My Mother always wanted to be an Artist, and she specifically wanted to be an Impressionist. So I grew up with prints of the works of Van Gogh, Pissaro, Cézanne, Monet, and so on. Mom didn’t like Gauguin, maybe it had something to do with all the topless girls in grass skirts. My personal favorite was always Seurat. She would have loved Sacré Bleu. Christopher Moore is a fun writer. His topics are often a bit odd, such as vampires, death dealers, and friends of Jesus who somehow missed out being in the Bible. In Sacré Bleu we find an odd…
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Eureka-The Statue is Made of Bronze!
The Syfy Channel has a handful of first run series, the best of which at the moment is Eureka. This is the story of a small town of super geniuses who didn’t want to live in Area 51 and the poor sap who ends up being the town’s Sheriff. The punchline of almost every episode of Eureka is that the idiot Sheriff is the only one to see the obvious solution to whatever earth ending problem the super geniuses have created that week. The new season opens up with a collection of Previously on Eureka clips, the most interesting…
Reading Like a Writer-Improving Your Own Writing
My favorite short story writers are Issac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Philip K. Dick. These authors took the impossible and made them seem mundane, then pushed the world off it’s axis at the story’s end. These are fun stories to read, you never know what’s going to happen next, but you always know something is going happen. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose is about her favorite stories and writers. Like many college educated writers, she is a huge fan of Long Dead…