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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-11-29

Sunday, November 29, 2009

i need to love my characters more than i do; i won’t get bored as quickly if i uphold a kind of prickly, unshakable fealty for my people. # @themattlondon i’m not crying. i’m not. in reply to themattlondon # today i am thinking about the word “blank,” and its various denotations. what a glorious, [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-11-22

Sunday, November 22, 2009

time to walk home from work. because i am your great-grandfather, and i work in a mill circa 1845. # i’ve graduated into that fine class of persons who wear wrinkled clothing and, while walking, hold extended dialogues with invisible persons # bagel slathered with chicken hut honey mustard. #sodelicious #ohwhy #free #foodtweets #excessivetagging #lowstandards [...]

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In Which We Stand Completely Still

Monday, November 16, 2009

the tortoise in the wheelchair wrapped his forehead in a bandage with a cast they made from plaster for his phony broken leg so he’d get pushed around the sidewalk by the zookeeper’s assistant with the hummingbird observing from behind the yellow flower and he flapped his tiny wings they moved so fast you couldn’t [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-11-15

Sunday, November 15, 2009

second day soreness: / why do i run these races / without any forethought? #argh #haiku #missesthepointofhaiku # regarding the spoonbox. RT @mynameis_shoe: And whatever you *think* it looks like, you’re probably wrong. It’s way more awesome than that. # @mkazoo (confession of shame: i have not read any haruki murakami.) in reply to mkazoo [...]

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In Which Our Narrator Discusses Bookshops and Entrepreneurship

Friday, November 13, 2009

So this post by Damien G. Walter, writer extraordinaire and Clarion 2008 graduate, has jump-started all kinds of humming speculation in my brain about What I Want From Bookstores. And I want many things from them. I don’t simply want books in a general sense, I want books that will change me, that I will [...]

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In Which Asimov Tells The Universe’s Secrets

Thursday, November 12, 2009

“I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties; that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.” – Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov

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Proud Valletta – 11/10/09

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Proud Valletta with Misses Ellen Sunday and Her Fantastic Cats and Jonathan Thompson, 11/10/09 at The Pinhook in Durham, NC. Set-list: A Holiday in Cottingley The Mary Celeste A Song For Clarice To My Mother, Who Waits Above God Sees The Truth But Waits A Bawdy Lament For Our Setting Sun Plastic Jesus La Fin [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-11-08

Sunday, November 8, 2009

i’m back from #wfc in san jose. lovely weekend. met many delightful people. did not sleep. # @tofermoran can’t imagine why. othello is the jauntiest of shakespeare’s tragedies. wooo deception and pain wooooo. in reply to tofermoran # went for a run after being sick or at a con for the last two weeks. i [...]

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Proud Valletta – 10/28/09

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Right, so I figured it would be moderately interesting to keep a record of what songs my band, Proud Valletta, has played, and what at shows we played them; and it would be convenient to store this record in a common space, and since this blog contains more or less a hodgepodge of Things I [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2009-11-01

Sunday, November 1, 2009

david bass is committing journalism at http://bit.ly/dGC97 he’s covering the easley hearings. read. # @hmapple @tofermoran in which sits bill clinton’s couch, now with a plastic cover. in reply to hmapple # #writing, and how [not] to do it: http://writebadlywell.blogspot.com/ # http://bit.ly/15XrU6 the splayed legs mean it’s a solo for real, gentlemen. # chris ware [...]

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