January 2012
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“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
– Voltaire
December 2011
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"Burn a Miracle" - Say Anything →
New track released today from my favorite band, Say Anything, and their upcoming album, Anarchy, My Dear. Sounds a lot like Max Bemis’ earlier stuff. This track has been on repeat for the last hour.
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“There is something that I have wanted to tell you. I ‘ve felt quite hurt in the way that you treated me since my sister’s death. It may not be how you intended but that is how I feel. I did appreciate you coming to see me but I felt that your offer of friendship was not genuine. i’ve had 6 of the worst months of my life pass by. Not once since your visit have you...
WatchMy appearance on WIS-10’s (NBC) in Columbia aired yesterday. Across the Carolinas, thousands of people watched me nearly wet myself.
(via Awareness - Part 2 (12/4))
November 2011
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2011 Bibliography
So, I just finished the second semester of my MFA in Writing at VCFA. I’m at the halfway point. I had to submit a bibliography…
January - July
DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Penguin, 1986. Print
Egan, Jennifer. A Visit From the Goon Squad. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Print
Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. New York: Picador, 2002. Print
Le, Nam. The Boat. New...
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“I care more about the good of all citizens in this country in general,...”
– Flannelowl (OWS supporter)
You would rather a movement with 0% affect on the population being protested, hurt the middle class to accomplish, what? Awareness? The small business owners and their employees, many of which are in the same state of working poverty you claim to be protesting for,...
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OWS POST FEEDBACK (2)
executivebeard
This person has a fundamental flaw in his knowledge and reasoning. Democratic governments represent the people and are accountable to the people. Corporations do not represent the people nor are corporations accountable to citizens. Democratically elected governments answer to the citizens. Corporations do not answer to citizens. Corporations only answer to the...
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“People like Michael and the business he helps to run are not the enemy, but...”
– ChapterTwelve (tumblr)
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OWS Tumblr Post Feedback
flannelowl
Well of course large corporations and people like Jay-Z are trying to make money off of OWS. That’s what capitalism does: it exploits. Nature of the beast. Corporations have provided plenty of good things in our lives, but by their very nature they exist to continually exploit whatever they can to make a profit, because it is illegal for them to not make a profit. This sort...
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craigtaylor-broad asked: Glad you liked the post- Craig
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iamdonald:
You can listen to all of Camp HERE on npr.
YESYESYESYESYES!!!
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Currently Reading...
The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret
Advocates of flash fiction contend you can say a lot with a little. Unfortunately, you can also say a little with a little. Israeli writer Keret (The Nimrod Flipout) confirms both with this hodgepodge of 46 sketches, culled from his first collection. There are whimsical tales like Nothing, about a woman who loved a man who was made of nothing because...
October 2011
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WatchSo here we are…
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WatchGaddafi is Dead… Considering how revolution in Libya dominated my Tumblr Dashboard and Twitter feed earlier this year I’m surprised I had to hear about this on Facebook.
whiteysplace asked: Don! And I drove straight through your neighborhood yesterday, damnit! I'm heading up to Maine- we could have kidnapped King and made him give up the formula!!:-P
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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace is almost willfully plain. Yet it possesses its own lean, heartbreaking lyricism, most of all in its descriptions of unwanted animals. At the start of the novel, David tells his student that poetry either speaks instantly to the reader—“a flash of revelation and a flash of response”—or not at all. Coetzee’s book speaks...
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Arrested Development Movie and New TV Episodes! →
The Best News!
At an “Arrested Development” reunion event on Sunday, Mr. Hurwitz said he was planning 9 or 10 episodes of a television series that would reintroduce the show’s characters and lead into a possible film.
September 2011
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Oh look! A blog! Sweet!: Hood Rich →
verandahmaureen:
And I know EBT is for Expensive Black Tastes…
A household’s monthly waste is that of a small Guatemalan town’s agricultural worth.
But Toya’s been rocking her adult IQ since birth,
because her mom couldn’t be caught dead on Earth having not supplied.
But yet,
she’s still alive,
though Toya…
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The MacArthur Fellows for 2011 were announced →
heymikewaskom:
SNUBBED AGAIN.
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Runner-up: Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize
My story “The Ghosts of Takahiro Okyo” has been selected as a runner-up in the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize.
Here’s what Gish Jen, this year’s judge, says about it:
“I found The Ghosts of Takahiro Okyo convincing, gripping, atmospheric, and shattering — a truly creepy, original, ambitious story that moves with great agility and touches on something...
Anonymous asked: Thank you for "Sure Things Falling". I felt like there was a lot of contrived bullshit on my dash today about 9/11, but you made it better.
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"Sure Things Falling"
Here is the short story I read tonight at Coker College’s 9/11 commemoration event.
Erica Zuckerman catches the train into Manhattan, gets off at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and cuts through the park, heading west. She is on her way to see Andrew. She asked him to meet her at Taj Tribeca on Murray, probably the most ambitious Punjabi restaurant in the Financial District. Though Erica...
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Currently Reading...
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Though the characters in these 12 stories are seen in such varied settings as Iowa, Ireland, Maryland, Louisiana and Italy, they are all afflicted with ennui, angst and aimlessness. They can’t communicate or connect; they have no inner resources; they can’t focus; they can’t feel love. The beginning stories deal with women alienated from...
August 2011
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Max and Sherri and Chad and Haley
I had no idea that Say Anything and New Found Glory were feuding, that Chad Gilbert (NFG) was married to Sherri Dupree of Eisley or that he cheated on her with Haley Williams (Paramore). Sherri, of course, is now married to Max Bemis of Say Anything, one of his past albums, In Defense of the Genre, featuring all four of them. This puts so many songs on my ipod in context, “Misery...
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WatchMy Job…