Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is a writing contest designed to see who can come up with the worst opening sentence for a novel. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Law School for Cretins? WAC? happens to know that he is traveling; we aren't at liberty to say where. While his anonymity may have all along been in great jeopardy, if not totally blown , that secret will remain with us. As always, the man's been busy--but has left us plenty of summer reading while he's away. See Beware of Greeks causing rifts… and other thoughts…
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
SAN JOSE (California) – A SHAMBLING sentence about screaming seafarers on the sturdy whaler Ellie May stood shoulders above the rest in an annual bad writing contest. David McKenzie, 55, of Federal Way, Washington state, won the grand prize in San Jose State University’s annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest with this: ‘Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin’ off Nantucket Sound from the nor’ east and the dogs are howl
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
There's such a fine line between elegant shell designs and those that are kitsch appearing as though they came out of a little shell shop on The Redondo Pier. But when you see the real deal, you know the difference {and it's not just the sticker reading 'made in china'} Heather Kendall Designs, is the real deal and her work is truly, elegant {'shell-egant', shall we say?} Kendall's work can be found in beach homes spanning the country from L.A. to Nantucket and some of thos
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
This morning two technicians from Aliant swung by and set us up with a new modem – and now we are back online. But having the bit of downtime made me realize I was being a bit unrealistic, expecting to blog regularly while on holidays. I will definitely keep blogging, but won’t stress myself about missing a day here or there. Much as I love Twitter, I suspect I’ll also be mostly absent from the Twitterverse while on holidays (I admit, IF my new-to-me BlackBerry hadn’t died on me, and IF we ha
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