May 29, 2012 11:48AM
“Hey, I painted that house! In a different lifetime. As to the sash, the key to preserving that putty is back-priming everything first. Then the raw woo…”
About: Grass Angel 4 & 5
May 27, 2012 12:23PM
“Yeah, it's the old Davis house on Baxter Road in 'Sconset ... though altered, and combined with a wonderful old place I worked on in Surfside. We used…”
About: Grass Angel 2& 3
April 02, 2012 11:11PM
“Well, here's a quick update: I turned in my revision and got an even more extensive 'editorial letter' outlining the new and more sweeping changes the…”
About: The Truth About "Indie Publishing"
March 30, 2012 11:53AM
“Mmmmmm! Steamboat Willy!”
About: What's Really Wrong with "John Carter"
March 26, 2012 08:34PM
“Amster ... for a person with the prodigious mental agility to follow an Edgar Roice Burooughs story, you seem oddly unable to keep up with the basic ma…”
About: What's Really Wrong with "John Carter"
March 23, 2012 10:02PM
“Excellent post. This is one more reason why you have to read to your kids. If they have been raised on A.A. Milne and Lewis Carroll, enthralled at bedt…”
About: Fiction Is Not Fluff
March 21, 2012 05:40PM
“snarine -- I take your point, but I assure you I had no grudge or preconceived notions going in to this movie. I love Michael Chabon, for one thing, an…”
About: What's Really Wrong with "John Carter"
March 20, 2012 08:00AM
“Good news. They're driving off a cliff. I just hope they get there soon, and we're not all in the car with them when it launches into the void.”
About: Inbreeding?
February 17, 2012 01:24PM
“Thanks for all the comments. It does seem like an odd-against game, but if you have the proverbial day job and you don't need to support yourself with…”
About: The Truth About "Indie Publishing"
February 15, 2012 08:15PM
“I have two words for you. Cameron Crowe. He's the one to blame. Wrote it, cast it, chose the music, picked the boom box, directed the scene. And he had y…”
About: How John Cusack Ruined Valentine's Day for Me
February 13, 2012 05:49PM
“Hmmmm ... I get the feeling that some of what I said is getting rounded off to the nearest sexist cliche. I never said I wasn't interested in women ove…”
About: The Haircut Test
January 26, 2012 02:56PM
“Damn you JB! Stop kidding around AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR BOOK! And where we can get it, and how you got published and everything else. Pronto! Give us y…”
About: A Diatribe Against Self-Promotion
January 25, 2012 08:17AM
“Stirring, well-written post. The image of the line stretching past the empty towns and ruined factories will stay with me for a long time. The people I…”
About: The Real Job Search Line
January 19, 2012 05:50AM
“I had to read this -- good news??! And so it was. Two more reasons to keep the disappointing and hopelessly compromised Obama in office for another te…”
About: GOOD NEWS: Two things go right! (at least for a while)
January 08, 2012 06:39PM
“Sounds like North Korea. That's something we can aspire to.”
About: Live Free, Die Dumb: War on Education in New Hampshire
January 07, 2012 02:56PM
“aim -- thanks .. I wish there was some way to download the material to your kindle, if you have one. Hmmm ... I could e-mail the word file to your mach…”
About: Those Who Can, Those Who Can't
January 07, 2012 06:50AM
“Jeff -- exactly. One good thing -- having no choice greatly simplifies decision making.”
About: The Truth About "Indie Publishing"
January 06, 2012 08:34PM
“Thanks ... I'm trying to show what a rich life he's made for himself ... and yet he dismisses it so casually, for the prospect of some random gallery…”
About: Those Who Can, Those Who Can't
January 05, 2012 05:49AM
“Yikes, as usual.”
About: My Best Guess
January 02, 2012 10:19AM
“Absolutely. Good for you! Keep us posted so we can all grab a copy when it comes out.”
About: The manuscript is in the mail
January 01, 2012 06:53AM
“Well, that's swell way to wake up on new year's morning! But if it's any comfort, my alarmingly well-informed and over-educated son tells me that my s…”
About: BAD NEWS SUNDAY: Worst new idea of 2012
December 31, 2011 08:36AM
“Good one. Just the idea of the profile itself is a perfect joke. I wish more women would understand that we cheat on them for the benefit of the countr…”
About: Newt Gingrich's Match.com Profile
December 31, 2011 08:33AM
“Peter ... Well, sure I'd like to be rich and famous with those 'writer groupies' you always hear about ("I just love your... semi-colons"), bu& #8230;”
About: The Truth About "Indie Publishing"
December 30, 2011 03:11PM
“I guess I'm thinking now that the best thing to do is just write. I don't have the energy or skills to do a whole DIY publishing business, and I'm runn…”
About: The Truth About "Indie Publishing"
December 22, 2011 06:37AM
“Great idea. I'm glad someone noticed what a miserable prick this guy was. But no one at his trial even mentioned those Chinese assembly plants where th…”
About: Steve Jobs To Be Reincarnated As PC
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