Notes for a Blog Entry
Michele’s reaction to Career Opportunities — zoo employees’ wages = inappropriate response
“judge your friends by your poems, not your poems by your friends” (Kim Stafford)
Aristotle: fiction vs. history; what could have happened vs. what did happen
Brian’s girlfriend’s daughter’s girlfriend’s reaction to Hurt Locker — lacking in verisimilitude — but it wasn’t a documentary after all
the brouhaha over the memoir that was really more of a novel — people want to be tricked; they don’t want to have to work at suspending disbelief (whereas I can suspend disbelief at the drop of a hat)
Liar’s Club
“creative nonfiction”
little white lies
Last Gentlemen — premise
Kierkegaard’s pseudonyms
pseudonyms generally
identity
Lickona’s Alphonse — should he have used a pseudonym? (his Catholicism too much a known quantity? and then overexplaining it)
retelling tales
fish stories
aiming to entertain
Dylan: “I think of myself as a song and dance man”
The Man in the Sycamore Tree — “an entertainment” (Merton bio)
popular vs. scholarly
The decision to put my name on it was calculated – hoping that the Catholic fanbase – such as it is – would provide an initial groundswell, and that I could ride that into enough success to produce the whole series, at which point I could take it out into the mainstream. Didn't happen, of course.
And yes, I overexplained it – but only after it refused to budge on its own.
But waitaminute – Brian has a girlfriend?
I think you should disavow it. Issue a press release saying you have nothing to do with this dreadful thing and that it's a case of reverse plagiarism cum identity theft. Then concoct the persona of a mysterious homeless teenage girl who is the actual author/illustrator.
It's too late – Google Cache has seen to it that the Internet trail will always lead straight back to me.
But I like where your head's at.