Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint.
Just a heads up, I’ve just published an article for a British site, Calling America, titled A Land Not Soon Forgotten. (The title was a play on the title of the book Land Remembered, which traces the story of the fictional MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.) Here’s their synopsis of the story:
A story about a young Puerto Rican boy growing up in the city of Tampa and overcoming cultural differences.
And here’s a clip: Continue reading ‘A Land Not Soon Forgotten’
“OK,” he said. He put another blank sheet of paper on top of the small folding table in front of me, sat back, and crossed his legs. “Now draw a monster.” Continue reading ‘My Monsters’
The Wife and I are in the process of looking for a new laptop. Our old Inspiron 8000 (20GB HD, 600MHz, 192MB SDRAM, 14″ screen) just isn’t up to the task of running today’s memory hogging, processor intensive, hard drive chugging applications, like Firefox and WinAmp. (Attention Mozilla Foundation: Please fix that damned Firefox memory leak. Browsers shouldn’t need 300+ MB of RAM.) Worse yet, we need it in order to run Windows for some of what The Wife does at her job, and up to now, only one Windows OS has successfully run on that thing for more than two months: Windows ME. (The “ME”, as you may know, stands for Moron Edition, which is apt, considering that anyone who actually chose that over either 2000 or 98 can indeed be classified as a moron. By the way, no, I didn’t have a choice for my OS on this one.) Continue reading ‘Dell: No Accidental Damage Coverage in Florida’
Twice have I gone to the theater to see the new film The Pursuit of Happyness and twice have I failed to get tickets. It’s the strangest phenomenon. The shows would be available while we are there on line, but would be sold out while we are just a few people away from acquiring our tickets. It wouldn’t just be the timing we wanted to see but also any showing within a reasonable time to wait for it.
If you haven’t heard about the movie, it seems to be doing rather well. I am not too familiar with the storyline, but I believe it is about a man and his son who are overcoming life’s obstacles after having suffered some kind of loss. I really can’t get any more specific (or generic) than that.
Now since I haven’t seen that movie, I can’t write about the impression the father made upon the son in his ability to always look ahead and set an example for the young one to follow. Instead I shall talk about the movie I did see when this one became unavailable the first time: Rocky Balboa. Continue reading ‘A Father’s Shadow’
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