Justin
A Hero
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A swing and a miss!!!
As another summer officially comes to an end, some peoples’ hope for a fruitful winter may be fleeting. As for the winter I await, a few nights ago a small spark of hope fluttered in my light box when the “Fightin’ Phils” took to the diamond against the Houston Astros.
Here’s to a repeat of [...]
Dear Jurgen and friends,
I can only tell all I’m using this music video as inspiration. . . .
Going backwards to find forwards
I lose many things on skateboard trips. This road trip was no different, and after 10 days the last thing I lost was my mind.
Forgive me pretty baby…..
One of the best adaptations of one of the best short stories written since Carver.
Dear Dave Eggers,
Please disregard the idea of writing anymore screenplays. I’m crossing my fingers for “Where the Wild Things Are,” but if you sink to the level of writing “Juno” for thirty-year olds again I’m going to stop buying your novels.
laugh and worry
An awesome link sent in an email from my awesome friend Amber. You’ll laugh then feel slightly worried.
BBQ
I have a friend named Brandon, who I’m going to eat BBQ with in six days.
Writing Short Stories is writing Revisions
After my rejection letter from Temple’s literary journal, the editors mentioned that if the story I sent were revised it might have “good hope” of acceptance. My second version was said to have “lack of clear revisions, still a story lacking any depth and still a work in progress.” (first version here) The [...]
White folks is stupid.
I just finished a seven page paper comparing a Jonathon Swift poem to the translated version, done by John Dryden, of a Virgil poem. Never heard of those guys? Yeah, me neither, except my British Literature Professor talks about them a lot. The girl that sits beside me in the class is [...]
