Derrick Goold's Blog, page 148
November 14, 2011
"Maybe you'll finally be done writing when you're 88."
- Ian (age 5) when told I couldn't join him for bedtime story because I was pushing up against deadlines for several different stories. That gives me 52 years.
"I think the Vikings must have left it long ago."
- Ian, the boy wonder, upon finding a discarded cufflink in the pebbles at the playground on Sunday, Nov. 13.
I know, I know. I've been absent from here for too long....
I know, I know. I've been absent from here for too long. I've been a bit busy (see: picture). That will change today.
October 15, 2011
And, yet, it's a loneliness shared with 40,000 other...
And, yet, it's a loneliness shared with 40,000 other people. Go figure.
Of all team sports, baseball, with its graceful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to be best suited to accommodate, and be ornamented by, a loner. It is an essentially lonely game.
- John Updike
(Photo: Billy Joe Davidson, 1951, by Ralph Crane)
October 13, 2011
Superman super fan pays it forward
A few months ago, a Superman fan in the St. Louis area was duped out of his treasured collection of comics, action figures and memorabilia, and news of his loss spread rapidly through Facebook, Tumblr and elsewhere. Comic fans and Superman devotees, like the Superfriends of Metropolis (Ill.), rallied around the loss and immediately flooded Mike Meyer's living room with more replacements for the stolen items than he could count, let alone keep. Such...
October 2, 2011
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September 27, 2011
This is my travel agent, my day planner, my assignment editor,...
This is my travel agent, my day planner, my assignment editor, my future. Every thing I do in the next few days is governed by these tiny, dizzying and wonderful numbers above. What a grand finish.
Baseball is the most fun.
September 26, 2011
It's (read a) Banned Book Week
"There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing."
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I doubt when schools pulled Bradbury's classic off the shelf and removed it from reading lists because it had the words "hell" and "God damn" and featured a Bible being vandalized that they bothered to, you know, read the book and recognize their irony. Or, ahem, get to...
