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Books Update

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:47:58 -0800

Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft Jane Yolen One of my favorite short stories as a child was "Words of Power" from The Faerie Flag by Jane Yolen. I don't know exactly how old I was, but it was right at the time I had claimed words f...

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Books Update

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:15:36 -0800

An Elemental Thing Eliot Weinberger I'm going to pimp out the amazon link for this one because (a) it's an excellent book and (b) New Directions is a wonderful little publishing house that doesn't take it's books out of print and has some wonde...

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Commercial on the Brain

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:36:22 -0800

Sellout. I cannot get enough of this commercial. I have watched it so many times since I first heard it comming from the other room. Seriously. This song is my new favorite song of all times forever and ever I want it to be a longer song, I wan...

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QotD: I Won't Miss This

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:47:49 -0800

What won't you miss about 2007? Submitted by uncagedbird. I wont miss: The horrible data entry job I had for almost a year that made me want to jump out a window. (Seriously. I used to walk into my boss's office, stare out the window, tell h...

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Resolutions from jim van pelt

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:58:44 -0800

Here's the list of New Year's resolutions I would have made when I first got serious about writing if I'd known then what I know now: 1. No matter what, write what I want to read. Connie Willis told me once, "Remember what you liked about scien...

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A Peek into the Life

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:02:55 -0800

My boyfriend and his best bud have spent the holiday recording music and making an amp out of a ritz cracker box. I bring you photos, because I have a new digital camera: The raw parts. After the soldering comes the listening. **Interlude**...

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A Long Rant

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:36:53 -0800

I have always had a rather large problem surrounding the whole indigo aura phenomenon—starting with the hype that 90% of todays children belong, and yet being one is “very special”. Seems to me that at that rate, all the other established aura c...

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working on the floor

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:32:13 -0800

I threw out my back right before writing my final paper on gothic picture books. The pictures of my workspace on the floor ended up being somewhat amusing... I share them with you here: There's something about the fact that I was working on a ...

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Vox Hunt: What A Character

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:41:58 -0800

Show us your favorite literary character. Favorite is a little relative, and prone to changing with my mood. But these are Wesley ("The Wesser") and Stephen from Jane Fancher's Harmonies of the Net series; they've probably stuck with me the long...

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Picture Book Round Up

nobody@vox.com(Stuff) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:14:15 -0800

(Because who can say no to an evening of picture books on a rainy November evening? ...I mean ...this is for purely intellectual study... you understand...) So, for my long lit paper this term, I'm writing about the vague catagory of "gothic pic...

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