Babbling Point

How many day jobs will an artist work in a lifetime? Far too many. It is altogether absurd and unnecessary that she wait tables, learn the mechanics of spreadsheets, or spray perfume on passing customers. But these are things she will likely have to do. In this culture, there are precious few alternatives answers. But at least she will gain a real experience of life for her day jobs; and she may even fashion a second career into which she can pour some love and meaning. Affirmation: I understand that I need money to live. I will approach the issue of money consciously, looking for solutions that free me from the forced labor of day jobs. But while I work my day job, I’ll act honorable and bring my artists’ eye and heart with me. from the book “Affirmations for Artists” by Eric Maisel “Music requires that a man give himself entirely to it, but the world does not wholly agree with this. It demands that he learn and attempt other things.” --Georg Philipp Telemann

It's 11pm and Grace just got me searching the web for the collective noun for tigers. At first, I thought it would be a ridiculous search and didn't think the web could provide the answer. Then much to our surprise, people have actually set-up webistes about collective nouns. There's even a website called Fave collective nouns ! Wow! For crying out loud! I can't believe people actually take the time to make a website about collective nouns! Well, before our search was over, I ended up having our own favorite collective nouns. An unkindness of ravens A stack of librarians A mob of kangaroos A murder of crows A parliament of owls A wisdom of owls An unease of compromises And when I saw the "unkindness of ravens", I thought that it would make a good title for a story. Then I remembered that Gaiman already used it as a title for one of the issues of SANDMAN. Damn! He beat me to it again. By the way, a group of tigers is supposedly called a &q

What do to about writer's block? Write anyway play a game do a monotonous dirty taskl get a job wait pray talk to friends paint listen to music be confident go into analysis move to a new city or country read abandon all desire write something else do more research give up all drugs and drinking for a year "waste" your talents by producing more and more in a genius of abundance enjoy write letters to your children release yourself from all judgement, including the idea that you ever to write again anything at all... The creative obsession will fall on you again, after this period of incubation. And if it does not, you te

Okay...I love Star Trek, but this is ridiculous! Please beam me outta here!