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Jun.30.2008
Summer Reading Plans
by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
The only reading I got done yesterday involved The NY Times, The SF Chronicle, and redroom blogs, which were so interesting to me in terms of...
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Jun.30.2008
Submitting Graciously to Stupidity
by Tim Wise
When Jeremiah Wright said that the U.S. has a history of violence against innocent people--the kind of thing that fits the textbook definition of the...
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Jun.30.2008
Starting with a meta-blog
by Venkatesh G. Rao
Since I seem to have suddenly been 'featured' as a Red Room author by roulette, I thought I'd turn my dormant profile into 'barely alive.' Now, a '...
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Jun.30.2008
Lear: Men and Threats to their Security in Old Age
by Belle Yang
Please watch Belle's Youtube video of her Chinese "King Lear," a graphic novel-in-progress.   In reply to Matthew Biberman's post:...
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Jun.30.2008
King Lear and Confucianism
by Belle Yang
Please watch Belle's Youtube video of her Chinese King Lear, a graphic novel-in-progress   If hell is LAX's terminal 3, then I managed to make...
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Jun.30.2008
FREEDOM, THIS FOURTH OF JULY
by Alan Black
When I came to America, Dallas was everything. The Scottish television population in the seventies and eighties adored the show, and I was in love...
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Jun.29.2008
Dead or Alive - Showing Up for Friends
by William Poy Lee
A few weeks ago, I had RSVP'ed to attend the 25th anniversary party of Mustard's Grill, that culinary lodestar that placed Napa on the map not only...
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Jun.29.2008
Work is Overrated
by Katherine McWilliams
Who worked today?  In the course of doing my Sunday duty of working (every Sunday) I was reminded how truly overrated work is.  In fact, it has to be...
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Jun.29.2008
Genius
by Stephen Evans
is the inability to not see.
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Jun.29.2008
Cody's
by Dorothy Hearst
When I found out that I was going to be reading my first novel at Cody’s, it was quite literally a dream come true. Many times as I toiled away,...
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Aug.27.2008
Where is all the damn cotton candy?
by Brad Green
Where is all the damn cotton candy? It's gone, I tell you. The long hours of this entire day have passed by in a slow, grinding gray. Or perhaps grey...
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Aug.27.2008
Hold the Lettuce
by Brad Green
People can turn into punctuation. A few days ago, I witnessed rage warp a woman into an exclamation point. Her stiff fingers, white and splayed on...
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Aug.27.2008
The Silver Threat of Style and Substance
by Brad Green
Long as a pen, but thicker, the lancer hides the silver threat of its needle under a plastic knob gauged by dots, sized smaller to larger to signify...
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Aug.27.2008
I could kill this damn cat easy
by Brad Green
I could kill this damn cat easy. Keeps jumping on the counter and knocking dishes about, leaping after the wasp that sneaked in. Today was remodeling...
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Aug.27.2008
So there are stumbles
by Brad Green
The day starts off with stumbles. It's as if someone has inserted a grainy film between the world and me. I bump into desk corners, the wall, once....
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Aug.27.2008
The damn thing was in my bag!
by Brad Green
The damn thing was in my bag! Yes, the spider recently flicked from my shoulder crawled this morning onto my pants leg out of my work bag. I flicked...
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Aug.27.2008
Muffins demand high language
by Brad Green
Again, dark morning trudging. Scratching my belly; a stretch of limbs. Weeds feather my shins, thwack my calf in passing. A plunging of my hand into...
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Aug.27.2008
They Call Her the Beast
by Brad Green
They call her The Beast. Or rather, the boss man calls her that. Late to the lunch meeting, she brought it on herself, the brutal gossiping before...
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Aug.27.2008
Work spreads its red invasion
by Brad Green
The razor nicked my nose this morning. Third time in two months. Trudged outside in my underwear. I live in the country, so who cares? Plunged my...
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Aug.27.2008
Suffering Sore
by Brad Green
It smells like a football stadium urinal in our bathroom. Early yesterday morning, I looked out from my son's bedroom window into the backyard and...
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