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thebronzemedal — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:26:06 -0000

You can tell your uncle not to worry, because the generation that's young now has moved past talking on the phone and just sends text messages.

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thebronzemedal — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:30:06 -0000

Oh, I thought maybe you worked in one of those fancy in-house libraries art museums have.

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thebronzemedal — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:51:55 -0000

Have you ever read Stephen Marche's 'Shining at the Bottom of the Sea"? This reminds me of it. Marche's book is an "anthology" of the literature of a fictional island nation.

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thebronzemedal — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:54:15 -0000

The scariest thing is that it seems obvious that the wealthier communities will have a clear advantage in organizing bids for services; so the needier communities that could really benefit will be the least likely to have them.

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thebronzemedal — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:13:19 -0000

Books are my therapy. :)

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thebronzemedal — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:23:45 -0000

I just hope they're not tossing them in through the drive-up window as well.

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thebronzemedal — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:14:38 -0000

San Francisco. I wish I could take this sunshine back to New York with me!

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thebronzemedal — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:42:45 -0000

You can substitute another image very easily. Just make sure it's large enough to cover most screen resolutions.

Re: http://meaghano.com/post/1048407511

thebronzemedal — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:41 -0000

All these posts today about the book are KILLING ME since my copy hasn't arrived in the mail yet.

Re: “In idle moments, I retreated into that early-summer dream of reinvention, when you set your eyes on September and that refurbished self you were going to tool around in, honking the horn so ...

thebronzemedal — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:23:49 -0000

I loved this book. So different from his other stuff - the rest of Whitehead's work is terrific but is much more cool and cynical than this. Sag Harbor was like a big 'ol love letter to his childhood.

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thebronzemedal — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:52:35 -0000

This is the Chinese highway department's way of punishing lazy employees. The least productive worker each month is forced to endure a whole night of this, and instructed to contemplate their personal failings whilst the nighttime traffic buzzes around them.

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thebronzemedal — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:21:32 -0000

I have the same ambivalent feelings about doing post-processing work; I have a whole set of photos from my trip to Ireland in June that i simply dumped into Flickr because I couldn't decide if I wanted to mess with them or not. The good thing about digital photos is that I can always go back and do it later if I feel like it.

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thebronzemedal — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:12:45 -0000

Mills, this is a fantastic set of photos. i especially loved this overhead shot here: http://www.flickr.com/photo...

How did you get that terrific greenish tint that many of these have? Photoshop action? Or are all tourists given some sort of mandatory green camera filter for their lenses, a la Oz's Emerald City?

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thebronzemedal — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:51:38 -0000

It's just half iced tea, half lemonade. No alcohol necessary.

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thebronzemedal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:35:22 -0000

That really should be named "UN Simulation", or something. Model UN sounds like it's a place where either tiny plastic figurines or extremely good-lloking people get together to solve the world's problems.

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thebronzemedal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:07:54 -0000

1. Agreed.
2-4. Ha, too true.
5. Yes. it's also refreshing how he doesn't seem to care if he fails at anything, or if the public is totally unsure what to make of him. He must be a nightmare for his publicist though.
6. I never got around to reading it.
7. Are you suggesting the library should cancel it's subscription? :)

Re: http://meaghano.com/post/790275387

thebronzemedal — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:21:43 -0000

Interesting that you mention Sedaris - I believe it was him I heard once talk about how much he disliked writing blurbs, but couldn't avoid it, so he would simply pull books off his shelves at randoms and steal/combine pieces of other blurbs into a new blurb.

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thebronzemedal — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:50:25 -0000

Thanks Rachel! I'll be sure to check these out.

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thebronzemedal — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:51:35 -0000

No need to RSVP, just show up. And no minimum of books either.

Re: http://meaghano.com/post/637814334

thebronzemedal — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:18:35 -0000

STEAL THAT CAR.

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thebronzemedal — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:48:30 -0000

We actually just market it via our tumblrs; the number of people who have shown up has varied. I would suggest starting by finding a good location and inviting a few people you know - and then have them each invite some people, etc.

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thebronzemedal — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:25:02 -0000

Season one and two were great; things went rapidly downhill from there though.

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thebronzemedal — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:37:14 -0000

"This."

(Sorry, couldn't help myself after seeing your riff on Twitter the other day.)

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thebronzemedal — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:56:59 -0000

You definitely make a good point here about the internet changing the way poetry is both created and delivered. I would mention though that DFW was not criticizing contemporary poems for being difficult or obscure but for being "involuted". There are, of course, plenty of terrific poets working today - Sharon Olds, Denis Johnson, etc. I think DFW was just taking an easy potshot at how much academic waste is being put out alongside the good stuff.

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thebronzemedal — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:04:23 -0000

I think it was probably People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia; It's one of my favorites, I recommend it all the time.