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mitch-cullin's picture
Jul.25.2008
Just thought I'd share a couple of press kit trailers for Peter I. Chang's forthcoming film TOKYO IS DREAMING, a documentary that I was also...
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laurel-anne-hill's picture
Jul.25.2008
“Holy W, Batman!  You’re like Bush?”  The Wall Street Journal has run a piece comparing the trials and tribulations of Batman to those of President...
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alex-grant's picture
Jul.25.2008
Spent the evening wrestling with Zeno's arrow paradox, in which he states that for motion to be occurring, an object must change the position which...
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heywood-gould's picture
Jul.25.2008
BEIJING, China, July 16...When Haile Gebrselassie, the world's fastest marathon runner dropped out of the Beijing Olympics last month, saying he was...
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stephen-evans's picture
Jul.25.2008
Here is a link to an interview I did with Wordybirds, a weekly radio discussion about books and ideas, hosted by Liz Humes on 97.3 FM in Richmond, VA...
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diane-lockward's picture
Jul.25.2008
Recently Robert Brewer posted a discussion about what ought to go into bio notes when you submit to a journal. He invited a number of poets to...
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kemble-scott's picture
Jul.25.2008
I started my journey as an author by writing short stories about the weird events I'd seen after moving to San Francisco. I was living in the South...
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phyllis-zimbler-miller's picture
Jul.25.2008
An older National Guard soldier due to deploy to Iraq told his wife the following: What a huge difference between the fraternization briefings I got...
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anne-paris's picture
Jul.25.2008
     I will use this opportunity to say just how much Peter Gabriel was an inspiration for me in writing this book and for doing many things in my...
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amy-mackinnon's picture
Jul.25.2008
The realization of a long held dream is somewhat staggering. To reach and stretch toward it for years on end, with little encouragement along the way...
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callie-lorentson's picture
Oct.05.2008
My husband took me out to breakfast this morning at our favorite diner by the river, The Testy Chef, and I took my library copy of the October...
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lina-ru's picture
Oct.05.2008
by Lina Ru
I was watching Deutsch Welle's programm Hin und Weg. It is about traveling here and there throughout Germany. They were interviewing an artist that...
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former member's picture
Oct.05.2008
by former member
The fungi fire their spores up to 55 miles an hour–which translates to an acceleration of 180,000 g. Research from the lab of Nicholas Money. Music...
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susan-brown's picture
Oct.05.2008
The sun isn't up yet, but I'm ready to go back to bed.  My favorite part of the day is the time before sunrise--the apartment is cool, it's dark...
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former member's picture
Oct.04.2008
by former member
http://www.sfgate.com/templates/types/popunder/iii-interactive/iii-interactive.html
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former member's picture
Oct.04.2008
by former member
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain performs the theme to "Shaft" (SYTL). Really, is any description needed?
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delia-cabe's picture
Oct.04.2008
I spied out our living room picture window—true to my Gladys Kravitz, the nosy neighbor on Bewitched, nature—to check whether the town’s water meter...
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enoch-john's picture
Oct.04.2008
Today I'm invoking a dose of old fashioned Aristotelian catharsis for the Democratic Party.Obama should not take the party to the polls in its...
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former member's picture
Oct.04.2008
by former member
I make a poor Indian. I’ll be the first to admit it. There is a reason I tell you this. I’ll illuminate in a minute, but first the evidence. The...
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stephane-mot's picture
Oct.03.2008
I need to go back to my most personal work but I can't. Nothing to do with writer's block : I've been writing all day for months, thank you. No. I'll...
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