Archive for February 2010

Are You Having Writer’s Block? Try Homeopathy.

Feb 28th, 2010 | By Greg Laden | Category: Greg Laden

… if you are having trouble coming up with something to write, just read this post. I’m sure it will cause inspiration.

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Blunt Force English

Feb 21st, 2010 | By Mike Haubrich | Category: Art, Mike Haubrich

I remember discussing the work of William Styron in his books Sophie’s Choice and The Confession of Nat Turner and how I love the way that his language flows so that the reader is enveloped in the story. The person with whom I was discussing it complained that Styron has tendency to show off his vocabulary, to “use a fifty-cent word when a ten-cent word will do.”

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Time for Atheists to Stop It

Feb 5th, 2010 | By Mike Haubrich | Category: Mike Haubrich

To all Christians: I apologize for being so uppity. I promise to be good. My hat is in my hand, and excuse me while I go to the back of the bus and get off at my stop and hope that none of you are dishonored again by having to look at me.

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Our Conversations Are Like a Cold Fruit Salad on a Dusty, Hot, Summer Day

Feb 3rd, 2010 | By Greg Laden | Category: Blogosphere, Greg Laden

All utterances are questionable. All communications are subject to measurement against a standard that one can easily justify even though one has merely pulled it out of one orifice or another. There is a place where this kind of communication is favored, revered, honed and practiced, and imposed by force of will and repetition on those who do not come to the table armed with snark and oppositional in affect.

That place is known…as the blogosphere.

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