#universtiy advice

[g0om]

another universtiy advice abt PE is to pick a combat sport i promise u it will b better then slacking off in like pingpong

[korbei]

My Advice for Adults With ADHD

When you are an adult with ADHD, it can be difficult to find advice online that isn't aimed at parents who have children with ADHD, or wasn’t written by someone who actually has ADHD. This has been a frustration of mine for many years, so I finally sat myself down and wrote out a list of my favorite ways to manage my ADHD as an adult. For background, I am a 23 year old woman who was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 8, and I am currently in college getting a BA in history with plans to remain in academia as a full-time historian. The following list is what I have developed throughout high school and university to be successful.

*Disclaimer- All of the following tips are things that I developed on my own through years of experience. If any of the following advice has been stated by others previously it is purely a coincidence.

Remembering Things

Don’t bother with a traditional planner. As most people with ADHD know, they rarely work for us. A much better option is a small whiteboard/dry erase calendar or even just post-it notes stuck on the wall where you can write your reminders. These are things that we can put in our direct line of sight where we can clearly see them, unlike a planner that can be put down and forgotten about.

When you need to remember to do something, set an alarm on your phone immediately for when you need to start it or have it done by. This is much more effective than using your phone calendar or a reminder app because it’s a lot harder to miss or ignore an alarm going off than it is to miss a regular notification. I recommend using the most obnoxious alarm tone possible.

Carry a small notepad with you. Whenever you think of something that you need to remember to do or have a thought that you don’t want to forget, write it down immediately. Don’t assume that you’ll remember it later. It’s also beneficial to do this because getting the thought out of your mind and onto paper can prevent the thought from distracting you. This can also be done in your phone’s notes app if you are the kind of person that uses the notes app often.

Getting Stuff Done

Keep your to-do lists small and manageable. Having any more than 5 things on a to-do list is likely going to be more overwhelming than helpful, so keep it short. Decide what things need to be completed most urgently and what can wait.

Surprisingly simple actions can help fight procrastination and help initiate tasks. If you have been putting something off, the quick actions of standing up, closing your laptop, turning off the TV, or opening up Google Docs can help set you in motion and build the inertia you need to get it over with. (This is the tip I used to finally get myself to type up this list)

This might seem small, but thinking about how nice and relieved you’ll feel when it’s finally done has been extremely helpful for me.

For When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

When your thoughts get to be too much and you feel overwhelmed, do a brain dump. Set a timer for 10-15 minutes and do a stream of consciousness free write of whatever is on your mind at the time. It’s important to offload your thoughts now and then in order to clear them out. This is something my high school writing teacher had us do to boost creativity, but I found that it also helped clear my mind.

Another way I like to do this is by writing a list of everything I’m thinking about at the time. My brain is always trying to think about 15 different topics at once, so I’ll go into my notes app and list them all out. Getting them out of my brain and into a visible list is very calming.

Get moving. When I start to feel anxious and overwhelmed I will often stop what I’m doing and move around my house or office for a few minutes, especially if I’ve been sitting down for a long time. This interrupts my thoughts and gets rid of stagnant energy around me, and I’ll almost always feel better afterwards.

Studying

Take breaks now and then, but keep them around 10-15 minutes. It’s easy to lose steam and not be able to finish what you are working on if you take breaks that are too long. You can schedule your breaks if you want to, but I personally prefer to take a break whenever it feels right for my mind and body.

Try adding background noise if you are studying, writing an essay, or working on any other project. This can give your brain the stimulation that it needs to stay focused. Putting on music is the most popular way to do this. I personally like to put on a movie or show that I’ve already seen many times so I don’t get distracted by new information, but this might not work for everyone.

Try flexible seating. Not many people with ADHD are able to sit in a normal chair at a desk the way others can, so don’t be afraid to try something else. My “desk” is actually a coffee table that I sit on the floor in front of. When this starts to get uncomfortable I will switch to sitting on an exercise ball.

