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jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
Jul.05.2008
If you haven't read the Shouts and Mummers column in The New Yorker this week, do.  In fact, David Owen's column My Airline has inspired me to create...
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darlene-arden's picture
Jul.04.2008
I'm back in Massachusetts, the Southwest a distant dream at the moment. It took forever to get here, or so it seemed. You just can't get from Point A...
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eric-p-nichols's picture
Jul.04.2008
I just finished A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes episode. (I have obligated myself to finish the entire body of Sherlock Holmes...
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stephen-evans's picture
Jul.04.2008
Structure is Meaning. Somehow the Architecture Springs into Action.
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belle-yang's picture
Jul.04.2008
Home 1:1960-1965 The first house I lived in was on the subtropical island of Taiwan, a faculty unit of a private school where my parents taught. It...
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steve-hauk's picture
Jul.04.2008
. . . we get calls these days from people south of Carmel, they want to know how to get paintings appraised so they can be insured. They look south (...
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gregory-roensch's picture
Jul.04.2008
My blog entry today takes the form of a song I wrote this morning. Here are the lyrics. You'll have to imagine me playing guitar and singing it. ...
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jim-malusa's picture
Jul.04.2008
The shining glory of Red Room - the easy fill-in-the-blank format for creating our web site – is also its curse. We can ‘add content,’ but only...
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robert-grudin's picture
Jul.04.2008
Hronrad (R Grudin's business site) brings you Alfred Hitchcock's Stagefright (1950).  Click on SF.
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alex-grant's picture
Jul.04.2008
Last day in St. Lucia - I've been overcome with that pathetic sadness that accompanies the last day of vacation. A woman just came up to me and asked...
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shoran-reid's picture
Sep.06.2008
Today in the Atlanta-Journal & Constitution newspaper, the largest newspaper in the state of Georgia, appears a great article about my new book...
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jude-surita's picture
Sep.05.2008
Looking back, I realized how far I have travelled. Fifteen years of corporate life; I have a new world now to thank for it. There is so much truth to...
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former member's picture
Sep.05.2008
by former member
The North Hollywood Bank Job. part two part three part four . Inspired by this famous (and NSFW) scene from Heat, on Feb. 28, 1997, Larry Eugene...
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former member's picture
Sep.05.2008
by former member
No one is perfect.  As such, at times correction and admonition may need to be promulgated to set the ethically concerned back on the right path.  ...
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lori-bambacigno's picture
Sep.05.2008
I'm ready to leave my office; thinking about what my work week consisted of;  sounds like something to write about!  But not discuss at dinner this...
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the-book-smugglers's picture
Sep.05.2008
As the grand finale of our mini-week special on Dark Fairy Tales, we contacted Melissa Marr for a brief chat--and she was kind enough to take some...
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kim-smith's picture
Sep.05.2008
I have a terrible curiosity, much like a cat. I nose around and ask questions just for my own edification. Today just such a question has arisen and...
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brad-green's picture
Sep.05.2008
Lunch.  Clouds a few white snarls against the blue.  Clomping across the parking lot concrete.  A water hose martyred by tire tracks curving new...
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brian-mckee's picture
Sep.05.2008
One of my lessons for this lifetime (perhaps this is a lesson everyone needs to learn, perhaps not) has been understanding the true nature of energy...
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jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Sep.05.2008
  November is two months away, and I have started to think about my NaNoWriMo novel. I know the basic plot, and I'm seeing the characters in my head...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.