David Cranmer's Blog, page 11
October 8, 2017
Cranmer Family Bake Off
Ava held a family bake off. It was me against Little d. Ingredients: sugar and
Walden Wasn’t Thoreau’s Masterpiece
For the record, I never thought it was. The Atlantic: "In his 2-million-word journal, the transcendentalist discovered how to balance poetic wonder and scientific rigor as he explored the natural world."
I'm Taking Baby Steps
Last week, on Twitter, I lamented that writing feels like I'm carving Mount Rushmore with toothpicks. And the more I thought about it, crafting new sentences has been a chore for about a month. I don't have the mean reds over lack of flow because what I'm laying down, I'm satisfied with. Case in point, yesterday, I conjured five sentences for an introduction to the Tom Paine book I'm finishing. Not brilliant but serviceable. Now, I will polish them off and see if I can turn the dial a bit farther. Like Bill Murray in What About Bob, I'm taking baby steps. It's working.
An Oral History of Batman: The Animated Series
Vulture: The show that defined the Dark Knight for a generation, in the words of its creators and stars.
October 6, 2017
Infiltrations of the Surreal
From 2015, my article on Julio Cortázar. Besides thinking I did a fairly decent job with this piece, I've become a convert to Cortázar's body of work and just recently started reading his short stories again. Hope you don't mind me sharing again.
First Poll
Click over to Twitter to vote in my first poll to decide which book series (007, Reacher, Holmes, or Poirot) I review next.
October 5, 2017
Klaatu Barada Nikto!
Time Traveler Warned Of Alien Invasion that's happening next year. And I for one believe we need to consider his dire warning with a great deal of caution.
