Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 185
July 6, 2011
Autobiography Of Mark Twain
From the review:
"It is hard to think of another writer as great as Mark Twain who did so many things that even merely good writers are not supposed to do. Great writers are not meant to write bad books, much less publish them. Twain not only published a lot of bad books, he doesn't appear to have noticed the difference between his good ones and his bad ones. Great writers are not meant to care more about money than art. Twain cared so much about money that what little he writes about his art in his autobiography is almost entirely, and obsessively, about the business end of things: his paychecks, his promotional tours, his financial disputes with publishers, his venture capital investments in publishing and printing technology. He stops and starts Huckleberry Finn over and again to devote vast amounts of his time and energy to losing $190,000 (roughly $4 million today) in a doomed typesetting machine, and nearly bankrupts himself. Great writers are expected to be interested in ideas; they should associate themselves with at least a few convictions. Apart from a frontier notion of freedom, Twain never met an idea he could not reduce to a joke. He doesn't even appear to have been wedded to his own skepticism."
The lid of a styrofoam cooler from Canada Day. We arted all over...
The lid of a styrofoam cooler from Canada Day. We arted all over it.
July 5, 2011
"You've spent your whole life running and running, trying to catch up with something that has never..."
- Unknown (via heoro)
"Where the hell do you think you're going!? You're no different than all of the rest you ingrate! All..."
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- Vincent Kennedy McMahon (to John Cena)
It was like Vince had been reading the Fake Vince blog for the last two years and decided to try the character on.
July 4, 2011
Keyword Management in Scrivenever.
A screencast I made for...
Keyword Management in Scrivenever.
A screencast I made for Rachel Davies, but could be useful for anyone trying to organize a novel or long work through tags. Scrivener is the goddamn best.
Fair To Flair Show No. 7: Live! Tonight! You Sold Out!!
"I'm like, addicted to that feeling or that sound. I'm sure that's why wrestlers keep coming back to it…that rush of… pure joy over thousands of people. Whether it's for Hogan or Austin or a guy being put through a table or the end of a match where a guy just won and the crowd comes unglued. I don't know, is it weird that I'm addicted to that?"
Mitch, making me regret missing my first Fair to Flair show.
If you're wondering why my logo changed, it's...
If you're wondering why my logo changed, it's because I've decided to run with this awesome portrait of myself during my last book launch (for No Chinook). As soon as I remember the name of the guy who drew it, I'll link over.
I soft-re-launched Footnotes of Wrestling a little while ago...
I soft-re-launched Footnotes of Wrestling a little while ago back at its former address (I'm the hardest person to follow on the internet), but I've settled into a nice rhythm with it and it's absolutely worth a bookmark and/or Tumblr follow.
Aggressive Art is still my home, and Fair to Flair is where you'll find my (and other awesome) essays on wrestling. But Footnotes of Wrestling is quite simply links to the best wrestling stories on the web. It's also the sidebar of Fair to Flair. It's like a swiss army knife of awesome.
July 3, 2011
Google Reader folders.
Google Reader folders.
