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A Horrible Traged...wait, what?
A gunman killed himself after opening fire on a Florida school board meeting. He was confronted by two school officials, one who attacked him with her purse, and another, the security chief, who fired...
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The Biggest Loser
Ever watch that show The Biggest Loser? I've only seen an episode or two, but I'll be watching the next season. Check out a pair of the contestants.That cat on the left weighs 475 pounds! But...hmm,...
View ArticleDaily Chuckle
I was thinking about it before and decided that the best 2010 book I read in 2010 was probably The Slap. Of course I went right to amazon to check out the one-star reviews, which were predictably...
View ArticleHigh school follies?
Over at the Horror Drive-In, a boy in AP English reports that he had to write a paper on a book of "literary merit." He chose Peter Straub's Pork Pie Hat and received a solid F...[the teacher] didn't...
View ArticleMFA: Semester's End, For Students
Well, another semester is wrapping up, and I am very lazy today, so I figure I'll just offer a few bullet points for writing students to consider.* Nothing is "too good" to read. If you are asked to...
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Coming Very Soon, Your Jetpack Future!
I'm pleased to have a short story in the fourth issue of the new print magazine Bull Spec and even happier that the story is represented by the cover art for the issue:(The layout isn't final.)Bull...
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Tiny Furniture
Tiny Furniture is a film made by and starring a child of privilege about a child of privilege who wishes to be a filmmaker. Writer/director/lead Lena Dunham shot the film in the Tribeca loft inhabited...
View ArticleSubmitting Fiction, Human Intelligence, and Machine Stupidity
In science fiction and fantasy especially, where many new publishers start magazines or announce anthologies or novel lines for the sake of writers rather than readers, there is a race between the...
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Sunday Quick Notes
They say you should never post commercial material on Sunday afternoon when it can wait till Monday morning, but I hate mercenary LJing, so here we are.Amazon has Sensation up for pre-order. Cheap! I...
View ArticleToo Funny for Facebook
Identities stripped:A: The more I think about it, the more aggravated I get about my daughter's [middle school creative writing] teacher telling her that her time travel story was "too far-fetched."B:...
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Scare your mom with...Dark Discoveries
I got my contributor copies of the "dark sci-fi" issue of Dark Discoveries today. See?It's a fun magazine—once a Cemetery Dance Jr. of sorts, it's recently transformed into more of a soft, dark SF...
View ArticleWho voted for actor injury? Thanks to readingthedark for the link!
Twitter reporting that an actor injured in Spiderman when a wire snapped. Shoe [sic] cancelled in mid-performance. Ambulances on the scene. Sounded serious. Hope the actor is ok, and they stop this...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, everybody!
Hey, remember those ten seconds in 1989 when hair metal met glam met psychedelica met power pop?And it was the catchiest suckiest thing in the world? Well now you do!I don't know what that has to do...
View ArticleShort Story Day
It's National Short Story Day in, uh...another nation. But whatever. Globalization is the new imperialism so here we are, on National Short Story Day. And now, I will recommend a short story to...
View ArticleBy way of apology for the previous video
I saw these guys at a coffee shop in Jersey City on this same tour.
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Frogs with Trumpets, since 1876
This letterhead means something!Coming soon. Keep your eyes out for the revelation...
View ArticleEnd of the years thanks
One good thing about the relative decline of Livejournal is that I won't have to wade through quite so many posted lists of all the books people have read this year next week.
View ArticleWhich is the best modern Christmas song of all time?
Here are the choices!View Poll: #1660387
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