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Rabbit Rage
This morning, as is often the case on the first day of a month, I had the double pleasure of saying "Rabbit" to Lisa before she could say it to me, and of actually seeing a rabbit bounding across my...
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Spreading Out the Joy
Yesterday was Dave's birthday, but since my Internet connection is strangely dim (as in nonexistent) at home, and since I love to spread out the cheer, I offer this one-day-late tribute in celebration of Dave (everyone at home: sing along;...
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Safety First
Congratulate me. I'm sure I've earned it. Not just because I actually renewed my license early enough to do it by mail and therefore didn't have to drive through a torrential storm to the Secretary of State's Office the day...
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Donkey in a Box
Today at Likewise Books, base camp for Strangely Dim, we held our bimonthly Donkey Congress, where we discuss a publication (sometimes one of ours, sometimes another publisher's) that has even the most dubious bearing on our publishing program. Today's discussion...
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You Are the Marketing Plan
One of our authors sent me a link to a funny video about book promotion by Dennis Cass: I watched this video not long after sitting down for coffee with another author about his plans to promote his book...
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You're Invited
Invitations are a funny thing. In the past few months, I've received formal wedding invitations, Facebook invitations to events and groups, and invitations to meals through email or in conversations. I think for all of us, any invitation inevitably...
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The Quality of Change
Forty years ago today Bobby Kennedy died of a gunshot wound in California, marking the abrupt and unsettling end of a surprisingly hopeful kind of era. In its e-newsletter today, Sojourners quotes Kennedy's speech in Capetown, South Africa, two years...
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Where Have You Gone, Bo Diddley?
Rock legend Bo Diddley has died. You can read of his passing here. My high-school band, Little Queenie, covered Bo Diddley's song "Who Do You Love?" which is a quintessential example of his signature style: "Shave and a Haircut" rhythm;...
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I Interrupt This Four-Day Weekend . . .
Rabbit! You all knew it was coming. If you didn't, you can read up on the tradition here. I took Thursday and Friday off for a road trip to Indiana, but I didn't want the weekend to pass without me schooling all...
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I Confess
Today is May 27--one day after Memorial Day--and the forecasted high temperature--57--is twelve degrees warmer than the air temperature at lunchtime. This is strange, and my outlook today is correspondingly dim. On such days I am sorely tempted to pray for,...
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Choose Your Weird
First, for a topic that has nothing to do with the title: Congrats to Dave, whose latest book, Deliver Us from Me-Ville, has arrived, hot off the presses! I know I need to read it--and I know, because of who...
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Fun with Misplaced Modifiers, or, Even Monkeys Need Editors
I was recently made aware of a clever blog by Rachel Held Wilson, "Evolving in Monkey Town," about the challenges of practicing faith in a postmodern era and a fundamentalist context. Or something like that. The author writes from Dayton,...
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Keeping in Touch
When some of you saw the title "Keeping in Touch," I imagine your sweet hearts leapt with hope that this post is my firm, telling-the-world, turning-over-a-new-leaf resolution to finally be better about staying in contact with all of you. Unfortunately,...
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The Books of 2Pac
Have I mentioned that I love Very Short List? I learn of so many cool things on the Internet via VSL, the most recent of which is the "I See Dead People's Books" section of librarything.com. Here I get to...
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Rabbit
Well, it's the first of the month again, which means all over the world people are clamoring to be the first in their networks to say the word rabbit--or, on the East Coast, "rabbit, rabbit." I always get late night/early...
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