I hope you are able to find this list helpful. I may make a follow-up list if I think of anything else that I missed here.

[banyeet]

Studying Tips from a Bad Student

Print out your syllabus.

Carry it with you.  Highlight readings when they are assigned and cross them off as you complete them.  

Put in the dates of all your assignments the first day of class.  Make special note of overlapping assignments/exams.  3 midterms and 2 papers due during the same week?  Better to know 2 months in advance instead of 2 days.

Pick 1 office hour for each class that works with your schedule.

I never ever went to office hours before becoming an adult.  Honestly, I hate commuting, and I don’t like spending my free time on campus.  So if I’m going to attend tutorials or office hours, there better be a damn convenient time for me to go.  

Pick one time for each professor that you feel like you don’t mind attending, and highlight/write down that information where it’s easily accessible to you.  Do this during the first week of classes.  

If you can’t find a regular office hour time that works for you, immediately contact your prof or TA to ask how they feel about e-mailed questions or scheduled appointments for when you need help.  Once you hear back with their alternative, make note of it in that same accessible place so you know what your options are when you have questions.

Take notes by hand.  

I type way faster than I can write, and I’m sure a lot of you are the same.  This is partly because your brain isn’t processing what you’re writing down in the same way as when you physically write it out. Trust me, it makes a difference.

Also, I found that if I handwrite notes, I am more likely to go back and look at them again later on.  What I like to do is write the notes out in class, and then review them either that night or the following day and highlight, bold things, doodle relevant icons, generally make them look pretty.  That way, you’re reviewing them but it’s also fun.  Spend some time before the semester starts to get a pen you like to write with, and maybe some coloured highlighters and post-it notes.  Interesting things are easier to keep looking at.

Don’t write out exactly what’s on the slide.

First off, if your professor isn’t the type to post slides before/after a lecture, ask if that is a possibility.  There isn’t always time to write everything down during lecture, so it helps if you are able to fill in the information you missed after class.  If you don’t want to ask in person, an email is usually okay.

Listen to what is being said in relation to the points on the slide.  Usually, what’s written on the slide doesn’t even make that much sense, because it’s only enough information for your professor to remember what they wanted to say.  Or it’s written in a way that is unclear to you, so you might want to word it differently so you understand it during review.  

Once you get the main point of what you’re suppose to learn, write it down in your own words.  When studying, you can compare your own notes to the posted lecture slides.  See if they still make sense when compared to each other.  Flag things that don’t make sense, so you can ask for clarification during office hours.

Block time.

Plan time every day for school work, even if nothing is due.  It doesn’t have to be much.  Maybe 45 minutes on weekdays, and 2 hours on Saturdays and Sundays.**I’m taking 2 classes (and working 37 hours a week) right now, so obviously if you’re taking 8 classes you’ll need a little more than 45 minutes a day lmao.  

Stick to it; hold it in high priority.  Avoid making plans during your blocked time as much as possible.  For example, if you have Saturdays blocked from 11am to 1pm, and your friend wants to have lunch at 12:30, ask to reschedule for after 1pm.  It might not shock you that this isn’t a deal breaker in most cases.  

Plan leisure time.

Do your friends typically like to go out on Friday nights?  Do you like to play video games or watch a show during a certain time of the week?  Remove those time-slots from the equation (i.e. Friday from 8pm to Saturday at 11am no longer exist in your schedule).  

Plan your blocked time around that.  That way, you never have to feel guilty about having fun during that time, because it wasn’t available for schoolwork in the first place. **obviously do this in moderation.  Don’t block off 10am-10pm every day for dicking around, or you won’t have time for anything else.

Plan to procrastinate.

If you are an avid procrastinator like me, plan time for it.  One thing I learned quickly about functioning as an adult is to plan everything.  E V E R Y T H I N G.  If you don’t plan for it, it’s either

a) not happening, or b) happening anyway and fucking up your whole schedule.  

