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Ode To A Bowl Full Of Breath Mints

Ode To A Bowl Full Of Breath Mints

Instead of staring at the damn thing, why didn't Keats look inside the urn?  Maybe he would have found candies or cigarette butts.  Instead he just

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Silence

Silence

An antidote to the banal expressions that accompany our deepest feelings: March 19, 2010

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Disaster Scenario

In the Western world, the worst thing that could happen is to discover that one has run out of toilet paper. March 12, 2010

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Freedom to Screw Up

I think one of the greatest freedoms we can accord one another is the freedom to be mistaken.

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Story Idea: Body in Suburbia

Police discover a body leaning against a swing set in a park in the middle of suburbia.  It's in the advanced stages of decomposition, with one of th

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Comment Spam

Ever notice the generic congratulatory tone of comment spam (e.g. "What a wonderful and insightful post.  Please keep writing.  Loved it.") and then

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on-off – chicken-egg

The on/off switch.  The transistor.  The basis of binary code.  What if it's all wrong?  What if the physical universe functions on a ternary syst

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A story is …

A story is a proposition whose argument is its author's world view. Yes? No? hmmm

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Ubiquitous

Cell phones are so ubiquitous it's like they're everywhere.

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Lit Twit

I've coined a new phrase to describe myself:  I'm a lit twit.  A lit twit is someone who follows literary tweets on twitter.com.

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