Hey, what do you do (in the Modern Age) when you become worried that you are taking in information without any creative outlet for the info-soup in your head? Create a Blog to absorb it. Create a Blog to join that little voice in your head that says "Hey, you, with the computer... Write something."
I asked a friend in college (Lutheran minister, actually) how to force creative production (I needed to write a paper and was entirely blocked). His reply: Sitzfleisch (apologies to my German-speaking friends for any misspellings or misuses). His on-the-fly translation was: put your butt in a chair and just start writing something. The Reflekting Pool is my return to this advice.
While escaping the chill (and work) in my home of Milwaukee, my Santa Clara friends suggested that I dump some of this pent-up verbiage into a blog. So, here it begins.
My plan is to post media reviews (books, art, movies, albums, and theatre) as well as reflections on the ideas and situations of the day. My real goal, truth be told, is to open this dripping spigot in my head and eventually write a play or two. A friend in California directed a version of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia a few years back, and it was a kind of Renaissance for me. I have, since, redirected and revived my reading. This blog is the next step in this process, the redirecting and reviving of my writing. Let's hope that some these word-flows collect here in the Pool.
