From the daily archives:

Friday, January 4, 2008

The nuances of timing

01.04.2008

“The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
– (possibly) Steven Wright

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With Boss

01.04.2008

A blurry memory of hanging with Bob on New Year’s Day as we took in the first quarter of the Hawaii-Georgia game. We call him Boss. Boss is an illustrator; used to cook stuff up for the Sports section of the Daily Breeze, a local rag here in Torrance, Los Angeles.

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1995 chess test

01.04.2008

Dear me. Found this thing from about 1995, which looks to be part of a chess test I gave myself JUST BECAUSE I WANTED TO. Then I scored myself, reviewed my mistakes, and trusted that I was a better chess player as a result of the exercise.

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Six-Word Memoir book preview

01.04.2008

A preview video for “Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure”, by SMITHmag on vimeo.

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Early review of our book

01.04.2008

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “fell so in love” with our forthcoming six-word memoir book, due out February 5th. =more info=

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