Showing posts with label Nikki Giovanni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nikki Giovanni. Show all posts

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Highlights From My Things to Improve My Life List




Relationships. Career Networking. Proper Diet and Exercise. How to get along with your Spacely Sprockets boss*. Let's face it, self-help books are very trendy even if more and more people are reading "War and Peace" via Kindle now.

And, since I've already wasted some precious time on this Saturday night by watching a Jewish satire of "Dexter," a 'Star Trek' opera sequence and a cello/orchestra take on the kitschy '80s hard rock anthem "The Final Countdown" as performed in Kipsala, Latvia, on Youtube, posting portions of a list seems like a simpler way to post today's blog entry.

There are actually 24 things on the whole list; I've decided to divide them up into 12 items for my two blogs.

Here is the first part of the list:

1. Get a girlfriend

2. Write second draft of novel you've been kinda/sorta working on since March.

3. Exercise/join a gym/anything but power yoga

4. Move out of current zip code of residence (yes, that's why the U-Haul truck is pictured above)

5. Take more photographs, especially of old things

6. Write some more poems; Nikki Giovanni had to start somewhere

7. Write second draft of memoir that was typed up last year, after all it might not get published for 24 years when mom will be 95.

8. Put photographs up on Facebook

9. Be more organised (we're using the British spelling to get more hits from the UK).

10. Listen to more vinyl; we should find a copy of "Some Girls" by The Rolling Stones.

11. Write a full-length play; anything has to be better than the failed soap opera satire I wrote three years ago.

12. Learn how to socially network via the Internet.

*-Demanding boss in the 1960s cartoon "The Jetsons"

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Motto of the Week- Why Nothing Gets Done



"Dirty dishes. Laundry. Friends. Frenemies. Women. Platoinc relationships. Potential relationships. Cellular Phones. Blackberrys. E-Harmony. Facebook. Twitter. Read book of poems by Nikki Giovanni. Write an essay/blog entry/short novel/short play/screenplay/novel. Mom. Grade papers. Fix car. Call the doctor's/dentist's office. Volunteer for local animal shelter/NPR station. Give to Habitat for Humanity. Send birthday card to co-worker. See the new happening, current indy film.

Why Nothing Gets Done....."

If it's not obvious, I've ventured into some creative writing away from the blogosphere lately.

We dedicate this entry to the Spring Center Laundromat in Silver Spring, Md, a place we've never been to, but it seems like a cool place. Their business hours are from
8:00 a.m.-11 p.m., seven days of the week. They also offer free wi fi!

Monday, April 27, 2009

Quote of the Week- Nikki Giovanni





Since April is National Poetry Month, we thought we'd post a quote from Nikki Giovanni as we did in February.

Giovanni is both one of my favorite poets and favorite people.

I had a chance to meet the Virginia Tech professor of English when I was a reporter for "The News-Messenger" in Christiansburg, Va., over a decade ago.

Giovanni will give a talk at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC, on Thursday at 6:30 p.m., regarding her new prose collection "Bicycles: Love Poems."

Here is the quote:

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."