Category Archives: writing

internet tomfoolery

Want to see me acting like an idiot on the internet, get called on it, apologize, and then make a new net friend? Begin on your revelatory path to ronnyd’s idiocy here and then work your way back through the … Continue reading

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journal considerations

I’ve made a change to the posting structure of my journal entries, to fall, yes, I agree, more in line with the masses. As I read more and more online journals, I see that the de facto standard is to … Continue reading

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‘blogging is gross’

Posted also to my WEBLOG at people.tribe.net/ronnyd Don’t misinterpret that title. I don’t hate keeping an online journal. www.ronnyd.com/weblog is evidence of that. That site is not updated as often as I would like, but it’s there and it’s passed … Continue reading

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samuel beckett

Copied, without permission, from today’s The Writer’s Almanac. None of the words that follow are mine: It’s the birthday of the playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett, born in a rich suburb of Dublin, Ireland called Foxrock (1906). His mother was … Continue reading

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it’s possible

It’s the birthday of novelist Judith Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan (1936). In 1974, she sent the manuscript of her first novel off to Viking Press. She didn’t have an agent, and didn’t send along a query letter or a … Continue reading

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Will Eisner, 1917 – 2005

Comic book legend Will Eisner died Monday evening, January 3rd. I’m not an authority on the man’s work, having only discovered him in the last 4 years of my comic reading, but what work of his I did read renewed … Continue reading

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He’s Alive

Just testing the waters again. If this is easy to update, I should have some things to post soon enough. Looking forward to actually being in CA for the next 12 days. Such a rarity.

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“Everytime I try to get out, they keep pulling me back in!” — Michael Corleone

Well, I’m back. Back to what, you ask? Well, back to some more regular posts, since I finally have an easy means of accessing the files on my website securely from home. I can now write an entry and have … Continue reading

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pondering

OK. I was reading some of my old posts going back to last year, and at this time I was in the merry olde country of England. Just being in England gave me enough to write about almost daily, but … Continue reading

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