336 Literary Salon & Gallery

07/29/2018

Current mood...

12/16/2017

The ghost of William Shakespeare, poet laureate of the salon, champions one of his tragic characters.

“In the name of artistic freedom of expression, the city council of Rome revoked the order of the emperor Augustus to banish Publius Ovidius Naso to Tomas. I’m looking at you, Verona, to do the same for Romeo Montague: To be merciful and end his banishment. https://t.co/Y1CKUpGPDo”

12/03/2017

09/23/2017

Litquake's coming to the San Francisco Center for the Book in October 2017.

01/14/2017

13 reasons to leave the house on Friday the 13th January 13, 2017 Richard La Rosa Leave a comment “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” ~Cormac McCarthy If you are one of the estimated 60 million people in the world that suffers from paraskavedekatriaphobia, you will p...

01/12/2017

A message from Senior Editor, Reginald Dogberry: 336 Journal is accepting submissions from writers. January 12, 2017 Richard La Rosa Leave a comment 336 Journal Senior Editor, Reginald Dogberry waiting patiently for submissions. Do you have a story to tell—or perhaps an article or a work of non-fict...

12/28/2016

Some context for the headline of this 336 word piece...

In Carrie Fisher's one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, she talks frankly and humorously about her addictions and mental illness—and, of course, she dishes on her experiences portraying Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies.

Here's one of Fisher's anecdotes, regarding the iconic white dress that she wore in the first Star Wars movie that was released in 1977 when she was nineteen.

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George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says, "You can't wear a bra under that dress."

So, I say, "Okay, I'll bite. Why?"

And he says, "Because...there's no underwear in space."

I promise you this is true, and he says it with such conviction too! Like he had been to space and looked around and he didn't see any bras or panties or briefs anywhere.

Now, George came to my show when it was in Berkeley. He came backstage and explained whey you can't wear your brassiere in other galaxies, and I have a sense you will be going to outer space very soon, so here's why you cannot wear your brassiere, per George.

So, what happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands??? But your bra doesn't—so you get strangled by your own bra.

Now I think that this would make for a fantastic obit—so I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.

~ Carrie Fisher [Wishful Drinking.]

Strangled by her own bra December 27, 2016 Richard La Rosa Leave a comment Carrie Fisher died this morning and I’ve been thinking about her almost constantly since I heard the news from my friend, Ariel, as we had breakfast together in a coffeehouse in Calistoga, California. I remember when I was fi...

10/22/2016

Lame Excuses for Not Writing...

#1. A rodent stole my pen.

-Why haven't you done homework? -Hamster stole my pen.