August 2009
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“Arrrrrrrrrrrhhhh! On a pirate ship is where I got me peg leg; off the pirate...”
– The Last Story of Shortbeard the One-Legged Pirate, by Mason Johson
Published in Going Up, a “nanoanthology” published by Elevated Diction in association with Columbia College’s Silver Tongue reading series.
I joined the Chicago Tribune in 1998 with the hope of bringing some of the immediacy, personality and utility of radio news to the Web. Thanks to many talented journalists, we did just that with Daywatch, which launched in March 1999 as a continually updated Web page — a blog before that word existed, and in many ways a precursor of today’s Chicago Breaking News Center.
— Charlie...
“Did you hear about the alcoholic lawyer? He never passed the bar.”
– Andrew “Shecky” Huff
merlin:
songparts:
(Ltd. Edition “Kid...
Daring Fireball: Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary,... →
Gruber: “Every time I think I’ve seen the most outrageous App Store rejection, I’m soon proven wrong. I can’t imagine what it will take to top this one.”
“The world doesn’t owe me a living. If the world doesn’t want to buy my books,...”
– William T. Vollmann, an Author Without Borders - NYTimes.com (via themorningnews)
Replace “books” with whatever you happen to produce.
The Story of Deacon Blues
merlin:
Deacon Blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Re the chorus:
They’ve got a name for the winners in the world. I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama, “The Crimson Tide” Call me, “Deacon Blues.”
In 2006, Fagen told Rolling Stone:
Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, “You mean it’s like, ‘They call these...
Purplest Prose
This is the most florid news release I’ve received in years. Names have been changed/altered to protect the innocent (well, actually just to stay out of their google search results).
KIRTNAT CHICAGO – A VENUE OF PROMISE AND SENSUAL FULFILLMENT Opening Early Fall 2009 (CHICAGO) July 30, 2009 — Expect the unexpected. ʞıɹʇuɐʇ, Chicago’s first temple of sensuality will be opening...
