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[John is suffering computer woes at the moment. I told him I'd find something appropriate to fill his slot, and found this archived post of his from September of 2006. Enjoy!] A long time ago, there was this gorilla I knew. I was out of work, and the gorilla was similarly unemployed. At [...] Well, it’s November again. Halloween is done Thanksgiving is on the way (Pause here, folks, and contemplate what you have to be thankful for. The odds are there’s a good deal going right, even if there’s some negatives out there.) and a plethora of various religious celebrations are eight around the corner. Some of my [...] Perhaps you believe in the soul. Perhaps you don’t, and only view a living being as a series of biological functions acting in concert. Under either philosophy, you will view a dead body as different from a living person. All of the physical components are there, but the core of the individual is gone. At this [...] Last month, when I finally decided to “come out” about owning a Kindle, I learned two things. One, after reading some of the comments about my blog entry, I realized that I have always written about “safe” topics, ones that are least likely to stir up controversy, and heaven forbid, make [...] Looks like it was a sabbatical after all. Last March, after close to a three-year tenure, I hung up my Storytellers U hat — the one with the Viking horns and a beer funnel — without knowing whether this would be permanent or temporary. Couldn’t help but notice, in the interim, that lords-of-the-manor [...] The Chicago Tribune ran “The Great Chicago Ghost Story” contest for Halloween. The rules: A Chicago site must be mentioned in the story. No more than 750 words. I wrote a story. Entered. Lost. Here’s the loser. THE GHOSTS OF CHICAGO, I SET THEM FREE I see the ghosts of Chicago. I set them free. This is a mission statement. Mine. ### How is it [...] Q: How does it feel to walk away? You’ve just complete a ginormous four book cycle (well, you finished it a while ago). Is it refreshing to turn back to other things, or do you light-headed? A: The answer, of course, is yes. I am tremendously grateful to be done with the Doctrine of Labyrinths, but [...] When people ask me what I do for a living, I am always at a bit of a loss as to how to answer. It sounds a little too highfaluting to announce, “I am an author.” You just can’t say that sentence without sounding like you graduated from Oxford, or that you [...] The holidays are coming. We’re arriving at an intersection of worlds – the real and the imagined, outer and inner, concrete and symbolic, the past and the now. What must be done, what needs to be done. Kids dressed up as monsters expect candy offerings. Blood-bonded friends and enemies gather for the ritual slaughter [...] How do you get anything done? More to the point of SU, how do you keep the imagination alive and kicking when the real world is bearing down from every direction? Can you really afford to trip and fall, in these times, lost in your own private dream world as you try to survive in the real [...] |
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