Imagine you met George W Bush at a gas station in Northeastern Tennessee and asked him for directions to the nearest Denny’s. He’s not the President and you don’t know him. He tells you to take a left at the light, then a right half a mile down the road, and asks you what kind [...]

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This is mostly just for me, a chance to think out loud. There’s an article I want to write, and I’m trying to find a home for it.
I hate the query/submissions process- it makes me deeply uncomfortable. We had some friends over for lunch today, and one of them does some work as a script-reader [...]

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Quiet times like these, I’ve just been reading. My attention span is still fragmented, but it’s getting a little better. Still on short books, but that’s not so bad.
I finished the moon is down by John Steinbeck and the first volume of the boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Book reports to follow, because [...]

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Ever wonder what Lester Bangs would be into right now? I’m trying to listen exclusively to music from 2008 in an attempt to recapture some of the ol’ manic pop thrill of discovering a new album and not immediately discarding it for something else without getting to know the songs, and I’m thinking about Lester [...]

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It’s been a low-key past few days. Things are strange right now.
We leave our current flat on April 6th, but can not move into our new one until April 15th. For complicated reasons, the people with whom we had planned to stay with in that interim period fell through, and the readily available solutions were [...]

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One of my goals for the month in between finishing the book and re-writing it was to overhaul the dansolomon.com website. Right now, it’s the same page it’s been for about a year and a half- functional and not hideous, but also static and a little dull. The news section is fifteen months out of [...]

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I’m at a Barack Obama campaign meetup in London. It’s in a cafe basement on Gloucester Rd, and a woman on the fundraising committee is telling me what needs- what we need to do- to help him win.
we need to get supporters around the world and hold rallies. the workers, you know. I nod, interested [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve had genuine writer’s block. Nothing coming out tonight, kids, despite my best intentions. I could try to write about music- I’ve obtained through the crime of piracy several new records, on which I have formed a few opinions- but I ain’t really feelin’ it tonight. I can do one-word [...]

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