Lyn Fuchs's Blog, page 11
August 14, 2014
Robin Williams Stamps His Own Passport
Robin Williams starred in what is likely the most life-affirming movie ever made, Dead Poet's Society, but he ended his own life this week, echoing the despair of a suicidal actor he wept for in that film. What can we learn from this? Williams was one of the world's most gifted, sensitive and intelligent artists, yet he wasn't very happy. What does that mean for the rest of us? In Awakenings, Good Morning Vietnam and What Dreams May Come, Williams personified lust for life. In his last d...
August 6, 2014
The Best Person I've Ever Known
The greatest person I've ever known, Maribel Diaz, died this week. Her traditional Mexican funeral was a tutorial on what matters in life. When I arrived to see her casket in the primitive garage of a crumbling house in a poor neighborhood, I wasn't disturbed at all. She was a global traveler who worked at an aristocratic country club. Yet, she preferred to hang out in the barrio with her family and loved ones. Like Jesus, she was royalty of character (not bloodline) riding on a donkey. I lay...
July 27, 2014
Road Babe Mittie Roger Fills Out
Not only will I be reading my work this Friday at the Garrison & Garrison Books anniversary party, but Mittie Roger (who pioneered the Road Babe Dispatches column in this magazine) truly fills out the program with a reading from her new book. Oh, you thought I'd say she really fills out a dress. No, this is a high-class literary publication.
On the other hand, what's as classy as breasts? I guess there's classical guitar (shaped just like a woman's curves) and chocolate truffles (topped wi...
July 21, 2014
Join The San Miguel Bookstore Fiesta
This is a bimbo-friendly bookstore with millions of shorter words.In a selfless humanitarian effort to combat illiteracy, I'll be reading from my canonical works at the anniversary celebration of Garrison & Garrison bookstore in San Miguel on August 1st. Thus, all you supermodels holding a book upside down with a confused but photogenic expression need not panic. I'm here to serve, because that's just the kind of guy I am.Come on out to position yourselves in an adoring circle around my f...
July 13, 2014
The New World Children's Crusade
With our typical condescension, we moderns ponder how barbaric medievals sent hordes of children to struggle and die in the crusade for a foothold on the promised land. No more need to wonder. With thousands of Central American kids being held in U.S. border detention centers, after being robbed, raped, or shaken down by their Mexican "brothers", we only need to figure out how we did it. Yet, most folks are too busy. So, Sacred Ground Magazine will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing...
July 6, 2014
How to Find Breathtaking Orgasmic Romance
Come on baby light my fire!The most shockingly romantic moment I remember took place on the shore of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Now brace yourself for this one. I was sitting down in a boat preparing to shove off from the dock, when an unforgettable woman floated across the gangplanks like a breeze, simultaneously apologizing for her tardiness and gracing us with her presence merely by her body language. That's when it happened. On a nearby pier, a dirty barefoot indigenous fisherman watched...
June 29, 2014
Twisted Vagabondage Tale From Vancouver Island
As a paying contributor to The United Negroe College Fund, for sage reasons of philanthropy as well as tax evasion, I was surprised to find absolutely no black people in the maritime city of Vancouver Canada—only Commonwealthy Europeans and Asians plus a few Native Canadian Kwakwaka’wakw redskins. Still, Vancouver is indeed an international city on par with other slightly vanilla claimants like Portland or Seattle, with many fabulous bistros to recommend it, including some proudly locavo...
June 22, 2014
A Successful Author's Day
Ernest Hemingway looked at the world with feeling but without sentimentality.When I do public readings or presentations, people often ask, "How does a professional writer spend a typical day?" I usually respond, "How in the hell would I know that?" Audience members sometimes follow-up, "When will you start being professional?" I reply, "Obviously, when I have given up all hope of being great." Still, I do know how this author spends most days and that may give some aspiring writers a glimpse...
June 14, 2014
Attack of the Amazon Bully
Bullies often become crybabies. Such is the case with the traditional publishing syndicates now bawling about being pushed around by an Amazon that has taken up residence on their former turf. Bullies are not accustomed to picking on someone their own size. So when confronted by a full-grown formidable opponent, they often run to their mommies or their sympathetic friends in antique media like David Streitfeld and Melissa Eddy at the New York Times.
Thus, we have recent front page articles hys...
June 8, 2014
Nebraska: An Epic and Ludicrous Journey
What does an old man do when his life offers substantial evidence he might be a loser and the clock is running out on his mental lucidity? Give up? Never! When the going gets tough, the tough get going ... to Nebraska ... on foot ... to claim the loot that a Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes mailer says he may have won. Is his quest comical, futile, and doomed? Absolutely. Yet, not much more so than the herculean efforts that most men put into fighting their invincible mortality. Winning...
