Greetings,
This prime strip of digital real estate is the online home of my collected works as a writer. I am greatly honored that you would take the time to visit here and peruse my amusements. And that is what the stories listed in that little box to the right are - amusements. I take keen joy in stitching a story together with quirky characters, sticky situations, and a steady stream of words that play well together. Whether I’ve ever accomplished any of those literary ambitions is certainly up for debate.
This site holds in it’s incomprehensible vaults a vast array of thoughts that I have, at some point in the past five years, captured. In that same time, just as many scenes, real or imagined, have slipped by unrecorded, or lost to the ages due to the complications involved in some dramatic revelations. I am glad that some of them made it to the “page,” as it were. And, actually, in some cases, I’ve been paid a pittance to craft a tale, though not as often as I would like.
To this date, the entire list of publications who have paid me actual money to create a story for them can fit on a drunken carpenters hand: consisting of the Aspen Daily News (who invited me to write a weekly sports column centering on the Roaring Fork valley of Colorado despite (a.) not living within 1000 mile of said valley, and (b.) not writing a word about actual sports for four months running, instead figuring that there might be some corollary between the random happenings that I ventured into on the road as a corporate AV man,) a magazine called BEER, which touts itself (and proudly) as the “Maxim of beer publications,” and who refused to pay me the agreed upon rate for 8 months until I threatened to drive down to Dana Point and shake it out of the boozy buggers, and the Monterey County Weekly, a free entertainment weekly who at random times sends me on assignments that I swear are created just to see what carnage I might exact from a delicate situation.
If you are interested in a little exploratory reading, then there ought to be plenty drama for you to gander at here: Newspaper columns, magazine profiles, journals, music reviews, essays, book reviews and blurbs, press releases, poems and lyrics. If you like something that you read here, then by all means, please comment below it or repost the story in the bright light of your own special network. The way things work nowadays, a single well placed click can get an undiscovered story noticed overnight. I think that they call this phenomenon a “virus”, and for some reason, that is supposed to mean that it “spreads” in a good, healthy/productive way. These things confuse me to no end.
Right then. Enough with the blathering on. Have at it!
Yours in constant wonderment,
Corby Anderson
PS- And for GOD SAKES, please don’t call it a blog!
Marina, CA
2010
Now that you’ve got a proper home for your writings, the potential for mayhem is limitless.
Prolific and profligate linking ensues, I predict.
Here’s to the start of a fine run!
Cheers at ya. I’m at work now, but I’ve been a wino lately, so I’ll tip a gulp of something red to you this eve.
this looks great, corby! congrats and nothing but the best of wishes for large success.
What is the focus of your project for PBS, and how long will you be down here?
It was to record a documentary about the Border Wall that was, and still is being created along the Mexican border. The show was for Bill Moyers. It was two years ago, though.
Yo Corby.
Good to find your blog.
Keep posting as methinks you have a tad of talent in your writings.
Have a good one
pablo
oh yeah: my musings:
http:bit.ly/PabloConradBlog
Thanks Pablo. But IT’S NOT A BLOG! It’s a website which has the collected musings of a non-blogging writer!
ha
People, check out Paul’s photography when you get the chance. He’s an ace…
oops forgot the back/forward slashes
http://bit.ly/PabloConradBlog
Wow Cory, we need to unite you and I, collaborate, or something!! You are a beautiful writer, live up the street, and love film….