Month: November 2006
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Storytelling Event: Saturday November 18
I’ll be performing a story at this year’s Tellebration storytelling event. It’s called “My Life as a Film Projectionist,” (a job I held during college). It should be fun. (Here’s the tellebration upcoming.org announcement). Here’s the announcement on the Houston Storytellers’ Group site. Date: Saturday November 18, 7:00 PM Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science,…
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Sexy Songs
Commenters compile lists of sexy songs. I really don’t know what this genre includes, but it would have to include Donna Summer’s I feel love. Also, some trancey stuff is great. Also Suzanne Palmer’s “Muscles (Razor n Guido Big Club Mix)”
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Delicious for Job Search
Just had a great idea. Use delicious to organize jobsearch links. ( For the record, I’ll be looking for workafter Jan 1). Tag something with Houstonjobs and other key words (“applied,” “recruiter,” etc). I had an unusually hard time in 2001-2 finding work even though I thought my skills and job search skills were excellent.…
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Are Veterans Educated? Are they more peace-loving?
Rosa Brooks on educational levels and the military: The Army limits recruits without high school degrees to 3 1/2 % of the pool, for instance, while the Marines won’t accept recruits without high school degrees. Poverty correlates strongly with high school dropout rates, so these rules significantly limit the access of the very poor to…
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World’s Best Scrabble Game
Stephen Fatsis on the world’s best scrabble game. Here’s a play-by-play account of the game.
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How to Write Short Stories
Roberto Bolano has advice on writing short stories (pretty funny and moderately helpful). It is best to write short stories three or five at a time. If one has the energy, write them nine or fifteen at a time. It occurred to me that I’ve mostly been writing short fiction (for the past 20 years),…
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Lebanon, Israel and Discrimination
Dahr Jamail on Lebanon and “terrorism”: Then we can just look at the coverage of the casualties; I bring up Hizbollah being referred to as a terrorist organization over and over in the corporate media. When we simply look at the statistics. We have over 1,300 Lebanese killed by the Israeli war of aggression, over…