http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog A Writer's Blog Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:43:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have noticed some gibberish when you came on site. All I know is that it is WordPress database error or that is what it says,. My son is on it. I haven't the slightest clue as to what that means. When I go into the greasy compacted mossy ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/08/16/working-on-the-optimists-rag-and-other-extraneous-matters/ I gave a reading at Randy Ford's cultural center in downtown Tucson. Sam Henrie, CEO of Wheatmark, a POD publishing house, attended to hear me read. If you want some feedback about Wheatmark comment at the end of this blog. Wheatmark has published both my books and I am exceedingly ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/08/13/a-reading-at-el-ojito/ Randy Ford runs a cultural center and is a playwright out of Tucson. I gave a reading at El Ojito ( www.elojitosprings.com) of The i Tetralogy and Randy put a copy up for sale which was kind of him. And I thought that was the end of it. Apparently not. I urge you ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/08/06/troglodytes-say-i-tetralogy-cover-is-a-hate-crime/ Of late I had my Dahon folding bike serviced. It is a sweet little thing, perfect for bicycling about this geriatric park I live in. I bike with my yellow Giro helmet. For more than two years the bike languished in my garage but now that I have lost 19 pounds in Weight Watchers it ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/08/02/of-late/ I'd like to mention a few recent reviews which are making me feel quite light-headed. See http://thefix-online.com/reviews/down-to-a-sunless-sea/ for a story by story analysis; quite impressive. Aeron Hick's review is at http://metamorphosesonline.blogspot.com/2008/07/aerons-review-down-to-sunless-sea-by.html and is generous in nature. Harry Markov lives in Bulgaria and is only nineteen and his review is at ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/07/27/reviews-and-other-matters/ Often I go to blog and the damn essay vanishes, often because I don't save it or whatever Gates has perversely devised. The last few days I have not felt the urge to write, for whatever reasons. I wrote a short piece which you can read in Pages called "The ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/07/23/passim/ At Harry's Bar & American Grill, Papa said, an epiphany comes late to each man and best of all in a clean, well-lighted place and best before dawn before the heat of day is best gone and the shadows stretch long and far into the night, la noche misterioso. "Hombre, nada ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/07/18/at-harrys-bar-american-grill/ All is well. The biopsy was benign. I need to see the doctor next year for another scope. I am being watched, I suppose. Otto Rank, a disciple of Freud, and a kind of genius -- bedmate of Anais Nin -- tells a story of his youth. Planning to shoot ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/07/12/the-blunted-sword-of-damocles/ On 7 July I had my second colonoscopy within 8 years. Supposedly I could have waited 10 years; however, the PA and I decided after a few words about the necessity of having it at all, to go ahead since I had initiated the doctor's visit. I had no symptoms. ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/07/11/self-observing-as-a-defense-against-terror/ I have thought about reviewing specific books on these pages. Quite frankly, it is to encourage a give-and -take between readers or writers and this writer, who has expertise in some areas of the human soul. If you wish to have a book reviewed by me, I will give it the ... http://mathiasbfreese.com/blog/2008/07/02/announcing-a-litblog/