2011
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You Know When the Internet Makes You Mad?
Internet-based commenting is one of those fork-in-the-road situations: you can take the high road or there is always the low road, which you may pass on the way to slurring slums, and then there’s the insult inferno. Navigate the pathways…
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What’s Up With Today’s Reading Habits?
The current state of long-form reading and reading habits among students has everything to do with the increasing amount of college attendees in this country and going further back, the GI Bill and its social consequences on subsequent generations. This…
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NANO Fiction vs. IRS
NANO Fiction, the bi-annual publication of flash-fiction/micro essay/ prose poems, was denied nonprofit 501(c)(3) status because the IRS deemed the journal pornography. Three months prior to their nonprofit application, they published an issue featuring the photography of Traci Matlock and…
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Humiliation is for Everybody
NPR Books is dissecting humiliation in this author interview with Wayne Koestenbaum (whose has a very recent book aptly titled “Humiliation”). Humiliation is the only way to describe certain life experiences—it’s both familiar and completely unavoidable—but it turns out it’s…
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A Journey With Two Maps
Becoming a Woman Poet is brisk, each indicator of geography reinforcing the urge to break barriers.
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Ross McMeekin: The Last Book I Loved, In the Lake of the Woods
Two of my family members recently passed away within a few months of each other. The loss burrowed into my fingertips; for a while pretty much every draft or story I began involved the recent death of a loved one…
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Filming The Police
Phones and other devices have given people the ability to record and expose police misconduct. Sometimes, these recordings provide evidence for bringing charges against brutality, such as in the case of Oscar Grant. However, as this article explores, existing wiretapping…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sperm whales have the biggest brains and they know how to use them. Is your baby already asking for a touch screen? We may have more doppelgangers that we can count, but still be all alone in the universe. Speaking…
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Maakies:
SoberI loved this joke so much I redrew it this week, SOBER! There will be a vote at Maakies.com for the preferred version. Click image to enlarge:
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WHERE I WRITE #15: The Hospital Room
I’ve only rarely worried about death. The one time I actually was dying in a hospital for a while, I wasn’t worried about it.
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A Night of Facial Hair
Walter Green, the designer behind our beloved Write Like a Motherfucker mugs, graphically profiled Whiskey Waxing at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a night dedicated to facial hair, in its multitudinous forms, appreciated by many-a-Bay Area folk. Check…