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• Where Books Go to Die

  November 5, 2009

  • Tobacco Row in Tampa, Florida, used to have a used bookstore, of sorts.  I think it was called The Last Chance Bookstore, and they weren’t kidding.  All the books were a dollar, regardless of what edition, volume or shape they were in. Just to make sure you understand what kind of store this is, this store wasn’t run by booklovers.  This store was run by tabacconeers.  You see, this ...
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• Rescue-- "Too Much the Hero - Saving Myself through Writing"

  October 7, 2009

  • I’ve always tried to be the hero.  Since I first picked up a comic book or a novel, I was trying to be that guy who saved everyone—the dog, the damsel, the world.  Growing up, I pretended to be Sgt Rock and Sgt Fury from comics.  I was Thor and Captain America and Captain Marvel.  I had power and needed to save those weaker than me.  I read Hemingway and Tolkien and Brooks and learned ...
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• AC/DC, Blaze of Glory and Me

  August 12, 2009

  • There's a scene in the Showtime series Californication where the main character, an author of some success played by David Duchovny of X-Files fame, is in the mansion of a rock star, surrounded by sex, drugs, naked girls, booze, loud music and the usual x-rated trappings, while he's talking to a beautiful woman about the books he's written.  There's a similar scene in the movie Almost Famous, a ...
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