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April 2009
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Akron/Family - “Don’t Be Afraid,...
EOD, CDT
Chicago turned loose, the apocryphal winds turned eager thermals, rising even to your third-floor office window. They push papers from your desk & titter. They direct your cheek towards the peripheral sunset. Red shift. Doppler.
She is landing in a dusk one hour advanced & this distance too speaks to you. It suggests you will become a better person.
Things A Man Should Own
herenotthere:
One pair of silver or gold cuff-links, simple and modest
A set of collar stays of varying size
One pair black lace up dress shoes, one pair brown
Decent black loafers — dress up or down
Shoe shine kit
A solid dopp kit. A good one can be passed down.
One black suit, one dark blue or grey
Canvas summer shoes, white or otherwise
A well-earned pair of jeans: straight leg,...
Things A Cat Should Own
1. A cozy chair, thickly upholstered if possible and at least as tall as one’s reach.
2. Object that rolls. Balls of yarn are a classic, but a plastic bottlecap will do in a pinch.
3. Sunbeam.
4. A cardboard box or similar enclosed space.
5. Two mice—one alive, one dead.
6. A vessel filled with water. Ones that don’t belong to you are best.
7. At least one human. Having multiple...
WatchWarning Signs #617
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Word By Word Slowly Acquiring →
The sentence, with its narrow typographical confines, is a lonely place, the loneliest place for a writer, and the temptation for the writer to get out of one sentence as soon as possible and get going on the next sentence is entirely understandable. In fact, the conditions in just about any sentence soon enough become (shall we admit it?) claustrophobic, inhospitable, even hellish. But too often...
28 Millimeters →
More than a year after he took the original pictures, French photo artist JR has returned to Kibera, Kenya. He was reunited with the women who had accepted to be part of his WOMEN project at the end of 2007. 2000 square meters of Kibera slum rooftops have been covered with photos of their eyes and faces. [via metafilter.com]
So I Should Ask for a 9% Pay Raise? →
Facebook, YouTube at Work Make Better Employees: Study
What I Heard Someone Yell About Poetry
In common speech, our idioms yearn to expand ourselves, are hyperbolic—Grief hit me like a train. In poetry we look back to the small—His body held as a falling leaf.