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My cool friend Christie jumped out of a plane the other day. If you, too, would like to jump out of a plane, check out Skydive Virginia.
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My hometown newspaper came in the mail yesterday. One of the front page stories caught my eye: “‘Gibby’ D—- Found Dead on Railroad Bridge; Funeral Tuesday.” The story goes as follows (I’m hiding the names just because, with the exception of the tragically ironic “Gibby,” they don’t matter for my purposes: On Friday afternoon, August [...]
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Karl Rove has a family!
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Finished watching The Way We Were on DVD last night. I remember watching it several times on television as a teenager. Clearly the Red Scare stuff went right over my head back then, because I didn’t remember any of that — just the tragic love story of Katie and Hubbell. I probably haven’t seen this [...]
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You know, this World Wide Web thing might just work out after all. The always interesting Conversational Reading links us to this interview with Aaron Swartz, whose latest initiative is a Web 2.0 project called Open Library: Open Library is a new online tool for finding information about books – even (perhaps especially) for titles [...]
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From the CWC website: ADULT POETRY CLASS Wednesdays this Fall: September 19th – October 31st 6:30-9:00 pm SIGN UP NOW! $250.00 Instructor: Robert Wray, a poet and playwright, is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where he also taught, and was awarded the Norman Felton Fellowship and the Zeta Phi Eta Memorial Scholarship. His [...]
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This Sunday’s paper presented two posers. The table that accompanied an article headlined “Special-education pupils failing” on page A2 seemed to show that students with disabilities in Grade 12 graduated from CHS at a rate of 88.5%, while the percent of all students in Grade 12 who graduated was 33.3. Something about that just didn’t [...]
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Who knew? Bergman was not one of the greatest filmmakers in cinema history, an influence on all who followed him — he was tedious and overrated. This is a point of view I simply had not considered. Now I’m going to have to rethink my ideas about James Joyce and and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Maybe what [...]
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This tip from The Renegade refers to freelancing, but it can be true for fiction writing as well: 8. Rejection: If you’re a freelance writer, you will be rejected. The biggest reason for freelance failure is not an inability to write, report, or market — it’s an inability to get past failure. A rejection doesn’t [...]
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