Tag: eighties
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Smyth or Smith? Patti Smith’s JUST KIDS
When I began reading Just Kids by Patti Smith, I sort of thought I was reading the work of Patty Smyth, former lead singer of Scandal, performer of “The Warrior,” and now wife to tennis star John McEnroe. My excuses for such ignorance include that I’m straight out of the decade of the eighties, from…
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Adaptation of Love on the Big Screen selected for grand prize at Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival
Love on the Big Screen tells the story of a college freshman whose understanding of love has been shaped by late-eighties romantic comedies. The novel is forthcoming from Cherokee McGhee Press in early 2011 and the script adaptation has been selected for the Grand Prize in the Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition. …
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A DRAFT (get it?) of my poem, “Love Is Like a Fart”
Some of you have asked a fair enough question: why am I working on a poem about gas? Today, I was in touch with a man named Jerry Finley who promotes a great eighties cover band called “The Breakfast Club.” In fact, my wife Megan and I had our second ever date, on New Year’s…
Bill Torgerson 