So start homework and assignments way early.  I was terrible at estimating time.  Things I thought would take me 25 minutes usually ended up taking me 2 hours.  Dinner plans I thought would end at 8pm ended up lasting until 10pm.  But only finishing 30% of what you planned to get done isn’t the end of the world when you started 2 weeks earlier than you normally would.  You have more blocked time tomorrow.   **don’t let this happen every day.  As I mentioned, your blocked time should take priority over everything else as a general rule.

Print off assignment criteria.

Nothing pisses me off like losing marks on technicalities.  The layout of your arguments wasn’t in the right order.  Your essay only hit 3 of the 5 points it was meant to.  You cited in MLA instead of APA format.  You were mean to include information from a list of specific sources, not ones that you found in the database yourself.  None of that is an indication of whether you understood the material or not.

So before you start,

print the criteria, and read it thoroughly. 

Read it again, this time highlighting things you feel are important to hit.  

Most importantly, keep it next to you any time you are working on your assignment.  Refer back to it often, especially if you feel stuck or run into an obstacle.  

When you’re done, check off the highlighted instructions as you confirm that you’ve met them.

[alwaysreadingg]

What do you think one should do if they want to major in history but one of their parents is not supportive of it?

I feel like this depends on the individual and their relationship with their parents. It’s very easy for me to sit here and say just ignore them and do what makes you happy because, as someone with really supportive parents, i don’t know what it’s like to be in that situation. That being said i should imagine they are just worried about you and want you to be financially stable and comfortable in the future, if that’s the case i’d recommend sitting down with them and explaining why you want to pursue the subject and (for me anyway) doing what i love and what makes me happy is more important than earning more money. In addition to this, perhaps try researching jobs you can do with the degree (or if you already have a goal career in mind research it) and then bring that information to them. I’m sorry i’m not the best at advice, as i said i’ve been incredibly lucky but i hope everything works out for you/whoever needs this ask🥰

[intriquette-studies]

UK studyblrs

could anyone who studies at uni in the UK (specifically for masters/mphil) explain what the application process/grades/thesis work is like? I’m a US student starting to look at masters programs and I’m interested in UK schools 

[studyvari]

25.2.2019 | so i took a well deserved break for a week to go skiing with my family. It did such good to me before finally starting with my research paper about Strauss and the viennese Waltz. I already got my first exam result back, remember when i said the one about cultural management was easy? I got a 2.7 - 1 ist the best note you can get here and you pass with a 4. so... i‘m kind of disappointed and also dreading the other results now. I believe that i have to study a bit better for the exams in the second half of the year. Also, i think i might start with the 100 days of productivity again... what do you think?

[tea-studys]

the best time to get started is right now.

[spe--vedit-ad--astra]

Advice: College

Posters: 

get some! They are a great way to express yourself. Also, you will probably be spending a lot of time in a rather small space, if your housing was anything like mine. Make it look good. 

Tired of ripping said posters when you move? Put a flat piece of duct tape on the poster that will stay there. Then, roll masking tape to be double sided and stick it to the duct tape. That way, you don’t damage your walls or your posters

Bike:

I am biased, but biking is a great way to get around. Its faster than walking and more convenient than driving, especially around campuses. Also, its great exercise and good for the environment. And you don’t have to worry about crowded buses! (At least on my campus, a bike can beat a bus route most anywhere)

However, BE SAFE! Wear a helmet. Maybe you think it looks silly, but trust me, helmets save lives. If you’re in college, you are paying lots of money to fill your head with knowledge. Protect said head.

Explore

Get to know campus. Take an hour and just keep walking. Get lost and find your way back. Go places you have no reason to go. It’s fun, you’ll find cool places, and you’ll get to know your way around.

[barbarawei-blog]

doubt

I feel myself always thinking.

Always thinking about the steps in my life. Is this right for me at the moment? Is this what I really want? I always doubt myself and questioning, but I know they are the good qualities to make me better and make clear for my own story.

