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• Why Women Don’t Make Top Ten Lists: Prose on Prose

  
  Millicent and Carla Fran — Authority: 418
  Dear CF,Laura Miller’s article on Publishers Weekly’s top ten list led me to Francine Prose’s article, “Scent of a Woman’s Ink,” which was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1998.  It’s not available to nonsubscribers but it’s a formidable piece and relevant still, though it’s equally interesting ...
  4 hours ago

• How to Make a Better Hoisin Sauce

  
  Young & Hungry — Authority: 565
  See all Grocery reviews at Expotv I always rotate my morning coffee spots. Yesterday, it was the Modern Times Coffeehouse , which I love visiting because I can first scan the bargain cookbook section at Politics & Prose before grabbing my coffee for the day. In my browsing yesterday, I found a  $6 copy ...
  4 hours ago

• Just let me say..

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 129
  Just let me say how much I love youLet me speak of your mercy and grace;Just let me live in the shadow of your beautyLet me see you face to face;And the earth will shake as your Word goes forthAnd the heavens can tremble and fall;But let me say how much I love youO my [...]
  5 hours ago

• The Snivellers

  
  Hooting Yard — Authority: 426
  Published in 1952, The Borrowers by Mary Norton was a children’s book about a race of tiny people who live undetected among normal human beings. They are known as “borrowers” because they survive, in part, by taking, or borrowing, everyday objects from the human world and adapting them for their own use. The ...
  6 hours ago

• can i get an age advance?

  
  ice age heat wave — Authority: 117
  http://theplaygroundmagazine.com/index.html The other day, I met a girl who works at a hotel cafe, lived in Arizona, has a huge rip in her wool tights, cuts her own bangs, looks like about five ethnicities, can smile while talking, and in her spare time, paints age-progession portraits of children lost to cancer or ...
  9 hours ago

• Do poets still starve in their garrets - Part II

  
  Ink Sweat & Tears - the poetry & prose webzine — Authority: 429
  Our posting over the weekend – showing the cafe sign at Aldeburgh inviting poets to share a bowl of soup (heres the photo again in case you missed it) and prompting us to ask whether poets still starve in their garrets has prompted regular IS&T contributor Charlotte Ghost to submit this suggested menu ...
  10 hours ago

• Short Sentence, Artful Sentences

  
  Writing Material — Authority: 119
  This entry is a response to Derek’s post , about teaching the first chapter of Virgina Tufte ’s book Artful Sentence: Syntax as Style in his writing course. I’m not teaching this semester, so I can reflect on the book in that context, but I did want to reflect a little on what a book like this is good for. ...
  11 hours ago

• The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 558
  J.R.R. Tolkien’s first job was as an assistant on the staff of the OED , and he later said that he had ‘learned more in those two years than in any other equal period of [his] life.’ In The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary , three senior OED editors – Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, ...
  13 hours ago

• 20091109-Hierarchy Headache

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  I’m still trying to figure out the PERFECT order of pages to my weblog. New pages had been added and probably will increase as I continue to think of many things overlooked.Here are the parent* pages so far:Contents (which is a `Table of Contents` or currently the `Home` or `Front` page).Pages (which is the ...
  14 hours ago

• 20091109-Noticing Numbers

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  The boy announced leaving lunch here and back to work on 12:33pm. Saw CA license plate ending in 661. Maw told attendees at viewing tonight that she worked for 33 years straight (and without stopping). Yesterday, noticed Paw’s plate ending in 33[...].
  15 hours ago

• Issue #45 Preview: The Name of the Thing

  
  Hayden's Ferry Review Blog — Authority: 126
  Im not one for titles. I appreciate witty ones but I usually find them to be functionally descriptive or useful as mere labels to distinguish one story from another. This probably apocryphal anecdote about Somerset Maughams advice to a young writer about how to title his recently finished novel comes to mind:"Does ...
  19 hours ago

• There Can Never Be Enough

  
  The Apple Cider Mill — Authority: 119
  "Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may, at any moment, become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself: What else is the world interested in? What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our ...
  19 hours ago

• 20091109-Creepy People

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  Still stuck here! Pinoys w/ kinky hair long/wide upper lips like gorillas & wrinkly faces, hearing aides, deformed ears. Red lipsticks like Bozo clowns, funny!!
  19 hours ago

• 20091109-Tongue Flickers

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  Still stuck here at viewing. Lady staddling Maw’s left leg. Weird! Priest & red-faced usher flicked tongues! Priest descriptive of Jesus & Mary during rosary…
  19 hours ago

• 20091109-Adding Pages

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  Added new pages from ‘Body Matter’. Can’t decide how to present in sitemap, under categories. May delete later on. Almost redundant to click on link & view page
  20 hours ago

• 20091109-Yiewing Dead

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  Here at Lima Family viewing old friend of Maw, who didn’t recognize thinner. 2 pics,5 flower sets, 6 prayer cards. Met son. Sitting 3rd pew. Too dark driving..
  20 hours ago

• reality star.

  
  ice age heat wave — Authority: 117
  After the fact, what should have been a preface to the Strombo story I did for Weekend Post: I went to j-school with many a girl who had every line of Almost Famous memorized, the complete works of Chuck Klosterman on her bedside table, and a massive, drooling crush on George Stroumboulopoulos. I wasnt one of ...
  21 hours ago

• 20091109-New Word

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  I like to use the words – orgone and orgonite™  – interchangeably. But since the latter word Orgonite ™ is a Trademark, I’ll create my new substitute word:ORGONETTE or ORGONETTES.If these two words are not yet taken on the web, they’re mine now. The time/date stamp to this particular WordPress.com weblog ...
  22 hours ago

• And think.

  
  The Edge of the American West — Authority: 610
  Edward M. Bernstein, the man who supposedly added the words “and Development” to “ International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ,” talking to an interviewer, Stanley Black, about his good fortune in life; he got hired right out of graduate school to tenure at North Carolina State in 1930, the midst of ...
  1 day ago

• 20091109-Chemtrails Ahoy

  
  Flynn's Blogs — Authority: 149
  Chemtrails everywhere, i.e. running parallel to Capital Expwy. San Jose, CA. Lots of hi-altitude clouds of wispyness. Blue skies behind clouds. Sunshine bright.
  1 day ago

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