February 2012
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jvck asked: what are those mummified sneakers??
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January 2012
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Spin: Rick Ross "Rich Forever" Review →
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I reviewed the Rozay tape at Spin.
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This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there, who had...
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Hard Times (Dickens - 1854)
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A guy who uses the “emotionally unavailable” excuse is a piece of trash and a girl who pursues him anyway is an idiot.
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What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede...
– Jack Kerouac
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December 2011
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I never viewed money as being “my money” I always saw it as “The money.” It’s a...
– Louis C.K. on splitting four ways the $1 million proceeds from the online sale of his Beacon Theater show: Paying for production costs, rewarding his staff with bonuses, keeping $220,000 for himself and his fam and giving the remaining $280,000 to nonprofits (including the awesome charity: water).
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the...
– Ricky Roma (Glengarry Glen Ross)
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Some people take getting their eBay feedback very seriously:
I am so sad… Are you unwilling to give me positive feedback[like I gave you]. Are you unable to give me positive feedback[like I gave you]. Think back to when [your store] was a wee baby.. if nobody left feedback it would not have over 4500 positives. Feedback is what makes Ebay “tick”.How would we know who to...
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The puritanical Perkins found it difficult to mention the obscenities he had to urge Hemingway to omit. He once noted “shit piss fuck bitch” on his things-to-do calendar to remind him to discuss these words with Hemingway during lunch. After Perkins left, Charles Scribner came into his office and was surprised to see these emphatic reminders. When Perkins returned, Scribner said,...
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Lessons in Professional & Technical Writing
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Greetings Alex,
Congratulations to our very first ‘Tis Better to Give winner, ophiraeneas. We’re sending you a $500 American Express Gift Card! We’re also sending you a basket of delicious holiday cookies from David’s Cookies, because what’s a holiday without goodies? Remember, you don’t have to do anything to participate in the ‘Tis...
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November 2011
29 posts
But I think everyone now has the (largely mistaken) idea that they can write....
– Chronicle of Higher Education piece on beginning writers’ response to having their work edited.
The pseudonymous editor who wrote this comes off as a little bitter in the way many editors seem to get, and there are a few generational generalizations that I bristled at (and I’m older than her...
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Suddenly you notice that the doctor looks vaguely like Vincent Price, and the...
– Dave Barry on getting a prostate exam (Dave Barry Talks Back - 1991)
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