I was in a graduate class in Rochester, New York when word came of the attack on the towers. I remember it as clearly as yesterday, though so many years have passed. Mark Knopfler, “If This Is Goodbye” My famous last words Are laying around in tatters Sounding absurd Whatever …
From the Daily Show. Don’t watch if you don’t mind some political spanking:
At the Codex Writer’s Workshop this summer, the esteemed James Maxey gave a short talk on spicing up prose with nouns. The right noun can convey an extraordinary amount of information, he pointed out, and he then drove home the point by having us collect nouns on little piece of …
My dear cadets we’re a-flutter this morning about something called “Charlie the Unicorn.” “Oh, you must YouTube it, sir,” they gushed. “It’s so funny.” Well, I did. And it’s not really. So I hereby proclaim “Charlie the Unicorn” to be Reason #54 that we’re doomed as a society. Despite this …