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WEEKLY WRITING CHALLENGE = SNAPSHOTS

Originally posted on Polymathically:
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/weekly-writing-challenge-snapshots/ It’s cold. Not freezing, but it’s getting there. If I return to this street a month from now, it probably will be. San Francisco’s Financial District never changes. Oh sure, the stores change. But the people don’t. It’s the same crowd shifting and flowing down Market Street’s dingy sidewalks. The…

Originally posted on Walking Ledges:
Round One! Fight! Hello, December. Is it safe to come out yet? November’s comparative blog quiet is owed to National Novel Writing Month (secondary sponsor: the passive voice). I spent the month writing (part of) a novel. I dutifully scraped together my 50,000 words despite having a conference paper to…

A DAY IN THE BEACH

Originally posted on Progressive Culture | Scholars & Rogues:
The first time Slick Taylor told me I’d been sent to him by God, I should have known enough to bolt.  But instead, seated with a musician who was legendary for all the wrong reasons, plus his abrasive manager, in an only-in-LA-setting, a Westside Mexican restaurant helmed…

Originally posted on Bryen's Blog News:
By Stephen Bryen [NEW UPDATE MARCH 1, 2014: The AP reported today as follows: “The Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday and its chief executive said 850,000 bitcoins, worth several hundred million dollars, are unaccounted for.”  This follows the mysterious end of the…

Originally posted on Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss:
You have 15 minutes to address the whole world live (on television or radio — choose your format). What would you say? Photographers, artists, poets: show us THE BIG MOMENT. Good evening world. You may now stop cheering and clapping. I know you have all waited for…