From the monthly archives:

November 2009

An Exercise in Voice

November 30, 2009

Welcome to Redemption, Texas population 687, well, minus one now. Let’s try that again. Howdy from Redemption, Texas, population 686 proudly known as the “Sweetest Rolling Green Hills Town in the Lone Star State.” But since that doesn’t fit on most license plates the people here call their home simply Sweet Rollin’ Redemption. And while [...]

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For the glory of the characters: Glee

November 27, 2009

In a rather embarrassing situation that I cannot entirely explain, I am a huge fan of the TV show Glee.  It’s a ridiculous show about the members of the school Glee Club and their lives in the social sub-basement of High School. They work their way through the traditional misfit hallways that almost all of [...]

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Cinephile or Movie Nut?

November 25, 2009

I was channel surfing the other night and came across Mad Max on AMC.  It was weird enough that it was on AMC but when they went to commercial I found out it was a special 30th anniversary edition.  That means I first saw Mad Max when I was all of seven years old. I saw it [...]

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At a loss for words? There’s help for that.

November 23, 2009

I recently read an insightfully funny book, “There’s No I in Office”, a compendium of 4,293 phrases to use in conversations with your co-workers.  Television writers Jacob Lentz and Paul Koehorst recognized the need for a guidebook to help cubicle denizens navigate the risky waters of office small-talk, where avoidance will likely get you labeled [...]

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Six-Word Memoirs

November 20, 2009

The novelist Ernest Hemingway was once asked to create a full story in six words or less.  Here is what he wrote:  “For Sale:  baby shoes, never worn.” Last year, the online magazine Smith asked readers to take up the same challenge and write the story of their own lives in a single, six-word sentence.  [...]

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