As you can I am still struggling with my good intentions of frequent posting and my endless list of other to dos. And so far other to dos are more often than not winning. (Insert some vague promise to do better here).

A quick follow up note: Shelfari is so far just lingering in the background not yet deleted but also nothing I am doing anything with. Probably I will delete the account but I can even commit that much to it at the moment.

But back to the project of this blog if it can be called that, writing about writing.

Almost no change in the participants of the workshop from Summer to Fall makes it feel like a lovely long continuation from then. I have put in a few of the past assignments/experiments we have done as a group and am going to continue to post these with the goal of getting all of them (or at least all of them I can find) up online.

The last two assignments were:

1) Take a moment in time in a story and slow the moment down extending it out as long as possible.

2) Write a story in 60 words (prompted by the number of folks presenting the next time according to Kevin).

On the arts front, I attended the opening for T.V. Honey at the Silverman Gallery on October 11th. Curated by Larry Rinder (another Dodie connection/intersection), this video and drawing show was interesting and a totally fun opening. So unlike most of the literary events where everyone seems incredibly uptight and weird. Always a struggle at an opening to engage the art and be social, this was particularly difficult for the Lynda Benglis and Joan Jonas pieces which required a strong commitment that a few folks including Colter did make. But the work was really good and lots of folks. Nice fresh space in the now completely gentrified Dog Patch. Is there anywhere still rough in the city?

Upcoming this weak is Chris Komater's Geary Street show which I am very much looking forward to. Check it out here: