March 2011
11 posts
Insert poignant Beckett quote about pain here
I really do have a list of things to blog about. All of which involve Beckett. I really really do. i really really really really really really do. (To the tune of the Whose Line Is It Anyway Hoedown).
But right now I have a big goddamn headache.
I can’t compete. Beckett got stabbed by a pimp while visiting the local pub and nearly died. Completely turned his life around- focused on...
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when suffering from a lack of one's own words-...
Ruby Cohn wrote: ”After ‘Godot,’ plots could be minimal; exposition, expendable; characters, contradictory; settings, unlocalized, and dialogue, unpredictable. Blatant farce could jostle tragedy.”
Noted. Lifted from Beckett’s NYTimes obit and to be filed later
The dangers of zen in Manhattan
Or- what happens when I don’t meditate for 3 days….
I am out of touch with my Beckett. I am not as grounded today as I was a week ago. And I am giggling a lot.
Friends and readers- I have copious notes for upcoming posts about Beckett, Billie Whitelaw, my process, and the occasional romp through a bookstore. They are coming. They will make you laugh. They will make you cry. They...
snow on my fire escape, and other signs of the...
And in other scary news…
http://twitter.com/#!/dreadfullyun
God help us all.
…promise to get back to Beckett. Not today, but surely tomorrow.
they must have planted tulips at Hofstra yesterday
Because it’s snowing today.
Some things never change…
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and another thing...
Add this man to the list of people I would like to talk to for the book..
Forgive me folks. Today I don’t have much to say that is my own. More about getting into the habit of writing again.
If I can ever figure out how to work these strange blog formats dear readers, we will be in good shape. These new-fangled rich text format blogs are tricksy. Why when I was your age, we wrote our own...
OR Books: Samuel Beckett is on Twitter →
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There is a twitter account for Samuel Beckett, which feels both a tad underwhelming and oddly inevitable. Admittedly, the uroboric aphorisms that fill Beckett’s work fit tidily into the space Twitter allots. However, as Andre the Giant could testify, the actual Samuel Beckett would probably…
Fail Better
Sequel… sequel… a little later when Not I was quite forgotten she began to…
Do it all again. Again.
That’s right folks, Beckett is back in full swing…
For those of you, dear readers, who are new to this game, welcome! So glad that you could join us. For those of you intrepid readers who remember, almost 10 years ago, the last time we went ‘round this topic,...