I might need help and some advice from people to make me stop questioning the present step I am standing now. So I start this blog telling my real story and finding the kindly suggestions from you. I am looking forward to seeing.

As I start my dream after I graduate from the law school. I get some pressure from my ages and myself. To think am I too old? All my friends from the same age they have started working already, this worry makes me thinking and feeling unsure about the point of keep studying. During the time doing design internship, a colleague told me that he learnt everything from the work not from Uni. I agreed, sometimes I do felt the life staying in Universtiy might not be the wise decision, I am still not sure about that at this moment. Is that because I am worried about my age and compare with others lives which made me consider again and again? But at the same time I also worried about if I quit my study right now would I regret after. How do I decide for either this or that and why there is only one way to go. Maybe having so many options is terrible because you don't know how to choose.

覺得自己總是在思考下一個方向。

我總是在思考下一步要去哪，現在的路是對的嗎？現在的路是我真正想要的嗎？不斷地反覆地感到疑惑也反覆地詢問自己，但這些是好的，懷疑與不確定才會更清晰眼前的迷茫，持續地懷疑再調整也間接地促進自己成長。

我可能需要幫忙與客觀的意見幫助我停止目前地遲疑與卻步，這正是我開始寫文章的原因，我需要你們的幫忙提供我任何建議，希望能得到可觀的建議麻煩大家了！

當我畢業後開始追求夢想，我就反覆背負著許多壓力，來自於自己給予自己的壓力。心裡想著同年紀的朋友都已經開始上班工作賺錢了，但我卻還在當學生，腦中充斥著年齡的壓力以及經濟支柱的壓力。我是不是年紀不小了呢？這些擔憂以及不確定總是讓我遲疑繼續唸書的動力。去年實習的時候一位設計師前輩跟我分享經驗，他說他學到的很多東西都是來自於工作上而不是在學校裡，我其實很同意這說法，畢竟有時候我常常反問學校的過程是否並非明智的學習，時間是否在浪費著？現在的當下仍然覺得許多問號。

是否太多擔憂了？ 比較著其他人的生活讓我考慮考慮再考慮？同時卻又覺得如果現在放棄學習未來會不會後悔呢？ 我該如何選擇只有這個而非那個？為什麼生命總是充斥只有一條路可行？ 是不是有太多選擇反而不是良性的？

[2020-vcp-thesis-project-refugees]

Milestone - 4 (07.05.2020)

Project-in-progress

          After getting the feedback of my intructor, I started to make statements more clear in the section of conclusion. In her feedback, my instructor told me to make my main argument more tangible. To do this, I argued that while in studies that focus on hashtag activism cases in the Western politics right-wing discourse is always criticized as being misogynistic and racist, in the case of #SuriyelilerKardesimizdir (Syrians are our brothers) and #ülkemdesuriyeliistemiyorum (I don’t want Syrians in my country) right-wing policy produces both anti-refugee and pro-refugee discourse. While political actors like Süleyman Soylu (Interior Minister), Erol Kaya (a member of parliament), Ahmet Gündoğdu (an ex-member of parliament), Hüda-par (Free Cause Party) and Özgür-der (Association of Free Thought and Education Rights – a social movement organization) produced a supportive and tolerant discourse, political actors like Sinan Oğan (an ex-member of parliament) and Genç Atsızlar (a far-right social movement organization) produced a negative discourse.

          What about left-wing discourse? It is important to note that, this study only focuses on the right-wing discourse. However, there are also left-wing political actors who participated these two movements by their official Twitter accounts. While Özkan Yalım (a member of parliament) participated in #ülkemdesuriyeliistemiyorum movement, Cem Toker (ex-president of Liberal Democratic Party) participated in #SuriyelilerKardesimizdir (Syrians are our brothers) movement. Interestingly enough, both of these actors produced anti-refugee discourse. In the West, left-wing parties produced pro-refugee discourse in movements like #refugeeswelcome and #refugeesnotwelcome. Last semester, one of my professors, Ayşenur Dal suggested that it would be nice to pave the way for future studies. In other words, in the section of conclusion, telling what can be studied in the future based on current study is traditional way of ending a study. In this context, while ending the section of conclusion it would be interesting to study left-wing discourse in the context of refugees in Turkey. I have seen this traditional practice almost in all research papers of media studies.

