So gator-hunting season opens tomorrow here in South Carolina. I’m not making it up. Nor am I making up the fact that the state Department of Natural Resources “Alligator Management Program” website includes the phrase “gatorgonnagitit.” Yes, that’s “git” with an i. Not that I don’t see the reason for …
I was in a graduate class in Rochester, New York when word came of the attack on the towers. I remember it as clearly as yesterday, though so many years have passed. Mark Knopfler, “If This Is Goodbye” My famous last words Are laying around in tatters Sounding absurd Whatever …
From the Daily Show. Don’t watch if you don’t mind some political spanking:
At the Codex Writer’s Workshop this summer, the esteemed James Maxey gave a short talk on spicing up prose with nouns. The right noun can convey an extraordinary amount of information, he pointed out, and he then drove home the point by having us collect nouns on little piece of …
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