Breaking All My Promises To Never Grow Up
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On the internet, an expert is the person with all the answers.
The one who can tell you the best way to start any enterprise, the seven steps required to carry it out, the five benchmarks to measure your progress, and so on.
In life however, a truer measurement of mastery is not necessarily the quantity of your answers, but rather the quality of your questions…
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It’s Martin Luther King Jr. day in Memphis and I can’t think of anything funny to say.
And it’s not for a lack of trying.
For the first time in the seven years I’ve lived here, I have this day off. Free to think about what it all really means.
And I’m not sure I like that.
I am finding it difficult to fathom that 39 years ago in this city a man was killed for believing that people could be treated with equality…
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Last Thursday in preparation for the big DangerCouch show, I made midday pit stop at Visible School, host of this years festivities.
Visible School, for those somewhat less than tragically hip to the post modern music scene, is a cutting edge music school. This venerable institution is what brought me and the Comma Clan to the muggy depths of Memphis, and it is where the members of DangerCouch first met…
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I have covered a lot of ground on this blog lately, so I thought I would double back for a bit and follow up on some recent posts, just to makes sure they haven’t developed shin splits or been accosted by marauding Yiddish telemarketers….
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What I Know – A Very Short Article
by Brent on October 14, 2007
in Commentary
One of the oldest and most reliable pieces of advice given to any writer is to “write what you know.” This is great council for writers of all levels of ability, because you can lie about things that you know with a level of detail and conviction that would be completely lacking in a subject unfamiliar to you.
That’s why you find John Grisham writing about lawyers, Robin Cook writing about doctors, and Steven King writing about disturbingly freaky people you probably wouldn’t want to be alone with…
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