          When it comes to the feedback of midterm evaluation, my instructor, first, advised me to be more careful with the spelling and punctuation. Secondly, she advised me to make the the connective relationship between research questions and statements of conclusion part more clear, coherent and strong. In her feedback, my desing advisor advised me to use the collected data to create meaningful data visualization(s). In fact, I am thankful to them for their valuable opinions, advice, and help. In the light of my scholars’s feedback and instructions, I will continue to improve my study and make it ready for final submission. In conclusion, since I am writing a research paper, the process of quarantine did not affect my milestone schedule in a negative way. I have completed all the tasks that I listed week by week in my milestone chart.

Reading the research material

           Last week, I revised 8 articles about hashtag activism to get more insights into the nature of the concept. These articles were mainly about feminist activism. More specifically, the salient subjects were violence againts women, sexism and racism connected with sexism (Horeck 2014; Williams 2015; Drüeke & Zobl 2016; Fadnis 2017; Kangere, Kemitare & Michau 2017; Rentschler 2017; Mondé 2018; Altınay 2019). This week, I revised an article to have a multifaceted idea about the politicians’s usage of hashtags. One of the main observations, in Enli and Simonsen’s study (2018), drew my attention. According to Enli and Simonsen (2018), while the politicians retweet the content produced by other users, the journalists produces their original content (Enli & Simonsen, 2018, p. 1090). In my case, both politicians and produces their own content. I think, the main reason behind it is to take advantage of political divisions and create their own political masses. In a nutshell, they do this in order to get political benefits.

References

Feuntes M. A. (2019). #NiUnaMenos (#NotOneWomanLess): Hashtag Performativity, Memory, and Direct Action against Gender Violence in Argentina. In Altınay A. G., Contreras M. J., Hirsch M., Howard J., Karaca B., & Solomon A. (2019). Women mobilizing memory (pp. 172-191). New York: Columbia University Press, Inc.

Drüeke, R., & Zobl, E. (2016). Online feminist protest against sexism: the German-language hashtag #aufschrei. Feminist Media Studies, 16(1), 35–54. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1093071

Enli, G., & Simonsen, C.-A. (2018). ‘Social media logic’ meets professional norms: Twitter hashtags usage by journalists and politicians. Information, Communication & Society, 21(8), 1081–1096. doi: 10.1080/1369118x.2017.1301515

Fadnis, D. (2017). Feminist activists protest tax on sanitary pads: attempts to normalize conversations about menstruation in India using hashtag activism. Feminist Media Studies, 17(6), 1111–1114. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2017.1380430

Horeck, T. (2014). #AskThicke: “Blurred Lines,” Rape Culture, and the Feminist Hashtag Takeover. Feminist Media Studies, 14(6), 1105–1107. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2014.975450

Kangere, M., Kemitare, J., & Michau, L. (2017). Hashtag activism: popularizing feminist analysis of violence against women in the Horn, East and Southern Africa. Feminist Media Studies, 17(5), 899–902. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2017.1350526

Mondé, G. C. (2018). #BlackDontCrack: a content analysis of the aging Black woman in social media. Feminist Media Studies, 18(1), 47–60. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1409972

Williams, S. (2015). Digital Defense: Black Feminists Resist Violence With Hashtag Activism. Feminist Media Studies, 15(2), 341–344. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1008744

Rentschler, C. A. (2017). Bystander intervention, feminist hashtag activism, and the anti-carceral politics of care. Feminist Media Studies, 17(4), 565–584. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2017.1326556

THIS IS AN HOMEWORK FOR BILKENT UNIVERSTIY!

[limejuicer1862]

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews

I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me. I gave the writers two options: an emailed list of questions or a more fluid interview via messenger.

