drupagliassotti @ July 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Wildfires, earthquakes, and floods are sometimes said to be Southern California’s three seasons. But over the last few years we’ve ignored earthquakes, our collective attention taken up by a series of large-scale wildfires and the inevitable flooding and hillside collapses that occur once winter’s rain hits all the burnt-out areas.
However, earlier this week we Southern […]
drupagliassotti @ July 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So, after reading about it in numerous blogs, I finally got my hands on Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food. This is the book in which he boils down eating guidelines to seven words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Past reading, especially w/regard to historical conceptions of beauty and critiques of fat prejudice, had […]
drupagliassotti @ July 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sorry for the silence; I was off in Austin visiting some friends last week! And there’s some good news in my emailbox….
I’ve just heard that my short story “Pan de los Muertos” will be reprinted in Electrik Milk Bath Press’s upcoming Dia de los Muertos anthology. It originally appeared in Strange Horizons several years ago. […]
drupagliassotti @ July 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
On Friday I realized I needed to add a more significant scene wherein King’s Monster character Corbin faces up to the changes he’s going through. So after a weekend of grappling with possibilities, I’ve decided to add a chapter between the current chapter 24 & 25. And here I’ve been worrying about how long the […]
drupagliassotti @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday, as I was (re)defining boys’ love, I spent a few moments wondering if I wanted to add the word “heterosexual” to my definition: a narrative about the romantic or erotic relationship between two or more male characters that has been created with the intention of appealing to a female audience.
I quickly decided not to, […]
drupagliassotti @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I was glancing through the Yaoi entry on Wikipedia and felt dissatisfied by the way the term was defined there. I’d like to propose a slight change in usage.
In Japan, the genre is called boys’ love, Bōizu Rabu, and I believe that term should be used in English, as well, to label the broad […]
drupagliassotti @ July 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You can read an interesting historical perspective of consumerism in U.S. society from Orion Magazine: “The Gospel of Consumption” — It was this […] concern that led Charles Kettering, director of General Motors Research, to write a 1929 magazine article called “Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied.” He wasn’t suggesting that manufacturers produce shoddy products. Along […]
drupagliassotti @ July 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Whew. I’ve finished Version 4, Draft 1 of The King’s Monster at last! And I think this version will finally work; it’s much grittier and less fantastic than the earlier versions, but it hangs together better (no pun intended).
However, now it’s time to start scouring out the rough spots, checking for plot holes, and furnishing […]
drupagliassotti @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m working on the end of King’s Monster, and I need some information on raising and lowering chandeliers. Along the way I ran into this video on cleaning a two-ton chandelier in Pittsburgh. I still haven’t found any useful information on medievalesque mechanisms for raising and lowering heavy light fixtures, but I enjoyed taking a […]
drupagliassotti @ July 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’ve mentioned my writing whiteboard a couple of times, so I thought I’d go ahead and post an image in case any of you might want to use one.
I live in a one-bedroom apartment, so I write on one side of my dining room table and eat on the other. This is the writing side. […]