February 2012
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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
– Jane Yolen (The author of The Devil’s Arithmetic and other books for younger readers was born on this day in 1939.)
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”
– Albert Einstein
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Facebook Timeline Moviemaker →
Put your Facebook life into a movie.
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“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron...”
– birthday boy Jules Verne - the author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and many other sci-fi classics that I loved was born on this day in 1828.
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“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
– Holden Caulfield (J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye)
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein
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Puppy Bowl - Animal Planet - 3pm →
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The Puppy Bowl
Don’t forget the counter-programming to the Super Bowl of the Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowll VIII today at 3 pm ET.
Piggy cheerleaders will oink on the players. And stay in there for the Kitty Halftime Show.
I’m rooting for Marbles (terrier) for MVP (Most Valuable Puppy) this year, though Fumble has a good chance with that terrier/ Chihuahua mix.
And social media? They...
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“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein
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Happy National Trivia Day →
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In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.
Only female mosquitoes will bite you.
That thing you use to dot your lowercase “i” is called a tittle.
and 116 more to enliven your dinner and drinks conversations tonight and this weekend
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Paul Auster
It’s the birthday of Paul Auster, born in Newark, New Jersey (1947).
He is the author of The New York Trilogy (1985-86), a set of idiosyncratic detective stories that deal with questions of identity and existential thought. His memoir is The Invention of Solitude(1982). He has several bestselling books including Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, and Oracle Night.
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”
– Lloyd Alexander
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“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway
January 2012
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton
The author of The Seven Storey Mountain and other books was born on this day in 1915.
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As I eat my microwaved 160 calorie "healthy...
The Beautiful Sandwich
She could always make the most beautiful sandwich. Laced swiss cheese: sliced crossways, folded once. Ham in rolls like sleeping bags. Turkey piled like shirts. Tarragon. Oregano. Pepper. Herb dill mayonnaise the color of skin. On top: the thin, wandering line of mustard like a contour on a map in a thin, flat drawer. Or a single, lost vein. The poppyseeds...
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Winter Is the Best Time
Winter is the best time to find out who you are. Quiet, contemplation time, away from the rushing world, cold time, dark time, holed-up pulled-in time and space to see that inner landscape, that place hidden and within.
by David Budbill
from While We’ve Still Got Feet
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Winter Twilight
On a clear winter’s evening The crescent moon And the round squirrels’ nest In the bare oak Are equal planets.
by Anne Porter,