The usual ground is covered about motivation, daily routines and work ethic, but some surprises too. Some of these poets you may know, others may be new to you. I hope you enjoy the experience as much as I do.

Charlie Brice

is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne’s Hand (2018), and An Accident of Blood (forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions. His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere.

The Interview

1. When and why did you start writing poetry?

I started out as a fiction writer. I wrote a couple novels but wasn’t happy with them. Tinkered with them endlessly. I wrote poems in high school and in college, then met my wife to be, the poet Judith Brice, read a couple of her poems, and stopped writing poetry for about 25 years! About 15 years ago, Judy and I attended a writers’ conference in Michigan: Judy as a poet and me as a fiction writer. I had some down time and Judy talked me into attending a workshop offered by Maria Mazziotti Gillan (the Editor of Paterson Literary Review). Maria gave us an assignment: write a poem that refers to a popular song. I wrote a poem called “The Game,” about going to a minor league baseball game with our son, Ariel. On a lark I sent it in to a magazine and it got published immediately. More and more of that happened with my poems and I discovered that I was a poet!

2. Who introduced you to poetry?

Well…my first poetry teacher was a horrible woman named Sister Humbert, a Dominican nun who was a full fledged sadist. She made us sixth graders memorize a poem and I memorized Excelsior by Longfellow. I immortalized this experience in my first book, Flashcuts Out of Chaos, with my poem, “My First Poetry Teacher.” Actually, the nuns, for all their faults or because of them, have turned out to be terrific muses for me. The guy who really got me writing poetry was named Bernie Beaver, my freshman English teacher at the University of Wyoming. He really wasn’t a very good teacher, but one thing he drilled into our heads was that “anything can be a poem.” I will forever be thankful to him for that. Because of him I never run out of subjects to write about. Just recently I wrote a poem about what I don’t want to write about. See what I mean?

3. How aware are and were you of the dominating presence of older poets traditional and contemporary?

I never thought of these wonderful people as “dominating,” but as poets whom I loved to read and learn from. I suppose the first poet I loved was e.e. cummings. You’re not supposed to like cummings now. You’re supposed to think of his as a light weight. But lines like, “It may not always be so, and I say, that if your lips should touch another’s as mine in time not far away”…or “nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands” (this may not be perfect–just rattling off the top of my head), lines like those just send me someplace out of this world. Other American poets that I loved: Theodore Roethke, Thomas Lux, Jim Harrison, and the great European poets, especially Rilke, Dylan Thomas, Keats, Shelly, all those wonderful writers, they were all so inspiring to me. People I could not only learn from, but get comfort from. I used to had out poems to some of my patients. Hopkins’ poem, “Margarat are you grieving over golden groves unleaving” was especially helpful to people undergoing vast life changes.

4. What is your daily writing routine?

I spend the morning reading. I love fiction, am rereading Jim Harrison’s, The English Major, and Dickins’ Bleak House right now. Just finished, today, The Galloping Hour, by Alejandra Pizarniek–a South American poet who wrote in French and who was clearly interested in the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and I’m reading Lawrence Krauss’ book on astro physics, A Universe From Nothing. I find physics, especially quantum mechanics, to be an orchard of metaphor for poets. In the afternoon I go up to my study and write. If I don’t have a new poem, I edit and revise old poems, especially ones that have been rejected. I submit a group of poems every day. I see submission as part of my writing day. I love the entire process including editing my work and doing interviews like this one.

5. What motivates you to write?

I think my main motivation is interest in the world and in what we are all up to in our lives. When I was at the Universtiy of Wyoming I was lucky enough to run into a philosophy professor, Richard L. Howey. I took loads of courses from him. Richard taught us to be interested in everything and skeptical of everything and to think before we speak and anticipate the arguments of others before we venture into a debate or dialogue. I have dedicated my new poetry collection, An Accident of Blood, to Richard.

