October 2008
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Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s -...
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Morrissey - Reader Meet Author
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56. Dear Don Draper, I found a copy of "On The...
whatwoulddondraperdo:
Neither. You’ve dodged a bullet. It’s best he go through that phase while he’s still under your roof and you can keep an eye on him. Many men waste their money on college tuition while their pretentious kids self-indulgently deny they were ever taught accountability. Leave the kid alone and hope he moves on to better books before he moves out. Panic will only cause him to...
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Bo Diddley - You Can’t Judge a Book by...
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of...”
– P.J. O’Rourke
10 Words That Will Help You Win at Scrabble →
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pica:
1. Aa. And I don’t mean the acronym for Alcoholics Anonymous, either. Aa is “basaltic lava having a rough surface.” 2. Qat – a flowering plant native to East Africa and the Arabian peninsula. 3. Zax – a slater or slate mason, or the tool used to cut and punch nail holes in roofing slate. 4. Cwm – a valley, especially one created by glacial movement. Be...
Recap: Junot Diaz reading
Thursday night, Bailey and I went to see Junot Diaz. If you have read any of his work, you will know that it is straight forward and full of the usual words said on the street but not written in novels. He speaks exactly the same way. The crowed was large and we all expected him to read from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Instead, we were treated to excerpts from two new stories, one being...
a new heart
fiftywords:
Due to the wanderingly unstable nature of his heart, it had to be terminated. Somewhere across this great wide country of ours was a traveling Igloo cooler with a new heart quietly entombed. This red and purple lump of flesh would beat again, guaranteed, in 5 to 7 business days.
For a bit of fiction, take a look at fiftywords. It’s amazing how much can be said in so little a...
Book reading tomorrow!
Who: Me, Bailey, you and you and you.
What: Junot Diaz reading from his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Discussion afterward.
Where: Barnes and Noble, Union Square, 17th st.
When: 6pm to get a possibly good seat (It actually starts at 7, but I’m getting there waaaaaaaayyy early.)
Why: Because it will be awesome and we’ll probably get a drink...
