the theater and cinema and my own proposed fantasy epic. I’ve recently begun a ...
By: GayPatriot
"Mini Submarines For Exploring The Human Body as Science Fiction Becomes Sc
2009-01-16 18:50:00 Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv are creating mini submarines that will be expolring human bodies in 3 to 5 years.
White Lies - To Lose my Life (Fiction Records, 2009)
2009-01-09 16:39:00 El enésimo hype que recuerda a Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bauhaus y New Order. Las canciones tienen unos buenos ganchos pegadizos haciendolo muy agradable de escuchar. Sus grandes actuaciones en directo ayudan aún más en la promoción de un estilo ya probado desde los años 80.Si te gustan las frases melancólicas y las estructuras sencillas entonces podrás disfrutar de este álbum.http://www.myspace.com/wh-itelies1.Death2.To Lose My Life3.A Place to Hide4.Fifty On Our Foreheads5.Unfinished Business6.E.S.T7.From The Stars8.Farewell to the Fairground9.Nothing to Give10.The Price of Love
Fiction and the Reading Public
2008-12-18 14:10:00 Give me a thrill, says the reader,Give me a kick;I don?t care how you succeed, orWhat subject you pick.Choose something that you know all aboutThat?ll sound like real life:Your childhood, your Dad pegging out,How you sleep with your wife.But that?s not sufficient, unlessYou make me feel good ?Whatever you?re ?trying to express?Let it be understoodThat ?somehow? God plaits up the threads,Makes ?all for the best?,That we may lie quiet in our bedsAnd not be ?depressed?.For I call the tune in this racket:I pay your screw,Write reviews and the bull on the jacket ?So stop looking blueAnd start serving up your sensationsBefore it?s too late;Just please me for two generations ?You?ll be ?truly great?.- Philip Larkin
By: O Melhor Amigo
Automotive Hydrogen Generators- Fact or fiction ?
2008-12-15 16:12:00 Are any of the hydrogen generators scientifically proven to work that people are installing on their cars. Please comment on the following factors: 1. Safety 2. Efficienciy 3. Reliability/longevity 4. Fuel savings 5. Cost 6. Brands Thank you, Phil
Science Fiction or Science Future?
2008-12-06 14:16:00 Could scientists actually clone a woolly mammoth, à la Jurassic Park? Well, they have uncovered 80% of the extinct animal's genome extracted from mummified hair samples. How about creating personalized organs for transplant? Doctors recently used stem cells to grow a new windpipe for a patient who h
Bad Gay Fiction & the Absence of Introspection
2008-11-30 22:23:00 I’m blogging from Cincinnati where I have spent the holiday many members of the PatriotFamilyWest, the youngest of whom decided to remain in San Francisco with his mother. Since my Dad and his wife are planning to move from their house where the contents of my childhood room (in a different home) have sat (mostly) undisturbed ...
By: GayPatriot
Fiction Records
2008-11-30 19:53:00 Our featured video this week is from White Lies (a review of White Lies is coming up). White Lies is one of a number of talented independent music artists on Fiction Records. Fiction of course is best know for being home to The Cure for over 20 years. This UK indie label was started by Chris ...
In the Presence of a Cold Rain
2008-11-15 17:11:00 There was cold rain coming down all around the man as he walked briskly down the street. He had only a few blocks more to walk. It wasn’t a heavy rain, but in the darkness of the night the sound of the rain came to his ears in better ways than the sight of it came ...
By: I Will Not Die
LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION RELEASE A GREAT NEW RECORD?AND IT ?AIN?T NO SURPRIS
2008-10-19 12:45:00 ?One For Me To Find? has the title and sound of an old traditional. It begins with Daniel James? forlorn voice, singing over a drumbeat and a murmuring organ, ?I?ve got these outlaws chasing me . . . It?s hard to make amends, with myself and my dead friends . . .? It?s a perfect introduction for an album that sticks to Southern Rock basics, but manages to wind through Dead-like jams (?Sun?s Only Promise?), uptempo Allmans rock (?Ain?t No Surprise?), sauntering country pop (?Come Back (Now That I?m Here)?) and everywhere in between.The band has always been the anti-corporate antidote to Kings of Leon, and a more grounded, song-based version of My Morning Jacket. They continue their tradition on their latest release, ?Ain?t No Surprise.? With so many bands making music like this nowadays, it?s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. But you can?t go wrong with Leopold and His Fiction. They?ve got solid songwriting, complete control over their instruments, and vocals that kick...
