So many years later, when I was conceiving a name for this literary journal, the name Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern occurred to me.
Can creatives conceive a movie with named female characters talking about things that one doesn't need to wear a Maxi pad to appreciate?
But What does W mean? The concept was plucked from the middle of the Starwood name 13 years ago to conceive a new brand for the international hotel operator, created squarely with Manhattan in mind.
She then conceives a son whom she names Sétanta.
The artists' absurdist attempt to represent, with small clay sculptures, everything past, present, and future ranges from an old shoe and a Möbius strip to a Mr. and Mrs. Einstein asleep in bed after having conceived a son, whom they will name Albert.
Imagine, if you care to, a high school stage packed with fresh-scrubbed Oklahoma teenagers, shrilly belting out a ballad of tribute to a woman of mystery whose passions they can't conceive, whose name they can scarcely pronounce: "Mata Hari, Mata Hari — oh what a wicked girl was she! That's the kind of girl I'll never be!" What were her crimes?
He previously had a girlfriend named Rebecca and conceived a child with her (a washcloth), but he was kicked out of their home due to his persistently getting high.
So he reached out to his friend, winemaker Steve Edmunds, who put him in touch with a Sierra foothills grower named Ron Mansfield, and conceived a wine built on lean Cabernet Franc fruit, blended with a small amount of Gamay Noir — a traditional but somewhat rare Loire Valley combination.
Soon afterward, Sarah also conceived a son, whom she and Abraham named Isaac.
