voncookie | January 24, 2010
Another 100-word challenge via Velvet Verbosity: *********** In 1931, Jimmy Cagney branded Mae Clarke’s face with a grapefruit, sealing her Silver Screen fame with citrus. Her name forgotten, she reappears only with the search string “James Cagney Grapefruit,” her face smeared with pulp, an blond angel with a dirty face. The movie? The Public Enemy, [...]
voncookie | January 24, 2010
Anyone who has known me for more than a few weeks knows of my love for poetry. Anyone who has known me for more than half my life– Fun ExBF, for example– will testify that my love for poetry, at times, borders on obsession, especially when I go through phases in which I am actively [...]
voncookie | January 20, 2010
People are angry. They were angry at Bush, now they are angry at Obama. The party in power always suffers when the electorate is as volatile as it is right now. Dissatisfaction will show up in the polls, and 2010 is going to be a bad year for the Democrats. True story. To which I [...]
voncookie | January 18, 2010
I bought a futon in early 2003, back when I lived in Chestnut Place, as some sort of solace for a love affair gone totally awry. It cost about $200 and I had to have it, with its curved, backless arms, and sleek silver body. I set it against the dual windows of my apartment [...]
voncookie | January 17, 2010
I’m trying to get my other literary blog up and running again. FWIW, there’s a new post over there for your perusal. It’s about Charlie Chaplin’s movie Modern Times (1936). Here’s the link: http://thenewmodernist.org/?p=32 Enjoy!
voncookie | January 16, 2010
I thought maybe I’d dedicate a few posts to my history with writing, on the off chance that it would inspire something creative in me, or at least allow me to be a bit reflective about this thing I do that I love so much, but of which I never feel I do enough. In [...]
voncookie | January 16, 2010
Today I start work on tidying up my Conclusion to the dissertation. After this, there will just be four pages from Ch5 to tackle, the Introduction, and whatever the Overlords deem that I need to edit in the long-suffering Ch4. Not much, really, but not quite at the “tweaking” stage, although that of Ch5 could [...]
voncookie | January 11, 2010
When I was about six years old, my friend KatyB and I went to Great Adventure, which is a theme park off of exit 7A on the Turnpike in NJ, and now bears the title of “Six Flags”. Back then, though, it was merely “Great Adventure” — no Suit had stepped in yet to make [...]
voncookie | January 9, 2010
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to 2010!!! I apologize for the inadvertent hiatus. After Big Scary Convention, I fell into a really deep funk, and everyone kind of suffered the whims of my moods for about a week. If I know one thing about myself (and this I only learned in the last year or [...]
