http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog Just blowin' through naptime Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:02:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I: Once Upon a Time… When I was about eight, my mother was hospitalized a couple times for kidney trouble. My dad would take me and my sister (who was about six) to visit Mom in the hospital. She had tubes coming out of her that I didn't understand, and the ... http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/05/19/interlude-thou-shalt-not-write-theologically-unsound-crap/ Because here in the Empiricum we like facts and information, and I left all of that out this morning: Take it away, Gray Lady. http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/05/16/further-to-that/ Link http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/05/16/wonderful-day/ (According to N.B. Notewell, weekdays are the only days. I'm not as far behind as it seems.) Three sentences in to "True Confessions," James Joyce pops up in what is, I think, a successful bid for Supportingest Supporting Character in the book. This time around, he's tutoring Ettore Schmitz, a Triestine ... http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/03/20/day-4-the-scenery-is-gorgeous/ After rounding up the book's every target and knocking them all down in one determined opening essay, Acocella changes tack entirely by moving to a surprise item. "Blocked" is about neither an artist nor a saint; it's a history of writer's block, winding from a quick genetic overview to a ... http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/03/14/day-3-its-just-like-a-camping-trip/ I'm not sure that "A Fire in the Brain," the essay on Lucia Joyce, James's daughter, was Acocella's best choice to open the collection. In some ways it's pretty representative of the rest of the book, but it's not quite focused. (Speaking of which, Joyce appears to have had a ... http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/03/12/day-2-this-is-fun/ Let's start at the very beginning: a very good place to start. In the introduction to Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints, Joan Acocella writes that she originally misunderstood her own motives for selecting the essays to republish in this collection: I thought I was simply choosing the pieces that I liked ... http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/03/11/day-one-the-arrival/ All right, then. I opened this joint up because I had a lot I wanted to talk about; yet a perusal of my archive would indicate that I am a shy, retiring creature who can only be driven to speak by a build-up of pressures and urges that finally leads ... http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/03/10/a-regimen/ Appended: an index. (More info in "A Regimen.") A Regimen Day 1: The Arrival Day 2: This Is Fun! Day 3: It's Just Like a Camping Trip Day 4: The Scenery Is Gorgeous http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/03/10/programming-guide/ This fellow has been deputized by the showrunner here at Journeyman to convey our opinion of WordPress 2.3.3's hamstrung Post Preview function. We look forward to a speedy and amicable resolution to this situation. http://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblog/2008/02/26/collective-emoting/