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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Twitter Digest – 2009-03-05

Thursday, March 5, 2009

“one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet” # today brought new motivation. searing, panicked motivation. right now i’m at work, programming #insteadofwriting. short story ideas brewing. # in other news, i finally got hashtags to work. they always broke for me before. #

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American Indian Trickster Tales

Thursday, March 5, 2009

This book is mostly about sex and farts. In all their austere nobility, Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz have plumbed the depths of American Indian fart jokes and bawdy fireside tales and have compiled them into an easily accessible form, so all the world’s people who can read English good can partake of true American […]

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Twitter Digest – 2009-03-04

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

i’m digging mountain dew: voltage. i’ve more or less abandoned mountain dew (too syrupy), but i’m a sucker for raspberry flavored things. # In my endless pursuit of returning these books to the library, I’m going to start Lilith’s Brood, by Octavia Butler. Never read her before. # @elleeffect is there a recording of this? […]

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In which I describe today as succinctly as possible

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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Twitter Digest – 2009-03-03

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Happy square root day. 03^03=09. via a math teacher friend of mine. because I am unwilling and incapable of noticing such a thing myself. # @scottmccloud I’m imagining a bunch of your clones twirling in circles, chanting “Closure! Closure! From panel to paaanel.” in reply to scottmccloud # the grimace project: http://grimace-project.net/ via, in several […]

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Dawn

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I’ve never read anything by Octavia Butler, but some list or other recommended her, and Kindred was checked out of the library, so I picked up the Lilith’s Brood trilogy omnibus, in which Dawn is the first book. I figured I’d test her out, and if I liked Dawn, I’d be probably enjoy Kindred as […]

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Twitter Digest – 2009-03-02

Monday, March 2, 2009

i’ve been writing (or some variant of procrastination) all afternoon. it’s going well. yesterday was a good break from insulation; recharged # @hmapple no snow here… maybe tomorrow? maybe ice? in reply to hmapple # pizza time. time for pizza. i have ordered the pizza. soon i will eat the pizza. my pizza. (& apparently […]

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Twitter Digest – 2009-03-01

Sunday, March 1, 2009

home again. wet socks & shoes all day = trench foot. foul. story deadline looming & i’m motivated again. using my roommate as a test-reader. # my printer smells like it’s burning. huh. probably not a problem. # currently scourging my open brain, screaming “work, you pasty stringy devils” to the neurons. also eating delicious […]

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In which I attempt to explain myself, and then give up.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

I haven’t posted anything in a month besides Twitter digests, and I think we all know those don’t count. I’m 35 responses behind, at least, not counting music. But I can explain all this away: I’ve been writing short stories for the past month. Mostly just one short story, actually. “But how can that be?” […]

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