Month: September 2010

Random 10 9-17

Last week, this happened. This week…

  1. “You Are What You Love” by Jenny Lewis w/ the Watson Twins
    So pull another rabbit out of your hat
  2. “Pablo and Andrea” by Yo La Tango
    Show me where you keep all your secrets upstairs
  3. “Life Less Ordinary” by Carbon Leaf
    Could that be the second-chance decoy?
  4. “Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife” by the Drive-By Truckers, guessed by Heather
    Is there vengeance up in heaven?
  5. “The Breeze” by Dr. Dog
    Is it the stillness that makes you shake?
  6. “Wonderful” by Bubba Sparxxx
    Everybody singin now, ‘cept for the fat lady
  7. “Light of Some Kind” by Ani DiFranco
    I wish I didn’t say half the stuff I say
  8. “Scent of a Robot” by Pete Miser
    Now I’m running around trying to forget what I know
  9. “The Letter” by the Box Tops, guessed by Thud
    I don’t care how much money I gotta spend
  10. “Amazed” by Poe
    You change the equation I add up to

Good luck!

Thursday

A pretty quiet day, aside from the storm that rushed through here. Luckily, I got home ahead of the storm and missed all of the excitement in Manhattan, where apparently the Long Island Railroad shut down entirely. Good times.

Other than that… I finished reading Barry Lopez’s short story collection Light Action in the Caribbean. I liked the collection, even if some of the stories (including the title story) were a little strange, and even if none exactly lived up to “The Mappist,” the final story in the book and the one that introduced me to Lopez. (I heard it on Selected Shorts, where actor Joe Spano does a great job with it.)

And I wrote a little more today, making some slow but steady progress on a short story of my own I’ve been working on lately. I’m hoping to spend even more time with it over the weekend.

Oh, and I posted the cover and contents for Kaleidotrope #10 earlier today. I still can’t believe this will be ten issues, that I’ve been publishing the zine since October of 2006. (Just as I have trouble believing I’ve worked in my office since October of 2004.) I really like this issue, and I hope you will too. (You can pre-order copies now if you’re not already a subscriber!)