Double Wired deadline today, plus tweaking a soon-to-launch Web project related to The Skies Belong to Us. Back tomorrow with something slightly more erudite than footage of Loni Anderson strutting across a field of broken glass.
Entries Tagged as 'circuses'
Maximum Entertainment
February 26th, 2013 · Comments Off on Maximum Entertainment
Tags:Circus of the Stars·circuses·daredevils·Loni Anderson·TV
Confessions of a Snake Eater
August 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on Confessions of a Snake Eater
An in-depth perusal of the Sword Swallowing Hall of Fame led me to this gem of Victorian non-fiction—an anonymous first-person account of a life spent shoving dangerous objects down one’s gullet. Our storyteller’s most curious pursuit involves the ingestion of a reptile with which our species has a complicated relationship: I was the second one […]
The Downward Spiral
February 10th, 2012 · 2 Comments
I’m sorely tempted to launch a whole new Microkhan series about the late-career floundering of high achievers. I’m just fascinated by this concept of how the truly great cope with the inevitable diminishment of their skills, as well as the revelation that they really should have taken better care of their personal affairs while riding […]
The Knife Thrower’s Assistant
February 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment
A big challenge I’ve faced with my book is the difficulty of grasping the rationales of truly eccentric characters. Even when I’ve been able to interview such folks, I rarely come away with a full understanding of why they made certain choices—their reasoning tends to be opaque, at least to a fairly normal bloke like […]
Tags:circuses·knife throwing·philosophy·psychology·The Next Book
