Gadget Archive 1

Writers on Writing
“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood appear on your forehead.”
Gene Fowler

Nice Openings
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he’s preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachno-fiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.”
From the novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Rasoir J’s Movie Notes
In the Heat of the Night (1987) ****
Matchup of Steiger's gut-jutting, gum-chewing sheriff & Poitier's cool, livid detective (be sure to call him Mr. Tibbs) remains riveting after all these years. Jewison made a classic on $2 million.

Favorite Words
Bladderwrack – a kind of seaweed with flattened plant parts and air bladders. “A bloated carcass of a dead dog lay lolled on the bladder wrack.” Ulysses by James Joyce