by csweet | Oct 4, 2012 | Blog Archive
I made it. Took a photo over Germany of this making of it. Here it is, to prove that I wasn’t tearing at my hair or lying prone in the aisle or buttoning and unbuttoning Peter’s jean jacket for seven hours. No. I was sitting by the window, quite serenely....
by csweet | Sep 7, 2012 | Blog Archive
I’m seven years old. I’m very small, in the University Theatre seat; I’m clutching the armrests, waiting for the curtains to open. And then, at last, they do. They do, and the screen is dark, except for ten words: A long time ago, in a galaxy far,...
by csweet | Aug 20, 2012 | Blog Archive
My fear of flying kicked in out of the blue—or rather, out of the smog—above Mexico City in 1994. My boyfriend and I had decided to embark on an English-teaching adventure in a city called Oaxaca, which we’d chosen based on a couple of paragraphs and a few...
by csweet | Jul 20, 2012 | Blog Archive
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” It’s such a wonderful, agonizing, Kubrickian sequence: the slow approach to the big wooden desk and the typewriter and the neat pile of manuscript paper. We’ve never seen what’s on the paper; all...
by csweet | Jun 26, 2012 | Blog Archive, News
The Pattern Scars has just been nominated for a Sunburst Award. This particular award is close to my heart. For a couple of years, Lesley Livingston, Adrienne Kress and I lent our bespectacled, sequined charms to the Sunburst auction (photos unavailable, just...
by csweet | Jun 15, 2012 | Blog Archive
The fifth paragraph, which begins “And that’s the point”, is replete with spoilers. Other than that, though, it’s just general diatribe. * I wasn’t expecting to love Prometheus. I’m not a rabid fan of the original movies, and I haven’t been...
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