January 29th, 2007Previous Entry | Archive Index | Current Blog | Next Entry Now Read This I have every intention, when I get a chance, to do some hard-core old school reportage-style bloggin, real journal-fied diary-style posting. The kind of stuff I did for a while on a daily basis. Yawns aplenty, I promise, and I'll get to it this week, I hope. Some things I'll mention: World of Warcraft, Viva Pinata, Smokin Aces, Black Dahlia, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Little Miss Sunshine, my New Year's Resolution, The Cobweb by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George, The Worst Person in the World by Keith Olberman, The Errol Flynn Novel by Geoff Nicholson, Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh, The Journalist by Harry Matthews, rock climbing, The Vanishing Point, The MIT Mystery Hunt, the Microsoft Puzzlehunt, Weight Watchers, Finance Class, Colson Whitehead… and anything else I can think to bore you with. BUT! Until then, I'd like you to do me a favor: read a few stories. I wrote one of them. I will give you a tiny bit of background, and you can decide which order to read these stories (author names take you to Wikipedia/Amazon, story names take you to the stories themselves). First, Donald Barthelme wrote a short story, published in 1976, called "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby". Then in 1996, J.P. Rondinone published a book of short stories, containing the story "Something for Sucio". I myself read Rondinone's before I read Barthelme's. Then I interviewed Rondinone for my school's literary journal. Now it's 2007, and I have written a story called "You Too, Steve?". So you can decide which order to read them in. But I am hoping you will read them all, and then let me know if I have committed a terrible crime and should be punished.
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