Recent Writings
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Wednesday
April 2, 2008
- Return to the Sea Rivas was hot, dusty and filled with touts clamoring to shove you a cab bound for just about anywhere but Rivas itself. Not …
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Wednesday
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Sunday
March 30, 2008
- Ring The Bells We landed in Managua about eight in the evening, walked outside the airport and smoked a cigarette (I know, terrible, I started smoking …
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Sunday
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Tuesday
March 18, 2008
- Once Upon a School Dave Eggers gave a fantastic talk at this year’s TED conference about his 826 Valencia project, an after-school reading/writing program, which, as you …
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Tuesday
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Thursday
Jan. 31, 2008
- A Lost Theory Since tonight is the season premiere of Lost I’d like offer a small theory I haven’t seen elsewhere. As fans of the show …
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Thursday
Recent Links
- Tom Waits Press Conference
- Tom Waits announces his new tour Glitter and Doom. "How is your mother?" Apparently there's going to be a show in Atlanta, going to have ...
- I Love the World
- Yeah, it's a commercial, but it's a pretty cool commercial. Not sure how the guy shooting a rocket at a building really fits with the ...
- Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
- Nice article in ALA about growing communities online, from one of the founders of Flickr.
Currently Reading:
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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I haven't had a chance to read much lately, I've been busy writing, which is good I guess, but if you don't read you'll never be a very good writer. I knew a good Murakami novel would make me drop what I was doing and start reading again, so a couple weeks back I solicited the advice of friends, drank a few glasses of whiskey and hit Amazon.com (what's the point of the internet if not to shop drunk in your pajamas?) and came away with both Norwegian Wood and ...
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