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Web Favorites, daily reads
These are my favorite sites to check in on. I use bloglines, so it keeps track of what posts I have read/ haven’t read. I don’t like the snark (gawker enterprises), so none of these sites are mean-spirited or vicious. SF/J . Sasha Frere-Jones, he’s got interesting photos- closeups of street life in NYC, and…
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Might As Well Face It
I’m addicted to Lost. Lostpedia here, on the Numbers business. It started when I breezily picked up the DVD at FilmYard last month. At this point I’m an iTunes season pass holder. D’oh! 3 seasons in a few weeks, there you go. My crush on Naveen Andrews and Josh Halloway hasn’t damped, but let’s say…
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Style in Translation
As a lark I tried to write a French version of the latest iMurder story. Well the beginning of the anecdote is: a commenter here requested a French version (I guess the yahoo/google translate method wasn’t so hot), and I threw the idea around with a friend who does French translations. Well, “threw” is a…
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Writing for Money
There were huge layoffs at my day job, and I sat around with some coworkers afterwards at Kennedy’s and bemoaned the fate of friends who had lost their job. In a way, I wondered if our survivor status was ironic, and they were the ones that got new opportunities and better placements by being forced…
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I Am Not Chick Lit
Breaking news… got an SMS from the Real Jelly (she’s aliiiiiive!) about how she’s in Target, and saw our friend’s book for sale. The book? “This Is Not Chick Lit”. The friend? Elizabeth (link to the right on blogroll). Oh so many feelings… pride! Go Beth! Sadness… are we the women in curlers roaming the…
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Nanowrimo Begins!
credit to: Debbie Ridpath Ohi, InkyGirl.com National Novel Writing Month begins! I have participated in four Nano’s, and I love the idea and the process. Forever more, now, I can say that I can write 2300 words every two days. My preferred schedule was to write every other day, 2300, for a month. It sounds…
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Recent Reads #2
From the New Releases at the North Beach library branch, I yanked: A Life in the Merde, Stephen Clarke To tell you what I thought of it, let me just say: after finishing the last sentence I chuckled, then called brother-in-law to talk about it, then went online to library and reserved the next in…
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El Un-Dead, Elbogarting, and El St. John
SJ 1/2 marathon– thanks chester & kate! To blog, or to journalize So a co-writer on a popular blog site, that I blog for lately, had an interesting run in today with real-world events. Or, should I say, I saw the distinction between what it is to be a blogger (or, blawgeur), and what journalism…
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Sarcasm
I don’t like sarcasm. I think it is a very easy form of humor, like slapstick. You just need to invert meaning, and voila! You have made a (quasi-humorous) joke. People who are very sarcastic, seem to me that they have a difficulty expressing how they feel. I realize I use it wrong. I tend…
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Recently Read
I just finished White Tiger, A Thousand Years of Prayers, and Standing in the Rainbow. When I’m getting DVDs at the library I usually grab two experimental novels off of the New Releases section of the library. It’s a random thing, since the librarians get the really good new releases, so these are more like…