Creative Control

Miscellaneous Mental Musings of an Emerging Artist

As we sit perfectly still, in a blank room drinking naught but weak tea.

Here’s the thing about perfectionism. The very act of having it is contradictory to one day perceiving your own perfection. As long as you have perfectionism, you can never feel … Continue reading

October 19, 2001 · Leave a comment

Chained to a desk and made to produce copy.

My managing editor has returned from France, sans active cigarette habit and maiden name. Other than that, things are more or less the same around work today. The book is … Continue reading

October 16, 2001 · Leave a comment

And Jingo was his Name-O!

There is a secret organization of American comedy writers.

October 8, 2001 · Leave a comment

Why does Anthony Hopkins keep going back to Hannibal Lecter?

The first part I ever had.

September 25, 2001 · Leave a comment

The Rabbit God Gets Married.

Engaging in as much distraction as possible.

September 17, 2001 · Leave a comment

It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again.

Pain is reality, surrender is not.

September 14, 2001 · Leave a comment

Fear and Loathing.

The net is filled with hatred today.

September 13, 2001 · Leave a comment

And not a man of them that we shall take shall taste our mercy.

Horrors.

September 11, 2001 · Leave a comment

The illusion of “status quo.”

Aftershocks and rampant chaos.

July 20, 2001 · Leave a comment

Made in Canada.

Ignored the journal all last week due to work-related stress; namely, the incessant scanning and editing of over five hundred classic Jumble(R) puzzles for an upcoming book from my publishing … Continue reading

July 17, 2001 · Leave a comment