The Sweet Metallic of Success

Posted by on September 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

Last night, talk­ing it over with my lady and then my boy Jason (we go back to fresh­man Eng­lish in high school, and I’ve been sleep­ing at his place) I con­cluded sev­eral things about my visit to the House. This list is as much for me to think out loud and have a resource to refer to as for you play­ing from home, so if you’re bored or busy, feel free to mosey on, mosey on: At the fore­front, it was suc­cess­ful. I made a good impres­sion with the fam­ily, and I think the door is open for poten­tial vis­its in the future. We talked for two hours, and about every­thing from the house to language…

Category 1b. Wellwater, 20th Century, Field Work, Sept. 2008, Spirituality · Tags

News Flash: what happens when you let the guns write history

Posted by on February 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment 

Even the white his­to­ries con­tra­dict each other. Holy shit. This is gonna more fun than I’d realized.

Category 17th Century & earlier, 19th Century, 20th Century, History, Philosophy · Tags

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What's all this, then?

I’m writ­ing a book to under­stand my hometown’s dis­in­ter­est in its own his­tory, and my role in that. It’s sort of become a novel. This is the full story.

This is my play­ground. It reflects and pre­dicts what’s hap­pen­ing in the book.

Things I dis­cuss: East­ern Mass. his­tory, sto­ry­telling, book­mak­ing, time travel, poetry & nov­els, writ­ing craft, dreams, pub­lish­ing, indige­nous per­spec­tives, spir­i­tu­al­ity, sex, adop­tion and par­ent­ing, research, and what­ever I can’t get outta my head.