September 2009
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“…the effortless style is achieved by strenuous effort and constant refining.”
– On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition), William Zinsser
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Pooh nodded thoughfully.
“What’s this you’re writing?” asked Pooh, climbing onto the writing table.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied.
“The how of Pooh?” asked Pooh, smudging one of the words I had just written.
“The Tao of Pooh,” I replied, poking his paw away with my pencil.
“It seems more like the ow! of Pooh,” said Pooh, rubbing his paw.
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Umberto Eco: The lost art of
handwriting
Why should we regret the passing of good handwriting? The capacity to write well and quickly on a keyboard encourages rapid thought…
I think the capacity to write well and quickly on a keyboard requires
failed attempts (especially [specifically?] at work…) and lots of
edits.
I’m the sort of person who edits my writing constantly (this...
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the...”
– Carl Sagan
A Glorious Dawn (awesome)
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Webster’s may accept alright, but I sure don’t.
Two words, y’all: all right?
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this many!
Contents of my freezer:
Strawberry fruit bars
2 (!) kinds of tater tots
silicone ice cube trays for ice…cubes (instead of parallelogram trays)
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Dig it, man.
From Mr V: Para Rumbiar (Fernando Perez)
Ball players are mercenaries, taking assignments indiscriminately.
Perez’s musings about poetry got me thinking: Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg featured prominently in my least favorite college class, American Poetry since 1945.
Least favorite in part because it was jam-packed with the sort of hipper-than-thou types that make my skin crawl and...
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