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November 24, 2018
Another short story published!
Thanks to Adbusters for publishing a short story of mine. You can find their magazine in independent bookstores (usually). Go check it out!
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November 19, 2018
Quitting and the Addiction of Social Media
I'm still on Twitter, though I'm not exactly sure why. I did, though, delete my Facebook account. I had failed to use it at all or very rarely in the past few years. Every now and then I would get a "I'm falling behind the times, better use it" or "sure it's filled with fake news but if you're not out there saying the truth fake news wins the day" kinda thing, but I realized that it just wasn't good for me. besides, given that Facebook is willing to back anyone with power/$$ over truth is now not only out in the open, not only the way they operate, but the very basis of their "democratic" system, that my voice has no chance there.
So, dear reader, I've quit it for good. My Instagram (IG) was also deleted some time ago. I do my collages and all on flickr, which, for the most part means no one sees them, but my social media-fu is such that this is a marginal difference to a place where, ostensibly, I can get millions of viewers.
This isn't to claim there is no value in social media (there is some, but I imagine it's fast approaching a low low number), but that if there is value there, I'm not getting it.
So I'm off there and will keep at the writing in different forms.
Some time back I wrote about different ways for a writer to use social media (in which the story would not be in 148 character or what have you form but each avatar a character) to tell a story. It has come to pass that people are doing just that with the video aspect of IG and other platforms. No, I'm not claiming some original idea, just that it's interesting that this is the least innocuous part of what has come from social media.
Using psych warfare and other ways of targeting people, many people have managed to grow fake news into a reality. My shorts are much like this (in turn my shorts are descendants of Borges' writing where a fake encyclopedia entry becomes his reality) but it matters not since the other form has the $$ to have a bigger loudspeaker.
Well, I'm choosing to no longer live in that reality. Here's hoping to you doing the same.
Thoughts?
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So, dear reader, I've quit it for good. My Instagram (IG) was also deleted some time ago. I do my collages and all on flickr, which, for the most part means no one sees them, but my social media-fu is such that this is a marginal difference to a place where, ostensibly, I can get millions of viewers.
This isn't to claim there is no value in social media (there is some, but I imagine it's fast approaching a low low number), but that if there is value there, I'm not getting it.
So I'm off there and will keep at the writing in different forms.
Some time back I wrote about different ways for a writer to use social media (in which the story would not be in 148 character or what have you form but each avatar a character) to tell a story. It has come to pass that people are doing just that with the video aspect of IG and other platforms. No, I'm not claiming some original idea, just that it's interesting that this is the least innocuous part of what has come from social media.
Using psych warfare and other ways of targeting people, many people have managed to grow fake news into a reality. My shorts are much like this (in turn my shorts are descendants of Borges' writing where a fake encyclopedia entry becomes his reality) but it matters not since the other form has the $$ to have a bigger loudspeaker.
Well, I'm choosing to no longer live in that reality. Here's hoping to you doing the same.
Thoughts?
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November 15, 2018
I'm not a poet
I'm a writer. Still, I sense that art and poetry have more to teach me. How do you remember a vacation you took?
Here's one way
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November 14, 2018
Writing Over time. (why I write)
So I already shared the link to my latest story being published by Bread & Beauty. Thing is, that story gestated from a moment in Corsica. I had traveled there with a fellow soldier after my first deployment to Iraq. It was a beautiful island with hot beaches filled with tourists and a green spine filled with jagged mountains. That's when we saw the car stalled out in the middle of the highway.
It was a memorable moment for its humanity. Years later, fresh out of the Army, I wrote "Just Smile "(free for a short time, so get the ebook while you can) as a fictional way to include some of this moment, but also to speak about redeployment.
Looking back, I can see my influences (fresh off Hemingway and other kinds of MFA influences of the "focus on the minutia not the SES" et al) and how I was writing something true, but that it was something that was well aware of the role of the veteran and what society expects in terms of trope (and in terms of feedback, how soldiers act when inside, because going to the military is not some action of pure honor done in a vacuum).
So here was my tale, but it was a tale borne of time in the workshop. It was very much a tale of me having come out of the Army and really not knowing what was what. This doesn't make it any less real. Just a different ape with different composition and different input (& thus output).
The more recent one is also a story that stems from this moment with the old lady we helped. And it is also subject to the same function as "Just Smile", albeit with different values. I was more influenced by Borges. And I also thought that to focus on the individual is something akin to a blindness these days. There was no way to tell a story about the world without zooming out. And to that end, I was able to move out as much as possible, using book reviews and the idea of apocrypha (timely in these days of fake news, though it's always, really, been with us).
I'm not sure if you as a reader see all this, but it is interesting for me to look back and think on where I've come as a writer. Multiple narratives seem to be the best way to tell a tale to me.
What do you think?
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It was a memorable moment for its humanity. Years later, fresh out of the Army, I wrote "Just Smile "(free for a short time, so get the ebook while you can) as a fictional way to include some of this moment, but also to speak about redeployment.
Looking back, I can see my influences (fresh off Hemingway and other kinds of MFA influences of the "focus on the minutia not the SES" et al) and how I was writing something true, but that it was something that was well aware of the role of the veteran and what society expects in terms of trope (and in terms of feedback, how soldiers act when inside, because going to the military is not some action of pure honor done in a vacuum).