6. What is your work ethic?

My work ethic? I write every day, or submit, or revise. I really feel horrible if I don’t do one or all of those things every day. I can write in all conditions and almost anywhere. I usually start out in longhand in a notebook I carry with me everywhere, then type it up, get it on the computer and go from there. It’s unusual for me to send out a poem that hasn’t gone through at least 7 revisions. Some have been revised as many as 30 times. One poem, Soulium (in my second book, Mnemosyne’s Hand) was accepted 20 minutes after I wrote it! That’s a record for me.

7. How do the writers you read when you were young influence you today?

Cummings remains an influence. I want to write poems that provoke an emotional response in the reader. I don’t care for the more academic writers, the Ashbury’s of this world. If I can’t feel something or if my world isn’t improved by reading a poem, then I’m not interested. Tom Lux and Jim Harrison always produced strong feeling in me and that’s what I want to do in my own work.

8. Whom of today’s writers do you admire the most and why?

I admire so many writers. I love Facebook because I’ve “met” some great writers like Ace Boggess and Gary Glauber there. I admire their work immensely. I think the poetry of my teachers is wonderful: Jack Ridl, Michael Dickman, Robert Fanning, Richard Tillinghast, Maria Gillan, and Maria Howe are terrific teachers and wonderful poets. The poetry community here in Pittsburgh is incredible. Every day of the year, all year long, there is at least one poetry reading in our city. It’s incredible! My favorite poets here are, Judy Brice (my wife), Jason Irwin, Jen Ashburn, Angele Ellis, Janette Schafer, Joan E. Bauer, Michael Wurster and a slew of others too numerous too mention. I feel very lucky to live in this city.

9. Why do you write, as opposed to doing anything else?

I don’t really know why I write. I just write. I can’t imagine not writing. I’m retired now. I was a psychoanalyst for 35 years and I’m much happier as a poet. I miss my patients, but my analytic colleagues were, mostly, much more troubled than my patients. I haven’t met any writers that are as troubled as my former colleagues. Anyway, I just love writing and I’m not sure why I do. I just do.

10. What would you say to someone who asked you “How do you become a writer?”

As for advice on how to become a writer–read, read everything. Do what Howey taught us to do: be interested in everything. My mother always said that if you’re bored, it’s your own fault. You’re not looking far enough or deep enough into your world. She was right. In terms of the writing itself, the most important thing to overcome is the inner critic, what we called in my former profession, the super ego. There will always be a “voice” in your head that will tell you not to write somethin or that no one will be interested in what you say or that you are immature… . Fuck all that. Get rid of the critic. Often, the very stuff you’re critic is telling you not to write is what readers will be most interested in. Also, allow the music you love to influence you. I always write with a soundtrack (usually classical music, but that’s just me).

11. Tell me about the writing projects you have on at the moment.

My new book, An Accident of Blood, should be out in just a couple weeks. I’ve got almost enough poems in the hopper for a third book. Aside from that, I’m busy arranging readings and promoting my latest book, Mnemosyne’s Hand, in any way that I can. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to do this interview. Thanks so much.

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Charles Brice Wombwell Rainbow Interviews I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me.

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Thundercat Performs With Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins on “Fallon”: Watch

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Last night, a spectacularly dressed Thundercat made his debut appearance on “The Tonight Show,” and he was joined by yacht rock legends Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. Together they performed “Show You the Way,” a track from Thundercat’s latest album Drunk. Watch it happen below. Thundercat, who is currently on a world tour behind the LP, previously performed the collaborative single with McDonald at this year’s Coachella. Flying Lotus recently released two new songs with Thundercat and Metalocalypse’s Brendon Small. 

Read “Thundercat’s Love Advice for Valentine’s Day.”

