(non)BookWritingLogue – June 25, 2011

A note for my follower:  due to unforeseen circumstances, my executive editor (moi) has agreed to grant me a two month extension on the completion of the first draft of the pseudo-manuscript (sometimes, on rare occasions, I do display empathy for myself).  So I have until August 31, 2011.  Revision time will remain the same.  This WILL be done by the end of the year, OR ELSE.  Then I can burn it or put it in a drawer and be done.  Then I’ll invent a brand new thing to fret about in 2012.  More soon!

BookWritingLogue – May 12th, 2011

Quantas – Cortelyou St, Ditmas Park – I did freelance stuff here – no book work – BUT this exploratory trip uncovered a secret, vibrant civilization.  I won’t talk much about it, as I believe its inhabitants want it to remain hidden, but I will be moving in a few months and I’m adding this area to my list.  OH, and it is so secret that Quantas isn’t even on the interwebs!

EXTRA BONUS MATERIALS!!!  My favorite targeted Google ads for the week:.

• Birdy Bra – Crop Supporter / Chest Protector For chickens, ducks, parrots, geese
• GOLDTOE™ Underwear
• Bosley Hair Restoration
• Apartments Krakow – Apartments in Krakow Old Town

BookWritingLogue – May 6th and 10th, 2011

CC’s Café, Bakery & Coffee Bar – Hudson St & Christopher St, West Village – mostly watched the world go by on lovely Friday afternoon in the spring, but also wrote about seduction.

Fika – 58^th Street & 6^th Avenue, Manhattan – I had been to this place before, before I went to MOMA once, I think.  Prior to moving here, I think.  This is what my shoddy memory leads me to believe.  Not unlike a disgruntled bird smashing into an enemy pig, I had a breakthrough (ie I had a semi-formed idea).  Also, Ziggy Stardust was playing, which is my favorite album of all time ever.

BookWritingLogue – May 4nd and 5th, 2011

Snice – 8^th Avenue and Jane Street, West Village – I like this place.  It is hip but without hipsters (for the most part).  Drank decaffeinated tea this time, in the interest of sleep (did not want to screw over my future self, which I’ve been guilty of before, with coffee and also other type of beverages that affect one’s future mental state).  Did more outline altering, as the big picture of part II that was in my head is not fleshing out nicely like part I when examined closer in.  Instead of having a novelette with two parts I could have a wittle booklette with one part?

Everyman Espresso — 13^th Street and 3^rd Avenue, East Village – Hello all my non-readers!  I did freelance here not book stuff, but wanted to note that like 15 years ago I had the idea of naming a coffee shop ‘counter culture’ and it would have a bunch of counters (brilliant!).  I figured if I this thought, millions of other people must have too, because I am not very original. Yet I have never seen a coffee shop with that name, but today I saw a brand of coffee with the name.  Not the same though because a bag of coffee does not have counters.  Everyman Espresso has theater-y (theatre-y?) types hanging out there, perhaps because there is a theater in the back.  I wrote about nothing!

BookWritingLogue – May 2nd, 2011

Ground Support – West Broadway and Spring, SoHo – So so so so many pretty people with cool accents and so bloody bloody young.  But I was not bitter towards them (this time).  I sat at a picnic table and drank a mellow sounding tea that ended up keeping me up all night, which turns out would have been inevitable anyway what with the revelry out on the street.  Such a festive Monday night!  I wrote about divorce, Chevy’s Tex Mex, and leather chaps.  

EXTRA BONUS MATERIALS!!!  My favorite targeted Google ads for the week:.

• Mid Weight Underwear
• The Everyday Porsche
• I Heart Boobies Apparel
• Chicken Incinerator – High Quality, New & Used Units
• Record Everything You See – New! Spy Camera u-he Zebra – great sound, happy users

BookWritingLogue – April 22nd – 24th, 2011

Grounded Café – Jane St and 8^th Avenue, West Village – (CONTINUED…) – Organized the outline for the rest of Part I (yay) and opened the messy Part II document (horrid ugly mess).  Two months and nine days till finishing this bastard thing.  I kept the internet open and was suddenly IMing with four people — in Paris, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Boston. Made the world seem smaller, which I liked.  Very nice, but if did not have my no internet while writing rule, would not have ½ of a book!  I heart my friends 4ever though.

My Couch – My apartment, Bedford-Stuyvesant – Tried to make sense of Part II or at least get the skeleton of an outline started, one that would not give me panic, like the lack of the skeleton of an outline does.  The cats both slept on me, after wrestling for prime locations for two hours.

Sit and Wonder Café – Washington and St. Mark’s, Prospect Heights – Sat outside with no coat!  Wrote about a failed attempt at becoming addicted to drugs.

