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Happy Winter!

December 22, 2008

Initially when I wrote this poem I didn’t have anything specific in mind.  Now I guess it can apply pretty well to the Great Deprecession of 2008 – 200?.  The only things missing are cardboard and corrogated iron Bush- and Cheneyvilles.  When will it end?  Nobody knows.  And for the record, I coined two new [...]

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NaNoWriMo Profile

October 21, 2008

Just to bring myself one step closer to actually doing this National Novel Writing Month next month, I’ve created a profile on the NaNoWriMo website, www.nanowrimo.org.  You can find my profile here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/419938.  Add me as a writing buddy and we can try to keep each other on track.  I’ll be trying to complete my [...]

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Fun with English . . .

October 18, 2008

. . . or should I say, Engrish?  The kind folks over at www.Engrish.com have collected a plethora of poorly-translated signs, products, cards, you name it, from other countries that have me rolling on the floor laughing. 
Take this menu, for a fine restaurant serving “finger” foods:

Or this lovely shirt, which reminds us what freedom really means:

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Mark It Zero, Dude

September 17, 2008

It’s never too early to start thinking about buying me Christmas presents.  We that in mind, please visit this site: http://www.80stees.com/pages/t-shirts/Big-Lebowski-t-shirts.asp?referer=gog-paid.  I’m a medium.
This design in particular I thought was funny, if nonsensical, insomuch as it adorns a t-shirt.

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Orwell in Spain!

September 8, 2008

I‘m excited to update an earlier post on the digital publication of the George Orwell diaries 70 years to the day after they were written.  As of a few days ago, George Orwell arrived in Spain on a collision course that will soon see him fighting on the side of communist forces against Franco’s fascists, [...]

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Good Website For Writers

September 2, 2008

Here’s a website all you aspiring writers out there ought to bookmark: http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx.
Duotrope is basically a search engine listing thousands of publications, both in print and online, that accept submissions for free, with details about them.  You can see Faraway’s listing here: http://www.duotrope.com/market_3088.aspx.  This site can be very helpful when trying to find the right [...]

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How Many of You Are There?

August 29, 2008

http://howmanyofme.com

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Orwell for the Digital Generation

August 26, 2008

George Orwell has long been one of my favorite writers, and I think his works stand the test of time in terms of pertinence and relevance more than most other classic writers.  Animal Farm, 1984, and Homage to Catalonia are all timeless works that help us better understand not only governments and revolutions of the [...]

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