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When Did People Start Saying “Bored of”?

Sunday, December 18, 2011

…instead of “bored with” and “bored by”? Isn’t this just wrong?

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“The Best of Betty”

Friday, February 25, 2011

…is being produced as a short film, by the Ohio UniversitySchool of Media Arts and Studies: http://thebestofbetty.com/ More later.

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Hell

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

(This appeared in the Lifted Brow’s No. 6 issue, an Atlas of the World.  Writers were invited to choose their own sites, real or imaginary, and describe them in words, sounds, or images.  Too bad it’s sold out! It’s fabulous.) There are at least as many Hells as there are Providences. Hell is an unincorporated [...]

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Guter Kummer! II

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

  http://media.blubrry.com/krimikiste/krimikiste.com.dd5526.kasserver.com/wp-content/uploads/folgen/folge_339.mp3 (They hated it.  It’s worth a listen, whether you want to sound-bathe or enjoy a Teutonic take-down.)

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A New Time-Wasting Game

Saturday, January 3, 2009

is waiting for players.  Click on the link to the right entitled The Agony of the Feet.  If you don’t remember what “dactylic” means, look it up.

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Coming Soon: Online Fiction Workshop from the Author of The Writing Class

Monday, December 15, 2008

I’m seriously thinking of starting up an online fiction workshop in January 2009.   Plans so far: 1.  Submissions will be fiction only–prose, not poetry. 2.  Submissions will include short stories, novel chapters, fragments of longer works. 3.  Right now, I’m not planning to screen for level of sophistication, experience, talent, etc.  Come one, come all.  [...]

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The Onion Does It Again

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Just as theirs was the most appropriate response to 9/11 (sadly, no trace of that brilliant headline remains on the web), they wrote the best 11/4 headline (and article): http://www.theonion.com/content/news/kobe_bryant_scores_25_in_holy_shit

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My First Name

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

is not my exclusive property, but over the course of six decades one gets used to being the only Jincy.  The name is apparently Southern in origin, and was at one time a nickname for both Virginia and Jane, which nickname never caught fire, and so faded from use.  I am the Last of My [...]

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Uncollected Story Up at 5 Chapters.com

Monday, August 11, 2008

“Medea in the Garden” is ready for reading, in installments, at http://www.fivechapters.com/medea_in_the_garden/part_one_93.php

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Cultural Notes from All Over

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

From the North County Times Books Calendar for June 1:  – At The Book Works, Flower Hill Promenade, 2670 Via de la Valle, Suite A230, Del Mar, (858) 755-3735: Shawn Tomson will sign and discuss “Surfer’s Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life” at 7 p.m. Thursday. Jincy Willett will discuss and sign “The Writing [...]

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