The Chronicles of Charlie: The Assassin Who’s Not Very Good At His Job
Dan | October 30, 2006
Been very hectic, but I found time to host a party to watch me be interviewed on Bay Area Backroads over the weekend - check Flickr (on the right) for photos.
And, my writing has suffered a bit because of the hectic of the weekend. So, this evening, I stay home and read and write to [...]
Dan | October 27, 2006
In case anyone missed it, I was quoted in Investor’s Business Daily the other day, talking about everyone’s favorite food item, the burrito.
Dan | October 26, 2006
I’m not a huge van of Dilbert, but this is one of the neatest posts I’ve read in a long time. Basically, Scott Adams remapped his brain. So cool.
Dan | October 26, 2006
I found this through the good people at SFist, as they chronicle the never-ending fight to clean up the den of disgustingness that is the central Tenderloin.
Oh, wait, right, people are fighting against the cleanup. My favorite part of this article:
By March of last year, ‘wanted’ posters and pamphlets were circulating featuring Ms. Abst’s smiling [...]
Dan | October 25, 2006
Today, I was walking up Church Street from the Market/Church MUNI station, and I passed a homeless guy who had spread a bunch of books out on the sidewalk to sell. This is a pretty normal thing here; a buck for a book, most of which probably came from a bookstore’s leftover or throwaway bin. [...]
Dan | October 24, 2006
Let’s see…half an hour until I leave for class, finished my homework for that particular class, not enough time to really start writing something serious…yep, that’s why I have a weblog. Ridiculous noodlings, literary thoughts, what shall I write about today?
Well, it’s interesting to note that there’s very little, other than to note that bacon [...]
Dan | October 19, 2006
Courtesy, once again, of Jessa at Bookslut, I find myself looking at 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. According to the Amazon review, “Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word.” Uh-huh. Here’s what I’ve read of ‘em, with my very-snarky opinions.
The Curious [...]
Dan | October 17, 2006
Over at Maya’s pad, she’s being kind enough to write some evaluations of the ungodly number of ballot issues that we’re being presented with here in California. She’s started off with a fun nuking of the unbearably awful Prop 90, which has the potential to destroy city life as we know it. Yuck. Take a [...]
Dan | October 16, 2006
Checked out Ladytron at the Filmore tonight, and it was a surpisingly rockin’ show. A little slow in the middle, but they more than made up for it with the encore. It was one of the few rock shows (I think this counts as rock, in that they had guitar, bass, drums and five keyboards) [...]
Dan | October 15, 2006
Well, writing all weekend is hard - I’ve put together a decent structure for a midterm exam thing, finished two freelance projects, laid out the basic structure for a brochure, and written something close to 5,000 words of fiction since Thursday night. That’s ok, but I’m pretty tired out.
I can tell I’m beginning to get [...]
Dan | October 13, 2006
As promised, I’m posting up a new teaser for something I’m writing. You can find it here. Please note that this is something like draft 1.5 of this particular yet-untitled tale, and this teaser reveals absolutely nothing of the plot. It is the introduction, though, and it’s the most-well-written part of what I’ve got right [...]
Dan | October 13, 2006
Andy walked out of the bathroom with a grin plastered on his face.
“Still going,” he said, sweeping his blonde hair out of his eyes with his left hand. “I love the gus-piss.”
I sighed. The bathroom was now off-limits to me for the next hour because of Andy’s maniacal love of asparagus. [...]
Dan | October 12, 2006
Not a lot of writing here, because I’m strapped for time and energy. Last night after class, MUNI was late (of course), and I ended up getting home at eleven after leaving class at 9:30. That’s kind of ridiculous. Anyway, I got a little sick, and went to bed covered in sweat. I think it [...]
Dan | October 10, 2006
I’m feeling thankful
for the small things, today
I’m feeling thankful
for the small things, today
Happy, Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
and to you
- Cracker, doing a song with an obvious title.
I went to bed at around eleven last night, and woke up an hour ago, at six a.m. It’s still dark as I’m [...]
Dan | October 9, 2006
It is kinda weird to call this “Columbus Day.” He wasn’t the greatest guy , to put it mildly. Other Europeans had been to this continent before, and he put into motion one of the more efficient and disgusting five hundred year genocides that have ever happened.
On the other hand, well, if he hadn’t done [...]
Dan | October 8, 2006
I survived the wedding, and only screwed up once. When it came time to do the ring thing, I accidentally gave the bride’s ring to her to put on the groom’s finger. Whoops. We all laughed a bit, and went on with it. I was incredibly nervous beforehand, and I think I [...]
Dan | October 7, 2006
I’ve only played golf once in my life - my junior year of college, when some friends and I went down to Florida for spring break (to gauge what anti-cool we were, we weren’t at Daytona. We were at Amelia Island, which is basically a retirement community). We filled our golf bags with warm beer [...]
Dan | October 6, 2006
I’m off to Napa to spend the weekend at yet another wedding. I think this is number six on the year - I’m the priest. My back is still a tiny bit sore, so I’m going to avoid running, still (It’s now been two weeks since I’ve run at all), but I’m hoping to swim [...]
Dan | October 5, 2006
Up at seven. Work. Work until 8:30, stretch back, eat breakfast.
Shower, dress, put information on jumpdrive.
Bus downtown. Work until 11:30, literally run out the door. MUNI to class, reading the whole way.
Class. Drink water to stay awake, although it’s interesting.
Home. Burrito. Couch. Work.
update: I completely forgot. I was walking through [...]
Dan | October 5, 2006
Nope, it’s not about school shootings or Congressional pages or anything like that. It’s by Michael Schaub over at the Bookslut.
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