Sneak Peak: Alphas Episode Promos (Syfy)
The folks behind the marketing campaign for Syfy’s new/returning show, Alphas, have been sending me lots of video links. I’ve decided to share those with all of you (by “share” I mean “use my blog space to point to things you might have found on Youtube if you had been looking”). If you have been watching the show, please let me know what you think in the comments. Here are the video promos:
Adventures in Poetry: “Snow Globe”
Occasionally I will post a poem or some other piece of writing on my blog under the title “Adventures in …” Why? Because I like sharing and sometimes I write things that I don’t feel like publishing, for one reason or another. And if I’m not going to publish it through traditional channels, I might as well share it. The following poem is certainly not one of my best. I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote it. But it is the first poem I’ve written with the note feature of my Zune HD. That’s pretty cool, no? Anywho. Feel free to let me know what you think. Here’s the poem: “Snow Globe” The dream slips into nothingness, the chasm a story that never ends and whips the world into a warped waking of minds. Who are we in the dream but the tender wisps of someone’s eldest aspirations? Who do we become in another’s dreams but the hope transposed over the globe of the soul. When we grow into our own snow globes we turn the dream upon itself to become the careful display of nostalgic longing. Until one day the new child forms from the chiasmic center of a hurricane ocean of imaginations. Until we become ourselves the makers of globes.
Adventures in Writing: So Begins a New Project (of Doom)
I’ve also started a new writing project, which I’m tentatively calling The Last Fable of Maxine Swansey, which takes place (currently) over three different time periods in a character’s life (1984, 2050, and 2155). I may add more time periods, and possibly other characters across the years inbetween. I don’t know. What I do know is that the writing style for this piece is nothing like anything I’ve written before. It combines stream of consciousness and a literary writing structure reminiscent of someone like Pynchon or Salman Rushdie (more Rushdie than Pynchon at the moment — these are just comparisons to give an impression of the style I’m working with, not an assessment of quality or an admission of copycat behavior). I’m not sure why I’m doing this, though I like how inserting stream of consciousness in the middle of third person does some interesting things to destabilize the narrative (in a way that I think works). We’ll see what happens as I continue to write this thing. Point is: I’m having fun doing something weird, but also mundane. There’s a lot of intersection between the everyday and the strange, and the often fuzzy border that exists between the two (the first chapter involves a character discovering a man in a random Spanish courtyard trying to convince people he has learned how to control animals through martial art dance — in this case, a bull — and there’s all kinds of other weirdness going on, too — coincidences upon coincidences, some strange technology, odd characters, and so on and so forth). And that, I think, is what I really need. I need to have fun just writing something. Something I can insert more of my life into, as writers are wont to do. Anywho. What are you all up to?