I love when this happens. Cameron Beers of BA21 brings us up-to-date on an old post about the Piedmont Council of the Arts website: Just wanted to follow-up with some of the comments here. My company is responsible for the new PCA site. Calendar Subscriptions: check out right below the calendar box for “Helpful Calendar [...]
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Silvia sends this in, calling it “a word for you”; is she trying to tell me something? grammatolatry PRONUNCIATION: (gram-uh-TOL-uh-tree) MEANING: noun: The worship of words: regard for the letter while ignoring the spirit of something. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek gramma (letter) + -latry (worship). USAGE: “The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship [...]
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There Are No Rules – Big Red Flags in First 15 Pages “But I do have a few tips based on my manuscript critiques—I read the first 15 manuscript pages of eight different novels. The same red flags appeared again and again…”
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GOOD Magazine | Blog – Every Breath Earth Takes “BreathingEarth gives you a God’s-eye view of the world, showing births, deaths, and pollution statistics as they happen. You can see the global aggregates or view the statistics by country.”
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Book Coverage Dying? The Funny Pages Will Save Us! – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat “First Judge Parker kicks off a storyline about negotiating a book advance, and now the comic strip is strengthening its ties to the publishing community by explicitly plugging books…”
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If you’ve stopped by my blog while googling “Shoals, Indiana,” I’d love it if you would leave a comment somewhere. Let me know how the Catfish Festival went, what you’re planning on doing at the fair, how the softball team is treating you. Sure, I still get The Shoals News, but it’s not the same [...]
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Language Log » Temporally speaking “Substituting temporally for temporarily is a common error, perhaps due to the phonological process of haplology (the omission of one of a pair of similar sounding syllables, like saying lib’ry for library).” Also, a new vocabulary word: Peeveblogging. Chair made from discarded paperbacks – Boing Boing Cute idea, but doesn’t [...]
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bookofjoe: Bookhanger I dislike them. The Psychopedia or, How To Do Stuff: Episode 37: How to Take a Nap “Now that I’m a fully grown adult, I do love a nap.” Mmm-hmmm! Here’s how. THE INTERNET REVIEW OF BOOKS The July issue is UP! MyCharlottesvilleBLOG – Charlottesville Real Estate, events, our beautiful area and neighborhoods. [...]
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Fri-Sat, July 18th-19th — EDGAR ALLAN POE COMES ALIVE! — 8pm at The Bridge The Bridge is proud to host the Charlottesville premiere of the Traveling Jones Theater’s “Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive!” starring Scott Craig Jones. This mesmerizing one-man show includes word-for-word hair-raising performances of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Raven,” “Annabel [...]
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Shouts & Murmurs: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers: Humor: The New Yorker “6. For a taste of the U.K., fry up mini-servings of fish-and-chips. Take it to the next level by wrapping them in small pieces of newspaper, which, oddly enough, all seem to be printed with unfavorable reviews of Jeff ’s novel.” Why Borges Didn’t Write [...]
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