Blogs, who needs'em?

This is the first of a series of weekly posts for the year of the ox.

Hemingway, who probably shot an ox, in his prime wrote at least 300 words per day. But he was lucky, because he had a team just gaging to edit and disseminate his stuff. I was brought up on Hemingway, a style to be emulated, spars clear, and revised like an ox tilling and re-tilling soil.

In the days of computer, everyone must be their own staff, and thus I am compelled to blog. No one is coming to interview my in Havana. George Plimpton is dead.

We tell stories in a different way now. And people who read blogs, get their story on -- their need to be told stories fix, that they might have gotten from a novel -- they get story on in a new way. Hemingway would have been a blogger too. Imagine that. Imagine, Vince Noir telling you about Hemingway's Blog.

Does contemporary fiction have a different role to play now that the realm of first person realism is being covered by everyone in the whole worlds blogs?

I know I got some skips in my logic, but I was only shooting for 300 words, lightly reviesed.

Two Tongue launches "Five Stories"

Two Tongue Press an independent publishing company launched their first book Five Stories by Rob Adams at Avid Books in West End, Brisbane, Australia on Friday 6 July 2007.

Five Stories is a collection of short stories chronicling life of an expatriate American in Taiwan. Chinese and English face off on opposite pages of the book in a unique dialogue between East and West.

Though Rob seemed nervous, the author gradually hit his stride and there were as many laughs as there were sales. Well, probably more laughs, but great things have small beginnings.