David Thayer

<p> Now that the Oscars have passed and Martin Scorcese has won I want to recommend to you all the late Peter Boyle’s wonderful speech in TAXI DRIVER where he probes DeNiro’s psychotic character with some talk about what a man does makes the man what he is. This applies to women as well although what a woman does is only part of what she is. It’s a different for men who also understand in discourse with one another that the other guy is probably wrong while women seem to withhold that judgment until they hear what’s being said.

<p> What we do as writers gets the Boyle treatment all the time in that resume form: when not blogging or advising the president Our Hero enjoys wind surfing kayaking googling Scooter Libby making his finger into a gun winking nodding jogging in place forensic dentistry Ethiopian coffee shroud indenting purchasing tires gripping melodrama solicitation calls some forms of modern dance art jazz adjusting valves hairpieces gummy rings gummi bears deep sea diving speechs by Iranian politicians sea urchins and punctuation if not overdone.

<p> Finding time to write blogs reviews imaginary town council meetings fictitious map coordinates incisive commentary go to seven eleven slap on some Aqua Velva and wash the car? Incroyable!

<p> Where do they find the time?

<p> NB: I do think that html tags should be invisible and they used to be around here and now they’re not. I don’t know why this alteration has occurred but I think it means something. Maybe it’s an Artificial Intelligence thing, a prelude. I don’t know.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 6:43 pm and is filed under Biting the Apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.