June 2010
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Advice to self
Dear Every Version of Me From 13-39:
Take. More. Risks.
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You will never see a photo of a celebrity looking...
…than when they are sitting at a fold-up table with a Sharpie in their hand.
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I haven't gone out to see live music in, well, an...
So, who wants to take me to a show?
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Anonymous asked: What is the deal with that picture thing you put up yesterday? It made no sense to me.
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"Be bold, be bold, but not too bold."
“We shall thus confine our view to a well-defined area, in the hope that we may obtain such an idea of it as in its main lines at all events may be taken to be fairly true to the facts, and that we may learn who really were these mysterious beings who played so large a part in our fathers’ superstitions.
As yet, however, we must not be disappointed if we find that the state of...
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NY: Unpaid Wages Bill
If you’re a freelance creative (writer/illustrator/designer/etc), you’ve surely encountered clients who have failed to pay their invoices. Collection and legal action is costly and usually not worth the time and expense.
Until now, at least in the state of New York, the law has provided little if any protection by the Department of Labor for independent contractors trying to collect...
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Off to Jazz in the Sculpture Garden at the...
gatsbylives:
Let the weekend begin. ;)
OH MY GOD, WRENN, TURN OFF NPR FOR FIVE MINUTES AND PUT AWAY YOUR BOTTLE OF VEUVE CLIQUOT AND YOUR DERRIDA BOOKS AND JUST GO GET A CHEESEBURGER AND A BEER WITH THE “COMMONERS” ALREADY.
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Things Wot I Did Today:
Blew out the illiotibial band in my right knee while running. There is not enough Advil in the universe to soothe that pain.
Added two more rejection letters to my Warehouse of Suck.
Sighed.
Spent some quality time at the corner pub with Charlie the Bartender.
Considered posting another teaser for my next novel, but you people don’t seem to be all that interested.
Pondered.
Convinced...
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Garrison Keillor wants you to know he walked to...
Garrison Keillor wrote an obnoxious and condescending op-ed for the New York Times last Monday, and for your sake I do hope you were not unfortunate enough to have read it.
The final graf begins thus: “Children, I am an author who used to type a book manuscript on a manual typewriter.” And that pretty much tells you all you need to know about the rest of the piece’s tone and...
