Fri 24 Mar 2006
Well, I got a lot of random things I could post. Might as well touch on on all of them before getting to the main one.
1. A few people, after reading my writing “rules,” expressed concern that perhaps I was reading their blogs in light of them. Rest assured, I only read your blog if I enjoy it, so if you know me as a faithful reader, you’re in the clear. I also pay much closer attention to the mechanics of student writing than those of friend writing. I should also point out that rules are made to be broken– I always think of my college art class in which we studied Picasso’s representational, detailed sketches of a bull (hair, muscles, teeth) that he gradually transformed into a cubist line drawing. You gotta get expert at the rules, and then break them with confidence.
2. Jon Stewart of the Daily Show had a great idea for a NASA science project. He mentioned it the other night and I keep thinking about it: put a werewolf on the moon. Does he get more werewolfy? Does he stay in wolf form year round?

Oops, look at the time. To Be Continued.
March 25th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Please don’t hold back on the writing tips, Comma-nder Grammar! We need your help out here in blog-land. One of the reasons I started blogging was to develop my writing. And, as my Jr. High basketball coach used to say, “Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. And stop using so many adverbs!”
March 27th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Suitably random comment: It figures that Picasso apparently was most loath to part with the genitalia and the horns as he ’simplified’ or ‘cubed out’ or whatever he did. (cool link, by the way.)