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The inimitable Grant Snider strikes again, with the day jobs of famous poets – including Jack Kerouac (railroad worker), Charles Bukowski
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Abbaye de Villers la Ville in Wallonia, Belgium (by Vaxjo).
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What a fantastic little urbex gem! This place was once a bar where folks assembled to drink, party and such… I can’t figure out how old this place...
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An imprecise Dylan birthday playlist. I didn’t have a lightbulb.
(Source: Spotify)
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The filibuster
From William White’s book Citadel: The Story of the U.S. Senate written in 1956:
Would it really be wise to alter the Senate rules so that a simple majority could halt a filibuster by voting cloture, instead of a two thirds majority of all Senators, or sixty-four, as at present? It is a rhetorical question in one sense, and an academic one in another: The Senate, depend upon it, will make no such alteration.
The Senate did make an alteration but not much of one. The filibuster challenge has been with us for a while.
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Bob Dylan: Have you heard me sing?
Interviewer: I like Caruso better.
Bob Dylan: Oh, well, you see right there now, right there we have a little disagreement. I happen to be as good as him…a good singer, have to listen closely…but I hit all the notes and can hold my breath three times as long if I have to.
(Source: Spotify)
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One of the great songs about boredom. Happy Birthday Bob.
(Source: Spotify)
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Barry entices them with the foxy but wins them with the semicolon
Time magazine has printed a couple of pictures from Barack Obama’s prom night. Along with the great photographs of a future president looking very fine in a white jacket, the post includes a yearbook inscription where the president not only shows incipient smooth jazz DJ tendencies, but most impressively deploys a semicolon.
Read the full note, with extra foxy in the original form here.
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Process
I don’t have one writing process. I have several. I have been writing with purpose for almost 30 years. I hope one day I figure out how to do it. This is what a recent process looked like for one of my daily stories:
I mapped out the ideas on a large piece of art paper, choosing whatever color seemed right. Then I wrote a quick half outline of how those ideas would flow. Then I started writing on white paper with a pencil. I wrote from top to bottom. If I had a thought that I knew would come later, I started a new sheet, captured it and returned to what I was writing. I then dictated the 12 handwritten pages into my computer using Dragon. I edited as I read out loud. Then I printed it and did a pretty serious edit on the paper, before sending it to my editor.
I have no idea if this helped. It did feel more systematic than my normal routine which is to write an outline, get halfway through and then just start writing.
The story is here.
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