It’s always disappointing when a writer has their work censored by an editor. One should always be wary of publishers that value editors more than authors.
How do you handle the wants and desires of an editor with an obvious internal agenda who wishes to wound and harm the project with false self-elevation, political correctitude and sanctimonious righteousness?
All books must be of the world.
Books are required by their very nature to reflect the values and conscience of the author as well as the world currently framing the context of the word.
Too often technical books and computer books are not of the world; they are instead stale and bone-dry and have no sense of humor or spirit or effective memes or identifiable passion and magnitude.
Current events and poems and the news and response cries and personality and dreams and wishes and colloquialisms are required to be embedded in the sinew of any book written by all authors.
Why should a computer book be less compelling than an Epic Poem or a Fantasy Novel?
Technical books must sing and twirl and express joy — or the journey created for the reader is dull and rote — and that goes against the craft of the writer who must forever aspire to higher leanings and who must always lift the reader from pinnacle to pinnacle while avoiding the pitfalls of temptation and merely writing to fill pages instead of brimming imagination.
We are pleased to announce the formation of the Boles Blogs Network! Now you can read a unified worldview with diverse truths and indisputable facts as we stretch our Urban Semiotic mandate into a wider web of ideas. We also removed the “David W. Boles” part of the official title of all the network blogs to better serve our new, greater, mandate of inclusion.
The New York Times likes to consider itself the “newspaper of record” — and so when they place their foot on the throat of a production to test their muscle — theatre people the world over cringe and hope they don’t get hit with the tainted shrapnel. The NYTimes recently promoted an interactive “lesson in movie acting” with 14 celebrities “emoting” on their website.
Yesterday I wrote a lengthy review about my new Cingular/at&t BlackBerry 8700c phone/PDA/slicer-dicer/messagemonster. I also decided to kill my current unlucky phone number because an opportunity of great passion and magnitude was unwittingly offered to me by the Amazon.com/Cingular/at&t/RIM/BlackBerry cabal that I could not refuse.
In my Lucky Lucky Number article I learned, to my great dismay, that my cellular phone number was UNlucky because it held four 4s and if you know anything about Chinese numerology, a 4 = Death. I have not ordered Chinese food from that guy since I learned he was mocking my “Lucky Lucky” number and not being genuine.
I love kidding around as long as I’m in on the cultural joke! So my phone number was Death x Four and even if you don’t believe in that kind of number energy, once you are made aware that dialing your phone number equals dialing death for some people, you begin to ponder the grander gestures of living where a phone number doesn’t have to kill someone when it is dialed.
Enter the cabal! When you sign up for cellular service with a new carrier you are assigned a new phone number even if you plan to use your existing phone number. Your newly assigned phone number becomes the Service Set Identifier (SSID) for the phone because when you use an old cellular number on a new service that phone number still belongs to say, Verizon, even though you’re on say, Sprint.
On Saturday we were selected as one of 111 blogs — out of 700 submissions — to be granted membership status in the 9Rules Network.
The tagline for this blog used to be just Rendering Meaning in the City Core and this week I changed it to read… Where Blood & Bone Render Meaning in the City Core …and some have asked why I made that change. I came to realize this week that a successful blog, if it is to have meaning beyond the self, must in some way speak personally to you, the reader, in a genuine manner.
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