Isn’t the Light OK?

I dis­cov­ered a few weeks ago that my inner critic sounds a lot like Jay Sher­man. And not Jay Sher­man as nor­mally seen in any episode of The Critic, but Jay Sher­man locked up in a men­tal hos­pi­tal in a crossover bit from The Simp­sons episode “Hur­ri­cane Neddy” where all he can do is repeat […]

Tues­day night I sat in on a songwriter’s group in Brunswick, orga­nized by Jud Caswell. We did quite a bit of “object writ­ing,” ie. tak­ing an object, per­son, or sit­u­a­tion, and describ­ing it in as much sen­sory detail as pos­si­ble, with­out wor­ry­ing about rhyme, meter, or even basic prose. The idea is just to […]