Author: jkonrath
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New Year’s Resolution: 1920×1080
It is the start of a new year — four days into it, really — and I haven’t done shit. I always have these wise ideas about some post-a-day project, either here, or some great new site that involves posting a story a day or a wiki page per day or whatever, culminating in a…
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My 2012 writing year in review
Despite all of my bitching about writer’s block, 2012 shaped up to be decent as far as writing output: two books, and twelve publications in eight markets. My goal this year was to do two books (which was unrealistic, but I did) and average a publication a month (which I now feel was light.) I…
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Haiku in the Night by Ben Ditmars
So here’s a new one. Ben Ditmars has a new book out called Haiku in the Night. He’s a facebook buddy hailing from Ohio, and for some reason I seem to know an unnatural number of people from Ohio lately. I think the last time I was there, aside from going through the airport (which…
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Bass, Cookies, Vomit
I am back from my trip to Reno. I won $100 on a slot machine. I bought a new bass. I had a dream about cookies. I saw a big lake. OK, first, slot machines – I have a mixed opinion. I know they require no skill or thought. I go to Vegas with a…
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Hello from Reno
It’s two days before thanksgiving, and I find myself in a deluxe suite at a casino in downtown Reno, which is roughly like staying at the standard room in one of the third-tier off-strip places in Vegas, but it’s not bad. Reno’s like a 1970s Vegas, one you can traverse without a car or fear…
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Movie reviews: Flight, End of Watch
I go to the movies every damn weekend, and I see some occasional good movies, a lot of okay ones, and a fair number of bad ones. I never write this shit down, and maybe I should. I just don’t want to turn into a movie reviewer and have to remember how many stars I…
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The perks of being a blocked writer
Okay, in my last post, I alluded to being stuck between two places writing-wise, and I didn’t get into that. So, now I will. But of course, I’ll go off on another tangent first. I saw the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower this weekend, mostly because I heard Cloud Atlas was a disaster. I…
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Back to bass
I have not been writing. I’m sort of stuck between two places. More on that in a bit. I went into my usual writer’s block mantra of “I wish I did something other than write”, which motivated me to go to our storage locker and pull out my bass guitar and amp. Before I put…
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The Recognitions by Steve Urkel
The Recognitions, published in 1955, is American author William Gaddis’s first novel. The novel was poorly received initially, but Gaddis’s reputation grew, twenty years later, with the publication of his second novel J R (which won a National Book Award), and The Recognitions received belated fame as a masterpiece of American literature. Steve is the…
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Stop bath acid memories
In my freshman year of college, my classes were mostly at Ballantine hall, which was rumored to be built from all the money IU made off of the fluoride patent they sold to the Crest toothpaste people. The morning stumble from Collins to Ballantine for an 8:00 German 100 class took maybe five or ten…