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April 27, 2020
The Hobbit
Really? I think this is the second The Hobbit round-robin read along even I’ve been part of. But the first was nearly twenty years ago, now, and I kind of doubt anyone was recording (it was a marathon, too, so it went and went and went). Anyway, I’m not on facebook, so don’t know anything about this link. Only that it’s supposed to be a lot of writers and me each reading a paragraph or so of The Hobbit, to make up a scene or a page or a chapter or something:
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April 26, 2020
Couple Goodreads Reviews
One for “Attack of the 50 Foot Indian,” one for “Night of the Mannequins”:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3302427131
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3299181065?…
The Two Songs That Are Breaking My Heart Today
They’ve been at at a while, too:
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Social Distancing Bookfest Panel
Was a great time:
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April 24, 2020
Teaching Long Distance . . .
CU asked me to write a bit about that, so:
https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/04/23/together-apart-remote-teaching-bell-never-rings…
Dame’s Dagger
I think about this shot a lot, and how a book can hope to be like that too: nerve + skill + luck. Though, with Lillard, not sure ‘luck’ comes into it at all. Dude’s just deadly. Probably the best clutch shot I can think of, and that includes Jordan and Bird, Curry and Young, Kobe, Laettner, Kawhi’s from last year—this one’s better than them all, I think. And Damien Lillard just walks away like “What else could have happened?” ThatR…
April 23, 2020
Pages Help?
Anybody have a workaround?
tried stuffing this on YouTube, but both the MOV and the MP4 of it went blurry. and of course it’s too big for Twitter. so, here, though this player doesn’t seem to have a full-screen option, sorry. …
Best Reads from Lately
Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…):
Land O’Lakes quietly gets rid of iconic Indian maiden mascot
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string