Thundercat: 

06-17 Barcelona, Spain - Sonar Festival 06-18 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands - Best Kept Secret 06-20 Warsaw, Poland - Progresja 06-22 Vienna, Austria - Arena Open Air 06-24 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival 06-25 Chicago, IL - Mamby On The Beach 07-14 Berkeley, CA - The Greek Theatre *  07-15 San Francisco, CA - Independent 07-16 Pemberton, British Columbia - Pemberton Music Festival 07-21 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party 07-22 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Festival 07-23 London, England - Afropunk 07-30 Yuzawa, Japan - Fuji Rock 08-11 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Festival 08-26 Brooklyn, NY - Afropunk Festival 08-30 Tuscon, AZ - Club Congress 08-31 Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren 09-02 Pomona, CA - The Glass House 09-05 Arcata, CA - Humboldt State Universtiy 09-06 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom 09-08 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle 09-10 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom 09-11 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory 09-12 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory 09-14 Denver, CO - The Ogden 09-15 Mishawaka, CO - Mishawaka Amphitheatre 09-16 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown 09-17 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 09-19 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre 09-20 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre 09-21 Champaign, IL - Pygmalion @ Krannert Center 09-23 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 09-24 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 09-25 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club 09-27 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall 09-29 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 09-30 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel 10-03 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel 10-04 Columbia, SC - Music Farm 10-06 New Orleans, LA - Tipitina’s 10-07 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits 10-08 Baton Rouge, LA - The Varsity Theatre 10-10 Orlando, FL - The Beacham Theatre 10-13 Miami, FL - III Points Festival 11-14 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC 11-15 Manchester, England - Albert Hall 11-16 London, England - Shepherd's Bush Empire 11-17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 11-19 Antwerp, Belgium - Roma 11-21 Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre

* with Beck

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Thundercat Performs With Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins on “Fallon”: Watch

Thundercat made his debut appearance on “The Tonight Show,” and he was joined by yacht rock legends Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. Together they performed “Show You the Way,” a track from Thundercat’s latest album Drunk. Watch it happen below. Thundercat, who is currently on a world tour behind the LP, previously performed the collaborative single with McDonald at this year’s Coachella. Flying Lotus recently released two new songs with Thundercat and Metalocalypse’s Brendon Small. 

Read “Thundercat’s Love Advice for Valentine’s Day.”

Thundercat: 

06-17 Barcelona, Spain - Sonar Festival 06-18 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands - Best Kept Secret 06-20 Warsaw, Poland - Progresja 06-22 Vienna, Austria - Arena Open Air 06-24 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival 06-25 Chicago, IL - Mamby On The Beach 07-14 Berkeley, CA - The Greek Theatre *  07-15 San Francisco, CA - Independent 07-16 Pemberton, British Columbia - Pemberton Music Festival 07-21 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party 07-22 Los Angeles, CA - FYF Festival 07-23 London, England - Afropunk 07-30 Yuzawa, Japan - Fuji Rock 08-11 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Festival 08-26 Brooklyn, NY - Afropunk Festival 08-30 Tuscon, AZ - Club Congress 08-31 Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren 09-02 Pomona, CA - The Glass House 09-05 Arcata, CA - Humboldt State Universtiy 09-06 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom 09-08 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle 09-10 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom 09-11 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory 09-12 Boise, ID - Knitting Factory 09-14 Denver, CO - The Ogden 09-15 Mishawaka, CO - Mishawaka Amphitheatre 09-16 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown 09-17 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 09-19 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre 09-20 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre 09-21 Champaign, IL - Pygmalion @ Krannert Center 09-23 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 09-24 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 09-25 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club 09-27 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall 09-29 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 09-30 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel 10-03 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel 10-04 Columbia, SC - Music Farm 10-06 New Orleans, LA - Tipitina’s 10-07 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits 10-08 Baton Rouge, LA - The Varsity Theatre 10-10 Orlando, FL - The Beacham Theatre 10-13 Miami, FL - III Points Festival 11-14 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC 11-15 Manchester, England - Albert Hall 11-16 London, England - Shepherd's Bush Empire 11-17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso 11-19 Antwerp, Belgium - Roma 11-21 Paris, France - Elysee Montmartre

* with Beck