Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: November 2002
Roads Not Taken
Posted on November 25, 2002 in Attitudes
There’s something about those intervals when one has nothing but time on one’s hand that leads one to forgo reading, writing, and other constructive activity for looking back over the map, for seeing where one has been and try to guess how we came to choose that route.
Simaholics Anonymous?
Posted on November 25, 2002 in Whimsies
We realized that we were powerless over computers and that the lives of our Sims had become unmanageable.
Foehn
Posted on November 25, 2002 in Weather
The roar and whistle is so loud, I can barely hear the leaf blowers the gardeners are using in a vain attempt to put back the leaves the clear storm had shorn off the trees.
Martyr for Religious Freedom
Posted on November 24, 2002 in Courage & Activism Pointers
I just finished writing an article about a most unusual martyr — a man who died not for his faith, but for the right of others to practice one with which he did not wholly concur.
It’s Really Happening?!
Posted on November 20, 2002 in Blog Meets
Five people from Orange County confirmed for the Meetup in Tustin!
Slave Rebellion
Posted on November 20, 2002 in Cats
Tracy lurks next to the computer these days, always convinced that I have something that she wants to eat. She whines and claws at my bare arm or, if I happen to be blogging in the nude, my legs.
Long red scratches cross my arms where she’s “nudged” me for a treat.
Today the Slave fought back. When she drove her nails into my arm, I seized her paw and with a pair of fingernail clippers penalized her one claw. She lost four before she got the idea that this was going to happen any time she scratched me. Now she sits on the floor next to the chair and gives me mournful looks.
Offer for Blog Friends
Posted on November 19, 2002 in Writing
I am sure that the mention of my book in progress tantalizes at least one of you.
Blackout
Posted on November 19, 2002 in Neighborhood Weather
One word — Fuck! — pushed forward from my mouth and, for a second, seemed to make everything flash on again.
Excerpt from Writing Practice
Posted on November 19, 2002 in Writing Exercises
Most of my characters are neurotic.
Monday at the Writers’ Group
Posted on November 19, 2002 in Writing Groups
Does one have to know what every symbol means? Does it have to be a symbol in the first place or can it be set decoration that tells you something subtle about the character’s priorities?
Shame Us Into Peace?
Posted on November 18, 2002 in Pointers
Believe it or not, I did not find this link through blogdom’s principal connoisseur of pornographic protest wKenshoW.