So here was my tale, but it was a tale borne of time in the workshop. It was very much a tale of me having come out of the Army and really not knowing what was what. This doesn't make it any less real. Just a different ape with different composition and different input (& thus output).
The more recent one is also a story that stems from this moment with the old lady we helped. And it is also subject to the same function as "Just Smile", albeit with different values. I was more influenced by Borges. And I also thought that to focus on the individual is something akin to a blindness these days. There was no way to tell a story about the world without zooming out. And to that end, I was able to move out as much as possible, using book reviews and the idea of apocrypha (timely in these days of fake news, though it's always, really, been with us).
I'm not sure if you as a reader see all this, but it is interesting for me to look back and think on where I've come as a writer. Multiple narratives seem to be the best way to tell a tale to me.
What do you think?
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November 5, 2018
New Stories Out!
Here is a new story out!
At Bread and Beaty's Website and at their medium page. Read it, enjoy it, share it! Then vote. Probably vote before then.
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At Bread and Beaty's Website and at their medium page. Read it, enjoy it, share it! Then vote. Probably vote before then.
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October 24, 2018
Wall Art
Want some badass wall art? Check out these pieces of mine. Pretty sweet.
Naples (or Napoli) is always gorgeous.
Sweet Roman Doors.
Seattle's Sky.
You like Grass? Who doesn't?
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Naples (or Napoli) is always gorgeous.
Sweet Roman Doors.
Seattle's Sky.
You like Grass? Who doesn't?
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Stories out Elsewhere!
Always good to have more of my shorts published elsewhere. So here it is a short story kind of like a photo essay. The story itself is about an artist and the things that drive us as humans and the things that drive the market we live in.
I still haven't found any info on how to get Red Rock Review issues, but if you're dying to read the stories, I have a couple in my apartment that I can send you.
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I still haven't found any info on how to get Red Rock Review issues, but if you're dying to read the stories, I have a couple in my apartment that I can send you.
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October 23, 2018
Vote
Vote this November. If you're in WA, be happy that you can sit at home and vote away. It's really the only way to do it since there's time to look over all the choices (State level votes matter too). And while I'm at it, this isn't some call for you to vote for the party that is currently in power and both ignoring the perils of Climate Change while also looking at ethnically cleansing this country.
I still can't fathom how, back in Obama's time (he too was crap on refugees, but he was the least crap of the choices), people on the right actually protested children. Think about that. There's been some odd talk lately about "oh but Obama put kids in cages". Fair enough. But the very existence of those children was deemed too much by the extreme right.
Never forget that (assuming you have an ounce of humanity in you).
Of course with Climate Change (and our foreign policy... which is bipartisan for the most part) refugees like these will only increase in number. Are we to be the new Nazis like so many on the right want, or are we to move on to a better world? I swear some of these people would have gleefully killed Jesus. Or the idea behind him.
I don't know what else to say at this point. Not to some family and friends. But I will be vocal.
So vote. Against the Republicans in every race you can.
And if you can, spend some time sending out texts or calls here.
On that note, read this set of essays about the refugee crisis (written in Obama's time). Here you'll get some idea of the children and the crimes committed against them by our own people.
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I still can't fathom how, back in Obama's time (he too was crap on refugees, but he was the least crap of the choices), people on the right actually protested children. Think about that. There's been some odd talk lately about "oh but Obama put kids in cages". Fair enough. But the very existence of those children was deemed too much by the extreme right.
Never forget that (assuming you have an ounce of humanity in you).
Of course with Climate Change (and our foreign policy... which is bipartisan for the most part) refugees like these will only increase in number. Are we to be the new Nazis like so many on the right want, or are we to move on to a better world? I swear some of these people would have gleefully killed Jesus. Or the idea behind him.
I don't know what else to say at this point. Not to some family and friends. But I will be vocal.
So vote. Against the Republicans in every race you can.
And if you can, spend some time sending out texts or calls here.
On that note, read this set of essays about the refugee crisis (written in Obama's time). Here you'll get some idea of the children and the crimes committed against them by our own people.
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October 20, 2018
Roman Street art
A look at a piece of art made for drowning refugees and immediately tagged (a sign of disrespect) because street is no longer about speaking truth to power.
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October 16, 2018
Back!
Welp, I'm a married man now. Back from the honeymoon refreshed and looking to fight big into this new life of mine. Well, it's not really all that new, but it is different, isn't it?
Any how, with fascism and fascism lite on the rampage around the world, it's more important than ever to focus on what's important.
But here are a few pics/collages I took while out in Italy. Rome was cool, though I'm not sure I cared all that much for it.
Meanwhile, Napoli, or Naples was the place that I didn't know would be the greatest city I think I've ever visited. Good times indeed.
Enjoy the pictures. There will be more posts here as I try to catchup with the handful of publications and shorts I'll be having out soon.
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Any how, with fascism and fascism lite on the rampage around the world, it's more important than ever to focus on what's important.
But here are a few pics/collages I took while out in Italy. Rome was cool, though I'm not sure I cared all that much for it.
Meanwhile, Napoli, or Naples was the place that I didn't know would be the greatest city I think I've ever visited. Good times indeed.
Enjoy the pictures. There will be more posts here as I try to catchup with the handful of publications and shorts I'll be having out soon.
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