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Who Are We Fooling Here?

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:32:00 +0000

I started a Tumblar because it's easier and I like saying Tumblar every five seconds. It's mostly devoted to the phenomenon I like to call the Spitzer Face but mainly it's about nothing. You're...

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OMG Highsmith

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:22:00 +0000

"All right. he may not be queer. He's just a nothing, which is even worse. He isn't normal enough to have any kind of sex life, if you know what I mean." Patricia Highsmith probably never lost the...

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On Firing Squads

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:24:00 +0000

Some of you Twitter users might have participated in Susan Orlean's #booksthatchangedmyworld discussion. One of the many books I mentioned in my personal list was The Plague by Albert Camus. It...

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If My Arms Were Big Enough...

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:15:00 +0000

I'd put all of you in a simultaneous headlock and give each and every one of y'all your own specially dedicated noogie because you deserve it. xoxo, bitches.

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We Are All Doomed, Seriously

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:59:00 +0000

I've been thinking of getting knuckle tats. My right hand would read: PUSH. My left: OVER. The idea being to give a good laugh to all those involved in the next scrape that I find myself in. The...

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Practicing My Blank Stare

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:58:00 +0000

I was at a show the other day, standing by the bar waiting for something to happen. A kid noticed the shirt I was wearing and waved me over. "What?" I said, meaning "What exactly are you trying to...

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The Oracle (flash)

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:48:00 +0000

Everyone assumed that the size of his ears made him a great listener. They were in fact gigantic, as if robbed from a sleeping elephant and attached to the head of a sleeping person, with great care...

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Resolve

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:20:00 +0000

Due to a strategically timed vacation I started my New Year a little late. I'm normally not the type of guy to make resolutions but this year I made one: I resolved to stop doing the dishes. If...

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How Not to Critique

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:06:00 +0000

One of my favorite scenes in Whit Stillman's marvelous moviefilm Metroplitan begins with the protagonist, a Mr. Tom Townshend, launching into a full on assault of the works of the celebrated author,...

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It's "Finished"

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:05:00 +0000

She said to me as she walked out the door. Thinking about it now, I'd thank her if I could find her but I know: There is no finding her. Not where she went. A funny thing happened to me on the...

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Lazy Reading

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:10:00 +0000

I hate when someone takes my or another writer's fiction at face value and reaches the conclusion: HE IS EXACTLY LIKE THAT. Who are we to decide anyone is like anything? It is safe to say if...

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Names

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:42:00 +0000

I'm going through a rough patch with my reading, these days. Seems like the books I've read since The End of Mr. Y take these great premises and bury them underneath other things that I don't care...

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Technology

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Douglas Coupland was on APM's Marketplace discussing his new novel Generation A, a book that takes place in a future without bees. In the interview, Coupland talks about the early theory of hive...

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Envy

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:08:00 +0000

I've been trying to organize an Algonquin Round Table style elitist lit group where we would gather at certain snooty establishments, sip the finest cognac out of gilded snifters, discuss and more...

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She reminds me

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:58:00 +0000

...of how the wind blows. The wind is never concerned with obstacles. The wind never asks if it’s helping or hindering. The wind never waits to move. It sees a place it wants to go and it...

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Halfway There

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:25:00 +0000

To where you ask? Like I'm supposed to know. I'm just the guy putting the words on the page. 40,180 of 'em to be somewhat precise. After close to a year of beard wringing, alcohol induced...

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Unique Perspective

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:27:00 +0000

The conversation always works out better in my head. When it comes to executing what I imagine to be a witty remark, the words decide to take a detour at the last minute and instead of saying what I...

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The Hunt and Peck Diaries (Continued)

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:19:00 +0000

We're doing a little dance now. 36,064 words only one instance of the word 'hurried'. That is certainly worth celebrating. 'Point' and 'pointed' however will need to be phased out in revisions. ...

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Death by a Thousand Epiphanies (on Macguffins)

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:31:00 +0000

While watching the dreadful movie Push with Paola this weekend I asked her, about midway through, "Do we really need to know what's in The Case?" She said, "For the purposes of this movie,...

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Breaks are for the Broken

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:21:00 +0000

Beginnings are easy, endings are hard, middles are tedious. This is all you need to know about writing a novel. Those darn middles are where good ideas go to wallow and become...

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Context

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:33:00 +0000

If you meet someone, for the first time in life, as in never spoke a word to this person before and the second sentence that comes out of their mouth is: So, what have you been up to? Is there a...

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The Thing About Apples or Two Ideas Collide

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:21:00 +0000

My blog dashboard is about as cluttered as my desk. There are 20-30, 200 word starts that have fizzled out in mid sentence. How's that for inspiration? The problem for me is that I don't want to...

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Paola vs. The Drunk Lesbians

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:47:00 +0000

No, that is actually the post title. The last time I saw the Aggrolites, it was in Portland at Mt Tabor Legacy. My wife almost got into a fight with a drunk skinhead girl that wanted to wild dance...

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The Idiot (Copied from elswhere)

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:10:00 +0000

Hello Blog, I have nothing new to put into you other than this review of The Idiot. Why am I so remiss? well, let's say as a writer you only have a certain amount of words that are worth producing...

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This is why

noreply@blogger.com (Addis) — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:14:00 +0000

Some guy said, "You can never go home." I spent a week in Anchorage disproving that numb-skull but not without enduring a significant amount of "OH SNAP". Let me tell you a little secret about...

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