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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 17, 2007 ⋅ 6 comments

The latest Harry Potter is heavy on talk and light on excitement. What once was mysterious has now become mundane.

Marketing Education

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

"There’s products and then there’s knowing your market target, knowing who to sell to," he thought. "All product and no market is called failure." He had been in the business long enough. Time to sell his story on the six o’clock news. He leapt forward. Thirty-two and married, no kids.

A Year’s Prospectus

By jelewis8 ⋅ August 7, 2006 ⋅ 3 comments

I returned from San Francisco last night around 11:20, after a grueling drive back along the 5. Driving there is like waking up from a wonderful dream. Driving back is the long wait of horrible anticipation before brain surgery. And it’s not just San Francisco. Any drive of four or more hours has a special [...]

Something Sweet This Way Comes

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 28, 2006 ⋅ 8 comments

There’s an uncanny feeling you get when you know something’s about to change. It’s not at all like when you try and squeeze off a silent and hopefully non-lethal bit of stinky wind and realize you’ve squeezed a little too hard–that’s mild shame and even a bit of disappointment (“I thought I was in control [...]

Tubular Texas

By jelewis8 ⋅ May 30, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

The trip to Texas was totally tubular, to talk in 80′s alliteration. Not that I want to associate with that era any more than I have to, though I have to admit an affinity for some of the music of the day, including Huey Lewis and the News who, besides sharing my last name (not [...]

Drunk Driving

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 14, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Rain glints down, it’s three am Time to get a drink again I’ve been sucking back dry bottles and bottles of old times, like whiskey with that old burning sensation, like cutting up onions with a dull knife blade. Cuts not so deep you can’t feel the wound. I pour myself another shot and nod [...]

Family Ties and Writing Updates

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 16, 2005 ⋅ One comment

I got a phone call on my cell yesterday. My brother James has come back from his six months in Iraq. It was totally worth the minutes used to hear the news. I haven’t been worried about him–I don’t really worry about much. But I was just a bit unnerved at times knowing he was [...]

Knowing Thyself

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 20, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

Inspired by a post by Ambra Nykol, Greg Piper writes of the uncertainty he’s faced, both in the past and currently, of how to be focused in his writing, and perhaps more importantly, how to define the genre in which he sees himself and his work. The questions he (essentially) poses to himself are ones [...]

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