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Strange Things Happen: The Green Flag

September 29, 2009

Today is my eighth wedding anniversary. (Hi, honey.)
Today is also the official U.S. release of Stewart Copeland’s Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies. (Hi, Mr. Copeland.)
Which means that today is also the official U.S. in-print debut of the Green Flag. (Hi, Flag.)
I’ve known this day would come for months. I’ve had evidence [...]

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Appropriation is the sincerest form of flattery

June 5, 2009

My friend foobella has decided that my article on stewartcopeland.net embodies her Police reunion tour experience so well that she no longer has to write about the experience herself. Which is enormously flattering. Cheating, but flattering.
Thank you, foobella.

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Strange things happen: I have a byline on the Official Site of Stewart Copeland

June 3, 2009

A 2999-word summary of the flag that ate my life.
Eventually the page will feature photos of the flag’s appearances around the world, but the site’s redesign is still a work in progress, so I’m waiting until it’s finished before I send the link to my three aunts as my mother would have wanted to do.
But [...]

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Friday Night Epiphany

April 3, 2009

I’ve just spent a week working on an article. I’ve written nine drafts, tens of thousands of words (I’m too afraid to even calculate the actual number), and for seven days—from first cup of coffee to last cup of tea or gin—have arranged and rearranged, struggling to find that missing word or transition or element [...]

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Stupid is as stupid does. Ish.

March 26, 2009

Life and work and writing have forced me to pause on the breast beatings about my mom and the continuation of the story of the story that I’m working on—but something I read this morning has prompted me to interrupt for a sidebar.
Every now and then I check in at Alyson B. Stanfield’s Art Biz [...]

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Sometimes you can’t jump; sometimes you need to be pushed

March 18, 2009

You know, I had a whole post ready to go up on Thursday morning. This was going to be the first time that I would get a second post up in a week as scheduled. I had been compelled by an email from a friend and a fortuitous web of link-following to write that post. [...]

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I’m writing a book

February 1, 2009

For much of the past week, I have been stuck in the mind-numbing quagmire of routine and repetition that is jury selection.
In addition to bestowing upon me the newfound identity of Juror #5 on an upcoming case (on which I can’t elaborate obviously), the selection process provided me with some much-appreciated reading time, during which [...]

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