March 2012
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“There are essentially two types of cowboys. There is the drugstore cowboy, who...”
– From the story “When the Bear Came” by Benjamin Percy, via his excellent collection, Refresh, Refresh. Percy writes characters I relate to, from the world I grew up in and still inhabit, better than just about anyone. Another writer proving that “rural noir” can be so much...
February 2012
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Short Story a Day
At the start of the year I decided I wanted to read a short story every day, in an effort to get through all the collections and anthologies I’d accumulated but wasn’t getting through. Shortly into it I bumped it two two-a-day; I’m up to week eight in the process now. At the same time, I’m working on revamping my “main” blog and dividing some of the stuff up...
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“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...”
– John Steinbeck (via youngfolksociety)
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Passing of a Friend: Mike Davis, MC5, RIP
It’s been a sad place around here for the last few hours after getting news that a friend of the family, Mike Davis, bassist for Detroit rock legends MC5, has passed away. Details can be found here on Huffington Post, as well as other places.
Angela Davis, Mike’s wife (and MC5 manager), is one of my wife’s oldest friends, so Julia has known Mike for many years. She’s been...
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Elderly couple competing 5,000-mile road rally -... →
writersdonthaveblogs:
This is what it should be like to get older.
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Via Yalestar: A Bulgarian Co-Worker →
yalestar:
Not sure what reminded me of this, but…
About four years ago in Colorado I worked with this girl from Bulgaria. She was a Java programmer and looked like a supermodel, and was generally very smart and pleasant. One day I was asking her whether persecution of Gypsies/Roma was still a common thing…
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