Adam Renn Olenn
I missed this essay from @pattonoswalt on Friday about joke theft & heckling & rape DO NOT REPEAT MY MISTAKE
Actor Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston talking about art, creativity, and Breaking Bad, which might just be the best TV show ever written.
Mickey Spillane was the best-selling mystery writer of the 20th century. He created Mike Hammer after returning from World War II, and though Spillane died in 2006, writer Max Allan Collins is keeping Hammer’s story alive by completing the manuscripts Spillane left behind.
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/01/187093598/pulp-fictions-bad-boy-mike-hammer-returns-in-complex-90
This should clear up all the flavors of publishing, from traditional to totally DIY, and everything in-between.
We all want to be happy. But how, exactly, do you go about it? More stuff or less? More choice or less? The answers — from psychologists, journalists, Buddhist monks — may surprise you.
But you can be happy if want to be. It’s volitional. Dig it.
Here he is talking in compassionate and reasonable ways about how to save lives.
Representin’ Boston hi-side/lo-side!
The best writing in English today is done by Americans, but not in any purist tradition. They have roughed the language around as Shakespeare did and done it the violence of melodrama and the press box. they have knocked over tombs and sneered at the dead. Which is as it should be. There are too many dead men and there is too much talk about them.
The man really knows his way around a sentence.
(with thanks to Janelle Browning for introducing me to this fantastic writer)
Listen to Calaine Schafer reading Witness Tree We met Leah at the train station on a bone-cold day when only crows walked the white snowfield outside our house. The threat of black ice on the highway would usually deter mom from getting in the car on a morning like this,…
The ever-candid Stooges frontman joins NPR’s Renee Montagne to discuss living life over the edge, how everyone comes around to his band late, and ways to “become a part of yesterday.”
Even in a simple interview, he’s dropping gems. Also, he called Renée Montagne “baby.”
