January 2010
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Jan 31st
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The Ice Age by Amy Gerstler →
I’m not really a big fan of poetry. I have trouble distiguishing the bad from the good… this is the good.
Jan 31st
Meet the Henry Ford of Literature →
Post written for my library’s blog.
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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The Goon by Donald E.W. Quist
The Goon 1. “F-fish,” the bartender coughs into his tiny hands. “Yeah, I know him. Met him a few years ago on the day Buddha died, during a celebration for the gathering of the 500 monks. Said he was coming into town from Pataya. Fish’s a goon, got wrinkles in his neck as deep as gills and knuckles as tough as barnacles. Fish, he’s built to take out the trash, you know what I’m mean? ...
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
“Sarah Henderson’s TWO CENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS”
Perception is everything, thoughts and beliefs don’t determine events, only peoples’ actions, which, in the end, determine everything: fate only exists if we choose to believe in it. That being said, while writing Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor really needed some Prozac (or a hug). Sarah Henderson is currently working on life plan #456.  She likes...
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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The Journal of a Working Boy: BOW THAI KITCHEN
My wife and I opened the restaurant November 1st, 2009 (my birthday) in a town where Thai cuisine remains a commodity. Perhaps commodity isn’t the best word for it. Alien, maybe? For us, everyday is not just about serving food, its about educating many of our customers.  “No, ma’am, despite common belief, Thailand is not like Taiwan nor is it a ‘kind of...
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
How do you forgive? →
My friend Karen Kelly has written a great blogspot exploring the nature of forgiveness.
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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ERIN'S NOOK OF HILARITY with ERIN M.RECORD
The Lord of the Rings Raised by wolves coyotes in the California suburbs. Erin Record migrated to the Southeast with one goal. Be funny. Whether or not she succeeded is up to you. In her spare time she is a Fine Arts major and enjoys learning the Circus Arts, particularly fire art and stilt-walking.
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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The Sixty One  →
aletdownsquid: newsweek: mikehudack: Absolutely beautiful music discovery engine. Hat tip to Rafi Mama. Nwk loves, loves, loves this. Very cool one really cool way to discover new music online.
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“I am the slowest writer of my entire generation…I sometimes think there must be...”
– Junot Diaz, via The Baltimore Sun (via thebronzemedal) (via paperbackgirl) (via libraryland)
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“The artist is intuitively a neuroscientist.”
– Gary Vikan, in a WSJ article, “How Art Affects the Brain” (via austinkleon)
Jan 24th
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Currently Reading...
…Nathan Rabin’s The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop-Culture “The Big Rewind” has something real and scuffed and quite winning at its core. It’s probably true, as one of Mr. Rabin’s employers observes, that all his stories share the same problem: “They begin really cute and end with you getting viciously beaten.” And this is a troubling...
Jan 22nd
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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski  →
!BEST FAN FICTION EVER! Aside from the parts blatantly stolen from the immortal Bard, this humble play is the creation of Adam Bertocci, award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter.
Jan 22nd
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ERIN'S NOOK OF HILARITY with ERIN M.RECORD
Raised by wolves coyotes in the California suburbs. Erin Record migrated to the Southeast with one goal. Be funny. Whether or not she succeeded is up to you. In her spare time she is a Fine Arts major and enjoys learning the Circus Arts, particularly fire art and stilt-walking.
Jan 21st
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OHIOWA
jus10j: I started a new play tonight.  I say it’s new.  The idea’s been there for about 2 years, but I finally started actually writing the play.  Its codename is OHIOWA, mainly because I needed a way for it to stick out in my head.  I’m not sure where it’s headed, but I like the way it’s started. Very excited to see what Justin Johnson comes up with.  He’s one of my fellow editors at...
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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WELCOME TO MY DINOSAUR LIFE
Motion City Soundtrack has finally released My Dinosaur Life, their fourth album, their second time working with the Pop-Punk icon, Mark Hoppus of Blink-182. This album is the type of thing I don’t take lightly. MCS is not just a cookie-cutter relic of the nasally power-pop bands that dominated the better half of the 90’s. They are more than rapidly aging hipsters with clever lyrics and...
Jan 20th
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“Perhaps there is another kind of writing. I only know this one: in the night,...”
Jan 19th