Category: Record reviews
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You know my name (look up the number)
When I took up the challenge of reviewing every band with a number in its name, I thought it would be something mindless I could do while doing some other, more serious, thing. Well, it was often mindless (to cite one example, One Direction), but overall this project has proven…
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Write-a-thon, Day 38: Go back, Jack, and do it again
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. (Colette) When I was a pre-bar mitzvah sprout in Hebrew school, I was at the…
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Write-a-thon, Day 35: They don’t pay me to sit here and look pretty
I’m starting a new job on Monday. It’s a contract job, and it might only last until Thanksgiving, but I’m hoping for something longer. It’s a good job and I’m excited about it. Satisfying assignments! Interesting co-workers! Payday! It’s been an unsettled time, filled with networking, interviews, freelancing, conferences, more…
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Write-a-thon, Day 34: I got blisters on me fingers!
“Let’s face it, some boys and girls become writers because the only workplace they’re willing to visit is the one inside their heads. And even then it’s a tough commute.” (Arthur Krystal) “A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” (Thomas…
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Write-a-thon, Day 33: Someone left a train out in the rain
Robert Louis Stevenson drew a map of an island and was inspired to write Treasure Island. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about a Hobbit and from there drew a map of Middle-Earth. Many writers start writing after being captivated by a drawing or a photo. Others cut pictures out of magazines to help…
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