By: Berkeley Place
New Rotary Engine - Fact or Fiction?
2008-10-15 22:57:00 I viewed on Youtube the video of the new rotary engine posted by Philistia Industrial Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9kNJlrbND0U . They claim it saves 60% on the fuel consumption compared to conventional piston 4 stroke engines . Is this possible ??? Is this the engine of the future ???
Newbie?s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy and Genre Conventions
2008-10-12 05:04:00 A very large number of people who have never attended a Sci-Fi convention have the idea that they are all about people standing in line to get autographs of actors while wearing Klingon makeup and costumes or pointed ears. I’m not saying that those stereotypes don’t exist, but the Convention experience is much richer and ...
By: Fanfic
More Flowers Freeper Obama-Rama Fiction
2008-10-10 17:45:00 Gee, Christine, I?m so glad Barack Obama introduced race into this campaign and not you here today in the Philadelphia Daily News (uh huh, sure)?Ever since the campaign entered its most frenetic stage, race has become the not-so-secret weapon of the Obama camp, allowing it to both promote the candidate as a historic step forward while at the same time attack his opponents with the bigot label. And the polls say that it seems to be working.Forgive me if I inadvertently end up patting myself on the back here, but I have to note that, like you I?m sure, I?ve ended up reading a hell of a lot about this campaign and Barack Obama in particular. And I?ve seen no evidence whatsoever to support the ?bigot? charge. None.Further, no one from the Obama campaign would have been dumb enough to do that; yes, we still have a little less than a month to go and anything is possible, but the Obama campaign has remained fixed on the issues unlike any Democratic campaign I?ve seen since 1992 (and I thin...
Mustang Station Wagons? Fact or Fiction
2008-10-06 18:09:00 So in the November HCC Lost and Found, I presented a photo submitted by a reader of a 1966 (or thereabouts) Shelby G.T.350 station wagon, along with a claim that Ford actually built two Mustang station wagons around that time. Yeah, I wasn't too sure of that claim, but it's a neat concept, and
The Italian perspective on metahistorical fiction: The 'New Italian Epic'
2008-10-02 18:08:00 "The Italian perspective on metahistorical fiction"Claudia Boscolo (Royal Holloway University of London), Wu Ming 1 (Italian writer), Vanni Santoni (Italian writer), Marco Amici (University College Cork), Monica Jansen (Utrecht University & University of Antwerp)IGRS: Conferences & Workshops
By: weblogART
Fictional Foodstuffs: The Snacks Of Science Fiction
2008-10-01 16:46:00 From Science Fiction in the News: Does food play an important role in science fiction books and movies? "Science Fiction in the News" has the list. A recent paper by Jean P. Retzinger titled Speculative visions and imaginary meals: Food and the environment in (post-apocalyptic)
More Fiction From His Fraudulency
2008-09-25 00:06:00 This story from Yahoo News tells us that George W. Milhous Bush (yes, he?s still around ? 117 more inexorable days, give or take a few minutes) spoke as follows before the U.N. today?Calling the threat from violent extremists "the fundamental challenge of our time," President Bush on Tuesday reminded the world's assembled leaders that "every nation in this chamber has responsibilities" in the battle with terror.Speaking in a matter-of-fact tone, Bush seemed to understand that he was not speaking to a fully friendly audience. When the US president best remembered here for going to war in Iraq without a UN blessing spoke of "transformation in Iraq," the chamber remained silent. "Iraq and Afghanistan," Bush said, were "transformed from regimes that support terrorism to democracies that fight terror."Memo to President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History: if everything is supposed to be so peachy, particularly in Afghanistan, try releasing the latest NIE when you?re suppos...
Chanel Facettes Nail Colour Gold Fiction
2008-09-11 09:31:00 From O, The Oprah Magazine: Fall’s Best Beauty Products, September 2008 Chanel Facettes Nail Colour Limited Edition Gold Fiction New FACETTES D’OR Nail Colour in Gold Fiction - a precious shade of 18k gold lacquer - sparkles with jewel-like effect. Full Details Tags: Chanel, Facettes, Nail, Colour, Limited, Edition, Gold, FictionSocial Bookmarking
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