Hanging with this sad dude that was just recently dumped. He told me he just started seeing the number 333 lately all over the place ('least he wasn't going all 666 on me).

"You know what that means, right?" Dude asked.

"Means you gotta play that number?" I said.

After a quick Google search -- on his insistence that it will blow my f-ing socks off -- I knew he had gone loco on me.

Chatting with my lady friend this week and the topic of -- what do men really want?

No ways of cleaning this up sister -- men are pigs, we ain't too complicated like that.

In this article (thelife.com) homeboy here says men operate first-and-foremost on a "biological level"

Sure, I'd want to believe that we are all more than just a collection cells, synapses and sex drives...this has always been something that I've struggled with. There's a rational-man-hiding-inside-me that tries to embrace things like, well science...while

I'm here sitting on the fence, half of me still says religion is all a bunch Voodoo, the other half has my fingers crossed for that burning bush.

Many of us are -- "We are amazing, mysterious creatures forever in search of something greater than ourselves." (NY Times).

So, it's come to this? I'm always interested in discovering a new writers, I can imagine that first story is always the hardest to write -- and I'm curious how they find a way "in" -- or what the story hook is that invites readers to spend time with them.

In today's high tech market...of tech bells and whistles...

How can a new writer connect with the reader?

'cause isn't reading so much about personal taste. For all the press and hoopla a book gets -- reviews and book readings, etc. For me it comes down to these two things:

1. Someone will I trust will recommend a book that I might like -- word of mouth, "try this book..." that's always -- above any ads -- number one in my book.
2. Do I connect with the story or characters in some emotional way.

I sat in for the strangest book reading -- 'left there scratching my head...

Nothing happens in Colson Whitehead's "don't call it a coming-of-age" book Sag Harbor -- and after hearing the amount of big words supposedly written in the voice of a 15 year old...really, did you just say it's a book about nothing, that only works if you're Jerry Seinfeld...I gotta wonder who exactly was this book written for?

I'm not going to read this book...why would I read a book that you need a flow chart to understand...I know I'm going to sound dumb here, but when I read I need a story to turn the page (as well as good characters)...