According to the coffee table book in our hotel room, our hotel has “a cutting edge design concept unlike any other in South Beach” “Our famous French designer, Eric Raffy, has created a fun, one-of-a-kind playground and hideaway that celebrate South Beach’s Art Deco Heritage.” Despite his fame and Frenchness I am largely unfamiliar with … Read more
My first trip to Miami will be a short one, book-ended by long drives! Paul has color correction to do here (that’s post-production for his Coke film–not some Michael Jackson thing), and I’m tagging along so I don’t leave Florida without ever having been to the big city. So we drove down yesterday, 3pm-11pm, (stopping … Read more
It is that time again, semester’s end, when –though not to the extent it will happen in May—many people are graduating and moving on. Around the ye old Alumni Village, the dumpsters are full, and items too nice or too plaintive to toss in a Hefty sac with the coffee grounds and ketchup containers are … Read more
“Research conducted at the University of California at Davis showed that a high-fat diet rich in whole almonds reduced the colon cancer risk in rats chemically treated to reduce this cancer. Other research indicated that phytochemicals in almonds inhibit tumor cell growth in culture. Specifically, the board notes, two flavonoid phytochemicals, known as quercetin and … Read more
What do I want to do this year? Lot’s of stuff, like write and revise things–i’m particularly keen on revising because if I got my pieces into a condition I was truly happy with, I could recycle piles of workshop notes I have been saving for three years…I’m talking reams of paper, folks. And that … Read more
12/29/07 At my office at school on the Saturday between Christmas and New Years — possibly the only body in the building (if this were a sci-fi universe and someone were scanning for life signs, I’d be the only blinking red dot on screen displaying the schematic of the Williams building). I came here to … Read more
At my office at school on the Saturday between Christmas and New Years, possibly the only body in the building (if this were a sci-fi universe and someone were scanning for life signs, might would be the only blinking red dot on screen displaying the schematic of the Williams building.) I came to school to … Read more
I read about four pages of one book, and wrote maybe 400 words one morning…but then, I read the newspaper each morning, which I don’t get here at home, and I made chocolate truffles out of chocolate chips and whipping cream. And I won two our of four games of Rummikub (my mom won the … Read more
I’m loading up the car with about 14 loads of laundry and more books than I’d read here in 2 weeks to go see my parents for 4.5 days. I always have this irrational belief that away from home, time will somehow expand and I will accomplish all kinds of stuff that I know I … Read more
He sent this to the L.A. Times op-ed section. Did they print it? No. BUT, he reports, all the “think” phrases did mysteriously disappear about a week later…think this might have had anything to do with it? To the Editor, There’s a newly-overused grammatical device taking over the pages of your publication. It’s in op-ed … Read more