Tavern on Dean – Dean St and Underhill Ave, Prospect Heights – wrote about dialectical materialism, beaches, and boobs.

EXTRA BONUS MATERIALS!!!  I have been collecting my favorite targeted Google ads.  Here are the ones for this week:.

• Nighttime Teething Relief
• Wholesale Straw Hats
• Theremins For All Budgets
• Happy Chickens Better For Business
• Accessible Medicare Forms

BookWritingLogue – April 16th, 20th, and 22nd 2011

Place I Can’t Remember the Name Of – One of the Avenues (3^rd?  Park?), Upper East Side – Successfully copied and pasted.

Sunburst – 3^rd Avenue and 18^th Street, Gramercy – It turned into spring sometime after I got to work this morning!  When I got to work the weather was stuck in some sort of mucky muck, uncertain of which season it wanted to be; when I left, SPRING!  So Sunburst was very apropos, right down to the extremely alert, probably fake brightly colored tulips in the windows and lights that made pretty sunbursts on the ceiling and walls.  Two older men sat outside saying hi to everyone – very neigbhorhoody.  Think I decided I need to skip ahead to the next section and figure out the transition later.  I’m sure no one gives a flying crap, but there you go.  I hope everyone had a marvelous 420.

Grounded Café – Jane St and 8^th Avenue, West Village – I am at Grounded Cafe as I post this!  I am going against rules and am on the internet while I’m supposed to be writing.  So rebellious!  Actually I agreed to send a friend a few bits of this supposed book for critiques.  If he is reading this, thank you!  If not, traitor!  (This post will be continued after I’m done here….)

BookWritingLogue – Some Days in April, 2011

Amtrak Acela – Between NYC and Boston – fretted and typed in tandem (multitasking!). 

Hyatt Regency – Memorial Drive, Cambridge – puttered but made deadline!

Blue Spoon Coffee – Chambers St, Financial District – got there 25 minutes before they closed, but managed to do productive stuff (I’ve set the ‘productive’ bar pretty low though – if writing a book were my job I would have been fired long ago).

EXTRA BONUS MATERIALS!!!  I have been collecting my favorite targeted Google ads.  Here are the ones for this week:.

• liver 52 – on sale
• Stop The Suck
• Looking for underwear? Find your favorite style.
• Hepatic Encephalopathy
• Sale Tattoo Practice Skin
• See the secerts of absolute male power

(Google’s new banner ad says ‘Coming soon: Better ads in Gmail’.  Personally, I think they are fine as is.)

BookWritingLogue – March 27th & 31st, 2011

Linger Café & Lounge – Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn – friend from college in town – he also had to write stuff and said we should go some place where we could linger.  Ta da! 

Ciao for Now – 10^th St and 6^th Ave, Greenwich Village – done with Part 1 of the book!  I didn’t know it would have parts, but now it does.  Two more parts to write in three months.  I wrote about going home (like to a hometown) and a bit about loathing.  Ciao for Now is cute and they have soup.  Man came in specifically to say he liked the handwriting on their little sign outside that said soup.  The barista was hyper, everywhere at once, talking a lot about beans that had fallen into difficult places.  He gave me free soup though so yay for him!!

EXTRA BONUS MATERIALS!!!  I have been collecting my favorite targeted Google ads.  Here are the ones for this week (they think I’m broke, really old, in possession of a baby, and perverted.  Silly, as only one of those things is true!):

• $6K a Month in Dividends? – It doesn’t take a genius, my friend
• Gorgeous Ukraine Girl – 22,000+ Ukraine Girls’ Profiles
• My Baby is Drooling
• Tender Beef Stew Meat
• Active Adult Community

BookWritingLogue – March 23rd – 25th, 2011

Café Pedlar – Court Street, Cobble Hill – there are 1.5 tables in this place.  The large open area remaining could be rented out as a dance floor or something.  Perhaps some nice ballroom dancing?  Nothing too distracting, I have to concentrate!  I did not work on the book, I did freelance stuff ($$).  But I did think about the book, which counts.

Baco – Jay St, Dumbo – Baco has fancy art people in it (like art dealer people). One said, “If we could coordinate a time with the coordinators to collaborate, I believe we could have a successful collaboration.”  The other people nodded and said, “Yes. Yes, yes.”  The tables were the same height as the seats of the chairs – gives an Alice in Wonderland-y feeling.  Giant person, tiny table.  But I am not complaining!  I no longer complain.  I’m much too Zen (as of today).

Chocolate Bar – 8^th Ave and 12^th St, West Village – I had a tiny $3.00 ding dong, and it was good.  There was a tiny wiener dog sitting next to me – its owner, who was staring at my computer screen, got very close to the dog and said, “you want to write a book don’t you?  You have a few stories, don’t you?  Yes you do.”