Having a coffee with amaretto flavor watching the ice storm spatter us here. And I've got the USC-UCLA football game on. Chauncey Washington just barrelled in from 10yards for USC's second TD. The new NATIONAL TREASURE trailer just ran; I imagine some fools will try to look for the secret tip on Mount Rushmore, just like in the movie. (Hint: it's a movie).
Anyway, the ice storm reminded me of Rick Moody's book THE ICE STORM, which was also a great movie. I believe it had Tobey McGuire in it. It's got that 70s thing going on, but the same way THAT 70s SHOW did, with a view from 2007.
I decided to go back to the 70's today when my computer crashed and needs reboot repair. I bought a notebook at Wal-Mart for a buck.
I always liked pen and paper, although you can't cut and paste with a snap and you can't search Wikipedia and dictionary.com like I usually do when I'm writing. With computers you have to work a little harder to get some of the romance in writing, although with Wi-Fi you can do that. I wouldn't want to compute in a swamp like that one commercial, although my results do get a little swampy sometimes... My novel POOKOO is set in the pre-Internet world of 1991. I had a manual Royal and Smith-Corona typewriters back then. I still do, but I need ribbons and cleanings for them and don't know who does that anymore.
(This computer? My wife's.)
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