Gang Author Faces Life in Prison
Colton Simpson, author of Inside the Crips: Life Inside L.A.’s Most Notorious Gang, was found guilty of robbing a jewelry store on Monday. “With 10 previous convictions for serious crimes, the 41-year-old man could face life behind bars when he is sentenced Sept. 28,” reported the Los Angeles Times. Prosecutors used passages from the book…
continue readingUnstoppable Ideas
I’ve never really understood writer’s block. Or, at least not in the middle of a project. Typically my problem is being unable to stop ideas. I seem to have an obsessive-type of focus that comes when I’m really into something. In graduate school, I was writing a collection of short stories for my master’s thesis.…
continue readingBack up, Back up, Back up
For the love of God, people, back up your computers! My hard drive crashed the other day. Luckily, I do have at least most of the files backed up to an external drive. So I can restore without too much pain and discomfort. I’ll lose some stuff (like that copy of Faster Pussycat’s greatest hits and those…
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