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Written in dirt.Hope for more soon.

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I didn't take this picture today, but it works.And I wrote myself this note the other day:alternate: a narrator that keeps trying to explain the mental state of characters in the story, but is always wrong / off / over-simple

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&nbspI love my appearance in this great review of 60 Writers / 60 Places in the L.A. Times on Wednesday...While some authors will be familiar, many of the authors in the film may may not -- Jamie Gaughran-Perez, Leni Zumas -- but this seems like something that, five years from now, will serve as a fascinating time capsule.I think the tone being employed there is, look at these people who have

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Noby Noby Boy for the iPhone. Much more to come...

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MOVED to February 21... same place... same links for info...If the predicted 12 - 20 inches of snow (really?!?) doesn't get in the way, Luca Dipierro and Michael Kimball's 60 Writers / 60 Places will have it's Baltimore premiere on Friday (February 5) at 7pm at the Creative Alliance. It's already shown a couple times in NYC, but does that really count?Anyway, I'm in it (with moral support from my

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That's David on the left. And that's the day he made me cry. I'm the on in the middle that isn't Lauren Bender.I have a poem for David over at Secondary Sound as part of David Franks Week. It was originally, "Fearless is a River in Baltimore," but that seemed a little self-congratulating.Go check it out along with great things from Justin Sirois, Chris Toll, Adam Robinson, Ric Royer, and

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At the LOF/t (Baltimore) tonight as we celebrate the publication of The i.e. Reader. Come join us, much fun will be had.The LOF/t (Load of Fun Theater) [map]120 W. North Ave.Baltimore, MDSaturday, January 2, 8pmMore book info, including for orders, here. Though it ain't a pre-order as of tomorrow...

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Report anyone crawling through this culvert.I guess it’s that time of year.Doing what we canEven when what we can is badly.Grate, gate, passageway. Nothing.Minutes and hours and hours and nothing.Meals and gifts and conversations andSoon bowl games. Lots of bowl games.For 2010, three-hundred and sixty-five days will line up, one after another.For 2010 the guard will change many times.But for 2010

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This area is a high crime area. If you see suspicious activity in this area please report.Just about three days to get my shit together.Sharing,Sleeping,Preparation. And lots of it.I’m way behind.My nephew was a belly crawler.The view pulses, you can’t see it in a still shot.I’m looking at it right now. The buildings glowOr maybe burn orFlare and jump. Imperfect translations..One hundred years

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There is dancing and there is eating.My throat is fucked, so the eating is becoming human.I love seeing older men rollerskateThey are black and wear black v-neck teesThey skate lines awake to the 70s andIn just a few nods I’m thinkingBack and forth and back back and forth and back and forth againA great song from an earlier age of not looking downBack back because dancing, really dancing, and

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Seems like the thread started with that just-as-witty shaving commercial -- something like, "the tree looks taller when the underbrush is cleared away" (was it Gilette?) -- is here to stay.Keep it classy, Bally.

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The pastry of my discontent sits in the fridge.Was Martin Smid a real math student?There's something that doesn't matter.Rumors of impending doom for the late night.I developed a taste for butternut, and I'm afraid the season's gonna pass me by.That reminds me: get the pumpkin thing at the Helmand – everybody says so.I'm going to just play louder and louder.My nose is going to bleed and I'm going

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You should go see A Serious Man, the new Coen Brothers film. I was up in the air and haven't-seen-her-in-forever Tina said it was good, so I skipped staring at goats and went to this -- conveniently right around the corner from my place. What a great follow up to No Country. Am I the only one who thinks that? Same feel, only in a midwestern suburbs and very Jewish way. I'm sure a lot of the

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The Humane SocietyI spend my days at Threespot (more or less), and I'm going to take the rare moment to give big ups to my colleagues. Check out this super-small sampling of client launches in these past 12 months. For the record, we aren't as always-left as this little portfolio would imply. But they are all names I'm guessing you know.ACLUIf this makes you hungry, maybe you should come work

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Or at least Paula Gilovich on a picture of JGP that she didn't know was JGP. It's a great piece, and it's a picture of skinny ass me in an unflattering wrestling singlet... How could you possibly not click through?"Writers as Kids: To Wrestle," Paula Gilovich (at Wunderkammer)

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Here's the picture of Melissa Walker that I started with. Here's the piece I wrote.Thanks again to Kathryn Regina for putting it together. Be sure to check the many other great ones in the series (since my last posting, I've really dug many but will call out the Christopher Higgs-Sam Pink pairing!).

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Kathryn Regina pulled together this great little series for a couple weeks of guest editing at Wunderkammer. She solicited photos of writers as kids and then swapped the photos around (without identifying who was in the pictures) within the group. The writers then wrote brief pieces (400 words or less) inspired by the pictures. I don't think it is great because I participated, but I can't wait

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O'HARE INTERNATIONAL: One of the women next to me was very afraid of flying. She clutched the seat in front of her a number of times, which was oddly nice for me, because she generally overflowed her seat and when reaching forward like that overflowed it less.I'm glad she didn't get sick.The i.e. reader looks good and the proof changes should be minor. But do note that pre-orders help pay for

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In keeping with Very Most Good's new brand promise (Taking on today's most pressing topics®), I ask:Are beignets doughnuts?(trends)Love,Jamie

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Wow.

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While I worked in Arms Control (1996 - 1999) we saw both India and Pakistan become nuclear states. I do understand that it was probably my fault, I didn't work hard enough.That said, these are two countries that are next door to one another and have active conflict in border areas nevermind having had all out slugfests in the not-too-distant past. In doing so, these countries took on significant

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Playing at a gallery opening along with the Ten Elevenths and a buncha great art work. Doors at 8pm, playing at ???The details:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150257442136&ref=share

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...my contribution to "The Storytellers: 27 Writers on 27 Short Stories from 27 Authors"Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"The American, the girl, a flat conversation, a nearly featureless landscape. Every quiet adjective, every sparing adverb cherry-picking silenced ache from the lives you've lived. It's happening somewhere right now. My life as a writer has two phases: what came

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