Well. Here we are. Train’s pulling in to the end of summer and we’re being kicked out onto the platform of sinking temperatures and insatiable rainclouds. That came quickly.
Still, you know what shit weather is good for? That’s right, skateboarding! I mean writing. I think I said last month that I was aiming to finish the sequel to Reality Testing by the end of August. Didn’t happen, but we are at 75,000 words and it will be done by the end of September. How’s about that. Book six in the bag.
Publications of the month! None, on account of not submitting to any.
Book of the month! Deliverance by James Dickey, the USA’s 18th poet laureate. Never have I read a more self-aware exploration of the boundary between male homosocial and homosexual relationships. The film is more immediate, but Dickey has a way with words that builds on the Hemingway archetype and makes it something even purer and more beautiful.
Film of the month! Promising Young Woman if we’re talking new movies; It Should Happen To You if we’re talking old ones. Judy Holliday was the best.
Swinging vines in the music jungle:
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