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Winning with Winston
I recently bought a refrigerator magnet at Whole Foods, three and a half inches square, white letters, all lowercase, on a black background. It says “never never never give up (winston churchill).”
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #77
THE MAZE ON THE PLACE MAT AT RORY’S DONUTS & MORE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the maze on the place mat at Rory’s…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #4
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: If there’s one lesson we know well here in New Orleans, it’s that none of us are immune to the elements. It’s only a matter of time before a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
No, we didn’t find alien life this weekend. Here is your library architecture porn for the week. What did people do for art before Google Maps? The important lesson to be learned here is that people will pay a lot…
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Women Writers in New York: Become a Mentor
Girls Write Now, the awesome organization that I mentor with, is looking for professional women writers to become mentors to a talented group of high school girls for the 2011-2012 program year. I’ve written about my experience as a mentor…
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No More Booty
First The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and now the Bible? “…‘booty,’ a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the ‘spoils’ of war when the newest edition of the New American Bible, the English-language Catholic…
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Michael Copperman On Dialect And Race
“A few months ago, an editor at a small literary magazine offered a polite and encouraging email rejection of a story of mine titled, “Pipe.” A child-narrated, first-person story, the piece used a systematic approach to black Delta dialect, not…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Poetry Book Club Chat on Tuesday with Noelle Kocot was a tremendous success, and we’ll be posting the edited transcript next week. Not exactly poetry, but Robert Lee Brewer takes on the question of whether or not authors are…
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You’re Welcome
Here’s your time-waster for the day: play rock-paper-scissors against a computer. There’s no lizard or Spock options here, but it’s early days, right?
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Wisconsin Roundup
It’s been interesting watching the conventional wisdom turn on this story. It’s been a rare feeling for me lately–union member, progressive, educator–to see the public come around to my way of thinking on a subject. The euphoria of early 2009…
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Science Saturday
NASA’s Glory satellite fails to reach orbit. It was supposed to study the effect atmospheric particles have on the climate. This is the second time this has happened which might make one wonder if Koch Industries is building the rockets…