Author: jkonrath
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Audience of One
I’m probably too old to be listening to Rise Against, but for some reason I am, and I’m supposed to be editing this fucking book, and I’m not. It’s still getting there, I guess. I wish it was done though so I could work on something else. I had an involved dream the other night…
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I keep that Bruce Hornsby album in my iTunes library for profiling purposes
It’s one of those days where I’m editing the first draft of this book and it’s probably 90% done and I need to push it and get it finished, and I waste ten hours finding isolated bass tracks on youtube. This book is almost done, though. And it sucks that Berry Gordy recorded all of…
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C-41 Process Nostalgia K-Holes
I am in the thick of editing this next book, and I really hate editing. I’m doing the work and fixing a lot of problems, but I like writing and creating and counting the words added a lot more than I do swimming in the soup of words and trying to kill passive verbs. There’s…
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The Wisdom Tooth Story
My friend Marc Broude is in the middle of impacted wisdom tooth drama, sitting in bed on painkillers while everyone replies to his post on facebook with their own tales of dental horror. My story is too big for a little box, so I thought I’d type it out here. When I got to Seattle…
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I wonder if Albrecht Durer was a Pepsi or a Coke guy
OK, I’m back. Went to bed at 8:00, Oakland time, and woke back up at 2:00, unable to sleep, so here I am, digging through the piles of trash from my luggage, trying to return the gadgets to their daily configuration so I can get back to The World by Monday. The flight back yesterday…
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Nuremberg
Good to be back here. I have walked a lot and ate too much and just bought a hundred pounds of art books. OK, a bulleted list summary: The flight out was brutal. Couldn’t sleep on the plane, other than little half-hour naps here and there. Left SFO at about 8:30 PM after a mechanical…
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60,608
So the first draft of the next book is done. I sent a copy to John to read, and I will now let it ferment a bit before I start the next pass. It’s in pretty rough shape right now. I think the plot is there, and there’s a lot I like about it, but…
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Dig your own hole
Busy. Busy. Busy. I have been trying to finish this next book. I usually write 500, 1000 words a day, and the last few days have been 3000, 4000 word days as I rush to complete this thing before vacation. I had a goal, according to my outline, of 55,000 words, and I hit that…
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Programs that don’t exist that I wish I had
I think of stupid software every day that doesn’t exist, and I waste too much time trying to find it. I should just start a blog of all of it, and hope someone steals the ideas and writes them. Or, I should really learn to program, quit my job, get a bunch of funding, and…
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Two for two
I’ve spent far too much time at Guitar Center in the last few days, and too much time at UPS in the last week or two. I’m in the middle of a long bass guitar arbitrage situation that will eventually end up dropping two (or three) basses and netting another two. First was the massive…