Check out the latest in the land of Nutcracker Buck–“You and me and these five random cubes/Laughing off our asses while our lives go down the tubes.” Wade has this to say about the song: “The song is kind of a white trash love song and a prayer to the Yahtzee gods that a marriage…Continue reading Nutcracker Buck Sings Yahtzee
Category: Writing Exercises
Falling for Steve Forbert…again
Kevin and I went to see Steve Forbert last night at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley to celebrate Kevin’s birthday. The first time Kevin gave me a Steve Forbert song on a mixed tape–Fayetteville, Arkanasas, circa 1994, “Romeo’s Tune”–I was in my early twenties, fresh out of Alabama by way of Knoxville, and I couldn’t…Continue reading Falling for Steve Forbert…again
mayhem and fun
The No One You Know launch last night at Books Inc. Opera Plaza was fabulous fun. We went through 20 bottles of wine in about half an hour, which is always a good sign. Ben Fong-Torres put together this video clip. (If you’re wondering what Ben Fong-Torres has to do with No One You Know,…Continue reading mayhem and fun
The Gift Jab
Reba McMellon exposes the not-so-subtle practice of “gift jabbing” in this article for The Mississippi Press. The exercise: Have you ever been gift jabbed? Have you ever done it yourself? Write about a gift you received that came with its own undercurrent of ill-will. While you’re in the Christmas mood, check out this catchy video…Continue reading The Gift Jab
lists
Today I came across a poem by an old friend, JoLee Passerini, in the Crab Orchard Review. Back when I knew her, almost twenty years ago at the University of Alabama, she was JoLee Gibbons. We worked on the Marrs Field Journal together. That was when we all were getting our first tastes of literary…Continue reading lists