Guy Smith | August 14, 2011
TweetAuthors find it difficult to autograph Kindles. With e-book sales hovering around 20% of all books retailed, and with the price of Kindles, Nooks and other slabs rapidly falling, the days of printed books are numbered. On a recent coast to coast flight, while hiking from the stern head back to my seat, I scanned [...]
Guy Smith | March 21, 2011
TweetWhile corning through Florida to visit family, I was subjected to the Space Coast daily journal which has, since inception, masqueraded as a newspaper. I’m not overly nicking Florida Today (the bastard child of USA Today, sired by the same nefarious father, Al Neuharth). It is what it is, and with the exception of when [...]
Guy Smith | June 26, 2010
TweetWords often betray the essence of being human. Words that describe emotional states, doubly so. They can also show that even hopeless romantics are cynics. Take the word “enthrall.” Its top meaning is “to captivate or charm,” and this is the typical way in which the word is wielded. Its second meaning is “to subjugate, [...]
Guy Smith | June 25, 2010
TweetWords are symbols that span from mundane to erotic to cataclysmic. Which is why bad writers are routinely dangled from tall oak trees. Their crime is the misuse of symbols in such a way that one or another angry mob decided that the poor penfellow proposed something he meant not to say. The injustice of [...]
Guy Smith | April 4, 2010
TweetSince I will never finish the follow assault on Keats, I post it here for prosperity and to pique poetry partisans. Ode to a Cup of Coffee Thou still unsipp’d mug of consciousness Thou foster child of puritan work ethic Urban progenitor of unslurred speech A nutty taste more sweet with sugar What bagel fringed [...]
