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What do you know now?
This is a page I ran across years ago when Mistress Krista’s site was in an earlier stage of development. At the time, I was into lifting weights and trying to find the “right” way to do it. Krista’s advice is pragmatic, funny, and no nonsense; she’s a great teacher. Here’s how she describes the …
Betty Jo’s Valentines
Susie Bright has a lovely blog entry on finding a scrapbook of valentines her mother, Betty Jo, received as a child in the late 1920s-early 1930s. It’s a poignant story. Susie has slaved over a hot scanner to create a gallery of these wonderful paper ephemera that hail from a slower, different time, where even …
Great parody of pharmaceutical advertising
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Oooh, that hurts
From NY Times’ William Grimes review of the book Beyond Coincidence: The award for the most painful coincidence in recorded history must go to the poet Simon Armitage, who chanced upon a used copy of a book of his poems in a trash bin outside a thrift store. On the title page was the following …
Panhandling
Walking along Ninth Street in Durham, or Queen Street in Toronto, or anywhere, we’ve been approached by vagrants, panhandlers, the lot. They’ve even knocked on my door and asked for money to help them pay their rent. I’m conflicted. I know I’m a soft touch, and my heart goes out to people who, through bad …
Get Fuzzy books: A Reading Guide
This Amazon reading guide is essential for the Get Fuzzy fan. It helpfully notes that Get Fuzzy books are divided into “collections” and “treasuries”. There are two collections in each treasury. Nice to refer to when building one’s Christmas list.
Yet a further reason to join the ACLU
This has convinced me it’s time to join the ACLU. The security paranoia has to stop. via Update 2005-01-06 Some good news, according to the papersplease.org site:Not only will Deborah Davis not be prosecuted on charges related to her refusal to show ID on a public bus, but she is now able to travel on …
Back in the Nanowrimo game
Well, sort of. I wrote earlier about retiring from the field when I found the story I was working on uncongenial. But I couldn’t get some of the images out of my mind, and I had certain key moments in the long life of the main character appear in front of me as I went …
I hate when that happens
Just got a call from a job recruiter for a position that has my name all over it, at the last place I worked as a contractor. It’s only an 18-month contract, but it would be more money, fewer hours, and closer to home than the full-time job I have now. God, but it’s knotted …
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