Dreams of Literary Grandeur

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Dreams of Literary Grandeur

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On Turning Thirty (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)

April 25, 2011

Many of my friends are turning thirty this year. Since today is my birthday (born 12:46 pm CT time), I thought it’d be a good time to look back at what I wrote on approaching that milestone two years ago.

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Maid Cafes, Part 1 and 2 (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)

March 17, 2011

With all that is going on in Japan, now seemed a good time to polish off my posts about maid …

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Slumdog Millionaire and Millions (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)

December 23, 2010

With all of the attention that Slumdog Millionaire is getting, I thought it was a good time to discuss a lesser known Danny Boyle movie, 2004′s Millions, particularly because it shares characteristics with Slumdog Millionaire. Not that they are carbon copies of each other (like the plots of Forrest Gump and The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button seem to be), but they do share some of the same themes.

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Nonproductive Musings (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)

December 5, 2010

The poetry collection that I mention in this post, and the poem I include, have still not been published, as …

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An Important Lesson (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)

November 14, 2010

When I was a freshman in high school, I joined the school newspaper, a job I loved so much as to only do it that one year. Still, the first article that I wrote for the paper–which I don’t own a copy of, and was more of a rant than a productive piece of journalism–taught me an important lesson.

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Current Dreams

  • Looking for Something?
  • Digging Up the Past Turns 10 Years Old
  • Remembering Roger Ebert
  • A Japanese Wedding, Western Style
  • Resolutions for the New Year

My Favorite Dreams

  • A Portrait of Seattle By a Young Man
  • Best of SIFF 2012: Week Three and Closing Weekend
  • How I Spent My Birthday
  • SIFF, Week Two: 25th Hour (United States, 2002, 135 mins)
  • Maid Cafes, Part 1 and 2 (Notes from the Diary of a Literary Rebel)

Past Dreams

Dream Themes

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Featured Dreamscapes

  • Bonnie Branson Illustration “Illustrator/teacher living in the Bay State! :-)”
  • Books I Read “Curious reads and finds”
  • Ifferjenn Independent “Life could be a dream, sweetheart. Sha-boom.”
  • Onlyne Short, insightful movie reviews from one of the first regular readers of my blog.
  • The Cinephile Fix “YOUR FIX FOR EVERYTHING FILM,’ by Roger Ebert’s Far-Flung Correspondent from Egypt, and a great movie critic in his own right.

Twittering in My Sleep

  • Ladies and gentlemen, meet Mister Face: sharnacious.tumblr.com/post/505601799… 9 hours ago
  • RT @Carole_King: Thank you, Mr. President. 1.usa.gov/12QbZ48 9 hours ago
  • This year, my SIFF posts are dedicated to the late Roger Ebert. SIFF 2013: Opening Night and Weekend wp.me/p2yLI6-xx #SIFF2013 1 day ago
  • RT @rickygervais: I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believeing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not belie… 3 days ago
  • RT @MarlowNYC: Amazing .GIF of Taylor Swift throwing shade at Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez. 25.media.tumblr.com/57db3654c19e2e… (via @jenyamato) #Billbo… 3 days ago
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“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” -Robert Schumann

Currently Reading

-Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 (Harriet Elinor Smith, ed.)
-The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
-Collected Poems (Sylvia Plath)

Reading on Hold

-Biographia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) -online from Chapter XVIII on, minus filler (i.e. Satyrane's Letters, Chapter 23-Critique on Bertram)
-Le petit Nicolas (Sempé-Goscinny)
-Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language (Jack Lynch, ed.)

Books Finished in 2013

-Nostromo (Joseph Conrad), Dover Thrift Editions
-Close Range: Wyoming Stories ( Annie Proulx)
-Towers of Midnight (Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson)
-Strindberg: Five Plays (August Strindberg, trans. by Harry G. Carlson)
-Sons and Lovers: Text, Background, and Criticism (D.H. Lawrence, edited by Julian Moynahan)
-Rurouni Kenshin: Volume 5 (Nobuhiro Watsuki)-VizBig Edition
-Art of Drawing Manga (Sergi Càmara and Vanessa Durán, translated from the Spanish by Michael Brunelle and Beatriz Cartabarria)

Currently Working On

My Novel

My Publications

Digging Up the Past: Poetry from High School (1994-97)

Publications Featuring My Poetry

Long River Run 2009 (Connecticut Poetry Society)
In Twelve Hands: Poetry Annual 2009 (Wild Leaf Press) (click on "Online Store")

That Other Blog of Mine

Murmurs from the Balcony

Contributions to Other Websites

Amazon.com Reviews

Two Tweetplays:
The Doorframe of Insanity
The Dreamer

The Flick Pick Monster Blog: Shall We Conclude? Cinema's Great Last Scenes and Endings

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