Eric Nuzum's Blog
December 18, 2009
EMILY'S CHRISTMAS STOCKING
Originally uploaded by oh that rachel!
"Pardon me," this guy said, butting in at the front of the line at the hardware store. "Where are your slippers?"
"We don't sell slippers," replied the cashier.
"Pardon me?" he asked, kinda asshole-ishly.
"We don't sell slippers," she repeated. "This is a hardware store."
"But you sell socks," he yelled, pointing at a display of wool work socks next to the register. "And I need a new pair of slippers!"
"They move those up here...
December 17, 2009
BOOkeh
Originally uploaded by mouseteeff
I haven't been writing as much here as normal lately because I've been struggling over the past two months with edits to my new book Bring Me To Heaven.
Editing the book makes it seem like finishing the book was the easy part.
While putting together and writing this book, I spent a lot of time in denial that I was, in fact, writing a memoir. Rather than a goofy book about ghosts, it became a story about my own ghosts.
Since coming to this realization...
December 13, 2009
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December 1, 2009
record player
Originally uploaded by ErinLangNorris/YellowCanoe
Old habits die hard. I still, every year, keep track of my favorite albums throughout the year. Then I spend an embarrassing amount of time in the final few months pruning the list down to my 10 favorites.
2009 was an odd musical year for my ears. There were lots of "okay" albums, but few really indispensable ones. I question how many on the list below would have made the cut in any other year. The real test is if I will still...
October 30, 2009
The photo to the right is a extremely blown up photo of a rock in the middle of the Devil's Den at the Gettysburg Battlefield.
The white dot in the middle? It isn't a ghost. It isn't a led light. It isn't a reflection.
It is a dead pixel.
Shortly after returning from Gettysburg in August, I discovered that my Canon digital camera has one dead pixel, which always registers bright white, located just to the left of the dead center of the lens.
After some investigation, I learned that (when blown...
October 22, 2009
I just bought an Xbox.
It cost about $250 bucks.
What was the first game I bought for it?
Solitaire.
Solitaire
Originally uploaded by mrclean
For me, that really isn't that unusual. When I bought my iPhone, the first thing I did was buy a solitaire game. I keep a shortcut on my computer's desktop to the solitaire game. In fact, I have bought/acquired a solitaire game for every game system, computer, and piece of electronics I have ever owned where it would even remotely be possible to...
October 7, 2009
Cry Baby
Originally uploaded by Chalky Lives
My favorite comment so far: "You're comparing parenthood with being mauled by a wild animal? The analogy is neither funny, nor particularly insightful…"
I actually take comments like this as a compliment--because the reader had the expectation that I would be either (a) funny, or (b) insightful...
October 5, 2009
I'm VAMPIRE!
Originally uploaded by Leigh®Photography
Friday, October 23rd @ Past Tense, Mt. Pleasant (Washington, DC)
This reading with be 75% new stories from my new book (never read or shared publicly before), and 25% from The Dead Travel Fast. Expect a pre- and post-reading celebratory beer down the street at The Raven.
Saturday, October 31st @ Barnes and Noble...
