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Mar.26.2012
I am back in Crazie Town after a whirlwind trip to New York City.
I cleaned out my purse when I got home and here's what I found.
**Boarding pass for the flight where I'm pretty sure I slept so hard I drooled on myself.
**My ticket stub to Rising Stars. The Laguardia High School for...
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Mar.14.2012
Just at first, in the dark hallway, it had given Dottie rather a funny feeling to be tiptoeing up the stairs only two nights after Kay’s wedding to a room right across from Harald’s old room, where the same thing had happened to Kay. An awesome feeling, really, like when the group all got the...
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Mar.14.2012
Just at first, in the dark hallway, it had given Dottie rather a funny feeling to be tiptoeing up the stairs only two nights after Kay’s wedding to a room right across from Harald’s old room, where the same thing had happened to Kay. An awesome feeling, really, like when the group all got the...
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Mar.04.2012
Words and Music by Metta Sáma
EXCERPTS:
“King’s book is not quiet; hers is an aesthetics of sound fractured, fragmented, compounded, mixed, remixed, sampled, jointed, yes, even anointed. (Check out the cover of this book, it’s sparseness of image, this blaringly red background, these...
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Mar.04.2012
Many of the early colonists (who were converts to the Dutch Reformed Church, “Calvinists” and whose parents or grandparents had been Jews from the Inquisition) continued to conceal their Jewish origins. Since the New York area was such a birthplace for America, if the colonists who came from...
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Feb.17.2012
For all authors attempting to make an impact by writing fiction, don't let reality kick your ass on the way out.
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Want to Get Published? Take the F Train By Liz Hartman
In a classic...
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Jan.30.2012
(#9 in a 12-part series to be printed at the beginning of each month)
THE TAKING OF PELHAM, ONE TWO THREE - One of the finest films ever made with a really lousy title. Starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, James Broderick, Jerry Stiller, Hector Elizondo, and Tony Roberts, this...
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Jan.21.2012
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes – My Life in Music, by Judy Collins
image via betterworldbooks.com
This book begins and ends with Stephen Stills, one of Collins' lovers during the `sixties; certainly a tryst that remains most vivid in her mind. And in between she tells us of her youth in...
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Jan.12.2012
“In 1935,” he said, “I used to sail to New York and back. Regular. I was a stoker and a damned fine one. The best that pieces of merde cruise line ever had. Shovel, eat, sleep and crap, that was all I did for the 4 days it took to cross the Atlantic.”
“Very commendable.”
He flicked a match against...
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Jan.11.2012
Emile was sitting outside the Cap Ferret tourist information office, dozing in the afternoon sun, happily unemployed.
An ancient Citroen 2CV, an exercise in rust and bungee cords, backfired noisily along the quayside and slumped to an exhausted halt across the street from him. With a shriek of...
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