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mojo hummin’…

Old guy in the circle needs a shave, a mess of tics and hitches, baseball cap pulled low over crazy eyebrows, I won’t lie to you; I think I left my mojo in my old desk, next to my security and that Sundays CD with Wild Horses on it. Call me a victim of the [...]

Posted on August 26, 2009 at 1:32 am by cog · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: blogging, life

did you do something with your hair?

Rolling out a new look for The Flies is fraught with peril. Not for you, of course. All you have to do think, good gawd, what the hell is this? But if you are a regular reader, you’re accustomed to thinking that, so it’s cool. Mostly it’s fraught with peril for yours truly, who has [...]

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 3:19 pm by cog · Permalink · 18 Comments
In: blogging

unfinished business…

You’ve probably been wondering about that enormous, mysterious void you’ve sensed but couldn’t describe. You know, that a couple weeks back you felt a disturbance in the Blog Force, as if dozens of topics had cried out and then were lost. That one. It’s because I did some housekeeping, and deleted the 65 (sixty-five!) unfinished [...]

Posted on February 3, 2009 at 2:37 am by cog · Permalink · 10 Comments
In: blogging

colossal fuck-ups populate the Earth…

In an email the other day, a friend wrote this: I’ve been reading your blog.  Your first entry about Jay left me wondering if this was another piece of fiction.  The comments and your most recent entry lead me to believe it’s not. This is disturbing, because I don’t know where or when the idea [...]

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 2:30 pm by cog · Permalink · 14 Comments
In: blogging, life

got readers?

In general, writing about writing is like dancing about rhythm. Thus it was with some wariness that I first looked in on Zoë Westhof’s Essential Prose blog, the first of Chuck Westbrook’s project for bringing attention to lesser-known blogs around the sphere. Basically, he’s recruited a sort of traveling appreciation society, the idea being to [...]

Posted on November 6, 2008 at 11:44 am by cog · Permalink · 5 Comments
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