Author Archive: tyunglebower
New York Times Notable Books of 2015
The list is out. As subjective as any such lists are, though I am sure there are many overlaps. Have you read any of these? I have. One. I read Rachel Cusk’s Outline. I wasn’t impressed. You can read my review of it here if you like. It was actually a surprise to me that I …
I Struck Oil…
Oil painting that is. A few weeks ago I declared my intention to try out oil painting for the first time. I’ve always wanted to do it, and though I have no intentions of doing it all the time, or taking classes in same, I decided to at last seriously look into experimenting with it. When …
Shakespeare Scrooge?
Something quite different today. Over the weekend I gave myself a writing exercise. An experiment, really, that I’d been considering for a while. I wrote a scene from Dickens A Christmas Carol in “Shakespearean” iambic pentameter. Mostly. I was going to do it, and talk about it today here on the blog. But, “show don’t tell,” …
Not Today.
There is an idea. It’s been thought about, considered, deemed worthy of further exploration. It may not be the net great thing, or it may be, but there is time to begin. The project may not even get finished. It happens once in a while, after all. But for now it’s a go, and… I …
Just Being There.
I went to a Halloween party on Saturday. A friend of mine was throwing it at her home. She really did up the outside, and I liked the atmosphere. Here’s a cool picture I took of myself at the party: I was dressed as Geoffrey Tennant, from the TV show Slings and Arrows. Nobody in …
Ty Unglebower 